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For the team here at the Hope Laboratory, July brought: travel, new skills, and travelling to learn new skills. Field Trip! Cathi and Lauren went down to Boston Lincolnshire and Hull to collect soil samples from the saltmarsh, building on a project originally commissioned by Natural England to observe carbon stocks in mudflat habitats. The project has been expanded to observe carbon stability in saltmarsh–mudflat ecotones, the transitional areas between the plant communitie

Welcome to the first monthly "highlights" blog. This is where we show off achievements and events from the past month, and share what we will be working on next month. Without any further ado, here's a brief overview of what we got up to this month: PGR Conference PhD student Lauren Carl (right) and PhD candidate Michael Vail (left) each gave talks about their projects. Michael is coming up to the end of his PhD studying the impacts of stressors, and Lauren is just beginning

While plastic products are convenient and our lifestyles are increasingly ‘on-the-go’, we need to think about the everyday choices we...

It’s Plastic Free July, and to get things started (a little late) the Hope lab is sharing a 31-day swaps sheet that was generated at the...

This week we hosted the Sutton Trust Widening Access students from across Scotland, introducing them to microplastics in the environment...

PhD student, Michael presented his poster at the School of Biology PGR conference in June 2025 - well done on a fantastic poster...

Michael Vail has recently joined our team here at the SOI embarking on his School of Biology funded PhD studentship for the next 4 years....