Mark Duffell MSc MCIHort FLS
Mark is a passionate and skilled Botanist and Horticulturist and is always keen to promote botany as a profession and vocation. His earlier career as a Horticulturist was topped by becoming the Institute of Horticulture Young Horticulturist of the Year 2001.
His excellent field skills have been recognised by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) as one of their ‘Gold Standard’ recorders for their Field Identification Skills Certificates (FISC). Mark now works closely with the BSBI on the FISC Development Working Group helping steer and promote FISCs to a wider audience. Also within the BSBI he is on the Committee for England, and acts as referee for non-native shrubs. He now enjoys passing on these skills to a variety of audiences through teaching for universities, consultancies, environmental organisations, voluntary organisations and private individuals both in the outdoors and in the classroom. Mark’s combination of botanical and horticultural backgrounds has created a comprehensive working knowledge of the world’s flora and major plant families.
Mark was the lead tutor for the first year core units and many botanical units on the former Manchester Metropolitan University MSc in Biological Recording and Ecological Monitoring.
When not out in the field (professionally or voluntarily) he enjoys photography and travelling off the beaten track, usually associated with hunting out a particular habitat or environment rich in flora and fauna, whether in the UK or overseas.
Qualifications and Memberships:
- MSc Biological Recording
- BSBI Field Identification Skills Certificate (Level 5)
- Fellow of the Linnean Society
- Member of the Institute of Horticulture MCIHort
- PTLLS (Level 4)
- RHS Diploma in Horticulture
- Outdoor First Aid and Emergency First Aid at Work
What Mark can offer through Arvensis Ecology:
- Botanical training
- Botanical/ecological surveying and monitoring and creation of management plans
Jenni Duffell BSc MSc PGCE PGDip MCIWEM
Jenni worked for the Field Studies Council in fieldwork education, specialising in geography, ecology and environmental science and as a project officer for the Growing Confidence Project working with young people aged 15-25. She has a wealth of experience leading and developing fieldwork/environmental education activities for KS2 – KS5, managing groups outdoors, carrying out risk assessments, and training teachers on fieldwork activities and outdoor group management. Jenni also worked as part of the team running the MSc Biological Recording and Ecological Monitoring with Manchester Metropolitan University. Jenni has more recently worked in flood and water management, writing flood risk/consequence assesssments, NFM assessments. WFD assessments and Flood Strategies, and currently works in the flood sector in community engagement.
In her spare time, Jenni can be found on walks, travelling, reading or playing music.
Qualifications and Memberships:
- PGDip Flood Risk Assessment, Modelling and Engineering
- PGCE Secondary Geography
- MSc Environmental and Ecological Sciences
- BSc Geography
- Outdoor First Aid and Emergency First Aid at Work
- MCIWEM
- Mountain Leader training (summer)