James Hill (centre) pictured with Dr Gina Hannon (left) and Prof Rob Marrs (right)
James Hill of the School Of Environmental Sciences, Liverpool University has been awarded the Eric Hardy Memorial Prize this year for his thesis ‘Continuity and disturbance as factors influencing species richness in Atlantic oak woodland.’ His fieldwork including random stratified species surveys and vegetation assessments in some of Snowdonia’s ancient and secondary woodlands earned him a distinction.