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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…

Whilst nearing the end of my final year of my BSc Marine Biology at the University of Aberdeen, I was delighted to be offered the opportunity to present my Honours Thesis: “Assessing predator-prey interactions within an operational wind farm” at the Houses of Parliament in London.

The ‘Posters in…

The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) is the main organisation promoting the study of animal behaviour and the ethical treatment and conservation of animals in the UK. Each year, ASAB awards one early career researcher with the Christopher Barnard Award, recognising outstanding contributions by a new investigator…

In April 2022 I was exceptionally fortunate to receive funding from the JW Stephen Fellowship Fund from the School of Biological Sciences to support the first field season of my Ph.D. I used the funding along with additional grants to travel to Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean…

Four people from the School of Biological Sciences travelled to the Maldives last month. That was PhD student Yehia Hazzazi, and Professors Adam Price, Jo Smith and Pete Smith. It was for the 2^nd meeting of the £17m UKRI funded South Asia Nitrogen Hub (SANH) project that has 40 partner…