Yesterday I attended my first ever hackathon, held at the Natural History Museum in London. What on earth is a hackathon? Well it's when a bunch of computer programmers and others collaborate intensively on software projects. This one was organised by the PREDICTS and Living Planet Index (LPI) projects to develop ways to make it easier to …
Soil, microbes and pasties
Last week I was pleased to have another day of fieldwork, this time in the New Forest National Park in south England. The New Forest includes one of the largest areas of pasture, heathland and forest in south east England and the site we visited is Whitley Wood, a oak-beech wood pasture woodland with grazing deer …
Lyme Regis fossil festival
I'm a closet palaeontologist and have always wanted to visit the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, an event which happens each early May Bank Holiday and features exhibits from scientists as well as talks, walks and a Fossil Fair were minerals, fossils and jewellery can be purchased. I attended with the Natural History Museum to talk about my …
Victoria J. Burton 