Our department every year organises competitive summer studentships for our undergraduate students at level one and level two. This year, due to the restrictions imposed by the government to tackle the global coronavirus pandemic, no field or lab work were allowed. However, I have been collecting plant/pollinator visitation rates in my garden shortly after the country went in lockdown, so I thought this would make a good summer project. I offered two studentships and was very lucky to receive some excellent applications. The two students who have been working with me for a month now, Luke and Brooke, have been so engaging and interested. Luke is going to compare plant/pollinator visitation rates between his urban and my rural garden and correlate this with weather patterns - temperature, rainfall and windspeed. Brooke is interested in comparing the abundance of scarce beetles (from the National Biodiversity Atlas), in two locations in southern England and correlate this with weather patterns over the last few decades. After such a long time isolating, it is so nice to be back exchanging ideas and looking at data with students.
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