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All DTP students begin their training with an induction at UCL. Image by Waheed Arshad.

Student training 2014. Image by Jonathan Grey.

Student training 2014. Image by Sally Faulkner.

Student Training 2015. Image by Rachel Devine.

Field training in Norfolk, 2015. Image by Waheed Arshad.

Field training in Norfolk, 2015. Image by Rachel Devine.

Field training in Norfolk, 2015. Image by Rachel Devine.

Field training in Norfolk, 2016. Image by Liam Fitzpatrick.

Field training in Norfolk, 2016. Image by Tom Mitchell.

Field training in Norfolk, 2015. Image by Rachel Devine.

“This is literally the oldest thing you will ever touch”. @London_NERC_DTP students get to handle a 4.6 billion year old meteorite. mage by Liam Fitzpatrick.

Student training 2015. Image by Image by Emeline Favreau.

Looking at the Earth’s rock cycle and Earth dynamics. Image by Ellen Coombs.

Cohort 2 student Mark Jefferd helps cohort 3 learn about solid earth dynamics. Image by Mark Jefferd.

Squashing flour and sand to see how impacting continental plates can cause changes in layer orders and form faults. Image by Joe Williamson.

Image by Rebecca Parrish.

Herpetology at the Reptile House in London Zoo. Image by Joe Williamson.

Herpetology at the Reptile House in London Zoo. Image by Joe Williamson.

Camera trapping in Regent’s park. Image by Dave Arnold.

Inspiring conservation talks at London Zoo. Herpetology at the Reptile House in London Zoo. Image by Ellen Coombs.

The Natural History Museum. Image by Adrienne Kerley.

A tour of the Natural History Museum. Image by Carmen Martin Ramos.

Student training 2015. Image by Waheed Arshad.

Student training 2015. Image by Waheed Arshad.

Megladon Teeth at the Natural History Museum. Image by Ellen Coombs.

A preserved giant squid at the Natural History Museum. Image by Joe Williamson.

Student training 2015. Image by Waheed Arshad.

Darwin’s own collection at the Natural History Museum. Image by Ellen Coombs.

Student training 2015. Image by Waheed Arshad.

Student training 2015. Image by Waheed Arshad.

Student training 2015. Image by Waheed Arshad.

Student training 2015. Image by Waheed Arshad.

Student training 2015. Image by Waheed Arshad.

Student training 2015. Image by Waheed Arshad.

Cohort 3 learning to use drones with KCL Geography. Image by Almudena Sanchez de la Muela Garzon.

Cohort 3 using drones to count animals and arduino for environmental sensing at KCL Geography. Image by Liam Fitzpatrick.

Playing with arduino microcontrollers at Kings College London. Image by Ben Taylor.

Cohort 3 using drones to count animals and arduino for environmental sensing at KCL Geography. Image by Liam Fitzpatrick.

Image by Rebecca Parrish.

Student training at Birkbeck, 2015. Image by Waheed Arshad.

Student training 2015. Image by Emeline Favreau.

Cohort 3 learn about environmental pollution at Brunel. Image by Alice Carter-Champion.

Cohort 3 learn about environmental pollution at Brunel. Image by Carmen Martin Ramos.

Cohort 3 training at Queen Mary. Image by Adrienne Kerley.

Cohort 3 meet some naked mole rats during their training at Queen Mary. Image by Becky Parrish.

Cohort 3 meet some naked mole rats during their training at Queen Mary. Image by Dan Nicholson.

Robin bioacoustics training for cohort 3 with Queen Mary. Image by Dan Nicholson.

Lectures in past climates and ecosystems at Royal Holloway. Image by Dan Nicholson.

Looking at varves in lake sediment down the microscope at Royal Holloway, as part of term 1 training 2016. Image by Liam Fitzpatrick.

Cohort 3 training at Royal Holloway. Image by Joe Williamson.

Image by Julia Koricheva.

Student training 2015. Image by Dave Arnold.

Great puns on seals and PCBs from visiting London NERC DTP students Brunel. Image by Alice Baynes.

Student Training 2015. Image by Rachel Devine.

Kew Gardens for Biodiversity training. Image by Leif Bersweden.

Biodiversity day at Kew Gardens. Image by Ellen Coombs.

The Hive exhibit during Biodiversity training at Kew Gardens. Image by Dan Nicholson.

Biodiversity day at Kew Gardens. Image by Ellen Coombs.

Kew Gardens for Biodiversity Week. Image by Dan Nicholson.

Kew Gardens for Biodiversity training. Image by Leif Bersweden.

A one-month-old ‘Titan arum’ leaf at Kew Gardens. Image by Liam Fitzpatrick.

Biodiversity training at Kew Gardens. Image by Dan Nicholson.

Stunning living (and dead) collections of flora from across the globe. Image by Joseph Williamson.

Biodiversity training at Kew Gardens. Image by Dan Nicholson.

Carnivorous plants at Kew Gardens. Image by Dan Nicholson.

Student training 2015. Image by Waheed Arshad.

Student training 2015. Image by Waheed Arshad.

Wandering through the Colour And Vision exhibit in 2016, being astounded once again by the diversity and processes of the natural world. Image by Liam Fitzpatrick.

On the last Friday of term, Cohort 3 learn how to produce professional-quality science videos. Image by Sergio Henriques.

On the last Friday of term, Cohort 3 learn how to produce professional-quality science videos to communicate their research. Image by Carmen Martin Ramos.

Science video production training at Skills Friday. Image by Liam Fitzpatrick.

Sunset view over london from Stave Hill Ecological Park in Rotherhithe. Image by Dan Nicholson.

DTP staff offer some pre-departure advice on teaching in the field in preparation for the 2017 California field trip. Image copyright Tom Mitchell.

California field class 2015. Image by Chris Carbone.

Point Fermin, California. Image copyright Leif Bersweden.

Miocene sediments and land slips taught by Paul Minton on the DTP California 2017 fieldtrip. Image by Richard Clark-Wilson.

Black Phoebe, Sayornis nigricans, photographed whilst trekking around Santa Cruz, Channel Islands. Image copyright Adrienne Kerley.

Island fox photographed on Santa Cruz Island (Channel Islands) in California. Image by Joe Williamson.

Ravens photographed on Santa Cruz Island. Image copyright Joe Williamson.

Lizard photographed on Santa Cruz island. Image copyright Joe Williamson.

Learning about how Native Americans arrived on the Californian Channel Islands and what life was like. Image copyright Liam Fitzpatrick.

Spider photographed on Santa Cruz island. Image copyright Joe Williamson.

Woody Coreopsis daisies on the Californian Channel Islands. Image by Leif Bersweden.

Beetle photographed on Santa Cruz island. Image copyright Joe Williamson.

Entry to the 2016 DTP California Photo Contest. Composite male Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbia) skeleton in the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits. Image by Waheed Arshad.

Entry to the 2015 DTP California Photo Contest. Dire wolf at La Brea tar pits. Image copyright Angharad Jones.

A special, behind-the-scenes tour for the DTP students courtesy of the wonderful staff at La Brea. Image copyright Carmen Martin Ramos.

Dire Wolf Skills at the La Brea Tarpits. Image by Chris Carbone.

Excavations at La Brea. Image copyright Adrienne Kerley.

Excavations at La Brea. Image copyright Carmen Martin Ramos.

Whale watching on the California field course. Image by Chris Carbone.

Bottlenose dolphins. Image by Emma Lockley.

The Grand Canyon. Image by Marco Meschis.

Field training in California, 2015. Image by Tom Mitchell.

Cohort three heads into Palm Canyon. Image copyright Lucy Roberts.

DTP Students undertake fieldwork in California. Entry to the 2016 DTP California Photo Contest. Image copyright Isobel Lawrence.

Califonian Chorus frog in Palm Canyon California. Image copyright Dan Nicholson.

Palms – not technically trees, we learned on the DTP California 2017 trip. Image by Anna Cutmore.

Desert Spiny Lizard in Palm Canyon. Image copyright Dan Nicholson.

Field training in California, 2015. Image by Tatsiana Barychka.

Flora in Palm Canyon. Image copyright Joe Williamson.

Runner-up 2016 – Biotic Category – “Hummingbirdus californicus”. Image by Waheed Arshad.

Entry to the 2015 DTP California Photo Contest. Image copyright Tatsiana Barychka.

A visualisation of a soundscape recorded on the 2016 California fieldcourse, in Palm Springs. By Richard Beason.

Cohort 3 on Mount San Jacinto, during the 2017 California Field class. Image by Matthew Thirlwall.

DTP students from cohort 3 on Mount San Jacinto. Image by Joe Williamson.

Field training in California, 2016. Image by Tom Mitchell.

Entry to the 2016 DTP California Photo Contest. Image by Richard Beason.

Joshua Tree National Park, 2017. Image copyright Dan Nicholson.

Field training in California. Photo by Tom Mitchell.

Rock formations in California. Image by Marco Meschis.

A cactus in Joshua Tree NP. Image copyright Joe Williamson.

Entry to the 2016 DTP California Photo Contest. Image by Richard Beason.

Flowers in Joshua Tree NP. Image copyright Joe Williamson.

A Greater Roadrunner(Geococcyx californianus) in Joshua Tree NP. Image copyright Dan Nicholson.

An evening of bat surveying in Joshua Tree National Park. Image copyright Dan Nicholson.

A Cayote caught on our camera trap at Joshua Tree National Park in 2017. Image credit: Monika Bohm, Claire Asher, Harry Owen, Sarah Johnson, Ella Browning, Sergio Henriques.

Camera-traps ready for deployment in Joshua Tree NP. Image copyright Monika Bohm.

Entry to the 2016 DTP California Photo Contest. Image copyright Rebecca Pearce.

Boundary between Pacific plate (right) and the North American plate – on the fault scarp of the San Andreas. Image copyright Paul Minton.

Soda lake. Image copyright Dan Nicholson.

Salt crystals at Bristol dry lake, Mojave desert. Image copyright Matthew Thirlwall.

Cholla cacti in the Mojave. Image by Leif Bersweden.

Learning about sexual dimorphism and selection with Elephant seals on Piedras Blancas. Image copyright Dan Nicholson.

Runner-up 2015 – Biotic Category – “Moss”. Image by Sally Faulkner.

Understanding cetacean evolution, behaviour and threats on a whale-watching trip in Monterey Bay. Image copyright Paul Minton.

Common dolphins photographed on a whale-watching trip in Monterey Bay. Image copyright Adrienne Kerley.

An orca breaches as Cohort 3 enjoy a whale-watching trip in Monterey Bay. Image copyright Adrienne Kerley.

Winner 2016 – Biotic Category – “Redwood Cathedral”. Image by Waheed Arshad.

Entry to the 2016 DTP California Photo Contest. Image by Andrew Knapp.

California slender salamander in Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. Image copyright Liam Fitzpatrick.

USGS Earthquake lab gave a fascinating tour of some of their facilities & demonstrated some of their ongoing research projects. Image copyright Paul Minton.

Marie-Luise Adolph (left) and Rachel Devine (right) at Lake Głęboczek conducting lake water measurements such as temperature, conductivity, pH and Dissolved Oxygen (DO). Image copyright Rachel Devine.

Varved sediment core from Lake Głęboczek (top) with high resolution image (bottom). Image copyright Rachel Devine.

DTP Student Rachel Devine presented her poster at the INTIMATE Example Research Training School in Stara Kiszewa, Poland. Image by Rachel Devine.

Lake sediment core we retrieved from the base of a modern peat bog. Image copyright Rachel Devine.

INTIMATE Example Research Training School in Stara Kiszewa, Poland. Image by Rachel Devine.

INTIMATE Example Research Training School in Stara Kiszewa, Poland. Image by Rachel Devine.

Rory Walshe attended the British Council Workshop on Disaster-risk reduction, resilience, well-being and culture in Indonesia. Image copyright Rory Walsh

Rory Walshe attended the British Council Workshop on Disaster-risk reduction, resilience, well-being and culture in Indonesia. Image copyright Rory Walsh

Diving on the Chagos archipelago. Image copyright Dan Bayley.

Many marine organisms find a home in coral reefs. Image copyright Dan Bayley.

Sharks circle in the Chagos archipelago. Image copyright Dan Bayley.

A 3D reef reconstruction made using structure from motion. Image copyright Dan Bayley.

A crab photographed on the Chagos archipelago. Image copyright Dan Bayley.

A male honeyeater. Image copyright Gemma Taylor.

Eucalyptus flowers provide nectar for all honeyeater species. Image copyright Gemma Taylor.

Trying to locate a lost bird from the high point of Mt Pilot. Image copyright Gemma Taylor.

Chiltern national park in the spring. Image copyright Gemma Taylor.

Female on ‘stumpy’ nest. Image copyright Gemma Taylor.

Tree climbing training in Australia. Image copyright Gemma Taylor.

DTP student Gemma Taylor tracks endangered Regent honeyeaters reintroduced in Chiltern, Australia. Image by Hihi News.

Ponds are home to a wide range of aquatic wildlife, such as this beautiful Azure Damselfly, Coenagrion paella. Copyright Jonathan Lewis

A fossil rodent tooth. Image copyright Elizabeth Peneycad.

Lucy undertakes fieldwork across the Norfolk Broads. Image by Lucy Roberts. Image copyright Lucy Roberts.

Lucy’s project involves taking sediment cores from lakes. Image copyright Lucy Roberts.

Image copyright Lucy Roberts.

DTP students Rachel Devine and Dave Arnold undertake fieldwork in Sweden. Image by Dave Arnold.

Lucy undertakes fieldwork across the Norfolk Broads. Image copyright Lucy Roberts.

DTP student Emma Lockley undertakes fieldwork to study sea turtles in Cape Verde. Image used courtesy of the Eizaguirre Lab.

Sea turtles lay their eggs on the beach at night. Image used courtesy of the Eizaguirre Lab.

Student fieldwork in France. Image by Emeline Favreau.

Student fieldwork in France. Image by Emeline Favreau.

Student fieldwork in France. Image by Emeline Favreau.

One of the isolated coastal fishing communities found along the Danajon Bank. Image copyright Dan Bayley

Healthy reefs in the Philippines. Image copyright Dan Bayley

Home from home! One of the Zoological Society of London’s research boats in the Danajon Bank. Image copyright Dan Bayley

A discarded old net drapes across a Philippine reef. Image copyright Dan Bayley

Student fieldwork in Atapuerca, Spain. UCL students pose with Maria Martinon-Torres and Jose-Maria Bermudez de Castro at the site of their excavation in Atapuerca. Image by Michael Hanks.

Level TD-4 at Gran Dolina, the site where Homo antecessor was discovered and where DTP student Michael Hanks was helping to excavate 1 million year old sediments with cave bears and other fauna. Image by Michael Hanks.

DTP Student Poppy Harding undertakes fieldwork in Siberia. Image by Poppy Harding.

DTP Students Eleanore Heasley and Dan Mills search for invasive Quagga Muscles in UK streams. Image by Eleanore Heasley.

DTP student Michael Hanks attempts a dramatic 2001-style stone tool pose in Atapuerca, Spain. Image by Michael Hanks.

Highly-eroded wave-cut platform with presence of lithophagid borings still preserved within Syracuse town. Image by Marco Meschis.

Lithophagid borings with, in places, shells still preserved. Image by Marco Meschis.

The invasive Quagga Mussel. Image by Dan Mills.

Mapping wave-cut platforms in Sicily. Image by Marco Meschis.

A modern barn owl pellet. Image copyright Elizabeth Peneycad.

Well-preserved rodent remains from barn owl pellets are identified under the microscope. Image copyright Elizabeth Peneycad.

DTP student Dave Arnold collects data for his PhD. This red deer specimen from Balmoral was donated by HRH Prince Philip. Image by Dave Arnold.

Moulds of Kirkdale Cave hyaena teeth from Oxford University Museum of Natural History collections. Image by Angharad Jones.

A 3D Scan of a Dinosaur Skull, made by DTP student Andrew Knapp. Image by Andrew Knapp.

The first samples from Siberia collected by DTP student Poppy Harding. Image by Poppy Harding.

Image copyright Marco Meschis.

Student talks at the Institute of Zoology Student Conference. Image Copyright @ZSLScience.

Student talks at the Institute of Zoology Student Conference. Image Copyright @ZSLScience.

Student talks at the Institute of Zoology Student Conference. Image Copyright @ZSLScience.

Student talks at the Institute of Zoology Student Conference. Image Copyright @ZSLScience.

Example of macrofossils we identified from peat bog cores including rootlets, moss and woody debris. Image copyright Rachel Devine.

DTP student David Smedley talks at Kings College. Image by Kelly Gunnell.

Examples of varves, only visible when viewed under a microscope. Image by Rachel Devine.

A rough map produced by Rory Walshe as part of his blog, Modelling risk from a potential Cornish tsunami.

The stall and all the BES volunteers raring to go. Image copyright Lisa Mogensen.

Giving away freebies for the BES. Image copyright Lisa Mogensen.

BES volunteers teach festival goers about different kinds of animal poo. Image copyright Lisa Mogensen.

A box of bees (as you do). Image copyright Lisa Mogensen.

Dani Rabaiotti guest-tweeted for Biotweeps.

Selina Groh explains crocodile evolution at Science Uncovered. Image copyright Selina Groh.

Selina Groh explains crocodile evolution at Science Uncovered. Image copyright Selina Groh.

The Joint Summer Conference Organising Comittee (2015). Image copyright Lucy Roberts.

The organising committee celebrate all their hard work. Image by Daniel Hdidouan.

Image by Daniel Hdidouan.

The two-day conference showcased presentations and posters by students from the London NERC DTP and the Imperial SSCP DTP. Image by Claire Asher.

Image by Daniel Hdidouan.

Image by Daniel Hdidouan.

Image by Grantham Institute.

The Joint Summer Conference took place at Kings College London in September. Image by Daniel Hdidouan.

Image by Claire Asher.

Image by Claire Asher.

Image by Claire Asher.

Image by Daniel Hdidouan.

Image by Daniel Hdidouan.

Image by SSCP DTP.

Image by SSCP DTP.

Image by Claire Asher.

Steve Cross presents a special DTP science comedy night to end the first day of the Joint Summer conference 2016. Image by Waheed Arshad.

Image by Grantham Institute.

Image by Daniel Hdidouan.

Image by Daniel Hdidouan.

Image by Daniel Hdidouan.

Image by Grantham Institute.