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 include accommodation in a youth hostel and all meals). Students can join the BES for free for their first year of membership http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/membership/bes-student-membership-offers/ or if you prefer to join SEB it’s just £15 for students https://www.societyofbiology.org/membership/individual-membership/student-affiliate
Zoe recently visited the houses of parliament , along with her supervisor, Gail Taylor, and another PhD student, Mike Allwright, to exhibit their bioenergy findings (congratulasions!) http://www.southampton.ac.uk/biosci/news/2015/11-sustainable-bioenergy-at-the-houses-of-parliament.page
Fiona and Alison Simmance (both of whom were demonstrators on the Spanish field course last year) recently presented at a global conference on inland fisheries http://www.southampton.ac.uk/biosci/news/2015/26-students-to-address-global-conference-on-inland-fisheries.page . They have also made a video of the photos they took in Malawi last year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJgngY4TRH8 (congratulations!)
The University of Southampton Fossil Free campaign have an exhibition on the SUSU concourse today, go along to find about more.
MRes Wildlife Conservation – applications for September 2015 are now open http://www.southampton.ac.uk/wildlifeconservation . You can also read the current students’ blog here http://blog.soton.ac.uk/wildlifeconservation/
Posted By : Judith Lock