Puffins, Parks, and Podcasts: A Summer Roundup
I'm writing this on the eve of what is essentially the first day of the new academic year. Tomorrow, I'll be swapping the culture-steeped streets of Edinburgh for the wild and rugged coastline of Millport, a small island which lies just 6 kilometres off the west coast of Scotland. I'll be staying there for the next 10 days, collecting and analysing all manner of weird and wonderful aquatic organisms and conducting shoreline surveys as part of one of my second year university modules in marine biology. Diving into the depths of the Clyde Sea (metaphorically speaking—it is Scotland, and it is September, so I can assure you that there'll be no sea swimming on this trip), isn't something I've had the opportunity to do before. Aside from the short-lived obsessive spell I developed over deep-sea creatures when I was about 5 or 6, the underwater world has somehow managed to remain a very alien territory to me. That's exactly why I'm so excited for what...
