Fieldwork: Coral Reefs of Wakatobi
Check out my fieldwork interview on fellow conservationist and PhD student James Borrell’s Blog Link – Fieldwork: Coral Reefs of Wakatobi
Experiment Overload
I’ve been locked away in the lab for a month now working on our big experiment. Its been 4 months of preparation and one month of all work and no […]
Top Tips For Starting A PhD
So close, yet so far. I’m currently in the third and final year* of my PhD here at the University of Essex and it’s been a long and troublesome journey. […]
Cosmic Weather Lights up our Skies
2012 has been a year of great superstition due to cataclysmic predictions following the end of the Mayan calendar. Although the world may not quite be ending just yet, 2012 […]
Knock-off Britain! Are You Eating the Real Deal?
We’ve all heard of counterfeit handbags and designer ‘get-up’. But, did you know that the food we eat might also be classed as counterfeit? ‘Counterfeit food?’ I hear you […]
Bioprospecting: Drugs, a new frontier!
We all take drugs, in one shape or form. But, how exactly are scientists developing new cures for illnesses such as cancer and heart disease? Since the first antibiotic ‘Penicillin’ […]
Sylvester and Tweety International Crime Fighting Extraordinaire
Do you ever get that feeling, walking to campus? The air is crisp, there’s a cool breeze, and the world is silent apart from the soft twittering of British birds. […]
