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For my internship, I have been working with Grevy’s Zebra Trust and Marwell Wildlife on their collaring project. They deployed 20 collars on Grevy’s Zebra in September 2023 in two different areas of northern Kenya to understand their movements. This project was initiated in response to the proposed LAPSSET corridor that will involve…

This past September I attended a week-long international summer school in Sestola, Italy. The programme: ‘Assessment of high mountain ecosystems by soil survey, remote sensing and GIS-based maps’ focussed on key skills, including soil profile description, sampling techniques, pedodiversity and biodiversity assessment, soil ecosystem functions, and the construction of GIS-based…

Muhammad is currently a PhD candidate having been selected for the Commonwealth Split-Site PhD Scholarship 2023-2024. His passion, sparked as the child of a farmer, has taken him across the globe and landed him an academic career researching the climate impact on crops.

I, Muhammad Saeed, am currently pursuing a…

At the beginning of June, QUADRAT DTP second year students from University of Aberdeen and Queens University Belfast reunited in Courmayeur, Italy to spend the week together to learn more about glaciology. QUADRAT DTP is a partnership between the University of Aberdeen and Queen’s University Belfast that offers studentships that…

After finishing my Honour’s project dissertation, I was incredibly lucky to receive an opportunity to present my undergraduate research, a project titled “Niche Partitioning of Native British Bumblebees on a Temporal and Floral Resource Scale in Machair Habitat on Orkney, Scotland” at the Posters in Parliament session in the Houses…

In the first week of August 2023, I was able to travel to UKCEH in Lancaster thanks to the funding provided by the Charles Sutherland Scholarship. My research project lies under the interdisciplinarity Demonstrator ‘Perennial Bioenergy Crops for Greenhouse Gas Removal’ (PBC4GGR) and aims to bring scientific support and best…

Jo Kershaw, a lecturer from the School of Biological Sciences in the Ecophysiology research  cluster, is currently doing fieldwork in South Georgia, a sub-Antarctic island, as part of a project led by the British Antarctic Survey. Whales are the largest krill-predators in South Georgia, yet their impacts on local krill…

Congratulations to multiple researchers in the Ecophysiology research cluster for their success in attracting research funding from UKRI BBSRC totalling £2.16million to the University of Aberdeen (100% cost, 80% from BBSRC) across two research projects.

Project 1: A multi-level exploration of biological nitrification inhibition in rice for improved sustainability of crop…

As you walk the aisles of your local grocery store, you are balancing a multitude of internal and external factors that together influence your food decisions. Your personal preferences, family eating history, and receptivity to advertising comingle with internal signals indicating your level of hunger or any nutritional deficiencies you…

This September I attended the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) 2023 Annual Science Conference. For my PhD studies, I have been using genetic data to explore the underlying latent state of population connectivity in the black-legged kittiwake. The kittiwake, a seabird with a circumpolar distribution in…