Presenting at the Mammal Society Student Conference

PhD student Emily Howard-Williams and Dr David Wallis (pictured below) attended the recent student conference of the Mammal Society at the Centre for Science of the University of Staffordshire.

They were able to present their initial findings on the development of RFID technology in tracking the disperal of native small mammals to the audience consisting of academics and researchers from Universities all over the UK. This technique provides a much more cost effective and longer lasting alternative to radio tracking, and will enable them alongside Dr James Littlemore to model what happens when a mammal is reintroduced into habitat.

Very soon Emily will be preparing for a large scale release of tagged harvest mice to supplement wild populations - check back to the blog to see what happens next!

Find a link to the conference here: http://www.mammal.org.uk/student_conference.