Posts in "Fieldwork"

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…

In everyday life, soils are moved from one place to another for construction and mining. I was given a rather unique challenge: moving a 60-year-old field experiment for a housing development. The experiment was of very few long-term experiments exploring soil pH, which farmers and gardeners often manage for better…