Alistair McGowan
@McGowanAlistair
Self-employed quantitative palaeobiologist, geologist, natural historian, hillwalker/runner, cyclist. Unreconstructed child of the Enlightenment.
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UPDATED: applicants deadline now 28 April. We're recruiting a Club Development Officer! Keen to promote orienteering and get more people enjoying it? Then this opportunity is for you! See interlopers.org.uk/club_dev_offic…
Edinburgh Southern Orienteering Club
EUOC
East Lothian Orienteers
KFO
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4 days of bike packing #expedition #Denmark Sean Barry creating a #Incredible opportunity for #youths this year
It’s #WorldHeritageDay and understanding stone is an important part of the study of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The IUGS Subcommission on Global Heritage Stone now has 4 books out on the use of stone in world heritage sites #urbangeology CRC Press #naturalstoneandworldheritage
Quite possibly the #urbangeology find of the decade, a hominid mandible in what is very likely to be 600 ka Denizli Basin travertine. Article from John Hawks and find and photos by kidipadeli75 Reddit johnhawks.net/weblog/how-man…
Interested in the history of Scotland's upland peat? Apply for this exciting PhD post working on National Trust for Scotland sites with UofG Archaeology Prof Nicki Whitehouse #madeinsheffield Dr Eileen Tisdall
Some back garden contributions to #Edinburgh Million Tree city. Thanks to Water of Leith Conservation Trust and Woodland Trust🌳 for the wee rowans to go with our more established trees. The Green Team Bridgend Farmhouse
#JosephLister , surgical pioneer, was born #otd 1827. One of our favourite things AnatomicalMuseum relating to him is this trowel he was given for laying the foundation stone of Montreal General Hospital Jubilee Nurses' Home in 1897. It comes with a beaver carrying a maple leaf 😍🇨🇦🏴
A wonderful mini dolmen on a grass verge in Benllech, Anglesey that captures the spirit of a full size one really well. Small enough to count for #FindsFriday I think! More 1/