A solstice surprise from the young naturalists team at Green Fuse Magazine! The first edition of Green Fuse is now online and can be downloaded once you sign up to gain access (top of their front page). We are honoured to have been invited by co-editors Rose and George (also FIRE Lab team) to contribute […]
Lukim yu bihain is an informal good-bye in Tok Pisin, a Bislamic language spoken in Papua New Guinea (PNG) – the place where this blog post starts. More specificaly, we start on the island of New Britain, which is part of the Bismark Archipelago – a group of islands off the northeastern coast of PNG. […]
Happy Friday readers! Yesterday, I swapped my usual routine of researching freshwater invertebrates, to teaching them to primary school children this week. For this, I visited Sharmans Cross Junior School (Solihull, West Midlands), who hosted a water day for their year 5 group (ages 9-10) so that the students could learn about how our precious […]
A few months ago myself, Rose, and James headed up the Tawe River valley as part of some exploratory research in relation to science and art on tributaries to the Tawe. We are looking at differences on culverted and non-culverted streams, and bringing together arts and sciences to do so. It’s a growing area of […]
Last week Tara shared about our recent walk up and down the River Tawe in south Wales. This week I will build on what Tara shared and talk about a reflection I had on the return walk from the upper reaches of the Tawe. On my way back downstream I decided to take a different […]
Happy Friday readers! This week’s blog post describes a workshop that I (James White) recently attended in Brazil. After joining the FIRE lab team in August, I have been hoping to undertake a stronger, inter-disciplinary approach to my studies. Given that my research background has entailed examining ecological processes within river environments (see here), one […]
On Thursday we tweeted this week’s #FishInThePost question: ‘Me being one of Wales’ smaller freshwater fishes, is it not impressive that I produce up to 1,000 eggs in a breeding season? Which Welsh freshwater fish am I?‘ Winning guess by Pepijn for this week’s #FishInThePost! We had several great guesses, commentary, and puns about which […]
On Thursday, we tweeted this week’s #FishInThePost question: ‘Which Welsh fish species has a class of submarines named after it?’. We had several great, and informed guesses about which species we were referring too. Follower, Brendan Wringe, mentioned the submarine class in the United Kingdom that is named Stickleback, and while it is correct that Stickleback do […]
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