New paper by UHI Biodiversity & Freshwater Conservation researchers Euan Bowditch and Andrew Duncan

Are you interested in a research degree in Freshwater Biodiversity and Conservation; Sustainable landscapes or Eco-Literature? Apply for our funded #MRes #scholarships

UHI-IBFC are recruiting a part-time Laboratory Research Assistant to help us with our applied eDNA and population genetics. Based on Inverness Campus with flexible hours. Please RT! jobs.ac.uk/job/DCT623/lab…

📢 It's time ! ✨ Applications for #NoWPaS2024 are now open ! ⬇️So get your abstract ready and fill the form by Tuesday 12 December ⬇️ forms.gle/nUmjN2SbtpLG5J… Can't wait to see you in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Thank you fsbi MASTS Scot Gov Marine SSE - A Better World of Energy for supporting us 🙌

Exciting opportunity to study feral pig genetics, impacts, and perceptions in Scotland! Join us UHI Biodiversity & Freshwater Conservation Centre for Living Sustainability School of Biological Sciences for a unique blend of field and lab research. Apply now: tinyurl.com/y6kacd9y @BerndHaenfling Vicky Johnson @Lambin_Ecology Victoria Pritchard

📣Keynote announcement 📣 We're thrilled to announce our last keynote speaker, and not the least, for #NoWPaS2024! 🙌 Welcoming Samantha V. Beck , who once attended as a delegate !

Come join our team in Inverness on a fully funded PhD studentship! Closing date for applications is 29 January. #1 🎏 ⏬️

Come join our team in Inverness on a fully funded PhD studentship! Closing date for applications is 29th Jan. #2 🐗 ⏬️

Formerly known as the Scottish Ecology, Environment and Conservation Conference, we are now ready to return post-covid as Scotland's Nature Student Conference! Hosted by NatureScot and UHI, this instalment will be held in Inverness on 9th & 10th April, 2024.

Our website is now live! snsconference.wixsite.com/uhi2024 All students working on nature in Scotland are welcome and encouraged to attend, and to apply to present! NatureScot UHI

Exciting that Institute of Biodiversity UHI Biodiversity & Freshwater Conservation and Centre for Living Sustainability @UHI_CLS are joined by inspirational experienced experts from NatureScot Scottish Government Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) SSE - A Better World of Energy #fisheries trusts/boards University of Glasgow UHI

Good to spend time today with fish experts across sectors discussing the range of methodologies that can be used to assess the status of fish pops in lakes, and how these data can be used to assess development impacts. Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters @BerndHaenfling Victoria Pritchard Nathan Griffiths

Working with fisheries folk from across the sector today to evaluate methodologies for sampling fish populations in Scottish freshwater lochs 👍 UHI Biodiversity & Freshwater Conservation Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters @BerndHaenfling Victoria Pritchard Nathan Griffiths Atlantic Salmon Trust @RossGlvr Colin Bean Colin Adams

The #NoWPaS2024 group tried to find Nessie for the first day of the workshop! 🦕

Thanks to Jessica Rodger and Chris Conroy from Atlantic Salmon Trust for presenting their studies on #Migration of #salmon and the restoration of its #ecosystem !

Thank you to everyone that attended the recent CREW expert-led workshop on methodologies for sampling fish populations in Scottish freshwater lochs. 🐟💧 Final report will be published in April 📄 UHI Biodiversity & Freshwater Conservation @UHI_CLS @UHI_Research Scot Gov Marine Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) NatureScot SSE - A Better World of Energy

Keynote announcement📢 We have Lydia McGill speaking on 9th April - Lydia is writing up her PhD on population genomics of marine bivalves in Scotland at UHI Biodiversity & Freshwater Conservation and is a data analyst for 30x30 on land and freshwater at NatureScot 🦪🌊🌲 Find out more: snsconference.wixsite.com/uhi2024/invite…

*Spaces available!* 🧬 eDNA conference in Inverness, 25-26th April, registration £65 inc conference dinner! Check out the fantastic line-up here: ukeof.org.uk/documents/uk-d… After conference visits to Dundreggan Rewilding Centre 🌳 & South Clunes Farm 🦫. Book here: ukeof.org.uk/our-work/ukdna…

New Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters report just published. It reviews available methodologies for sampling fish populations in freshwater lochs and a monitoring framework is presented. 🐟💧 Available here: tinyurl.com/2mk53kxe @UHI_Research UHI Biodiversity & Freshwater Conservation Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) NatureScot Scot Gov Marine

It was great to host this year DNA Working Group Conference UHI Inverness ! Institute for Biodiversity and Freshwater Conservation - IBFC News - Successful DNA Working Group conference inverness.uhi.ac.uk/research/insti… @UHI_Research