Prof Carl Sayer
2023
Professor Carl Sayer is the leader of the Pond Restoration Research Group in the Department of Geography at UCL. Carl undertakes research into the restoration ecology of aquatic habitats (lakes ponds and river-floodplains) and makes major efforts to transfer scientific findings into practical conservation and restoration action. In 2014, with colleague Helen Greaves, Carl founded the Norfolk Ponds Project, a multi-partner initiative which aims to deliver landscape-scale pond conservation for networks of farmland ponds.
My Sessions
Farm Ponds – Redundant Relics or Bastions of Biodiversity?
Join The Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG) on a hunt for ghost ponds and hear from UCL pond restoration expert Professor Carl Sayer on how these precious yet overlooked habitats can be regenerated to deliver huge gains for farmland biodiversity.