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SEEN 5.7 Southampton News
Zoe Harris is organising the British Ecological Society’s Plant Environmental Physiology special interest group’s 4th annual young career scientist mini symposium. It will take place from 27th-29th April and focus on the New Forest. More information is available here http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pepg-new-forest-walk-and-talk-tickets-15156703107. It costs £80 or £50 for British Ecological Society or Society of Biology members (this […]
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SEEN 5.7 Employability
British Ecological Society undergraduate summer school 2015 This free event will take place from 20th-24th July at Malham Tarn field course in North Yorkshire. Apply here http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/education/higher-education/undergraduate-summer-school-2015/
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SEEN 5.7 Placements
Placements The Southampton Excel placements site is currently advertising our longterm biodiversity monitoring projects, investigating environmental stewardship option effects on bumblebees (with the wildlife trust) and the effects of lighting on Southampton common on bats (with Southampton city council). These are part-time placements for 10 or 12 weeks over the summer. There is also a […]
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SEEN 5.6 species of the week
(as suggested by Becks Spake – thank you Becks!) – the cinereous mourner, a bird whose chicks mimic a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predation http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26689-zoologger-the-bird-that-mimics-a-toxic-caterpillar.html#.VMZ2Ncsfzcs
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SEEN 5.6 website of the week
The Dissent of man (I recently had a Twitter exchange with him) – exploring the influence of Darwin on everyone http://unbound.co.uk/books/the-dissent-of-man/
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SEEN 5.6
Felix has sent in 3 PhD opportunities (thank you Felix!) 1) Queen’s University Belfast – “we have a PhD opportunity for a project focusing on community assembly theories applied to soil animal assemblages, multispecies distribution models, and a trait-based analysis to shed light on the factors that contribute to species coexistence at multiple scales. The […]
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SEEN 5.6 Southampton News
Biodiversity intern project presentations For the past 5 summers graduands from the Centre for Biological Sciences have undertaken biodiversity internships with Southampton City Council and the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust. Last summer, the city council interns investigated lighting effects on the bats on Southampton Common. The wildlife trust interns investigated the effect […]
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SEEN 5.6 Employability
BES undergraduate ecological careers conference The British Ecological Society is holding its annual careers conference on 9th February from 9am-4pm at Charles Darwin House in central London. There are only 100 tickets available which must be pre-bought (£10 each) http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/careers/events/undergraduate-ecological-careers-conference/ Conservation Careers eBook Sign up for membership to Conservation Careers to receive a free […]
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SEEN 5.5
The importance of bees Emma Joslin says “Regarding the National Pollinator Strategy here is a youtube video I found that explains very simply the importance of bees but is quite cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uVeyH7XQXg&feature=player_embedded” (thank you Emma!) Illustration course Jake Snaddon sent in this link for a course called “Introduction to naturalistic and scientific illustration”. The […]
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SEEN 5.5 Southampton news
Links between Carbon emissions and global warming Southampton research confirms the link between Carbon emissions and global warming http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2014/dec/14_222.shtml#.VH7_Qctybct Volunteering position The Cardigan bay Marine Wildlife Centre in New Quay, Wales, contacted the faculty because they are looking for volunteers. “I am writing on behalf of the Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre in New […]
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