Dear all,
Thank-you to those of you who sent in links, please keep them coming in. No suggestions for species or app of the week yet. I look forward to hearing from more of you!
Judith
Careers – lots this week!
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IEMA (institute of environmental management and assessment) free event – Tomorrow (3rd November) the IEMA will talk about how to get an environmental job. You must register first here: http://www.iema.net/?module=ievents&func=view&range=next6months&eid=1677 the event is in building 45 room LT1 from 3-5pm.
Environmental Sciences career panel – “Looking for a career in Environmental Sciences after you graduate and unsure what to do? Come and speak with experts at our Environmental Sciences Career Panel to help you decide. Alumni and graduates will be coming to the University to talk about their career paths, and give advice to current students on how to go about finding their perfect career. Sign up for the Career Panel atwww.soton.ac.uk/careers/events and add to your Graduate Passport by participating.”
The panel is being held in building 44 room 1041 on 10th November from 5pm – 7pm. I’ll see you there.
Volunteering – those of you who attended Diane Nicolle’s talk last week (available on the BS undergraduate information blackboard page) will have learnt the benefits of volunteering whilst you are a student. I have 2 more opportunities for you this week. I would also like to counter what Diane said, postgraduate qualifications will help you get a job, in fact some organisations won’t hire you without a Masters.
Marwell Wildlife – for the first time ever Marwell Wildlife are looking for 3 volunteers to assist their Biodiversity Management (2) and vet teams (1) and they would like you (our Biology and Zoology students) to be those volunteers. This will be one day a week positions, starting in the new year (probably Wednesday afternoons).  This is not work experience and you will not be able to collect data towards a project, instead you will be assisting with various tasks such as cataloguing camera trap data. If you are interested please send me your CV and a covering letter.
East Meon Sustainability Centre – Rachael Arden, a former Biology student here, is looking for volunteers at the East Meon Sustainability Trust. She thinks you would be interested in the following: “We will be coppicing willows which were planted this year (so are relatively small) at our Wetland Ecosystem Treatment system (WET system), as well as removing stinging nettles and brambles. We will be grading the willow for different uses. That is, the smaller rods will be set aside for craft work (basketry, Christmas decorations, living pencils (!), etc..), and the larger rods for living willow fences & potentially other structures in the future. We are going to do this on Friday 25th November, Thursday 1st December & Friday 2nd December. We could certainly use some extra hands! There may also be opportunities to help us use the coppiced willow in the future.”
It would take you 50 minutes to drive to the centre but if you can get a car load together please let me know and I will contact Rachael.
Third year project data collection with Operation Wallacea – Also on Thursday 10th November, Operation Wallacea will be talking about opportunities for third year project data collection in a variety of exotic locations. The talk is at 1pm in Building 6, room 1077.
In the News
Claire Seagers sent in this link to a BBC article about growing meat from stem cells as an alternative to manufactured meat (thank-you Claire!):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15402552
Also on the BBC website, Joanna Miles found this item about teamwork in yellow saddle goatfish (thank-you Joanna!):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15261196
You can read the full article here:Â http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01966.x/abstract;jsessionid=7B8F1D7B2B22E96D850BE627CEAD52CD.d02t01
Another BBC website link, from Ellie Hack, stone-stealing Adelie penguins. The film is very funny, I particularly like the end (thank-you Ellie!)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15305502
Desertification  – one of the likely largest effects of climate change –http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v478/n7370/full/478450a.html
Friendly bacteria – are they really that great?http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111026/full/news.2011.614.html
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/3/106/106ra106Â – article
Quiz on animals as national symbols –Â http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15544830
Wildlife photographer of the year –http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111019/full/news.2011.580/slideshow/1.html?identifier=1
Louise Fairless sent in this link about the Cyclops shark, a developmental anomaly (thank-you Louise!) –http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/18/albino-cyclops-shark-is-real-experts-say/
Pete Boyd sent in this link for those of you who like Hymenoptera – unbeelievable! (thank-you Pete, I think)http://bit.ly/oBg0A0
Cat vs mountain lion (through a window, no blood split) –http://photos.denverpost.com/mediacenter/2011/10/mountain-lion-checks-out-cat/#name
Make sure you watch Frozen Planet tonight, 9pm BBC1 –Â http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zj35k
App of the week – FSC Wildlife guides, the ladybird one is free, you can then pay £1.49 for further guides. I used the ladybird one to identify a 14 spot, I suppose I could have just counted the spots…
Species of the week – bottlenose dolphin, curious http://animalwise.org/2011/10/25/dolphin-curiosity-knowledge-for-knowledge%E2%80%99s-sake/
Keep the links coming in!
Posted By : Judith Lock