William Hunter

William Hunter

Belfast, United Kingdom

The Queen's University of Belfast

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Published on Feb 10, 2016

The end of the campaign

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...

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Published on Jan 29, 2016

A note on how stream ecosystems function.

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...

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Published on Jan 14, 2016

Science Comedy with Belfast Bright Club.

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...

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Published on Jan 13, 2016

A little note on tempura green crab!

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

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Published on Jan 12, 2016

Coastal Mud: an astonishing amount of carbon locked away.

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). ...

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Published on Jan 07, 2016

Mud glorious mud.

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...

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Published on Jan 04, 2016

Happy New Year

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...

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Published on Jul 06, 2015

Detailed Budget

$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...

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Published on Jul 06, 2015

A video of some of my stand-up

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

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I think this could be a very important piece of work. As someone who suffered a bout of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever I can testify to the misery of tick-borne diseases. Best of luck with this. Please also check out my project. https://experiment.com/projects/investigating-how-green-crab-extincti...more
Hi Steven, good luck with the project. This looks very exciting. Please also check out my project. It's a bit of a different topic from Martian exploration but still interesting. https://experiment.com/projects/investigating-how-green-crab-extinction-affects-seabed-ecosystems-in-irish-waters
Good luck with the project. I think this could be a very important question, these sediments are critical links in coastal biogeochemical cycles. Please also check out my project https://experiment.com/projects/investigating-how-green-crab-extinction-affects-seabed-ecosystems-in-irish-waters