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The Mammal Society’s 63rd Spring Conference was a huge success

13th April 2017

 

20160410_095143 Friday March 31st, 2017 6.00pm – Sunday April 2nd 2017 16:30pm Robinson College, University of Cambridge

The Mammal Society’s 63rd Spring conference was a huge success. Thank you to all who attended, presented their research or brought a stall. We had a fantastic array of talks about a wide range of mammalian research. 

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Simon King was this year’s Cranbrook speaker

Simon King presented a wonderful Cranbrook lecture inspiring us all to keep watching our local wildlife, and presented the prizes for our fantastic Mammal Photographer of the Year 2017 winners.

Professor Bill Sutherland’s plenary lecture, asking “What works in Mammal Conservation?” highlighted the need for increased evidence based conservation.

Congratulations to Svenja Kroeger from the University of Aberdeen who won our prize for best student presentation for “Cumulative reproductive costs on current reproduction in wild yellow-bellied marmots.”

Svenja Kroeger being presented her prize for best student presentation by Mammal Society Chair Fiona Mathews
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Professor Bill Sutherland

Adam Grogan was the much deserved winner of our award for services to mammalian research. Adam was a member of the Mammal Society Council for many years, and has done a huge amount of work with mammals with Oxford University’s WildCRU and as head of wildlife for the RSPCA.

Our four workshops; “Bat mitigation: new research to improve the evidence base” by Fiona Mathews and Paul Lintott, “Harvest mice: sharing experiences of how to set up and conduct surveys” by Derek Crawley and Sue Smallshire, “What can we do to help conserve Britain’s hedgehogs?” by Nigel Reeve and “Opportunities for research and researchers: enhancing academic engagement in the Mammal Society” by Richard Shore, were a great end to an incredibly positive few days.

A huge thank you to Robinson College, our venue, who went out of their way to support the conference and put on a delicious conference dinner. An additional thank you to Cambridge Mammal Group and particularly Peter Pilbeam for devising our after dinner quiz.

We will be making some speaker presentations available to view on the event page. A full report of the conference will be included in the next edition of Mammal News.

We look forward to seeing everyone at Exeter University next year for our 64th Spring Conference from the 20th-22nd June 2018.

More information is available on the conference events page.

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