by Thomas | Sep 16, 2019
As part of my role of co-director the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education’s Postgraduate Certificate of Ecological Survey Techniques, I get the pleasure of supervising or marking a number of very interesting field projects every year. However,...
by Thomas | Aug 20, 2019
Last autumn, I was a visiting professor at the University of the Balearic Islands in Mallorca for two months, and while I didn’t find any of the Meta bourneti cave spiders, I originally wanted to study, I did manage to find multiple Metellina merianae spiders in...
by Thomas | Jul 4, 2019
I first became fascinated by the potential behavioural adaptations of the cave spiders in the genus Meta (family Tetragnathidae) back in 2016, which spurred an interest for subterranean biology in general and lead to a student project on Meta menardi in Creswell Crags...
by Thomas | May 24, 2019
This week I attended a very interesting one-day horizon scan workshop on teaching and learning in ecology organised by the British Ecological Society, which took place at the Open University in Milton Keynes. During the workshop we discussed how political and...
by Thomas | Apr 10, 2019
I have been involved in a study on the spatial distribution of roadkills of different medium to large sized mammals on a stretch of road inside and immediately outside a nature reserve in Tanzania. My main involvement included helping to analyse the data and helping...
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