Making the most of #BES2018 – Highlights of events to make you a teaching pro!
It can be tricky being an academic, managing so many competing demands can mean that we might struggle to find time to be a great teacher as well as carrying […]
Tag Archives: fieldwork
Divergent Migration in Lake Sturgeon
Studying aquatic animals has never been easy. Hidden from view beneath the water surface, they can be hard to find let-alone study in terms of their long-range movements. A recent paper […]
It’s a bear! Adopting a ‘computer vision for animal ecology’
How can automated image processing be applied for detecting, counting and identifying animals in natural landscapes? A recent review article published in the Journal of Animal Ecology covers this exact […]
Badgers and Disease Ecology
Traditionally one of the UK’s most charismatic (and certainly distinctive) mammals, the badger has received mixed attention in recent times as a result of their involvement in disease transmission. To […]
Field Reports: Tim Coulson
We are back with another episode of the Field Reports podcast. I spoke to Prof. Tim Coulson of the University of Oxford about his fieldwork stories of taking a wrong […]
When Some Choughs Do Better Than Others
Red-billed choughs are a species of conservation concern, as discussed a recent Journal of Animal Ecology publication investigating their effective population size. Amanda Trask, lead author of the study, recently finished her […]
Field reports with Nathan Sanders
For the first episode of our podcast, I interviewed Nathan Sanders, a ‘former professional wrestler’ and an ecologist at the University of Vermont. We talk about his first fieldwork experience, […]
Introducing Field Reports podcast
Do you have stories of fieldwork that you would like to share? Maybe about the day you first saw a wild elephant, or the biggest ant that has ever crawled […]
Animal Ecology In Focus 