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This is the official blog of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Limerick (UL). We are one of three Departments in the School of Natural Sciences in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at UL. At undergraduate level, four programmes are currently offered in the areas of Bioscience, Food Science and Health and Equine Science. These include BSc in Bioscience, BSc in Food Science and Health and Certificate, Diploma and BSc degree in Equine Science.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2019

seashore ecology field trip

On Saturday the 9^th of March 2019, 60 students from Environmental Science, Science Education, and a cohort of Study Abroad students from the USA went on a seashore ecology field trip to Kilkee, Co. Clare. The purpose of the field trip was to examine both exposed and sheltered seashore habitats and to identify different flora and fauna present on each shore. The students developed the skills of using a cross staff, quadrat, seashore ecology key, and Ballentine’s exposure scale. The field trip gave the students the opportunity to use the identification techniques they had learned in their seashore ecology laboratory practical and apply them to a simulated ecological survey in Kilkee.