Ben’s Substack

And that was it

A final update from the Faroe Islands fieldwork season

Oct 17 • 

Ben Porter

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September 2025

The dark night of the Storm Petrel researcher

GPS tagging, a Puffling rescue mission and weathering out storms in stone huts.

Sep 13 • 

Ben Porter

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August 2025

An update from the north

First GPS tags of the season deployed, artificial light experiments begin, and chick hatching gathers pace.

Aug 30 • 

Ben Porter

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Facing the west

A trip to the wild western clifftops of Mykines, the first Storm-petrel chick of the season, and savouring the feeling of dry feet.

Aug 19 • 

Ben Porter

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Week three of fieldwork in Føroyar

Wrestling with nest cams, low fat Puffins and how to (try) surveying a Storm-petrel colony

Aug 12 • 

Ben Porter

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Like a fairy being sick

Week two of Storm-petrel fieldwork in the Faroe Islands is underway, as summer's grasp begins to ebb and the nights draw in

Aug 4 • 

Ben Porter

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July 2025

Back in the land of maybe

Faroes fieldwork for my PhD commences once more

Jul 27 • 

Ben Porter