Earlier this year, the Wellington branch of Forest & Bird held a bioblitz in a local reserve they are helping to restore. Curator Botany Leon Perrie talks about looking for the little plants.| Te Papa’s Blog
Join us in welcoming Marie Jensen, the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin’s new Conservation Program Specialist!| Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin
Greetings from the Top of the World! I’m Jorge Coppin-Massanet, a PhD student with the Cornell/NASA SSHOW UP team. My research focuses on developing advanced instrumentation for exploring icy…| Planetary Habitability and Technology Lab
Pingo STARR is a NASA-funded program exploring ice-cored hills in the Arctic Tundra called pingos. These hills form from freezing ground water, forming a massive ice mound at the center and uplifting the permafrost. Not only are they found on Earth, but there is strong evidence that they also form on Mars and on the … Continue reading Pingo STARR: 2021 Mid-Field Season Update→| Planetary Habitability and Technology Lab
Pingo SubTerranean Aquifer Reconnaissance & Reconstruction (Pingo STARR) is a NASA- funded research & analysis program grant supported through the innovative Planetary Science and Technology for Analog Research (PSTAR) program.| Planetary Habitability and Technology Lab
Curious about the scientific instruments Icefin has to help it do groundbreaking (and ice-breaking!) field work? From salinity and temperature readings, to seafloor imaging and sonar mapping, Icefin has a collection of instruments that help scientists look at all kinds of things under the ice. Here, we’ll talk about Icefin’s Oculus sonar from Blueprint Subsea, … Continue reading Tech Spotlight: Oculus Sonar→| Planetary Habitability and Technology Lab
Will McLellan takes us on a tour of his work on tick density in human-impacted environments. What are you studying? The word ‘tick’, to most people, would bring to mind a symbol on an exam answer s…| Naturally Speaking
Did you know that today there are just four remaining great ape species in the world? These magnificent animals possess certain human-like physical features, thanks to their genetic architecture th…| Naturally Speaking
Paddy McCleave gives us the inside scoop into a project that looks at the internal composition of lichens What is the project you are doing? – My masters project on the lichen microbiome. My projec…| Naturally Speaking
A small exploration of the western Highlands of Scotland and its deer is provided by Max Hadoke What is the project you are doing? – My masters project, which is comparing deer monitoring method ef…| Naturally Speaking
Kathrin Loosli provides insights into a project that aims to inform antimicrobial resistance planning in eastern Africa What is your project? – My PhD, titled “Antibiotic quality, acces…| Naturally Speaking
Anna Formstone takes you on a whirlwind tour of fieldwork in south-east Asia following a rabies outbreak What is your project? – It is my PhD project. I’m using a participatory systems mapping appr…| Naturally Speaking
We travel to Brazil, canoe through the Amazon, and go on a quest to find the cardinal tetra. As part of my PhD research, I was fortunate enough to go to the Amazon and find out more about the aquar…| Naturally Speaking
In hot water in the land of ice – Using geothermal sticklebacks to investigate the future effects of climate change Written by: Bethany Smith, PhD student at the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal H…| Naturally Speaking
Germany draws against Spain the the football world cup, but the two drone teams score wins...| The Tawaki Project
Jeff, Hannah & Thomas make their way to Alert & Crater Bay...| The Tawaki Project
On team takes a stroll to Mirounga Bay, the other dies a thousand deaths getting to and from Orde Lees...| The Tawaki Project
Starlink proves a tad unreliable, but we get a few ground counts and logger deployments done...| The Tawaki Project
The south coast is conquered, drone missions are flown, and seabirds are counted...| The Tawaki Project