Wed 29 Oct 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Michael Haigh
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Wednesday 29 October 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: BAS Seminar Room 330b.
- Series: British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series; organiser: Katherine Turner.
Wed 29 Oct 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Michael Haigh
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Wednesday 29 October 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: BAS Seminar Room 330b.
- Series: British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series; organiser: Katherine Turner.
Wed 29 Oct 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Michael Haigh
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Wednesday 29 October 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: BAS Seminar Room 330b.
- Series: British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series; organiser: Katherine Turner.
Tue 21 Oct 15:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Valentina Volova
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Tuesday 21 October 2025, 15:00-16:00
- Venue: BAS Seminar Room 1.
- Series: British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series; organiser: Katherine Turner.
Tue 21 Oct 15:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Valentina Volova
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Tuesday 21 October 2025, 15:00-16:00
- Venue: BAS Seminar Room 1.
- Series: British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series; organiser: Katherine Turner.
Tue 21 Oct 15:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Valentina Volova
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Tuesday 21 October 2025, 15:00-16:00
- Venue: BAS Seminar Room 1.
- Series: British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series; organiser: Katherine Turner.
Wed 08 Oct 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Birgit Rogalla
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Wednesday 08 October 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: BAS Seminar Room 2.
- Series: British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series; organiser: Katherine Turner.
Wed 08 Oct 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Birgit Rogalla
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Wednesday 08 October 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: BAS Seminar Room 2.
- Series: British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series; organiser: Katherine Turner.
Wed 08 Oct 14:00: Polar Oceans Seminar Talk - Birgit Rogalla
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Wednesday 08 October 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: BAS Seminar Room 2.
- Series: British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series; organiser: Katherine Turner.
Wed 01 Oct 18:45: A Buzzing of Bees: Tales of Honeybees Through History Joint meeting with the Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Association (NB Wednesday)
Dino Martins will talk about the relationship between honeybees and people.
Honeybees are one of the most familiar and widespread insects that are kept, managed, exploited and familiar to humanity. It is often said that ‘There is a crisis around bees’, but the reality is that overall honeybee numbers are actually increasing worldwide, the result of more intensive management, mass production and commercial trade of queens and colonies.
With examples drawn from around the world, this talk will highlight the complex, multi-faceted relationship we have with honeybees and explore how we can all play a role in better stewardship of the planet.
Joint meeting with the Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Association (NB Wednesday)
- Speaker: Dino Martins
- Wednesday 01 October 2025, 18:45-20:00
- Venue: Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.
- Series: Cambridge Natural History Society; organiser: events.
Thu 09 Oct 18:45: The Past and Future of Natural History
Brian Eversham will present a history of naturalists over 3000 years, of trends in wildlife and the study of wildlife, and some personal thoughts on where it’s heading, and where the next generation of field naturalists might come from.
- Speaker: Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire
- Thursday 09 October 2025, 18:45-20:00
- Venue: Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.
- Series: Cambridge Natural History Society; organiser: events.
Thu 16 Oct 18:45: Searching for (and finding) Snow Leopards
Peter Pilbeam will describe the trials and tribulations of searching for snow leopards in the Altai mountains in southern Siberia and in the Tian Shan mountains in Kyrgyzstan. And (eventually) finding them in Ladakh in north-eastern India, in China, and in Mongolia.
- Speaker: Peter Pilbeam
- Thursday 16 October 2025, 18:45-20:00
- Venue: Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.
- Series: Cambridge Natural History Society; organiser: events.
Thu 23 Oct 18:45: Conserving Butterflies: Past, Present and Future
In this talk, final year PhD student Matt Hayes discusses how he combines fieldwork and studying museum specimens to research butterfly populations from the past and present.
Matt’s work is partnered with the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire with whom he trials management strategies to see how species can be protected from some of the negative impacts of climate change and extreme weather events.
Matt also studies the UK butterfly specimens held at the University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge to see how wildlife of the past can inform modern day conservation action.
- Speaker: Matt Hayes, Department of Zoology, Cambridge
- Thursday 23 October 2025, 18:45-20:00
- Venue: Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.
- Series: Cambridge Natural History Society; organiser: events.
Thu 30 Oct 18:45: Plastics in the Environment
Claire Barlow will talk about plastics: amazing materials that have transformed our lives, but at a cost. Their durability, one of the properties that makes them so useful, means that large and small pieces of plastic waste find their way into the natural environment, causing many different problems.
We will look at where the plastic waste comes from, and investigate some of the ways in which it affects living organisms. Solutions are not easy, but there are a lot of good initiatives and there is some hope for the future.
- Speaker: Claire Barlow, Senior Lecturer in Manufacturing, IfM
- Thursday 30 October 2025, 18:45-20:00
- Venue: Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.
- Series: Cambridge Natural History Society; organiser: events.
Thu 06 Nov 18:45: Looking for the Goshawk - The Lost Raptor
Conor Jameson will give a personal, narrative account of the natural history of this mystery-shrouded bird of prey: how it lives, where it lives, and why it might be missing from our lives.
But there are increasing reports of goshawks, which at last are getting ‘out of the woods’. His search takes him to some unexpected places, at home and abroad.
The talk focuses on how this adventure turned into the essay which won him the BBC Wildlife Nature Writer of the Year, and then the book, which received awards from the Society of Authors and the Royal Literary Fund.
- Speaker: Conor Jameson, writer and naturalist
- Thursday 06 November 2025, 18:45-20:00
- Venue: Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.
- Series: Cambridge Natural History Society; organiser: events.
Thu 13 Nov 18:45: Unsung Songbirds: Vocal Communication and Cognition in Corvids
Corvids — members of the crow family including jackdaws, ravens, and magpies — are known for their remarkable behavioural flexibility and complex social lives.
Claudia will share insights from her research into how corvids communicate and make decisions, revealing the intricate ways these birds respond to and navigate their social environments.
The talk explores how vocalisations are used to maintain relationships, coordinate actions, and convey social information, and how ecological and social factors shape their cognitive processes. By examining corvids through the lens of socio-ecology, we gain a deeper appreciation for the diversity of animal minds.
- Speaker: Claudia Wascher, Anglia Ruskin University
- Thursday 13 November 2025, 18:45-20:00
- Venue: Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.
- Series: Cambridge Natural History Society; organiser: events.
Thu 20 Nov 18:45: A Visit to the Vercors
Monica Frisch will describe discovering some of the delights of the Vercors National Park in eastern France, with its dramatic limestone mountain scenery, fascinating flora, including alpine specialities such as gentians and orchids, beautiful butterflies and some of the other natural history.
- Speaker: Monica Frisch, CNHS
- Thursday 20 November 2025, 18:45-20:00
- Venue: Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.
- Series: Cambridge Natural History Society; organiser: events.
Thu 27 Nov 18:45: History of the Little Wilbraham River
David Lomas is an active member of the Wilbraham River Protection Society as well as the CamElyOuse Catchment organisation.
He will explain the complex history of this chalk stream, its relationship to the adjacent habitats and why its survival is under threat as Cambridge continues to expand.
The Little Wilbraham River is just one example of the 29 water bodies in the Cam catchment – all of which are increasingly challenged by human activity.
- Speaker: David Lomas, retired academic, medic & engineer
- Thursday 27 November 2025, 18:45-20:00
- Venue: Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.
- Series: Cambridge Natural History Society; organiser: events.
Wed 01 Oct 18:45: A Buzzing of Bees: Tales of Honeybees Through History Joint meeting with the Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Association (NB Wednesday)
Dino Martins will talk about the relationship between honeybees and people.
Honeybees are one of the most familiar and widespread insects that are kept, managed, exploited and familiar to humanity. It is often said that ‘There is a crisis around bees’, but the reality is that overall honeybee numbers are actually increasing worldwide, the result of more intensive management, mass production and commercial trade of queens and colonies.
With examples drawn from around the world, this talk will highlight the complex, multi-faceted relationship we have with honeybees and explore how we can all play a role in better stewardship of the planet.
Joint meeting with the Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Association (NB Wednesday)
- Speaker: Dino Martins
- Wednesday 01 October 2025, 18:45-20:00
- Venue: Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.
- Series: Cambridge Natural History Society; organiser: events.
Thu 09 Oct 18:45: The Past and Future of Natural History
Brian Eversham will present a history of naturalists over 3000 years, of trends in wildlife and the study of wildlife, and some personal thoughts on where it’s heading, and where the next generation of field naturalists might come from.
- Speaker: Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire
- Thursday 09 October 2025, 18:45-20:00
- Venue: Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.
- Series: Cambridge Natural History Society; organiser: events.