Thursday 9th Dec. (13.00-17.45). All Saints LT, 3rd floor All Saints Building.
This should be of interest to all EMSD students....
PROGRAMME:
13.00 Welcome
13.05 Ecology & Conservation of the Kipunji (Rungwecebus kipunji) in Southern Tanzania. Claire Bracebridge PhD student, MMU
13.35 Molecular tracking of Black Rhinoceros in Chyulu NP, Kenya. Bradley Cain PhD Student, MMU
14.05 Factors associated with abundance and extinction risk in hoverflies. Ali Mansour PhD Student, MMU
14.35 Ecological release and the Taxon Cycle an island paradox.Danny Norey PhD Student, MMU
15.05 Tea & coffee
15.45 Habitat suitability modeling for Black Grouse in Perthshire, Scotland. Matthew Greary PhD Student, MMU
16.15 Conservation triage and protecting the Tree-of-Life.
Dave Redding Post Doctoral Fellow, MMU
16.45 Conservation of the rarest crocodile: a Philippine case study. Merlijn van Weerd University of Leiden, Netherlands.
17.30 Close
Friday 26 November 2010
Monday 22 November 2010
From: Careers & Employability Service
Date: Fri Nov 19 15:18:28 2010
Subject: MMU Professional Passport deadline this Wednesday
The deadline for applications for this year's MMU Professional
Passport is Wednesday this week. Please encourage your students
to get their applications in by 5pm on Wednesday 24th.
The MMU Professional Passport is our highly successfully
employability award, which is available to second, third and
taught masters students. It is a stand alone programme which
replicates a graduate recruitment process and it will equip
students to compete in the ever-increasingly tough graduate
labour market. Successful students receive the award at their
degree ceremony.
Our research has shown that students value the opinion of
academic staff and that most participants have been encouraged
to undertake the Passport by their tutors, so your help in
promoting the Passport is essential. Publicity material is
available in Student Information Points and Student Life Offices
or from the Careers & Employability Service.
Should you wish to promote the Passport in induction talks,
PowerPoint slides are available at
http://www.mmu.ac.uk/careers/staff/resources
For more information visit http://www.mmu.ac.uk/passport
Thank you in advance for your support.
The MMU Professional Passport Team
Date: Fri Nov 19 15:18:28 2010
Subject: MMU Professional Passport deadline this Wednesday
The deadline for applications for this year's MMU Professional
Passport is Wednesday this week. Please encourage your students
to get their applications in by 5pm on Wednesday 24th.
The MMU Professional Passport is our highly successfully
employability award, which is available to second, third and
taught masters students. It is a stand alone programme which
replicates a graduate recruitment process and it will equip
students to compete in the ever-increasingly tough graduate
labour market. Successful students receive the award at their
degree ceremony.
Our research has shown that students value the opinion of
academic staff and that most participants have been encouraged
to undertake the Passport by their tutors, so your help in
promoting the Passport is essential. Publicity material is
available in Student Information Points and Student Life Offices
or from the Careers & Employability Service.
Should you wish to promote the Passport in induction talks,
PowerPoint slides are available at
http://www.mmu.ac.uk/careers/staff/resources
For more information visit http://www.mmu.ac.uk/passport
Thank you in advance for your support.
The MMU Professional Passport Team
Wednesday 17 November 2010
Budding Film Producers Wanted!
Would any of you be interested in helping to produce a YouTube promotional video for the MSc courses?
This would entail using film recording equipment loaned by MMU and editing a finished promo video for wider distribution. Short talking-head interviews with current fellow students and some alumni (organised my myself to come in and meet you to discuss career prospects etc)....and the film footage from the MSc field trip available from myself and John R etc.. I will ask Media Services to make the editing suite available and provide some training...it could be some useful experience if you have an interest in new media.
Please drop me an email if you are interested.
many thanks
Mark
This would entail using film recording equipment loaned by MMU and editing a finished promo video for wider distribution. Short talking-head interviews with current fellow students and some alumni (organised my myself to come in and meet you to discuss career prospects etc)....and the film footage from the MSc field trip available from myself and John R etc.. I will ask Media Services to make the editing suite available and provide some training...it could be some useful experience if you have an interest in new media.
Please drop me an email if you are interested.
many thanks
Mark
Friday 12 November 2010
EGS Seminar Tuesday 16th November 2010
Tuesday 16th November, E0.05 from 1.00-2.00 pm.
Lunch, and an opportunity to chat with the speaker, will be in room E402 from 12:30. All are invited!
Dr Steve Boult, University of Manchester
Spinning Out and Spinning Out of Control – Taking Environmental Research to Market
Environmental impacts previously regarded as externalities are being brought into the market and, therefore, the market for environment-related goods and services is growing. This talk focuses on whether this expanding market coincides with environmental research and, if so, how and where. Concerns particular to developing and marketing a product to the environmental sector are discussed, as are issues related to developing a University spinout (rather than any other business model).
The above is illustrated by reference to Salamander Ltd, a spinout from the University of Manchester that has developed a range of products – Hydraclam, Chloroclam and Gasclam – for monitoring extensive assets, including the natural environment. Many examples are given of how not to design products and target markets. I will also give advice on protecting intellectual property and acquiring funding.
Lunch, and an opportunity to chat with the speaker, will be in room E402 from 12:30. All are invited!
Dr Steve Boult, University of Manchester
Spinning Out and Spinning Out of Control – Taking Environmental Research to Market
Environmental impacts previously regarded as externalities are being brought into the market and, therefore, the market for environment-related goods and services is growing. This talk focuses on whether this expanding market coincides with environmental research and, if so, how and where. Concerns particular to developing and marketing a product to the environmental sector are discussed, as are issues related to developing a University spinout (rather than any other business model).
The above is illustrated by reference to Salamander Ltd, a spinout from the University of Manchester that has developed a range of products – Hydraclam, Chloroclam and Gasclam – for monitoring extensive assets, including the natural environment. Many examples are given of how not to design products and target markets. I will also give advice on protecting intellectual property and acquiring funding.
Saturday 6 November 2010
Placement Fair
Hi all. This might interest you although it clashes with classes unfortunately.
cheers, Mick
Date: Wed Oct 27 16:23:22 2010
Subject: MMUBS Placement Fair & Career Development Day
MMUBS Placement Fair & Career Development Day
Wednesday 17th November 2010
12.30pm - 3.30pm
John Dalton Building, Oxford Road (opposite the BBC)
This event is open to students seeking placements, internships,
vacation work and graduate positions
Find out more and pre-register online now at:
www.business.mmu.ac.uk/placements/placementfair
cheers, Mick
Date: Wed Oct 27 16:23:22 2010
Subject: MMUBS Placement Fair & Career Development Day
MMUBS Placement Fair & Career Development Day
Wednesday 17th November 2010
12.30pm - 3.30pm
John Dalton Building, Oxford Road (opposite the BBC)
This event is open to students seeking placements, internships,
vacation work and graduate positions
Find out more and pre-register online now at:
www.business.mmu.ac.uk/placements/placementfair
Friday 5 November 2010
EGS Seminar Tuesday 09th November 2010
Tuesday 09th November, E0.05 from 1.00-2.00 pm.
Lunch, and an opportunity to chat with the speaker, will be in room E402 from 12:30. All are invited!
Dr David Redding, MMU
‘Big Bird Trees, Bar Codes and Conserving the Tree-of-life’
There are limited funds available for an increasingly large number of threatened species. ‘Conservation triage’ is the young science of deciding which threatened species we cannot afford to let go, rather than simply attending to species in order of their threat of extinction. To achieve triage, however, we have to decide on other ways to value species relative to one another.
Raw genetic code is one possible unit of biodiversity, indeed one that is not biased by historical taxonomic decisions. If we accept this as our unit, it is logical to aim to preserve the greatest possible amount of genetic information with the fewest species, given our remit to conserve biodiversity with limited funds.
Each species contribution to conserving genetic information is not equal, with some species having, for instance, a much greater amount of unique evolutionary history than others. Consider the ostrich and the common crow: the crow has several hundred species that it could consider close or medium-close relatives, while the ostrich has none and, moreover, it split off from the evolutionary tree of birds roughly 40 million years ago (compared to the crow's 1-2 MY). In the last 40 million years, the ostrich is likely to have accrued many genetic changes that are found nowhere else in the evolutionary tree of birds.
In this talk, I demonstrate two novel ways to measure how many close relatives a species has, thus quantifying a species’ possible contribution to conserving genetic information. I also show how we can include a measure of this evolutionary isolation into current conservation policy, as recently demonstrated by the EDGE project (www.edgeofexistence.org). As part of the next phase of the EDGE project, I will discuss how we will use a newly-developed phylogeny of the world’s birds to establish the EDGE birds list. Finally, to extend this conservation approach into less well-known taxonomic groups, I show that we may be able to use the increasingly large amount of genetic barcode data becoming available to isolate those invertebrate species that may be important contributors to conserving the tree of life.
Tuesday 2 November 2010
Masters Poster Invitation
Hi All,
Your predeccesors (mostly 2009-10 Masters Students) are presenting their dissertation topic posters for examination this week - and will mark the end of their MSc/MA.
You are invited to view the posters and chat with the 'old lags' before they go for good. The posters will be on display along 'the street' (by the Chester Road entrance to the JD Building near the JD Refectory). You can go between 11am and 12:30pm this week (Thursday 4th Nov).
Cheers
Mark
Your predeccesors (mostly 2009-10 Masters Students) are presenting their dissertation topic posters for examination this week - and will mark the end of their MSc/MA.
You are invited to view the posters and chat with the 'old lags' before they go for good. The posters will be on display along 'the street' (by the Chester Road entrance to the JD Building near the JD Refectory). You can go between 11am and 12:30pm this week (Thursday 4th Nov).
Cheers
Mark
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