Throwback Thursday – Interviews, PhDs and other scary things… (February 2014)

Appropriate at this time of looking backwards to the previous year and forwards to the next, this #ThrowbackThursday covers my interview which lead me to be a PhD student in the first place! There has been a bit of a hiatus in my blogging since I have been extra stressed while planning what to do next …

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Throwback Thursday – Earthworms – the final chapter! (December 2013)

This week's #throwbackthursday chronicles the final part of field work on the NERC BESS earthworm project in 2013 - hard to believe two years have past since we finished! With the soil analysis laboratory in York shortly closing for Christmas the race was on to complete enough samples in each field and county for the …

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Throwback Thursday – More earthworm sampling (December 2013)

Two years ago I was volunteering on yet another week of earthworm sampling on the NERC BESS project, this time in Leicestershire and Dorset. This week features farty mustard solution and an exciting day in an active quarry! Another county, another field… Last Monday and Tuesday I was again away with the Natural History Museum Soil …

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