BioDAR Project

We are developing a new way to monitor #insect #biodiversity by tapping into the UK's #weather #radar network. Funded by @NERCScience @GatesFoundation

[Chris Hassall @katatrepsis]

We are recruiting the final cohort of our #PhD programme in #Extinction Studies (@ExtinctionDTP), deadline 6th February. You would join 12 current PhD students working in a fascinating and interdisciplinary group. Application structure in thread below... https://t.co/YgX2V02WnR

[Chris Hassall @katatrepsis]

PhD klaxon 4! Lochran Traill & Alastair Ward are offering a really unique project on #hippo-human conflict in #Africa based on an experimental approach to reducing hippo farm raiding, with @PanoramaDTP @UniversityLeeds https://t.co/hH46ww6hHD #ecology #PhD #phdchat #conservation

[Chris Hassall @katatrepsis]

PhD klaxon 3! @josie_south and @MariaBeger have a great #PhD project on the #sustainability of #coralreef #fish #trade with @PanoramaDTP at @UniversityLeeds https://t.co/RLPCfTBshT #ecology #PhD #phdchat #conservation

[Chris Hassall @katatrepsis]

PhD klaxon 2! Interested in #bees and #biology? @e_j_duncan and @AmandaBretman are offering a #PhD project on #pesticides, #pheromones, and #pathogens with @PanoramaDTP at @UniversityLeeds https://t.co/j9SnfrdZXY #ecology #PhD #phdchat #evolution

[Chris Hassall @katatrepsis]

PhD klaxon 1! A fantastic project with @BillKunin on #pollinators and #networks across different scales with @PanoramaDTP at @UniversityLeeds https://t.co/vhfOWRT0Jo #ecology #PhD #phdchat #conservation

[Chris Hassall @katatrepsis]

I am beyond delighted to announce the launch of a new @coursera course in #Radar #Aeroecology: Exploring Biodiversity with Radar. It's a fascinating and important area of research with huge potential for global biodiversity monitoring. #MOOC #Biodiversity #COP15

[Online Courses at the University of Leeds @uoldigital]

New #onlinecourse exploring #aeroecology is now available on @coursera! Led by @katatrepsis this course will help you to develop skills in using #radar to explore #biodiversity. https://t.co/bhEqV0Vl6j

[RHUL Poetics Research Centre @PoeticsResearch]

Redell Olsen's 'Weather, Whether Radar: Plume of the Volants' explores radar-detected insect swarms through the expanded frames of sound, poetics, alongside visual and digital practice. A digital studio iteration of the project can be found at: https://t.co/LvNrq8vuCx

[Chris Hassall @katatrepsis]

Delighted to advertise a #PhD project on #radar #aeroecology at @UniversityLeeds with the @BiodarProject to study #birds, #insects or #bats. Open to graduates from any quantitative discipline (#ecology, #computerscience, #meteorology, #DataScience, etc) https://t.co/imKw3X2eKS

[Priestley Centre for Climate Futures @PriestleyCentre]

⭐️Our new #AskAClimateResearcher series is here! ⭐️

Join us through September as we pose climate change FAQs to our @UniversityLeeds researchers.

This series aims to be informative, open conversations about climate change, and empower you to act. (1/4)

[RAL Space @RAL_Space_STFC]

👀📡
Is it #FlyingAntDay near you? The
@BiodarProject is using weather radar to track species of insects, and you can help by filling in their short survey below 👇

[Seb 🌱🌿☘️🌱 @SebUrbanBotany]

Our new exciting #planteducation paper is out in @Ecol_Evol🌾🌵🌱!

“The botanical education extinction and the fall of plant awareness”

You can read the full paper here:
https://t.co/MOLRSQk4CN

🧵 For a summary of content:

Photos: @AGeijerSimpson

[National Centre for Atmospheric Science @AtmosScience]

Is it #FlyingAntDay near you?

Contrary to popular belief, Flying Ant Day can actually take place on different days in different places.

Ants can take flight at almost any point during the summer months. We need your help to find out when they're flying near you...

[National Centre for Atmospheric Science @AtmosScience]

The @BiodarProject is running a public survey to track flying ant day across the country.

Researchers will compare results to radar observations, to see how well they can detect insects via radar.

When you spot flying ants, tell us via Google Forms ⤵️
https://t.co/OQtulVWs19

[ejduncan 🦋 @e_j_duncan]

They’re doing it again! 🐜 the ants are flying - if you’ve seen them flying in the UK please help us out with our project and fill in this short web form https://t.co/85xSkpgDnj @BiodarProject

[Royal Entomological Society @RoyEntSoc]

Join our #free #online #event!

July 5th, @AeroSociety & @RoyEntSoc explore ways that #insects can affect #aircraft #operations & their #behaviour at #altitude.

https://t.co/sRvinLa2ek

#Entomology #Science #Research #aeronautics #aerospace #aeroplanes #invertebrates #RESfuture

[Chris Hassall @katatrepsis]

Interested in solving real-world #conservation problems using interdisciplinary skills? Our MSc is for you: https://t.co/G3hR94hYrT. Global Conservation Science integrates decision science, economics, biodiversity, data and more. Application deadline 30 June 2022. #sustainability

[National Centre for Atmospheric Science @AtmosScience]

Well done Freya 👏

@BiodarProject has been exploring how electromagnetic modelling can help radar to observe and monitor insects.

[Freya I Addison 💉💉💉😷 @STEMwithFreya]

Science is a team effort. I thank all my collaborators for working on this project; in particular @tom_dally89, who, without his expertise this paper would not have been completed.
@e_j_duncan @katatrepsis @william_l_evans
https://t.co/lKr9kvrFj1
@AtmosScience @BiodarProject

[Freya I Addison 💉💉💉😷 @STEMwithFreya]

My 1st first-author paper! We, @BiodarProject, show through modelling a #moth, morphological accuracy with inclusion of limbs & wings, improve upon the #radar cross section for simulations of #insects over using an ellipsoid. #ecology
https://t.co/3arORx74JP @RemoteSens_MDPI