Author Archives: Judith Lock

SEEN 7.6 app of the week

Winter trees http://www.isoperla.co.uk/WinterTreeId.html  

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SEEN 7.6 species of the week

The pangolin – it’s been species of the week before but there’s an event at ZSL on 21st February that you can book for now https://www.zsl.org/science/whats-on/saving-pangolins-earths-most-trafficked-wild-mammals  

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SEEN 7.6

Several courses that you may be interested in: Gilbert White’s house – Create an entomology collection, Saturday 28th January, 10am-4pm, £40 – book here http://www.gilbertwhiteshouse.org.uk/event/create-entomology-collection/ Hampshire Cultural Trust – insect identification courses, all at Chilcomb house (apart from Dragonflies). If you are interested in more details and would like a booking form, please let me […]

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SEEN 7.6 Southampton news

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 […]

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SEEN 7.6 Employability

Placements with the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust – 2nd year students GWCT are now advertising their Lowland game research placement http://www.gwct.org.uk/about/student-placements/ with supervisor Dr Rufus Sage. This is what they say: “Currently this advert has no fixed closing date and suitable candidates will be interviewed as they apply until the placement is awarded. I […]

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SEEN 7.5 species of the week

Dodo http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-38068828  

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SEEN 7.5 website of the week

A zoology student at Swansea university is using citizen science to collect her dissertation data using these 2 links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5HP3Ww8NOU&t=86s – watch the video and answer questions here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvnO08IUVPpfKFaQ91n-fPgmiaErlp4pXtnTw8cqogZjO4Dw/viewform  

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SEEN 7.5

If you’re on Twitter, take a look at #12AoC, it’s a MOOC that you can sign-up to and stands for 12 apps of Christmas. So far it’s at day 5 (the weekends don’t count). I’d be interested to hear what you think of any of the apps https://the12appsofchristmas.wordpress.com/   More young people are watching Plant […]

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SEEN 7.5 Southampton news

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 […]

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SEEN 7.5 Employability

The library has a writing centre, with one-to-one tutorials every evening. Sessions are 30 minutes long and bookings are from 10 days in advance. Sessions are 5-8pm on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. More information and the link to book here http://www.southampton.ac.uk/writingcentre/news/2016/10/05-writing-tutorials-evenings-in-the-hartley-library.page  

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