Thank you Nick Littlewood for joining us, it was a truly inspiring diversity for our interdisciplinary 'Wild Scotland?' conference with diversity of methods and species featuring:🦫🦌🐦🐺🐗🐖🦉🐀🐁🦨🦡🐑🐈🐈‍⬛🌳🌲
University of Aberdeen Geography & Environment | University of Aberdeen School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen

Great talk by Stephanie🌿 on her QUADRAT PhD on using social science methods to understand the cultural ecosystem services and disservices of #beavers in different landscapes! 🦫
#proudsupervisor
Geography & Environment | University of Aberdeen School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen

QUADRAT field trip to the Italian Alps with the second year PhD students. On Monday, we hiked in Val Veny up to the Miage Glacier at the foot of the Mont Blanc.

Congratulations Emma! Wonderful to see your research receive this recognition. #bestpublication2024

Delighted to have won 🏆 best paper in the SAGES Graduate School 'Best Publication 2024' competition under the Transformations in Society and Environmental Policy Theme!

🔗You can read about #rewilding in #policy here: tinyurl.com/e9mr86tw

Next up is Steven Wallace from University of Aberdeen asking the question “How well can deep learning foundation models generalise to a specialist downstream task with limited training data?”❄️🧊🌎

Last week, staff and the students from this years MSc Sustainability Transitions (ST) cohort celebrated their hard work and engagement across the programme, before they turn to focus on their local partnership projects, doing real-world research in ST over summer ☀️

Do you have an interest in woodlands and rivers in #Scotland ? 🌳🌿🏞️

🚨Please help us by filling out and/or forwarding a new survey we launched for our Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters project by James Hutton Institute and University of Aberdeen Geography & Environment | University of Aberdeen
➡️tinyurl.com/yc44rvha

Great read by doctoral researcher K Gow in today's The Herald.
Kirsten shares her insights from her #islandsresearch 'Gow's typology' & reflections from working with Scottish Islands Team to further develop this island-centered approach to the
#Scottishislandstypology

Emma Cary joined discussions Wageningen U&R on extinction struggles, neoliberal natures & convivial alternatives inc. at Voedselpark the last substantial piece of fertile agri-biodiverse soil in the City of Amsterdam, and the struggle to retain this place for people, food & biodiversity

Human geographers Dr Paula Duffy Dr Flurina Wartmann & K Gow attended American Association of Geographers in Hawaii with papers on solar planning, nature recovery, and return migration. Paula and Kirsten connected with local community-led action on land rights & environmental restoration at the sacred site of Mākua

We are currently advertising 4 paid summer internship positions for undergraduate students - deadline 6th May! Find out more and apply here 👇

quadrat.ac.uk/opportunities/…

Further creative & cultural opportunities have been added to the paid ABDN Internships for University of Aberdeen students this summer, including roles with Aberdeenshire Museums Service, Belmont Cinema & shmu! Applications close 5 May.
abdn.ac.uk/careers/jobs-w…

It’s alive!!! I’m very happy to see the sARndbox I built with the help of Ioanna Sam based on Oliver Kreylos design finally working University of Aberdeen Geography & Environment | University of Aberdeen School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen

My first ever academic paper mapping the Scottish Islands Diaspora is now published in the free-to-access islands journal Shima!

Thanks to all my survey participants!

For references to the Park Bar / Teuchter Triangle / Peat and Diesel see pages 58/9 😉

shimajournal.org/article/10.214…

My turn today at #AAG2024 & I'll be talking about my favourite subject: the Scottish islands & their communities!

Huge thx to the 500+ folk with island connections who took part in my research. It's an honour to tell your stories.

#Depopulation #Repopulation #ReturnMigration

Exciting day of outreach with Dynamic Earth on behalf of SAGES! We had VR of glaciers - kids loved it (and the staff)!

📢New paper out on #rewilding in British #policy documents Scottish Geographical Journal led by Emma Cary

In a 🌰-shell:
➡️'rewilding' as a term occurs rarely
➡️understandings differ across policy contexts
➡️policy engages via case studies

Updated link (!): tinyurl.com/3pa45cnw