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Joe Douglas

Joe Douglas

PhD: Urban greenspace – what attributes determine wellbeing? Location: Environment Centre Wales, Bangor. Email Joe Douglas Twitter I graduated from the BA Human Sciences course at the University of Oxford in 2018 – a degree that covers many academic disciplines across the biological and social sciences. My time on that programme gave me a deep […]

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Jessica Hey

Jessica Hey

PhD: How do birds contribute to the spread of antimicrobial resistant microorganisms? Email Jessica Hey Twitter Research Gate I am a PhD student at Bangor University, studying the role that gulls play in the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Antimicrobial resistance is a global health issue, and though it is a naturally occurring process, it has […]

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Jeronimo Cid

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PhD: Drought vulnerability of the date palm and its wild relatives Location: 3rd Floor, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology/Environment Centre Wales, Bangor University, Bangor and Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, London Email Jeronimo Cid Twitter ResearchGate: Jeronimo Cid I completed my Undergraduate degree in Forestry Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. My dissertation aimed to improve […]

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Claire Carrington

Claire Carrington

PhD: Understanding responses of coastal seabirds to local and daily-scale meteorological variation Location: Bangor University  Email Claire Carrington I began my academic career in 2013 studying a BSc in Environmental Science at Bath Spa University. However, after completing the first year of this course it was clear that my interests lay in Ecology and Conservation. […]

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Catrin Eden

Catrin Eden

PhD: Understanding how habitat quality, insect abundance and aquatic subsidies impact population change in a rapidly declining bird Location: Lancaster University Email Catrin Eden Twitter Linked In I studied biology at the University of Manchester from 2016-2020 where I focussed on ecology and conservation modules. I spent a year as a placement student with the […]

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Catherine Walker

Catherine Walker

PhD: The War-torn Woodlands of Britain: Reconstructing the ecological impacts of historical disturbance Location: Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), Lancaster Email Catherine Walker LinkedIn Twitter My drive to pursue a PhD in woodland ecology began after volunteering at my local woodland, Birchanger Wood, in Hertfordshire. Now a trustee of the wood, this experience has […]

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Archita Bhattacharyya

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PhD: Altered states: The mysterious microbial ecosystem beneath our feet: Unravelling groundwater microbiology Location: British Geological Survey, Wallingford University: Lancaster University Email Archita Bhattacharyya Twitter Facebook I have completed M.Sc. in Geology from IIT Kharagpur, India and B.Sc. in Geology from University of Burdwan, India. I found my passion to study hydrogeology during my B.Sc. […]

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Harry Skinner

Harry Skinner

PhD: Altered states: Will forest-agriculture mosaic landscapes allow the long-term survival of a forest-specialist primate? Location: Bangor University  Email Harry Skinner Twitter For my undergraduate degree, I studied Zoology with Conservation at Bangor University. Through my dissertation I had the opportunity to research in Madagascar for 2 months. During this time, I became fascinated in […]

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Sarah Coates

Sarah Coates

PhD project: Adapting to extreme environments: Hybridisation and the evolution of contemporary heavy metal tolerance Location: 3rd Floor, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology/Environment Centre Wales, Bangor University, Bangor Email Sarah Coates I studied for a BSc in Biological Sciences (Evolutionary Biology) at the University of Edinburgh, where I first developed my interest in evolutionary biology. I […]

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Emma Withers

Emma Withers

PhD: Extreme weather events exacerbate nitrous oxide emissions from soil (Extreme-N2O) Location: 2nd Floor, Environment Centre Wales, Bangor University, LL57 2UW Email Emma Withers ResearchGate Twitter “I completed a BSc (hons) degree in Biochemistry at the University of Bath in 2015, before working on N14 magic angle spinning solid-state NMR at the University of Southampton. […]

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