Latest News...Please follow this link to the News Pages. 
Report of Darwin Initiative Trip to Zambia (January-February 2010) Along with Professor Richard Wall (University of Bristol), I have just returned from a fabulous Darwin Initiative-funded visit to Zambia. The aim of the trip was to assess the feasibility of setting up a research project looking at the impact of intensive farming on invertebrate biodiversity. In particular the project would focus on developing sustainable parasite control in cattle and provising an advice system to Zambian farmers read more... Sofia publishes on maternal choices in insects (January 2010) Dr Sofia Gripenberg, with whom I share an office at Oxford, along with colleagues from the University of York and Helsinki has published a paper in the January 2010 issue of 'Ecology' Letters'. The paper is entitled 'A meta-analysis of preference-performance relationships in phytophagous insects'. I have been privy to all the hard work that has gone into this paper which brings together all other comparable work on the subject looking at why insect mothers differ in their judgement. Follow this link to an interview with Sofia where she discusses the topic. Dung Beetle article published in Welsh Country magazine (January 2010)
I recently jotted down a little bit of information on the importance of dung beetles, which has just been published in the Welsh Country magazine under the heading 'Home is where the dung is'. Follow this link to their website to read the introduction. Ecology of Livestock Dung meeting a success (December 2009) The
scientific meeting held in Oxford in December 2009 organised by
Professor Richard Wall (University of Bristol) Darren Mann (Oxford
University Museum of Natural History) and Sarah Beynon (University of
Oxford) was a highly successful event. The two-day meeting was attended
by scientists from across Europe working on many aspects of the
subject, ranging from the chemistry to the ecology of dung. Many useful
collaborations were formed and the meeting was finished off with a
fascinating tour of the Hope Entomological Collections given by Darren
Mann. An offer to hold the 2010 meeting was made by Dr Helen West of
Nottingham University, so it looks like it will become an annual event.
For more information on the atendees and presentations given, please
follow this link. Filming for Sky (2009)
I am currently fronting the 2009 Sky Knowledge advertising campaign. Follow this link to watch the advert. 
|