Biology Trip to Spain...

In mid-October, Veronica travelled with the other Senior / Y13 biology students to Gredos, Spain to stay at a learning center designed for school trips. They did fieldwork and data collection in a variety of environments, including rivers...

...forests...

...fields and mountains. Veronica was expecting sunshine in Spain, but was greeted with rain and clouds. Of course, she should get used to this as she faces a future of much crappy weather when doing fieldwork while studying environmental science.

Here is Veronica (the only photo of her since she was the photographer) measuring the percentage coverage of lichens on this rock. Her other investigation looked into whether light intensity affected the size of mushrooms with results showing there was absolutely no correlation. The data collected was then used in write-ups back at school.