Name:- Gordon John Larkman RAMEL
Sex:- Male Age:- 41. Date of Birth:- 14/1/1957
Marital Status:- Single.
A second education was undertaken in England, 1989 to the present.
Institute: Hele College Exeter.
Since gaining my degree I have surveyed Chudliegh Knighton Heath in Devon for the Red Data Book 1 ant Formica exsecta for the Devon Wildlife Trust and surveyed a number of areas in Scotland for the same ant as part of a University of Exeter & Royal Entomological Society sponsored expedition for this purpose. I was employed by the Biological Sciences Department of Exeter University to set up their WWW site and have made the Web Site for the Stapledon Memorial Trust.
After gaining my MPhil I worked for 4 months doing total-phosphate soil analysis for Jerry Tallowin at IGER north Wyke.
Following this through the summer of 1998 I did some survey work for English Nature (Peterborough) on the population structure of Eristalis cryptarum, an RDB1 BAP species hoverfly (Syrphidae), on Dartmoor, and some general species diversity survey work for English Nature (Okehampton) on the invertebrates of Black-a-tor Copse an ancient upland Oak Woodland also on Dartmoor. I have also done some survey work for Southwest Ecological Surveys.
For the rest of the century I work 7 nights a week serving petrol, cleaning and stocking shelves in a 24 hour Esso service station.
In January 2001 I moved to Greece where I worked full-time on my web-site for 9 months and began an entomological survey of the greater Kerkini area.
In September 2001 I moved to Bulgaria to work as an English Language and Biology Teacher, this contract ended in June 2003 after two academic years of teaching.
Moving back to Greece I took up, employment as an English Language teacher and completed 3 years of employment as a teacher of English in Greece (I worked for the same private schools for all three years). During this time I voluntary organised and co-ordinated a biodiversity study of Kerkini Wetland, a RAMSAR site within which I had been living, and I wrote a book on the Biodiversity of the area which is currently being reviewed by the Greek Ministry of the Environment (very slowly).
In September 2006 I moved to Thailand and did a CELTA course with IHBankok, and then worked for BFITS teaching Science, Health, Maths and English Literature to secondary school students for 3 months before returning to Greece in February 2007 to resume working as an Ecologist for the Management Authority of Wetland Kerkini. Unfortunately they haven't managed to pay me anything for it yet and I have survived on dribs and drabs of money from other projects such as Terrapin Survey work and writing brochures about the area. Currently I am being paid to do some ichthyology work on Cormorant Pellets, but I haven't seen any yet.
Ramel, G and Webster, J. (1995). Abnormal Wood Blewit Basidiocarps. Mycologist, Vol 9: (3) p105.
Hoare, R.J.B, Hughes, J., Jones, A. and Ramel, G.J.L. (1996) A Review of the Status of Formica exsecta Nylander (Formicidae, Hymenoptera) in Scotland 1994. The Entomologist 115: (1), pp 23-
Ramel G., McTiernan K. and Webster J. (1998) An Abnormal Laccaria laccata Basidiocarp. Mycologist, Vol. 12 (3), p136.
Ramel, G. (1998). Report to English Nature on the status of Eristalis cryptarum on Dartmoor in 1998.
In 2005 I wrote, and designed, a leaflet for the Serron County Council on Lake Kerkini, in 2006 I wrote the text of a larger 25 page pamphlet on the same subject.
Ramel, G. (2002). Poetry for All the Family, Blue Magpie Press, Pensoft Publishers, Sofia Bulgaria. ISBN = 954-642-149-9
Gordon Ramel, Enrique Baquero & Rafael Jordana (2008). Biodiversity of the Collembola Fauna of Wetland Kerkini (N. Greece), with description of the sexual dimorphism of Entomobrya atrocincta Schott, 1896 (Collembola: Entomobryomorpha). Ann. Soc. Entomol. (N.S.), 44 (1), 113-128
I also have poetry published in a number of magazines: Carillon, Contemporary Rhyme, Neovictorian/Cochlea, Deronda Review, Nisqually Delta Review, Never Bury Poetry, Numbat, Penwood Review, Raintown Review, The Eclectic Muse, The Bulletin of the Amateur Entomological Society and on the www.ecology.info/ website.
Bird Watching , General Natural History, Running, Walking, Writing poetry, Writing my website, Science Fiction, The history of the world's religions
I was a member of the committee that runs the Bug Club, a club for children that like insects and other similar invertebrates, I was mostly concerned with writing articles and maintaining livestock for display officially I was the Events Officer.
Societies of which I have been a member include, The R.E.S, The A.E.S, The Phasmid Study Group, The Blattodea Culture Group, The British Entomological and Natural History Society, The Hoverfly Recording Scheme, The Dipterist Forum, The Bees Wasps and Ants Recording Scheme, The Devon Bird Watching and Preservation Society,The RSPB, The BTO, The Wetlands and Wildfowl Trust and the Wildlife Trusts.
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| These pages are here free for you to use, I would like to keep them that way, however making and running this site, and the other sites I am currently making or have made, on Birds, Mammals, Insects and Fish and Bacteria as well as all the other invertebrates costs money. There are several simple ways you can help. The first is by using the search engine here, that way you make me 2 or 3 cents a time, not a lot but it adds up. Or you could make a donation through PayPal
Or you could buy a copy of my recently published book of poetry. It is called Poetry for All the Family, which describes it perfectly. Although I do publish poetry in the specialised poetry magazines the poetry in this book is specifically designed to be enjoyed by people of every age. Follow the link for more information. It is not expensive and should be thoroughly enjoyable, so if you like it please tell people about it, or better still give it to someone as a present for Christmas of a birthday. |
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