Throwback Thursday: The Journey So Far (April 2013)

Sometimes it is hard to think what to write on my blog posts, especially when I am supposed to be writing a 9 month report for my PhD! To help I have started a 'Throwback Thursday' looking back at some of the posts I made on my pre-Imperial College blog. This one was written in April 2013, …

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My first Hackathon

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 …

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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 …

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