School of Life Sciences, University of Essex
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University of Essex
Home to the tenacious, inquisitive, and those impatient for change. Where Change Happens
Prof Tom Cameron
Professor Applied Ecology - Dir. Ecology & Environmental Biology - @BNAscience Hon Fellow - Assoc Editor @Ecol_Evol - BTO C Permit (w'fowl) - views my own
Natalie Ruth Hicks
Zimbabwe-born marine scientist; senior lecturer; course director; blue carbon, marine biogeochem, carbon cycling, marine sediments. Views & opinions my own.
Dr Anna Sturrock
#UKRIFLF @Uni_of_Essex Assoc Prof | fish tracker | #otolith obsessive | #rstats | @FishFishJournal | @SeaUnicorn2020 | @TheFSBI #FSBI2023 | Mama of 2 | she/her
Terry McGenity
Professor of Environmental Microbiology
The discovery of pristine deep-sea Galapagos coral reefs shines a light on some of the planet's unseen natural wonders.
Dr Michelle Taylor of School of Life Sciences, University of Essex reflects on the historic expedition.
Full video: brnw.ch/21wJljB
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Charles Darwin Foundation-Fundación Charles Darwin, Natural Environment Research Council, Parque Galápagos
🗓️ #DeepDay is coming up! 🐙🎉Join us on May 7 for a webinar to talk about the wonders of the deep and some of the incredible recent discoveries made deep beneath the surface.
Register now 👉us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
#DefendTheDeep Dr Michelle Taylor Salome Buglass Lissette Victorero NIWA
On #EarthDay we're looking back at the amazing guests who have joined Jules Pretty
on our Louder Than Words Podcast from Tanya Steele @ @WWF_UK to our very own Dr Michelle Taylor
Listen to brilliant interviews about protecting and restoring our planet: brnw.ch/21wJ3xz
Had a blast at #EGU2024 with Amy Shurety and Hugo Woodward-Rowe, and presented some work on Southern Ocean myctophid fish! Soon to be published..👀👀
New paper out led by Dave Paterson and Irene Fortune on ecology of offshore O&G - insights from INSITE
New The Guardian article about the importance of diversifying our #seafood palate to reduce environmental impact + improve human health, discussing research carried out by University of Essex + Cefas 🎣⛴️(link.springer.com/article/10.100…).
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#fisheries #ClimateChange
SEX, DRUGS AND DISEASE
Get your tickets and join us on May 14th at Pint of Science. Pint of Science UK
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How cool is this? 😎🧪 University of Essex are bringing incredible science talks to city centre pubs for the Pint of Science UK Festival! 🔬 If you want to know about The Secret Lives of the FrankenFish - and who wouldn't? - then this is the festival for you!🍻
🗓️ 13-15 May. On sale now!
Wonderful time dissecting #salmon at the Marine Institute, getting to know our awesome collaborators, learning more about the amazing #Burrishoole set up. Lab dancing mandatory... Apols for the bloody eyes if ur squeamish! 👀 School of Life Sciences, University of Essex #otolith #UKRI_FLF
Amazing to catchup with Michael Steinke and support these four new Postgraduate Graduates from School of Life Sciences, University of Essex yesterday at University of Essex #graduation Ellen, Howard, Lucy and Alex (tagged where I could do so) 🦪🦠🐟 #proudsupervisors
Had a great first day at #EGU24 , presenting some of my work looking at the effect of man-made structures on sedimentary blue carbon! Thanks to everyone who came, looking forward to the rest of the conference! School of Life Sciences, University of Essex Cefas The National Decommissioning Centre
Super talks from Claire Powell Seainasieve and Hugo Woodward-Rowe at EGU blue carbon session Cefas School of Life Sciences, University of Essex
Class of 2024: Charlotte Worrall
Charlotte won a prize for securing the highest mark for her Masters and dissertation for her School of Life Sciences, University of Essex MSc Tropical Marine Biology course.
Read her story here:
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Academics enjoy graduation - a rare chance where we are not in jeans and trainers. Fantastic to celebrate the achievements of our School of Life Sciences, University of Essex University of Essex students Dr Greg Brooke Terry McGenity - always lovely to wear the University of St Andrews colours. Congratulations to our students!!