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Surveying marine mammals on the Scottish West coast
Colourful Tobermory Summer has finally arrived to Scotland with the beach in front of SMRU resembling a Balearic holiday retreat and people even embracing the still rather chilly waters of the North...
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See following link for info: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/grant-schemes/study-abroad-studentships
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Polar explorers
Summer is usually quiet news time and a break from teaching. Not so for Biology staff at St Andrews and the good folks of the Cupar Churches Holiday Club. The latter organised a polar explorer week for...
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MSc Grand Finale
Wednesday 19th August was D-Day – Dissertation Day. The MSc in Marine Mammal Science students (as well as those from the sister MSc in Ecosystem-based Management of Marine Systems) submitted their...
View ArticleWhite Shark and Marine Research Vacancy
http://st-andrews.prospects.ac.uk/jobseeker/vacancy/alert/view?id=1684080
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A fresh start – Welcoming all new MSc students!
Boat impressions The end of summer is near here on the East coast of Scotland which means it’s time for a new beginning…… as if on cue sunshine and warm temperatures returned with the new students at...
View ArticleVisit to SAMS
The EMMS students made a visit to SAMS in Dunstaffnage (Oban) this week. The weather was glorious, showing the beautiful West Coast scenery at its best. Students met with staff at SAMS and presented...
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EMMS 2015 Trip to Oban (SAMS)
We all left St Andrews in glorious sunshine on Monday to head to the west coast of Scotland, where the EMMS students spend their second semester of the MSc programme. The windy roads got more and more...
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Oh I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside!
St Andrews’ idyllic location by the sea provides us with a refreshing breeze, undeniably beautiful scenery and the exciting rare glimpse of marine mammals as we arrive at the SOI for our lectures each...
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Whale Watching on Land: Pilot Whale Necropsy
Pre-necropsy excitement at SRUC Though everyone already looks forward to Friday as the best reward for a week of hard work, we students from the MMSc program hit the jackpot with our Friday adventure...
View ArticleFormer MRes student has first paper published
Kieran M Tiernay, who was one of our MRes students in 2012-13, and now a 2nd year PhD student has had his first paper published in the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity ! See this link:...
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PhD studentship at the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey
We are currently advertising a NERC DTP PhD studentship, based at the British Antarctic Survey, to start in October 2016 on past connectivity and foraging ecology of whales in the polar South...
View ArticleStatistics PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships in St Andrews
http://www.findaphd.com/search/phd.aspx?DID=8&SAID=509&CID=GB&LID=1150
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R- reflections and a student’s self-conversation
These are the musings of one of our current MSc students tussling with coursework. Comments (in the form of annotating R-code with a #) are copy-pasted from Sarah’s second assessed R assignment (these...
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St Andrews Day Graduation – Class of 2015
Master’s pink hoods on show! Graduation day has finally come. The official end of our MSc (Marine Mammal Science). It’s strange how time flies. One moment you’re still worrying about saying silly...
View ArticleInternships available with CEFAS for MSc or PhD students
Two, 3 month internships are being offered by the MASTS Oil & Gas Forum in conjunction with CEFAS in Lowestoft. Each internship is being offered with a stipend of £3k. One internship will look at...
View ArticleReflections from a newly graduated student
Having already completed an undergraduate degree at the University of St Andrews, my decision to remain and complete a postgraduate degree was in some ways both difficult and easy – difficult in the...
View ArticlePhD student sought
PhD student sought – Newcastle University. Deadline 23 January 2016. see link: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sage/study/postgrad/dta/food.htm
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Marine Mammal Science – a big world made small
Our Masters alumni rocked marine mammal science! I have just returned from the Society for Marine Mammalogy conference which is the largest biennial gathering of professionals working on, with and...
View ArticleNew publication by one of our EMMS graduates
A new publication by one of our EMMS graduates can be viewed here: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147534
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