BOGS | A WINDOW INTO THE PAST AND HOPE FOR THE FUTURE

BOGS | A WINDOW INTO THE PAST AND HOPE FOR THE FUTURE

A talk by Professor Jonathan Pilcher

Wednesday 19 March | 7-8.45pm | Tickets £3

Within the setting of Bob Speers’ Thin Place exhibition, Jonathan Pilcher - Emeritus Professor in the School of the Natural and Built Environment, Queens University - gives a fascinating outline of the history of the bog environment. Our heightened understanding of climate change now enables the true value of bogs to be appreciated and informs their future. Professor Pilcher is the author of Flora Hibernica and over 130 scientific articles on the history of the Irish environment.