Darwin200 UK: Last Day!
I’m back on the Pelican of London for the final day of the voyage: up the Thames, through Tower Bridge (twice) and the final docking at Canary wharf. It feels strange to be socially distancing […]
University of Plymouth
Darwin200 day 6: plankton under the microscope
We’ve been riding out gale Francis in the shelter of the Firth of Clyde and filled the morning with a microscope session comparing plankton net samples (53 um) from the estuary of the Mersey and […]
Darwin200 UK Videos
The Darwin 200 team, Stew, Rohan and Stew are producing a series of videos from our voyage of sail training, nature observation and pollution surveys. Although I was not on board for the first 11 […]
Pelican of London in Plymouth
The Darwin 200 project of ocean science and conservation has arrived in Sutton Harbour, Plymouth. While sail trainees maintain the rigging, science students analyse nutrients in samples taken earlier. Wander by to talk to the […]
Darwin200 UK
A few days ago I shared my excitement about my involvement with the organisation Darwin 200 and the UK launch of its Ocean Science and Conservation programme [LINK]. The tall ship Pelican of London has […]
Challenging Habitat
Let me take you to an excursion to the origin of this blog: I started writing about my thoughts on mining and its legacy in the UK and beyond. I wrote about the soils contaminated […]
