Posts from ‘February, 2006’

Current task for Biodiversity & Conservation: a comprehensive encyclopaedia article on a ‘large-scale evolutionary clade’ of my choice.
I am to cover the points on the niche, speciation, phylogeny, distribution, extinctions, imbalance in distribution of subtaxa among taxa, and generally the evolutionary ecology of the clade.
My choice?
The Agamidae family of lizards (representing ~381 [...]

Application’s in. Now I await.
Bumped into Johannes while in the SciComm office today: “So you really want to do this ey?” *me nods*
What they’re doing looks pretty fun. And it’s true – I don’t see a single Asian in there.
I’ve a feeling my grades will pull me down. I’m betting my all on [...]

For my FYP: The Selia of Old Norman
May I encourage all my fellow biologists to keep a journal for their projects – blogging is a handy tool!

Lee Valley Park – we went to Chesthunt, about an hour’s travel from home. Yesterday was a good day. In fact, one of my best field day-outs. We were blessed with good, sunny weather, a rare occurance in this drab winter season.
Strange as it may sound, barely 5% of my British bird photos are [...]

Mick from the NHM says…
“Re: expert bug catchers, we have about 50, take your pick!”
*rubs hands in glee*

It’s just my luck that Simon Leather was in South Ken for a conference today. I waved at him as he was weaving through the lobby. He squinted – is that you? – and then hopped over. Literally.
I hope I’m not overdoing my enthusiasm… I can feel the “!” in almost all my sentences.
“Hi Dr [...]

In primary school, I was considered an authority on all things to be found in the Eco-garden: tadpoles, dragonflies, and the inhabitants of leaf litter. In secondary school, it became all things mangroves and reptilian. Some still remember me as the lizard girl. Aussie high school saw a shift in focus to birds, and now [...]

I’m growing extremely fond of the NHM. Xi and I went to the staff restaurant this arvo; I spent the rest of the day up in the insecty tower of Entomology. Working on data entry – imaging the old catalogues to be incorporated into the database. Mick’s (my sup) drafted out a proposal to the [...]