Site staff at several of our terrestrial sites take a fixed point photo each time they visit. Our fixed point photo archive is a unique pictorial record of the conditions at these sites. The longest record, for Moor House in the northern Pennines, spans a quarter of a century and visually charts the varying weather conditions at the site as well as the state of the Trout Beck river and the surrounding moorland vegetation. The pictorial record for Wytham Woods in Oxfordshire is almost as long, and documents the changing seasons through the images of the deciduous trees, from bare branches to buds, full summer leaf and the rich colours of autumn. The collection of images from the Cairngorms vividly illustrates how the landscape has changed as coniferous saplings on the hillside have grown into mature trees. In contrast, the view across a grassy field at Rothamsted to a tree on the far side has changed very little in almost two decades.
The dates of the most recently uploaded photos are:
- Rothamsted: 4 December 2024
- Moor House: 6 November 2024
- Wytham: 2 October 2024
- Cairngorms: 7 August 2024
You can also obtain ECN data from our physical, chemical and biological monitoring
Our fixed point photos are available for environmental research and education purposes. Please contact us if you are interested. The collection is as follows:
- Cairngorms: 21/12/2000 - present
- Moor House: 24/09/1997 - present
- Rothamsted: 16/01/2004 - present
- Wytham: 25/02/1998 - present
- Alice Holt Forest: 25/06/2010 - 24/02/2016 (images not shown below)
- Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa): 05/01/2000 - 25/4/2018 (images not shown below)
Note that there are some gaps in these collections.
Viewing the galleries
Click on a thumbnail to view. Thumbnails are arranged in sets; click the circles (if displayed) to move between sets. You can also click and drag (↔) the left and right edges of the main photos to move between them.