Research Adventures with our Students
Published: 21 August 2025
This summer, 10 of our Zoology & Marine and Freshwater Biology BSc Honours students packed their bags, grabbed their field kits, and headed out on unforgettable research adventures. This was thanks to support from the newly launched Global Student Mobility Fund of Glasgow Uni!
This summer, 10 of our Zoology & Marine and Freshwater Biology BSc Honours students packed their bags, grabbed their field kits, and headed out on unforgettable research adventures. This was thanks to support from the newly launched Global Student Mobility Fund of Glasgow Uni!
From Mediterranean coastlines to US oyster farms and Iceland volcanic landscapes, our students got hands-on with field ecology in some truly stunning locations.
Here’s a peek at what they’ve been up to:
Lesvos Island, Greece (with Aegean University)
Katie Mulholland – Phytoplankton diversity and composition shifts along urban runoff gradients
Verity MacNeill – Expression of Eurasian Scops Owl vocalisations against urbanization and vegetation cover
Abbey Lorriman – Impact of urbanisation on the presence and daily calling pattern of different cicada species
Matthew Archibald – Effect of urbanisation on moth assemblage diversity and composition
Maria Eugenia Garcia Constable – How temperature and light pollution affect the time of emergence of different bat species
Ellie Regan – An investigation into human impacts on Posidonia oceanica in the oligotrophic Mediterranean
United States (with Duke University)
Anete Masina – Effect of surface & benthic current flow on mortality at oyster farms
Meaghan Hendry – Effect of substrate material during larval settlement on oyster shell colour
Iceland (with Holar University)
Caitlin Jamieson - Stickleback gill adaptations to geothermal and ambient habitats
Gabi Klus - Morphological divergence between near shore and off shore populations of stickleback
Big shoutout to our superstar supervisors - Anna McGregor, Oskar Brattstrom, Davide Dominoni, and Kevin Parsons — for guiding the projects and having a blast along the way!
And a massive THANK YOU to the Global Mobility Fund, the International Experience Fund (IEF), Sofie Spatharis, Jan Lindström and Ashley Le Vin for making this summer of science possible!
First published: 21 August 2025
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