Meliora: a podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute
Welcome to the Meliora Podcast from the Sustainability and Resilience Institute at the University of Southampton!
This podcast explores the greatest and most wicked problem that is sustainability, whilst looking at how we are collectively addressing this critical global challenge.
Sustainability needs to be addressed by understanding how the economy, society, culture, politics and environment intersect, and this is the focus that informs each episode of the Meliora podcast.
In each episode, host Professor Simon Kemp and guest hosts are joined by a variety of guests, including academics, students, staff, researchers, alumni, community groups and business leaders.
The aim of the podcast is to shine a light on the vast range of topics surrounding sustainability and to allow listeners to learn about the critical challenges we face, as well as how they can be part of the solution. We also ensure our fantastic students have the opportunity to share their brilliant work with the world.
Podcast host: Professor Simon Kemp, Deputy Director of the Sustainability & Resilience Institute, University of Southampton
Podcast editors: Lily Killner, Sophie Green, Libby Kale, Jack Dinham, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton
Please do get in touch to discuss this podcast and any of the issues we raise by emailing sri@soton.ac.uk
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Meliora: a podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute
Finola Kirrane: How peckish are penguins? Using animal-borne devices to predict the feeding habits of Chinstrap penguins
In this episode of the Meliora Podcast Student Research Symposium we are joined by final-year MSci Biology and Marine Biology student Finola Kirrane who dives into her dissertation about the use of animal-borne devices to unravel the feeding habits of Chinstrap penguins in Antarctica.
Our discussion begins with Finola sharing her experience processing the mountains of data collected by colleagues at the British Antarctic Survey to paint a holistic picture of penguin foraging strategies. She then walks us through how she constructed a model which can predict the number of prey items caught by penguins based on their dive patterns, describing some new discoveries about the behaviour of peckish penguins. Finally, we consider the future applications of this approach through a conservation and sustainability lens, touching on the importance of Antarctic environments to human societies.
Finola's passion for penguins shines bright throughout the episode, so we hope you enjoy listening!
Episode guest: Finola Kirrane
Episode host: Prof Simon Kemp
Episode editor: Jack Dinham
The Meliora Podcast Student Research Symposium is part of the 2024 Student Takeover Season where we celebrate the fantastic sustainability research work of our Undergraduate Students.
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