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Michelle Gibson heads to the Australian Outback for Fieldwork

15/7/2014

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Michelle's mega-transects through the Australian Outback
Michelle Gibson, a CEG PhD student, has left Durham and gone straight into the Australian Outback for three weeks of fieldwork. She, along with colleagues from the Fuller Lab, will be conducting mega-transect surveys for birds in this rugged environment. Michelle's research investigates how nomadic birds respond to extreme weather events and will ultimately evaluate how vulnerable or resilient avian species in this environment are to climate change. 

After two days in the field Michelle reports that things are going well and sent the photo below! She is surprised at how many parrots they are seeing on their surveys and bragged that on one of her transects they observed kangaroos and emus. The rest of us here in the office in Durham are currently suffering from project envy! Michelle is a first year PhD student and is on her first of three fieldwork campaigns. Check back here for more updates from Michelle over the next 3 weeks or to read more about Michelle's project visit her profile page here...
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Day two of bird surveys in Australia
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