Innovative new approach could open up marine biodiversity discovery and monitoring In a new paper with Dr Elena Valsecchi from the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy,
Understanding how icebreaking vessels can impact on breeding seals and what to do about it
By Simon Goodman & Sue Wilson In our new open access paper, just published in Biological Conservation, we examined the impact of icebreaking vessels passing
Icebreakers and ice-breeding seals
By Susan Wilson & Simon Goodman This article originally appeared in WWF’s magazine covering environmental and conservation issues in the Arctic, The Circle 03.16. See
When scientists bake – viva cakes reloaded
Another PhD student from my lab, the awesome Dr Rebecca Thomas, defended her PhD thesis in May 2017. Her work focused on the molecular epidemiology
Baking your study species & viva cakes
A developing tradition for biology PhD vivas is to celebrate the successful outcome with exquisitely rendered cake representations of the candidate’s study species. This week
Short film: Caspian seals moulting in Komsomolets Bay, Kazakhstan
Komsomolets Bay on the north eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan, is a remote area of shallow water, with countless small inlets among extensive
Goodman Ecology & Evolution Lab @Leeds 