Welcome to Glasgow University Egypt Marine Expedition's Blog


Using the Olympus Tough TG-5 for Scientific Diving
My name is Rosalie and I am a third year marine biology student. My project is titled “Investigating the photosynthetic threshold of...

Weeks 4-5
We’ve had another busy couple of weeks of project work and outreach. Following our presentation at ROAYA last Saturday night, we were...

Outreach (so far!)
On Saturday, the whole team ventured outside of the camp and into El Quesir to give a talk to a group of local children about what we are...

Our thoughts so far...
We're almost halfway through the expedition, so we decided to conduct interviews on the team members to share our thoughts so far and the...

Weeks 2-3!
We’ve had a busy few weeks here at Roots. We’ve settled into expedition life very well, and the four projects are now well underway after...

Sponsored Swim, Sunnyside, Sudden realisations (and stress!)
The team have had a very busy couple of weeks on the lead up to the expedition (next week!!!) with some final fundraising events, public...

Fish Biodiversity QuantificationÂ
Our next project is titled “Quantifying Fish Community Diversity and Biomass at Varying Depths in the Red Sea” and will be carried out by...

Why Do Cleaner Fish Cheat?
Our next project will aim to investigate if there is a relationship between time of day and occurrence of cheating behaviour in the...

Coral Species and Their Photosynthetic Preferences
Our next project being carried out on our expedition is titled “Investigating the photosynthetic threshold of active radiation on coral...

The Bold-Shy Continuum of the Freckled Hawkfish
The first project of the 2019 expedition is entitled “Investigating the Bold-shy continuum of the Freckled Hawkfish Paracirrhites...

Curiousity Live!
As part of our outreach programme we had the opportunity to set up a stall at the Glasgow Science Centre for Curiousity Live; which gives...

Fundraising Update
Hello! With just over 3 months to go until our expedition, our fundraising has been well under-way. Here’s a summary of some of our big...

Meet the 2019 team!
Hannah Whyte, 2nd Year Marine and Freshwater Biology Hey I'm Hannah and I'm co-leading the 2019 Egypt expedition. I'm a second year...














