Rising Stars Research Symposium

Congratulations to Tom Keggin, an undergraduate project student with Steve Willis, for being nominated to present his work on the dawn chorus across the UK at the university ‘Rising Stars Symposium’. Tom's project used audio recorders to evaluate variation in the dawn chorus along a transect across the UK. Tom follows in the footsteps of several past group members that have presented at this symposium, which celebrates the best of undergraduate research across the university.  In 2013, Waheed Arshad, one of last year’s undergraduate project students,  won the Audience Choice Award for Best Presentation at the symposium for his talk on ‘Bioacoustic Monitoring: Automatically Identifying Avian Biodiversity in Woodlands’. In 2012, Emily King presented her research project on ‘Willingness to pay in the British public’. Both Waheed and Emily have since gone on to undertake postgraduate research degrees. 

For more information visit: www.dur.ac.uk/science.faculty/symposium . The symposium is on Monday 23rd June 2014 in The Calman Learning Centre.