Just a few weeks ago, I was in St Andrews for a meeting on the progress of our ocean acidification research group. Hard to believe it’ll all be coming to an end next year! St Andrews makes a fitting venue for a marine science meeting not only as the home of the Scottish Oceans Institute, […]
As my “Big Idea” for my ocean acidification blog post is still under construction, and I haven’t really done a local wildlife post in a while, I thought now might be a good time to write about the winter critters I’ve been spotting over the last few months. I mentioned in a previous blog post […]
So maybe you’ve been reading this blog, and thinking, “Sure, this is great and all, but it’s not exactly an award-winning blog is it? I only think things are good when someone else can reaffirm that belief for me.” Well, reaffirm this! In the last week I have won not just one, but two awards. […]
With the premier of the BBC’s new documentary series Frozen Planet having aired earlier this week, I wanted to hijack some of the buzz around the polar regions of our planet to make a blog post I’ve been planning on writing for a while now. This all starts with my boyfriend’s subscription to The Economist. […]
We’ve been in the Bay of Biscay for the last few days, and it’s been rough going. There have been a few storms and big waves that have tested my balance to its limits (and I’m the kind of person who finds stairs a challenge). I can now fully appreciate why every piece of equipment […]
So I had an idea that if I shrunk down a handful of photos to a fairly small size, I could probably successfully upload them on my slow connection. I’ve definitely been itching to show you all some pictures, so I’m giving it a go! Click on the thumbnails to get a slightly larger picture. […]
It’s now been a whole week since my feet touched land, and what a busy week it’s been! My day usually starts about about 3 or 4am, when I have to get dressed and up on the main deck to sample from the CTD. The term CTD stands for “Conductivity Temperature Depth”, but is also […]
There’s a new arrival around the corner that I’m quite excited about. Behind the block of flats I live in, there’s a nice little lake surrounded by trees. Mostly it’s just mallards, Canada geese and a few coots that live there, but recently a pair of swans moved in. I was delighted to find the […]
Despite the double bank holidays, I don’t actually have any art to share! It’s a busy, hectic time at the moment… I’ve got an annual report to finish up for a board meeting at the end of May, I’m giving a seminar, and I have my research cruise coming up in June. Argh! But I […]
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