The latest in Dr M’s series of botanical selfies ascends 3600 m and finds PhD student Alan Elliott giving up on computer games and going wild about Mecanopsis… I am… Alan Elliott, a final year PhD researcher at the University of Edinburgh and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh working on a project looking the dynamics of speciation in the Himalaya. I got into botany… by accident.
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OK so Dr M is one of the eight barmy botanists (and a driver) who drove in a little red mini-bus all the way from the Czech Republic through Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and across the water to Finland, and all in 5 days! We had lots of adventures on the way and you can read about them here! But this post is to
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Day 2 of this eXtreme botanical journey, and Dr M has concluded that this group comprises eight barmy botanists in a bus (and a driver!). So to celebrate this discovery Dr M has started to compose a song to entertain his fellow seven barmy botanists (and a driver) en route through Poland and beyond. And the more Dr M ponders it, the more it fits well
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Day 2: in which the intrepid group of eight barmy botanists (and a driver) travelled in their little red mini-bus across the length of Poland – and all in just one day (over 1000 km (630 miles) and in more than 11 hours!). While pondering this rather immense and extended journey Dr M feels crossing Poland in a day is perhaps unfair to Poland, it
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2014 marks the first anniversary of eXtreme botany and Dr M is celebrating by embarking on a European tour which tracks a botanical transect from the Czech Republic, through Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and from thence to Finland – an eXtreme botanical transect indeed! Day 1 Tuesday was a long day! A very early morning start from Reading, travelling to Luton airport (Lorraine Chase comes to
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Is Europe ready for eXtreme botany? Well, ready or not, here he comes, and Dr M’s trusty botanical companion Grasshead simply can’t wait! 2014 marks the first anniversary of eXtreme botany and Dr M is celebrating by embarking on a European tour which tracks an eXtreme botanical transect from the Czech Republic, through Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and from thence to Finland. While in Finland
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You’ve got to admire the timing, just as UK’s most prestigious botanical research centre, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, faces a public outcry over budget cuts, the new Director Professor Kathy Willis presents not one, not two or three but twenty-five programmes about botany, and all on prime-time BBC Radio 4 – in the hallowed slot just before the Archers!
The National Trust has gone crazy wild about getting the nation’s kids outside at the weekend so they’ve put together a list of 50 things to do before you’re 11¾ along with the 50 place finder to locate great places to do them, woods, fields, hills, caves, ponds and streams! They want to encourage kids to get mucky, discover their wild side and get closer to
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The World is still reeling from the 7-1 defeat of home team Brazil plus Dr M’s long awaited new series of botanical “selfies” in which botanists introduce themselves photographically and in their own words… #2 in the series continues with John Warren, a botanist not entirely new to DrMGoesWild (check his earlier post here):
eXtreme botany heads North to Malham Tarn Field Studies Centre with Dr M and University of Reading MSc Plant Diversity students, this is #5 in Dr M’s MalHam Diary. Day 5 Wednesday: Today is assignment day! Could explain why students were so (unusually?) quiet at breakfast! Dr M started the day leading students in a walk from Malham village to Malham Cove with a spot test
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