South Downs National Park Authority, research priorities for 2017/18 have been announced https://www.southdowns.gov.uk/discover/research/research-opportunities/ and provide opportunities for dissertation projects, contact Tanya Hibberd and Adam Brown at research@southdowns.gov.uk
Alumnus, Owen Middleton sent a link āA new research project, ‘Land Lines‘, is looking at the literary, social and cultural history of nature writing over the last two hundred years.Ā As part of this project, researchers are asking people across the UK to help find the nationās favourite nature book, that captures our special relationship with the natural world.Ā The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by the Universities of Leeds, St. Andrews and Sussex and it has already been featured on AutumnWatch.
Watch a video about the project here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL4CDPTh9lc&feature=youtu.be
…and vote here:Ā www.ahrc.ac.uk/favouritenaturebooksā (thank you, Owen, we miss you!)
Ernst Haeckelās illustrations https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2017/nov/01/ernst-haeckel-the-art-of-evolution-in-pictures?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=standard
People love dogs more than humans http://www.sciencealert.com/a-study-has-shown-that-people-really-do-love-dogs-more-than-humans
Listen to Tim Birkhead talk about bird promiscuity http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098j5l3?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=standard
Using museum bird collections to measure air quality changes https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2017/10/31/what-museum-collections-of-century-old-birds-tell-us-about-our-dirty-air/#4cc89ad79d7e
The tree conference http://thetreeconference.com/ live streamed on Saturday 4th November
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