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Showing posts with label Netherlands Caribbean. Show all posts

Saturday, 17 February 2024

Oil spill on the coast of Tobago, following wreck of mystery barge.

An oil slick has spread over 160 km on the Caribbean Sea following the wreck of a barge off the coast of the island of Tobago on 7 February ...

Saturday, 6 June 2020

Spirobranchus spp.: Christmas Tree Worms associated with new hosts found in Puerto Rico and the Netherlands Antilles.

Caribbean Christmas Tree Worms, Spirobranchus spp., are considered host generalists in their associations with Anthozoan (Scleractinia) an...

Monday, 12 January 2015

A new species of Serpulid Worm from the Caribbean.

Serpulids are distinctive Polychaete Worms found throughout the world’s oceans, from the intertidal zones to the deep seas. They live in...

Tuesday, 2 December 2014

Thirteen new species of deepwater Sponges from the Caribbean Netherlands.

The shallow water reefs around Bonaire and Klein Curaçao in the Caribbean Netherlands are well studied and are considered a biodiversity...

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: I was interested in fossils from an early age, spending much of my childhood collecting on the coasts of England. Having left school in the 1980s with little opportunity to go on to higher education, I worked for the family business, and travelled more widely in Europe and North Africa, before eventually emigrating to The Gambia to work in tourism in 1990. While working in West Africa I was recruited by a mineral exploration company, which gave me the opportunity to travel much more widely, as well as the confidence to go to university when I returned to the UK. I studied Palaeobiology & Evolution at the University of Portsmouth, Geosciences at the Open University, and Ecology & Conservation at Christchurch University, before settling into a career in environmental chemistry. I have worked in commercial labs assessing water and soil quality, at schools and colleges, as well as the universities of Nottingham, Warwick, and Northampton. I am still an enthusiastic naturalist and fossil enthusiast in my own time, and regularly visit sites of interest around the UK and beyond, and write pop-science articles for a range of publications.

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