Image 1. Mary (placement student) stood on a freshly burnt site, surrounded by ash and an unburnt tree, measuring soil respiration using an IRGA and chamber As part of my ENVISION DTP PhD, I was lucky enough to undertake an internship in Kruger National Park. Working within Scientific Services, I worked with the Fire and […]
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In April of 2022, I was fortunate enough to gain the top-up RTSG money which funded an essential research trip to my PhD field sites in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Due to COVID delaying fieldwork, a lot of my RTSG budget that had been allocated to field trips had been used to ensure the […]
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PhD: Savanna Soil Carbon: Investigating Biological Climate Resilience Location: Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University Email Mary Hodgson I completed a Masters in Biology at the University of Leeds, during which I was involved in a research project in Kenya, investigating the impact of nutrient poor soil on resource allocation to defence in Acacia drepanolobium. This […]
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