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SEEN 6.8 Species of the week
The okapi https://www.zsl.org/conservation/news/global-plan-aims-to-save-elusive-okapi-from-extinction
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SEEN 6.8 App of the week
PlantNet http://www.growsomethinggreen.com/an-app-that-will-identify-plants-from-just-the-snap-of-a-picture/
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SEEN 6.8
Lydia Campbell-Black says āI was watching a documentary earlier this week on David Attenborough’s curiosities, when they mentioned parthenogenesis in Komodo Dragons, which I’d never hear of before and thought could be quite interesting for SEEN. Here is an article on it:Ā http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6196225.stmā (thank you Lydia!) Motorboat noise affects predation rates https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160205100457.htm?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Moscowās […]
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SEEN 6.8 Southampton News
Undergraduate International Symposium on Sustainability 2016 Held here in Southampton on Friday 15th April. More information here http://www.southampton.ac.uk/sustainabilityaction/symposium/index.page? Sign-up to present here http://www.southampton.ac.uk/sustainabilityaction/symposium/present-at-the-symposium.page (thank you Felix!) Ā External seminar 24th Feb ā Dr Phil Riordan, Marwell Wildlife Snow leopard conservation in China ā 1pm in 05/2015 Ā
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SEEN 6.8 Employability
Smooth snake survey ARC are looking for New Forest smooth snake survey volunteers http://www.arc-trust.org/nf-sss.html (thank you Becks!) Bees and pollination course in Costa Rica the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica and Utrecht University are sponsoring an international course called āBees and Pollinationā in Costa Rica, to be held August 16-26, 2016. Students will carry […]
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SEEN 6.7 App of the week
I tried this app out on the BIOL2041 familiarisation trip to the New Forest this Tuesday ā Winter Tree Id http://isoperla.co.uk/WinterTreeId.html
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SEEN 6.7 Species of the week
New Arachnid Named for Lord of the Rings Character A new species of cave-dwelling arachnid Ā discovered in Brazil has been named after Gollum from the Lord of the Rings. Iandumoema smeagol Ā belongs to the order Opiliones, which represents the diverse group of over 6,500 harvestmen including the ones that are commonly found in gardens. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151119-lord-of-the-rings-arachnid-smeagol-harvestmen-science/ […]
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SEEN 6.7
From Carla Broom āgenetic analysis of fossils has revealed that Homo floresiensis was in fact a separate species https://www.rt.com/news/322750-hobbit-evolved-species-teeth/ā thank you Carla! Ā More from Carla (our SEEN keen bean this week), she says āHere’s a link for SEENĀ to a really interesting Attenborough documentary on the dinosaur they found; possibly bigger than a blue whaleĀ […]
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SEEN 6.7 Southampton news
Darwin day is fast approaching. Neil Gostling will deliver the environmental bioscience seminar (every Friday at 1pm) on Friday 12th Feb in celebration āOn the origin of species in 50 minutesā. I think the room is 85/2207 but you can check the notices next to the lifts in B85 or watch the plasma screens from […]
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SEEN 6.7 Placements
Internships The Excel Placements website is currently advertising 4 SEEN-related internships ā 2 to assist with with our BioBlitzing events in the summer (we chose the design for our sponsored sculpture in the sculpture trail this week) and 2 to work with the Wildlife Trust on a biodiversity monitoring project in the New Forest. 2 […]
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