Author Archives: Judith Lock

SEEN 8.2

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 “A new research project, ‘Land Lines‘, is looking at the literary, social and cultural history of nature writing over the last […]

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SEEN 8.2 Southampton news

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 […]

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SEEN 8.2 Employability

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust are advertising placement opportunities for 2018/19. These offer a year out between 2nd and 3rd year of degee study. The opportunities are as follows: Lowland Game & Wildlife Research (1 placement) Uplands Research (2 placements) Wetland Research (1 placement) Scottish Lowland Research (1 placement) Farmland Ecology Research (2 placements) […]

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SEEN 8.2 app of the week

Blackboard – there is a new app available (it does work on the latest iOS). Get notifications of module announcements and access course material wherever you are.  

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SEEN 8.2 species of the week

Halloween animals https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/ghosts-halloween-animals-sharks/  

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SEEN 8.1

Staff contributor of the week, Mark Chapman, suggested this interesting article – how superstitions and myths affect animal conservation https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/endangered-animals-cultural-myths (thank you, Mark!)   First year students, please complete this questionnaire from the Royal Society of Biology about your experience of Biology at school https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/post16_bio17   Blue Planet II is coming! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41740841   I watched […]

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SEEN 8.1 Southampton news

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/”  

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SEEN 8.1 Employability

Kick-starter training for early career conservationists http://www.conservation-careers.com/job/kick-starter-training-early-career-conservationists-career-bootcamp-certification-project-management/ – deadline 30th October   Orangutan appeal UK – offering research grants up to £1500 for projects that support primate conservation in Borneo. To be eligible you will need to be a finalist, completing studies by September 2018. Applicants should prepare a project proposal of no more than […]

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SEEN 8.1 app of the week

Nature Finder by The Wildlife Trusts https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-wildlife-trusts-nature-finder/id720696183?mt=8 or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wildlifetrusts.naturefinder&hl=en_GB  

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SEEN 8.1 Species of the week

Okapi https://www.okapiconservation.org/world-okapi-day/  

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