PROGRAMME
TUESDAY 3RD MARCH
WEDNESDAY 4TH MARCH
10:00 Arrival and coffee
10:30 Welcome to day one
10:45 Tom Bowser keynote talk
11:30 Student talks session 1
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Panel career discussion
14:15 Penny Clarke student keynote talk
14:45 Poster session and coffee
15:45 Student talks session 2
16:45 Comfort break and light bites
17:15 Mocktail demonstration
17:45 Quiz
18:45 Depart to the Meadowpark pub
09:00 Arrival and coffee
09:30 Welcome to day two
09:40 Kirsty Park keynote talk
10:25 Student talks session 3
11:25 Comfort break
11:40 Student talks session 4
12:40 Lunch
13:40 Student talks session 5
14:10 Adam Woodward student keynote talk
14:40 Poster session and coffee
15:30 Student talks session 6
16:00 Comfort break
16:10 Prizes and closing remarks
16:25 Conference end
SESSION 1
Jemma Guthrie - The changing dynamics of moth pollination networks in a temperate rainforest ecosystem
Finn McElrue-Inch - Assessing the status of the Great Crested Newt in Edinburgh and the Lothians: A Pilot Study
Ruaidhri Forrester - Assessing the distribution and status of two of the UK’s rarest freshwater fishes: vendace (Coregonus albula) and European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus)
Helen Pruzina - Habitats and local populations: a model of Herring Gull resource use and its influence on colony trends
SESSION 2
Julia Chase - Allofeeding and allopreening of a crow with a beak abnormality
Finley Bruce - Taking the sting out: Controlling nettles to improve puffin breeding habitat
Niamh Gurrin - How does peat bog restoration impact stream water quality?
Alice Turner - Human disturbance affects beaver foraging
SESSION 3
Callum Nichol - From Soil to Suckers: Drivers of Clonal Regeneration in Aspen (Populus tremula) at Muir of Dinnet NNR
Rory Abernethy - Sitka spruce colonisation of treeline environments in Scotland
Sarah Watts - Unearthing the ectomycorrhizal fungi co-occurring with relict arctic-alpine willows and restoration sites using eDNA
Katerina Schiffnederova - Concentration patterns of intentionally and unintentionally produced PCBs in harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) stranded along the British coast
SESSION 4
Ruth Wright - Understanding online interest in invasive non-native species
Eleanor Foster - Belonging, Legitimacy and the Governance of Free-Living Sus scrofa in Contemporary Scotland: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Zsuzsa Lugosi-Grant - Measuring nature connectedness in children: A face validity investigation of the NCI
Lindis Kipp - Alleviating climate anxiety in undergraduate students using skills-based learning
SESSION 5
Benjamin Miller - Woodland patch and landscape characteristics determine tick presence and density in Scotland
Callum Grant - Do ladybirds prefer to overwinter with conspecifics?
SESSION 6
Gordon Hannah - Modelling Wildfires in the U.K. Using Spatio-Temporal Processes
Rachael Livingstone - Cutting Emissions, Not Connections
Scotland's Nature Student Conference 2024, Inverness
Scotland's Nature Student Conference 2024, Inverness
