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Category Archives: Antarctica

Antarctica + climate change + green = media storm

Featuredby Matt Amesbury Leave a comment

Ok, maybe a storm is taking it a smidge too far, but it was at least a strong breeze! In May, we published a paper in Current Biology that showed […]

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Antarctica, Communication, Peatlands

Jargon busting and press release adjusting

April 30, 2014by Matt Amesbury Leave a comment

In one way or another, since I started my PhD more years ago than I care to remember, NERC (the Natural Environment Research Council) have funded much of my time […]

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Antarctica, Communication, Outreach

How do mosses survive in Antarctica?

October 16, 2013by Jessica Royles Leave a comment

In contrast to Matt and Tom, I’ve come to Bogology from a biological background and I’m interested in the physiology of plants: the science of how plants work. More specifically, […]

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Antarctica, Guest blog, Moss, Plants

Antarctic moss gets five minutes of fame!

September 16, 2013by Matt Amesbury Leave a comment

Last month, the first publication from the project I am working on studying moss banks along the Antarctic Peninsula (see project website here) was published in the journal Current Biology.  […]

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Antarctica, Outreach

The Antarctic Peninsula – not where you would expect a Bogologist?

September 10, 2013by Matt Amesbury Leave a comment

Even sitting here writing about it some six months later, the mere fact I went to Antarctica on fieldwork seems somewhat incredulous.  My journey into Bogology started on Dartmoor almost […]

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Antarctica, Fieldwork

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