Posts in "Research"

Marine shellfish like oysters carry out a vital role in marine ecosystems however the UK's native oyster species has suffered a drastic decline in recent years.

Scientists from the University of Aberdeen and NativeAqua, a native oyster farm, have been awarded £14,300 to investigate how to improve the resilience of…

Biologists and conservationists have long been interested in the study of island populations which may face genetic bottlenecks due to predicted smaller population sizes and barriers to gene flow. This can be especially detrimental for organisms, such as bumblebees, which have haplodiploid sex determination whereby males develop from unfertilised (haploid)…

The NoWPaS (European – formerly Nordic – Workshop of Masters, PhD, and Post-Doctoral Fellows working on anadromous salmonids) aims to build and maintain an international network of early career researchers studying salmonid species such as Atlantic salmon, Arctic charr, and Brown trout. By sharing recent research findings, the workshop supports…

In May 2025, I was fortunate to receive funding from the Charles Sutherland Scholarship Fund, which enabled me to co-organise and participate in this year’s Young Modellers in Ecology (YoMos) workshop in Germany.

My involvement with YoMos began at the 2024 workshop, where I experienced firsthand the value of creating…

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…

The Scottish Fish Immunology Research Centre (SFIRC) has secured over £1.7 million in research funding in 2024 to fund six research projects spanning an impressive range of topics in fish health and aquaculture. Check out the project summaries below:

Project 1. The Role of Photoperiod in Immune Development…

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…

The Energetics Research Group has made a range of exciting discoveries this year. Highlighted below are two projects that span both applied and fundamental ecophysiology themes.

The behavioural and physiological response of dairy cows to regrouping practises

Catherine Hambly and her team worked with the dairy industry to tackle how…

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…