Clearing Places Available!!!

****Update 14:20****

We still have places on all courses but getting very limited. Most places left on Environmental Biology

We have a small number of clearing places available on all of our degree programmes:

BSc Biological Sciences
BSc Environmental Biology
BSc Animal Behaviour and Welfare
BSc Conservation Biology

And visit our new school webpage. If you want to apply, visit our clearing pages.

We'll keep these updated throughout the day.......

My Azorean bullfinch picture

I've been going on the Azores field course for six years now, and although I've seen plenty of the rare Azorean bullfinches, I've never had a recognisable picture (only a silhouette which could have been anything). This year I was determined to get something better, and here it is - hardly BBC wildlife standard, but definitely an Azorean bullfinch.

Pyrrhula murina

What we got up to in Induction week 2012



It's a worm



Mixing up mustard

Smell that soil!

Every year in Induction week we go on a trip to Mt Edgcumbe country park just across the River Tamar from Plymouth, in Cornwall. Previously the Biologicaol Sciences group have gone on a fungal foray, but this year we decided to do a couple of more structured activities based on OPAL (OPen-Air Laboratories) materials. We spent a bit of time digging holes in the grass (with permission!) doing an earthworm survey, with variable success (there were a lot of rocks where we chose to dig), and also looking a lichens and sycamore leaf spot as indicators of pollution (or lack of pollution). Here are a few pictures.



Time for a rest



Lab/field week trip to the Eden Project



The Tropical biome





Carica papaya (paw paw)



First year Biological Sciences and Environmental Biology students managed to miss the showers during lab/field week at the Eden Project. We spent the morning trying to find particular plants in the two biomes (with limited success!), and then the afternoon having a go at some scientific drawing, and exploring the environmental sustainability exhibits in the Core building. A good day out as usual - every time I go there I spot a plant I've heard of but never seen before.



Chlorophyll sculpture?



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