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  A field trip to Europe’s biodiversity hotspot - posters, politics and tapas

  After three solid days in the field around Doñana National Park in southern Spain, this is the day when the students write-up one of their field days as a poster. It gives Professor Nigel Paul some time to think about the challenges of conservation, and to identify some of the highlights of trip.

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  A field trip to Europe’s biodiversity hotspot - biting insects and sand dunes

  Smells, sunshine, sea and plenty of insects characterised the last day students spent in the forests of Doñana National Park in southern Spain, explains plant biologist, Professor Nigel Paul, from the Lancaster Environment Centre.

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  A field trip to Europe’s biodiversity hotspot - rare birds and dung beetles

  On the third day of the Lancaster Environment Centre’s annual field trip to the Doñana National Park in southern Spain, the students had a rare sighting and witnessed the ball control skills of dung beetles. Professor Nigel Paul explains.

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  A field trip to Europe’s biodiversity hotspot - identifying plants, a 5D experience

  In the second of his blogs about the Lancaster Environment Centre’s annual trip to Doñana National Park in southern Spain, Professor Nigel Paul tells how the first year students got a real taste of life as a field ecologist.

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  A field trip to Europe’s biodiversity hotspot - getting our bearings

  Bee-eaters, booted eagles and wild boar were among the sightings at the start of Lancaster Environment Centre’s annual field course to Southern Spain. In the first of a series of blogs, Professor Nigel Paul recalls what is so special about these yearly visits.

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  Studying water management in the Mediterranean

  Conversations with experts and local children, field observations and beautiful views, good food and company, offered a multitude of perspectives during a fascinating field trip to Istria, according to third year Geography student Jamie Quinlan.  

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  Down to earth apprentices

  ‘The Apprentice’ style group presentations, high-production-values training films and twitter question-and-answer sessions, made a recent soil science doctoral training course funky, fun and informative says Professor Phil Haygarth.

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  Many Paths

  Final year geography student Laurence Hawker takes a pragmatic approach to the many interesting directions his post university life could take.

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  Playing Parasites

  PhD student Stephanie Bryan takes a look at why rugby fans have been learning about plant parasitic nematodes.

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  Tales from Westminster: a month in the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee’

  Energy Lancaster fellow Alona Armstrong got an inside view of policy development when she spent a month working with the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Select Committee