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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…
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…
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…
Poet, writer and performer Genevieve Carver is currently working with SBS marine biologists at the Lighthouse Field Station in an exciting new arts-science collaboration. She’ll be taking inspiration from marine science to develop creative outputs integrating poetry, spoken word, audio and video.
Genevieve is engaging with two main fieldwork projects:…
A non-native shrub invading a dry Andean valley: predicting the spread of Pyracantha angustifolia
Pyracantha angustifolia is an ornamental shrub that produces bright orange berries that, when coupled with its thorns, provides this plant with its suiting common name of “Firethorn”. Most of us have probably come across this shrub…
What is Artificial Intelligence?
AI is a branch of computer science which develops algorithms that enable computers to perform complex tasks and learn from experience, as if they were intelligent beings. Although we are often unaware of it, AI is part of our daily life: it corrects our texts, filters…
