Hello FIRE Lab followers! My name is Kherlen Shinebayar! I am a student at Swansea University, but originally from Mongolia. I am working with FIRE Lab on several projects related to mapping instream infrastructure, and this summer I will be starting my own research project about fragmentation of rivers in Mongolia and how this influences […]
In the build up to world fish migration day, we recently publicized that here at the FIRE lab, we would discuss and showcase different migratory tactics of various freshwater species. Within aquatic environments like rivers, lakes and ponds, fauna migrate in a multitude of ways across different scales, from individual meters to hundreds of kilometres. […]
Today seems like the right day to show some love for our migratory fishes and their freshwater cousins! After all, May 16, 2020 is World Fish Migration Day (WFMD) and we here at FIRE Lab have some exciting plans on the horizon! For those who might not know about WFMD, it is a world-wide celebration […]
Last week, FIRE Lab hosted a one-day workshop with collaborators Maria Pregnolato (Bristol Uni), and Carlos Cabo and Pipo Roces (Swansea Uni). The focus of the workshop was on bridges, particularly those occur where roads cross over rivers (what we refer to as road-river crossings). At the workshop, we shared ideas about methods and strategies […]
This past week, Steph and I conducted our first river walk along the River Tawe! The walk started from the Swansea barrage (at the river mouth) continued to the river’s source and back to the barrage. This was the first of many river walks that we will be conducting along the Tawe throughout our research […]
Este es un homenaje para Javier Maldonado-Ocampo, una persona que dedicó su vida a seguir su pasión, los peces dulceacuícolas. Un investigador que fue más allá del glamur de la ciencia y se sumergió en los ríos buscando cada día comprender mejor a estos vertebrados acuáticos. Un profesor que transmitió a sus alumnos la necesidad […]
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