Conference – Scottish Ecology, Environment and Conservation Conference
The Scottish Ecology, Environment and Conservation Conference was held in Aberdeen this year, and included talks across a range of topics from PhD and Master’s students. As the name suggests, talks were related to ecology and the environment and conservation, but there was a big emphasis from the keynote speakers on how students could use their science to inform and drive policy, peaking with a panel discussion on “‘Applying ecological science to conservation policy”. Georgina attended and presented her work on the effects of food quality on foraging decisions in rufous hummingbirds (I know, not a species native to Scotland), and was commended on her talk! There are not, unfortunately, any pictures from the conference, but here is a picture of a hummingbird to make up for it.
