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SEEN 5.9 Southampton news
The Herpetological Society guest speaker – Thursday 19th March 12-13:00 – Building 46/2003 (Physics) Project Chicchan – Biodiversity Conservation in the Americas. Rowland Griffin, snake ecologist and founder of the project, will be giving a talk on reptile and amphibian conservation in the Americas.Ā He will also be introducing some exciting opportunities to get involved […]
Posted in Southampton News
SEEN 5.9 Employability
Field studies instructor job Zoe Harris found a job that she thought might interest you, field studies instructor on the Isle of Wight (thank you Zoe!) http://www.environmentjob.co.uk/job/53803-field-studies-instructors?from_update=true Ā Undergraduate summer research experience in the Carpathian Basin The Carpathian Basin Research Foundation in association with the University of Debrecen (one of the largest universities in central […]
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SEEN 5.8 website of the week
Act for Nature (show your support!) http://action.wildlifetrusts.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1823&ea.campaign.id=32896
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SEEN 5.8 species of the week
The weasel ā it has to be after that photo! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31722410 http://www.mammal.org.uk/weasel
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SEEN 5.8
Linking nicely to 2 of the previous stories, The Times Higher last week reported that the decline in field biology skills in the UL has reach crisis point http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/tablet/A6881D80/2018731.shared . Take things into your own hands, by taking advantage of the extra opportunities that are made available to you as students (e.g. the BioBlitz), you […]
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SEEN 5.8 Southampton news
BioBlitz 2015 On the evening and 5th June until the evening of 6th June we will be holding the Southampton BioBlitz on campus. This is an opportunity for members of the public to come along to find out about the species around them. Local species experts will come along to officially record what we find […]
Posted in Southampton News
SEEN 5.8 Employability
Voluntary field assistants required in the Pyrenees Nick Barton’s group at the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria requires volunteers to assist with field work on plant speciation in the Pyrenees (Spain) this coming summer (June – August). They are looking for hard working and enthusiastic biology students with a strong interest in working […]
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SEEN 5.7 website of the week
I would like to encourage you all to join Twitter because there is a lot of interesting things out there. Yesterday my feed was full of #DarwinDay
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SEEN 5.7 species of the week
The league against cruel sports are having a foxy fortnight http://www.league.org.uk/our-campaigns/hunting/foxy-fortnight-2015
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SEEN 5.7
Lucy Innes says āI’ve just read an article calledĀ ‘Scars reveal ageing whales’ secrets’ from BBC’s science and environment section; and thought you might like to include it in the next Issue of SEEN, asĀ I thought it had some interesting ideas of individual identification.ā (thank you Lucy!) http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30993208 the original article is here http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.12204/abstract […]
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