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Millport 2013

The annual fieldtrip to Millport has got off to an interesting start: When the group of thirty four met up at Cork Airport on Monday morning at 9am to travel to the West of Scotland for the Millport Fieldcourse, did … Continue reading

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Algarve Field Course (Part 6): BIRD IS THE WORD!!!

Salgados Brackish Lake First and foremost, I would like to say a big hello to John Quinn’s mammy…you may refer to her as Maureen. She is absolutely blessed to have such a jolly and witty son. Maureen I would like … Continue reading

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Algarve Field Course (Part 5)

Eoghan Griffin continues our series from Portugal. You can also read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 of the series. For 6,000 years the Monchique Mountains have remained relatively untouched from agriculture or industry. The swathes of … Continue reading

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Algarve Field Course (Part 4)

Rebecca Prangnell writes from Portugal. You can catch up with the earlier installements of this series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. We started the group projects on Sunday and myself and 11 others were in Ruth Ramsay and … Continue reading

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Algarve Field Course (Part 2)

You can see the first part of the 2013 Algarve Blog here. Greetings from the Algarve! Day 2 saw us spending the day at the Salgados sand dunes carrying out habitat surveys and mapping. A haven for avid bird watchers … Continue reading

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BEES Algarve Field Work 2013 (Part 1)

This week, BEES 3rd year students are completing field-work in the Algarve, Portugal. We’ll have regular updates from them. Here’s the first from Rachel Francoeur: We arrived at Alvor in the beautiful Algarve for our field ecology course on Tuesday. … Continue reading

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Excerpt from the Journal of an MSc Student

MSc Marine Biology Fieldcourse to the University Marine Biological Station Millport, Scotland 2nd March to 7th March 2013 Day 5: We have been on the island of Millport for 5 days. The locals have accepted us as one of their … Continue reading

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Burren Fieldtrip 2012

Rebecca Neal describes the fieldcourse on Landscape Conservation and Management (AE4012) based in The Burren. We spent the first week of term on a fieldtrip to the Burren, Co. Clare. The first day was spent looking at the geology and … Continue reading

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Millport Fieldtrip 2012

A group of 30ish students and lecturers left Cork on Monday the 24th Sept, and headed to the University Marine Biological Station, Millport, on the Greater Cumbrae Island, Scotland writes Lean O’Connor. We completed a week long 10-credit field course … Continue reading

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River Management and Restoration in Spain

Four BEES PhD students (Fergus Mc Auliffe, Ruth Enright, Lucas Jagodzinski and Maria Kirrane) took part in the Erasmus Life Long Learning intensive research program “River Management and Restoration in the Atlantic Arc”. This project took place in Cangas del … Continue reading

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