Field Reports: Chandra Salgado Kent

Is sound pollution too much? Does it get on your nerves easily? What about sound under water? For this episode of the Field Reports podcast, I interviewed Dr. Chandra Salgado Kent of Curtin University in Australia about her work on marine animals and the noise underwater. We discuss marine bio-acoustics, conservation, behaviour, whales, dolphins and more. Trailer: Podcast: You can listen to the future episodes of … Continue reading Field Reports: Chandra Salgado Kent

Field Reports: A primer to the Special Feature on the Allee effects, with Dr Andrew Kramer

Have you heard of the Allee effects? If you thought it is do with Alleles and genes, you are not alone. It is not related to that, but it is an even more interesting idea in ecology and evolution. The Journal of Animal Ecology has just published a Special Feature on the Allee effects covering various aspects of it. Before you read the papers in … Continue reading Field Reports: A primer to the Special Feature on the Allee effects, with Dr Andrew Kramer

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 boat reaching a wrong island, and more about integrating modelling and empirical field studies. About Tim.     Video trailer: Full podcast: Read the blog post written by Tim about modelling and empirical studies here. … Continue reading Field Reports: Tim Coulson

Field Reports with Ken Wilson

For the second episode of our podcast, I interviewed Prof. Kenneth Wilson, an Evolutionary ecologist at the University of Lancaster. We talk about the success secrets of his long term projects, armyworms, their devastating effects on the crops in Africa, and his fieldwork research about biological control of the pests. More about Ken: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/wilsonk4/ Here is a short video trailer for the episode: Here is the full episode: … Continue reading Field Reports with Ken Wilson