Masters Research Project – The Outputs
A few months ago I wrote a couple of articles on my Masters research project; here and here. Well I thought I better report back on some of my findings. […]
Category Archives: Research
Discover Conservation
All too often we hear of the doom and gloom surrounding biodiversity loss and environmental destruction, be it how many acres of rainforest we are losing per second, or how […]
I’m on Google scholar!
When I first proposed a study on dragonflies be undertaken on the British Exploring 2012 Oman expedition I can’t say the idea was met with the untameable wave of excitement […]
i Seahorse – citizen science for seahorse conservation
Guest post by Katelyn Dick (Project Seahorse) Who wouldn’t be excited to spot a seahorse in the wild? They’re fascinating, mysterious, and compared to other fish they look pretty unusual. […]
5 tips for social science in Oman
1. Learn Arabic Of course this applies to any country you’re working in where you don’t speak the language. I only know a few basic words of Arabic and would […]
Jabal Qara
Today I drove directly north from Salalah in to a mountain range known as Jabal Qara. I have spent several days in Jabal Samhan to the east and many weeks […]
The Road to Rakhyut
Construction of the road between the city of Salalah in southern Oman and the town of Rakhyut near the Yemen border began in 1980 and took many years to finish. […]
Have a break..have a dishdash
A dishdash is one of many names given to the long poncho-like article of clothing worn by most Omani men. This is of little relevance to this post apart from […]
Dahak, Aqathoo & Hafof
After 8 interviews in Hakab we moved to the neighbouring village of Dahak. Here we spoke to 4 more livestock owners, including one lovely man who fed me some tasty […]
Hakab
So after some juggling of resources, I was able to make it out to the village of Hakab on the southeastern hillsides of Wadi Sayq. We practised with one of […]
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