Posters in Parliament is an annual event under the British Conference of Undergraduate Research, held at the UK Houses of Parliament in London. I was incredibly grateful to be asked to attend this year’s event, presenting my honours thesis: “The Short-Term Impact of River Restoration on Birds” which I completed…
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…
Martin Cowie is the Technical Resources Manager in the School of Biological Sciences.
On the 18th of November, I was delighted to be able to represent the University of Aberdeen at the 2024 Technician Commitment Signatory Event held at the Royal College of Pathologists in Whitechapel, London. The event brought…
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…
In April of 2024, I was fortunate to receive support from the Charles Sutherland Scholarship fund, which significantly contributed to my research. This funding allowed me to partially cover the expenses associated with a field work trip to Denmark.
The primary purpose of this trip was to collect DNA samples…
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…
