Monthly Archives: September 2008

(Part 1, Part II, Part III) I finally started doing some “real” work. Last night I got data on abundance of butterflies from some regularly surveyed transects. So, this morning I set to work, and by lunchtime I was totally … Continue reading →

(Part 1, Part II) This afternoon we have been talking about what we did in previous workshops. So far I’ve managed to avoid talking about the stuff I did, which is fortunate because I’ve largely forgotten what I did.

(Part 1 on Monday) This morning we got down to work. I helped Elizabeth on her phenology. Her idea is to use the numbers of butterflies counted on a site over a year to model how abundance changes over the … Continue reading →

All this week I am at a workshop in a wet, flooded York. In a fit of enthusiasm I decided to blog the discussions and work, to give the outside world an idea about what we are actually doing.

This is just a quick update before I spend the day wandering the streets of London trying not to think of Ralf McTell. I’m alive, and so are those bloggers I’ve bumped into over the last couple of days. Some … Continue reading →

You know how it is, you read someone’s writings on the web, a few blog posts and comments, and then when you meet them in the flesh, they are totally different from how you imagine them. Well, meeting Prof. Steve … Continue reading →