Hello! My name is Katherine and I have just started working as a TCV Natural Talent Trainee based at National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh. My traineeship is all about saline lagoons: a fascinating and relatively ...
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2016: The year of the molluscs?!
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My name’s Imogen, and I am proud to be the Natural Talent Trainee focused on Non-Marine Molluscs, placed at National Musuem Wales, Cardiff. Expect an overload of information and enthusiasm for slugs, snails and ...
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Ballinderry times
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I’m writing to you from the Ballinderry Rivers Trust where I’ve been working for the last five weeks collecting and processing kick samples from around the Ballinderry and Salterstown catchments. In my time here ...
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Macroinvertebrates under the Microscope
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It’s the Riverfly apprentice Emma again, I’ve just finished the first stint of my placement with the NIEA and am currently working away with the Ballinderry River’s Trust which so far has been really interesting ...
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A trip to Aberdeen
In the beginning of May I was lucky enough to spend three days at the Marine Laboratory in Aberdeen receiving some expert taxonomy training from staff at Marine Scotland Science (MSS). MSS is a division of Marine Scotland and ...
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