William Hunter

So the campaign to raise money for this project has ended, and i have failed to make the target. I'd just like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who backed the project, along with Denny an...

Ok so this isn't actually about crabs, or marine ecosystems, but a little summary of some work I did in Alpine streams.Back between 2012 and 2014, I spent many happy hours in alps, and many more in...

For those of you on the island of Ireland, the next Belfast Bright Club science-comedy show will be on 18th February in the Black Box, Belfast. as part of the Northern Ireland Science Festival.http...

Check out the website for information on controlling green crab populations on US coasts.http://eattheinvaders.org/green-crab/

Just to give you an idea of the scale of carbon burial in coastal mud, here are some figures taken from a recent paper in Nature Climate Change (Atwood et al., 2015; DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2763). ...

So people often look at me strangely when I talk about work. For a start I mostly work with mud, and I get it, mud isn't necessarily the most exciting looking substance. It's not co...

So it's back in the saddle after the Christmas vacation and New Year. Prior to Christmas I had an exciting visit to the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, and it was great to...

$1,000: Purchase of experimental consumables, including aquarium pipes, heaters, bottles and chemicals for the preservation of samples (such as formalin and ethanol).$2,000: Analysis of sediment sa...

This was a video of my set from the Bright Club comedy club, as part of the Northern Ireland Science Festival.