Seaweed Sleuthing, or Phycological Phascination......
In Victorian England.
What Makes a Citizen of the Sea ?
.........is what PhD student Pamela Buchan wants to find out.
She's had a long love affair with the sea, starting with a Marine Biology degree, and research into ragworm perception of night and day.
A period with the British Science Association followed, working with nature groups in the Manchester area, but then she wanted to get back nearer the sea, and moved with her family to Plymouth to start first an MRes, and then a PhD on Citizens of the Sea.
The Last Few Minutes.........
of geological time is the way Dr Jenny Bennett describes her particular interest in the last 2.7M years - the Quarternary Period.
This period held the latest of a long line of glaciations, and has shaped the landscape that surrounds us.
We see the evidence around us, particularly when exposed in sea cliffs and river banks. Large cobbles may be evidence of raised beaches when sea levels were higher in warmer phases of earth's history.
A Guide to Rockpooling.......
.......is the name of Stevel Trewhella and Julie Hatcher's new book. There's no shortage of identification guides, but Julie and Steve share their huge experienece of finding and identifying the contents of rockpools with Coastwise members. There's a lot of strange things going on out there......
Puffin Island..........
.....translates in Old Norse to 'Lundy', the island on the horizon. A wildlife haven, it is protected by several measures, including Statutory Marine Reserve, Marine Conservation Zone, and Special Area of Conservation.
Sian Scott spent three year there as Assistant Warden, so knows the place intimately. This, and her public educator skills, shone as she described the island's wildlife to Coastwise members.
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