{"id":273,"date":"2013-10-07T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2013-10-18T14:29:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T14:29:05","slug":"bestival-science-tent-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/2013\/10\/bestival-science-tent-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bestival Science Tent"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of joint initiative with groups from the universities of Southampton, Keele, Portsmouth and Bournemouth, the National Oceanography Centre sent a group of four students (Emma Caven, Yasmin Labibi, Suzie Tooke, and \u00a0Amelia Astley) to set up a pitch at this year\u2019s science tent at Bestival, held on the Isle of Wight. The stand was a huge success with the crowds which flooded into the tent from Thursday to Sunday and gave the NOC an opportunity to showcase its research to a wide range of festival punters.<\/p>\n

A particular highlight of the festival came on the Saturday (which traditionally is fancy dress day, with this year\u2019s theme being \u2018Nautical\u2019) from a man dressed as a crab that proceeded to create a massive theatrical scene over his \u2018dead brother\u2019 in a jar (we had brought several deep sea specimens, including a porcupine crab). The stand was a huge success and couldn\u2019t have been done without help from Katie Quaeck, another PhD student, and from Anthony Gallagher, who organised the entire tent.<\/p>\n

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Outside the Science tent<\/p>\n

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Inside the NOC’s stand inside the Science Tent<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0By Amelia Astley, PhD Candidate studying the taphonomy of historic shipwreck sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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