{"id":513,"date":"2016-05-02T15:38:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T15:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/victoria14\/?p=513"},"modified":"2016-05-02T15:38:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T15:38:58","slug":"lyme-regis-fossil-festival-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2016\/05\/02\/lyme-regis-fossil-festival-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyme Regis Fossil Festival 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/victoria14\/2015\/05\/21\/lyme-regis-fossil-festival\/\">blogged <\/a>about my first visit to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fossilfestival.co.uk\/\">Lyme Regis Fossil Festival<\/a>. This year I was back &#8211; promoting my new citizen science project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthwormwatch.org\">Earthworm Watch<\/a>, which I have developed with <a href=\"http:\/\/eu.earthwatch.org\">Earthwatch<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\">Natural History Museum<\/a>. This time the Natural History Museum occupied a whole marquee and I attended on the Saturday and Sunday by myself, which was hard work!<\/p>\n<p>I brought along some live earthworms for people to hold which was particularly popular with children. It was heartening to hear more people comment that they were &#8220;cute&#8221; rather than &#8220;yuk&#8221;. I gave out leaflets and took several sheets full of email addresses to follow up with more information on Earthworm Watch so I hope it will lead to more recruitment for the project.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-516\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/files\/2016\/05\/2016-04-30-10.01.18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"wp-image-516 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/files\/2016\/05\/2016-04-30-10.01.18-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Earthworm Watch table set up at ready to go\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My table set up at ready to go<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_517\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-517\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/files\/2016\/05\/2016-04-30-10.01.33.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"wp-image-517 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/files\/2016\/05\/2016-04-30-10.01.33-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Earthworms ready for their big day\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthworms ready for their big day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-519\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/files\/2016\/05\/2016-04-30-13.43.11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"wp-image-519 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/files\/2016\/05\/2016-04-30-13.43.11-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A quick break to admire the view at Lyme Regis\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A quick break to admire the view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I blogged about my first visit to the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival. This year I was back &#8211; promoting my new citizen science project Earthworm Watch, which I have developed with Earthwatch and the Natural History Museum. 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