OPAL soil and earthworm survey

Lead organisation: The Open Air Laboratories (Non-governmental)

The OPAL Soil Centre is coordinating the Soil and Earthworm Survey and a series of research projects. We hope to fill the gaps in our scientific knowledge and encourage more people to get their hands dirty making their own soil discoveries. By taking part in this survey, people will help improve our knowledge of earthworms and the soils they live in – something we know surprisingly little about.

Policy uptake explanation

We have worked closely with the Environment Agency and the Natural History Museum and have focused particularly on inner-city areas, where pollution has greatest impact. This research will help with the future management of biosolids recycling – returning nutrients and organic matter reclaimed from wastewater to the land as fertiliser.

Additional information

Source Inventory of environmental citizen science projects
Web site http://www.opalexplorenature.org/soilsurvey
Contact point https://www.opalexplorenature.org/contact
Start/end date 2007 - Unknown
Still active? Yes

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