Maploom has worked alongside Wild New Forest to deliver a climate change risks and opportunities assessment for the New Forest National Park Authority, helping to identify how climate change may affect the National Park’s internationally important habitats, wildlife and landscapes.… Read More
A new paper published in the British Journal of Entomology and Natural History describes a practical and inexpensive method for individually marking hoverflies, supported by Maploom’s web-based mapping and data management platform. The research, undertaken by Andy Murdock (Maploom), Colin… Read More
March and April are precarious months for the UK wine industry. This is the period when vine buds burst into leaf and when they are particularly vulnerable to frost damage. Maploom has been commissioned by viticulture specialists Vinescapes to create… Read More
Maploom has developed a new prototype digital mapping tool, in collaboration with the GeoData Institute at the University of Southampton, designed to help the Forestry Commission evaluate the impacts of developments on woodlands, ancient woodlands, and veteran trees. The initiative… Read More
Maploom was recently awarded a contract let by Southampton City Council to study wetland bird flight paths around the city. Combining our environmental mapping expertise with ecological expertise from Wild New Forest and Lullula Ecology, the project will analyse potential… Read More
Maploom is partnering with Wild New Forest CIC to deliver a Climate Change Risk Assessment and Adaptation Opportunities Assessment for the New Forest National Park Authority. The project will analyse climate change projections and identify the risks presented to the… Read More
Dublin Airport Authority (daa) recently commissioned Maploom and Anderson Acoustics to deliver a mapping platform supporting daa’s €18 million programme for home buyouts and noise insulation in homes and schools in communities neighbouring the airport. Maploom created the Eircode (postal… Read More
Andy Murdock recently presented to the New Forest Biodiversity Conference regarding a voluntary project he is leading and which uses the Maploom platform to collect population and habitat data for the Green Forest Hoverfly (Caliprobola speciosa) in the New Forest.… Read More
Maploom, and our partners at the GeoData, University of Southampton, have recently been awarded a project by the Forestry Commission to explore the impacts of developments on woodlands, ancient woodlands and veteran trees. This two year Project called WIDGET (Woodland… Read More
The Maploom platform is being used to help a team of citizen scientists locate one of the UK’s rarest hoverflies. The stunning Green Forest Hoverfly (Caliprobola speciosa) is only found in the New Forest and Windsor Great Park in the… Read More
