After Luis’s defence we had two more tasks before we headed for home, we had to pack all our samples with appropriate documentation and import licences….all I’ve to say is thank goodness for the EU or the paperwork would have been much worse. John’s cloths were displaced from his suitcase and replaced with fixed earthworms and soils were dried, boxed and weighed. I was very relieved that Luis had got sponsorship from the national Azorean airline which had doubled our baggage allowance. But all was ready just in time to run over

to the lecture hall to present our finally event.

For this the team had been invited to present at the reopening of Biodiversity Research Center of Natural Resources (CIRN). We were kindly hosted by its director Professor Ana I. Neto and had a good audience to hear our presentation…..you can find the running order on the University of Azores web site…. (you may want to use Chrome and use its auto translate function !! Unless you speak Portugese).

Conservation conservation genetics to genomics: science and policy Implications - Professor Mike Bruford Cardiff University

Environmental Forensics: Asking an honest witness - Dr Peter Kille, Cardiff University

Earthworms and calcium carbonate - Professor Mark Hodson, Unversity of Reading

A worm at one end and a fool at The Other? Fishing for metallo-nanoparticles in invertebrate cells and tissues - Professor John Morgan, Cardiff University