Bryher and I were inspired by the wonderful drawings that have been submitted to the Fire Lab Kids website and we wanted to make, and share about, our own Wondrous River Creature! One sunny morning, we headed to Clyne Gardens for some aquatic inspiration. We feel so lucky here in Swansea to be surrounded by […]
Lukim yu bihain: Amphidrous Fishes of Island Rivers
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. […]
Fire in the hole! Watch out for art and science along the Tawe River
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 […]
Reflecting on our knowledge of dams and water resources
Blog post by Michiel Jorissen, FIRE Lab collaborator A few weeks ago, Steph invited me – as a citizen scientist on the GROD project – to join and contribute to the Global Dam Watch workshop held at WWF headquarters in Zeist, Netherlands. It was lovely meeting Steph in person after playing #damornot on Twitter for […]
#FishInThePost – Lemme know Minnow
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 […]