Winds northerly occasionally fresh. Temperatures near seasonal averages. Maximum temperature 10 °C.
Weather Forecast: Sunshine and showers. Winds occasionally fresh.
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Gavin Barr to join Aquatera
Gavin Barr will join Orkney based environmental and sustainable energy company Aquatera in August after over 14 years with Orkney Islands Council.
Building the STEM Ambassador Network in Orkney
STEM Ambassadors are volunteers who go into local schools, colleges and youth and community groups to support learning.
“The intimate relationship between people and place” Mapping Australia’s Ancient Superhighways
An international team of archaeologists, geographers, ecologists, and computer scientists has mapped the probable “superhighways” that led to the first peopling of the Australian continent some 50,000-70,000 years ago.
Thoughts On Structures Being More Than What The Eye Can See
” examples of the varied forms of re-use of structures and the materials they were made from.”
Letters :Do Television Hustings Matter ?
“ The Tuesday 4 th May BBC1 Hustings confirmed what earlier ones have led us to believe.”
What is Legal?
Laws – Not always Just, not always morally right, sometimes good.
Weather Forecast: Sunshine, showers, possibly wintry at first in strong northerly winds.
Winds easing though the afternoon with showers tending to be more focused across Orkney. Maximum temperature 8 °C.
Gaan tae the spoots – Part 2
“A couple of weeks ago, I decided I would need to do my bit to preserve one of the old Orcadian traditions and go to the spoots.”
Sponges on the move
New research has suggested that there is evidence of trails left by sponges across the Arctic seafloor.
