International Day of Women and Girls in Science
The University will mark the UN’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science this week with an inaugural lecture by renowned British geneticist Dame Professor Linda Partridge.
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Feeding the world
Half of all seafood consumed now comes from aquaculture. Aquaculture production has grown by 6.2% a year since 2000 and by 2012 it had reached 66.6 million tonnes worth U$144 billion. Less than 10% of production…
African vultures declining at a critical rate
“Nobody liked vultures much until now, but the change isn’t good news. Big birds appear to be next on the hunters’ list for the bushmeat trade, and vultures are their new favourite. Researchers visited hundreds of…
The Building Blocks of Life
Searching for the essence of life on Earth, understanding climate change and investigating the spread of diseases – these are a few examples of the fundamental research that academics at St Andrews will be tackling…
Interior designing birds
Researchers from the the School of Biology have produced the first experimental evidence that birds actively select nest-building materials that camouflage their nests.
Marine Mammal Conservation: from policy change to bycatch reduction
The research undertaken from 1996 to 2013 by researchers of the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) of the School of Biology focused on the accurate measurement of marine mammal populations and distributions in UK and EU…
Bird-brain DIY: Birds learn from experience when building nests
It is typically assumed that it is a bird’s genes that cause it to choose the materials with which it builds its nest. To test this assumption, Dr Susan Healy and others from the School of Biology investigated whether…
Animal-borne telemetry tags for conservation and weather forecasting
The Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) Instrumentation Group, of the School of Biology, has designed, built and supplied about 400 telemetry tags per year since 2008, resulting in economic benefit to companies in the UK…