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Hello everyone, I'm Meryl the Invasive Species apprentice! Not going to lie but that is a pretty awesome job title... one which raises a few eyebrows when I introduce myself but generally gets a good reaction! I've been ...
Continue reading The aliens have landed!!!!

Hello again! Today was my last day collecting my pitfall traps from the brownfield sites Garibaldi Bing and Forge Dam. I had to take away the traps at Roughcastle two months ago as there were lots fo young frogs across the ...
Continue reading Final pitfall trap collections!

Hi Readers! A blog is seriously over-due, last but not least I hope, I have an update from my headwaters experience thus far! I feel like I haven't stopped travelling and/or reading... but its all good! I left you with an ...
Continue reading My whole summer in one big blog!

OK so it's been ages since my last blog...sorry John, but so much has been happening since May! In June I went with a team from WWT to Iceland to work on a project being run by Danish and Icelandic researchers that is ...
Continue reading Birds and freshwater beasties

Hello again, this is Ali the Grassland Fungi apprentice! This has been such an exciting time of the year...so many fungi are fruiting at the moment. But before I get carried away writing about them I wanted to share a ...
Continue reading The fungi are here!