Southampton News

Operation Wallacea will be on campus on 21st November, talking about 3rd and 4th year research project options. Their talk is at 1pm in 85/2207.  

The Natural History Society have a lot of upcoming events. This week’s events are: an information meeting about The University Mammal Challenge http://www.mammal.org.uk/umac/ at 6pm today in 58/1049; the Darwin reading group tomorrow at 1pm in B85 Latte’s; a birding trip tomorrow, meeting 2:30pm at the interchange; snake handling 6:30pm in 58/1007. If these events […]

PhD students Evie Morris and Jack Merrifield are looking for volunteers for their bat-themed stall at Science & Engineering day on 10th March. Please contact them if you are interested

From Chris Jackson (thank you, Chris) – Interested in beekeeping? Sam Higman (VP welfare Students’ Union), is thinking of setting up some beehives on campus and initiating a beekeeping group. I have said I will support this and provide some basic beekeeping training sessions using some of our research hives. If you are interested in […]

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust’s suggestions for an eco-friendly Christmas http://www.hiwwt.org.uk/news/2017/12/11/have-eco-friendly-christmas  

Assessment and feedback ambassador opportunity https://www.susu.org/work-with-us/about/217/assessment-and-feedback-ambassador-volunteer.html   MRes Wildlife Conservation students recently went to the Maasia Mara for their field course. Read their blog here https://blog.soton.ac.uk/wildlifeconservation/2017/12/07/marwell-in-the-mara/  

Zoology alumnus Connor Butler will be in Southampton on Friday 1st December to talk about graduate employment opportunities and dissertation research projects with Ecofieldtrips: a Southeast Asia-based fieldtrip provider. The talk will be at 1pm in Building 85/2213, all are welcome.  

Isle of Wight WaterBlitz (25th November – 20th December) take part in a citizen science project with the Freshwater Habitats Trust https://freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/projects/isle-of-wight-waterblitz/    

SPITFIRE PhD projects are now being advertised: http://noc.ac.uk/gsnocs/project/individual-and-population-level-phenotypic-responses-reintroduction-programme   Operation Wallacea are coming on 9th November at 1pm in 58/1007 (L/R C) to give information about the field dissertation projects that can be undertaken with them.   Staff contributor of the week, Bjorn Robroek, has a new paper published in Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01350-5 (thank you […]

Why not join the Natural History Society? The society say, “We have many different groups within it and do lots of different animal surveys and learn about the animals, how to ID them and are planning to go on many fun trips. Here is the Facebook page to keep up with events:  https://m.facebook.com/nathissoc.uos/”