Southampton News

BioBlitz will be visiting schools around Southampton over the summer. If you are interested in gaining some experience (e.g. for a GTTR application), please let me know and I will pass you onto our two interns, Chester and Mairin.  

We are holding our annual BioBlitz on campus on 10th June and looking for student volunteers. Come along to find as many species on campus as possible and learn from local natural historians. We also have free t-shirts! If you’re interested, please email me.   Dave Hubble from Southampton Natural History Society (members will be […]

‘Meliora’, the second International Student Sustainability Research Symposium will be taking place here at the University of Southampton on 21st April 2017 (find out about the 2016 Symposium: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/sustainabilityaction/symposium/index.page Georgia Harper says, “We are undertaking a Mammal Survey with the Mammal Society between January to July, we are finding a lot of species on both Avenue and Highfield! Follow […]

Darwin club becomes Dawkins club – Neil tells me that the club is now reading the Selfish Gene. There is a facebook group with details, Darwin becomes Dawkins club.   SOTSET (Southampton Science & Engineering Festival) – 18th March We are looking for volunteers to help out at the BioBlitz stand on 18th March. This […]

SOTSET (Southampton Science & Engineering Festival) – 18th March We are looking for volunteers to help out at the BioBlitz stand on 18th March. This year we will be based in Valley Gardens, next to our beautiful zebra sculpture, Zebraversity. If you would like some public engagement to add to your CV, please email Emily […]

Tomorrow (8th Feb) SSPC seminar series – WILDLIFE CRIME: LESSONS LEARNED ON THE STREET ARE IMPORTANT FOR PREVENTING CRIME IN THE BUSH Talk by Dr Andrew Lemieux from the Netherland Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. 1-2 PM    Venue: 58/2097

The reason for the gap in SEEN is that the last week of term was very hectic. Along with several PhD students I went to the British Ecological Society annual meeting in Liverpool. 4th year Zoology student, Frances Mullany, also came and gave a talk about her and Chloe Fulford’s 3rd year projects that I […]

Southampton Natural History Society (£6 to join for the year) has a meeting on Monday 12th December in Edmund Kell Hall, Bellevue Road about “Observing and Recording Garden Wildlife”, starting at 7:30pm. They also have two field walks in December, on 17th December joint with Hampshire Ornithological Society, there is a walk at Eyeworth Pond […]

Zebraversity released into Valley Gardens We used a soft release strategy. Zebraversity spent a week on level 7 of B85 but she is now in her new home in Valley Gardens. If you haven’t been to Valley Gardens, it is behind the students’ union building. Please go along to meet her. Southampton BioBlitz will be […]

BioBlitz thank you event After a busy summer we are holding a thank you event for all of our volunteers and everyone involved in the project. You can also come along to find out about the project. It’s on Monday 21st November at 5:30pm in the observatory (level 7) of B85. The building has restricted […]