Hi everybody!
I’m Anna the TCV Natural Talent Entomology Trainee based with the Centre for Environmental Data and Recording (CEDaR) in Northern Ireland. I’m very excited to be starting my journey of Entomology and I’m ...
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Archives for February 2015
Spotting Tiny Differences
I am a Natural Talent Trainee, and my area of study for the year is in Marine Diatom Taxonomy. “Taxonomy” being a word for a giant game of “spot the difference”, and “Diatom” a word that indicates that this game will be ...
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If you go down to the woods today…..
Hello everyone!
I’m Ceri, the TCV Natural Talent Saproxylic Insects Trainee based at Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Saproxylic insects depend on dead or dying wood for at least part of their lifecycle. For ...
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Wales, Coal and Wildlife
When I first seen the advertisement for a ‘TCV Natural Talent Trainee - Colliery Spoil Habitats’, I honestly couldn’t believe my eyes. I have long but dreamt of an opportunity to work on my favourite British habitat and share ...
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Alien invaders!!!
Hi Guys, I’m Susan and I am the Marine Invasive Non-Native Species Natural Talent trainee. I will be based at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh and I will spend my summer months in the far north of Scotland. So far in fact ...
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