Life Beyond the Beaker

RowAroundScotland is an expedition in coastal rowing boats around Scotland as part of Scotland's Year of Coasts & Waters 20/21. As Sue explains, "t he pandemic forced the RowAroundScotland to become Virtual in 2020, but the real circumnavigation, take two, will now happen in 2021.  The row must go on!" Check it out here !  One sunny day before lockdown and before Christmas I headed out on a skiff with the Fentons! Throughout my time at school in Wales (yep shock I am Welsh but have a very English accent haha), I competitively rowed. I rowed in 8 seaters, 4 seaters, double, and single rowing boats - there was a point in my life where we were training 6 times a week to try and make it to Wales! So, since stopping rowing when I left for Uni I have always wanted to try skiff rowing on the open sea - very different from rowing on a wee river in Wales. I never did pursue rowing at University because there was a rule that you were not allowed to drink during the week, I quic...

  Here Rachel is explaining the type of Airboat that she uses as a wetlands ecologist in the US! I recently had a great chat with Rachel Villani from  Louisiana! We had made contact through Twitter as I had seen back in September that she was doing podcasts on Antarctica and wanted to speak to people that have worked in the field. One of my major goals whilst being within the science world is to communicate what I do and hopefully inspire others. I also think that within the scary online world that there are some fantastic tools out there, one of them being Twitter if you use it in the right way. I use Twitter to keep up to date with the latest science, policies, ideas, and also network. Zoom is also a great tool to have a virtual meeting and Rachel uses it to record her podcasts.  Storytellers of STEMM is the podcast Rachel hosts, " since January 2020. Everyone has a story, and these are the stories of the people in STEMM - their successes, career paths, research, field...