First things first, congratulations to the winners of the pub quiz, Ali, Yaz, Jake and Luke, despite stating the area of Tenerife to be 280,000km². For reference, the area of the UK is only 243,610 km². The quiz was Tenerife themed, but it was varied. Other questions included: -What is the Latin name of the Tenerife…
mk396 January 16th, 2017 Tenerife, Tenerife archive FCF, fieldcoursefortnight, fieldtenerife
Day 2 started with a lecture from Brent (a Spanish-speaking Kiwi/ island biogeography expert #ScientistGoals) about his team’s research around the Canary Islands. They have been sampling for beetles and conducting genetic analyses to work out who came from where, and how ancient landslides have influenced the arthropod populations on Tenerife by forming ecological barriers…
mk396 January 12th, 2017 Tenerife, Tenerife archive Field Course Fornight, Field Tenerife, Tenerife
The sun set as our plane circled the island to land- which meant it took a while to locate our hire vans. Efficient communication via the walkie talkies ensured we were soon on our way, winding up the mountains in the dark. As one of the lecturers pointed out ominously, ‘at least we can’t see…
mk396 January 9th, 2017 Tenerife, Tenerife archive FieldCourseFornight, Tenerife
It’s almost Christmas Day, and in 2 weeks the Tenerife field trippers will be off! Hopefully everyone’s wish lists to Santa went something like this: *Practical clothing for the field, including sensible shoes and thick socks *Top of the range binoculars *Ear plugs *Toilet roll *Some light reading, preferably ‘Natural History of Tenerife’ for the journey…
mk396 December 24th, 2016 Tenerife