Katie Grieve is the youngest member of Glasgow University’s Egypt Marine Expedition 2023.
The team will be carrying out three projects in the Red Sea near El Quesir and the reef at Abu Satir.
The projects will be investigating the effect of scuba diving and snorkel traffic on species, coral and the Freckled Hawkfish. The project will also dive deeply to uncover fish communities of mesophotic (deep light) ecosystems and how this can be preserved.

HONDURAN RAINFOREST EXPEDITION

Seventeen year old Fraser will be travelling independently to San Pedro and then joining a research team from Operation Wallacea in the jungle of Cusuco National Park, Honduras, to study impact diversity on reptiles, amphibians, bats and larger mammals such as the mantled howler monkey and Baird's tapir.

A group of eight Kent and two Scottish scouts associated with ReQuest 2021 will travel to Argentina and Board the (tall-ship) Barque 'EUROPA'. They will then sail across the Drake Passage and make landfall on Antarctica. Once there, they will undertake a number of personal and collective investigative projects before returning home.

Kayak Drina was a multidisciplinary research expedition to the Balkans, kayaking sections of the Drina, Sava and Danube rivers. Working with host-nation partners, the four man team conducted research into plastic and heavy metals pollution, invasive mosquitoes and even the impact of civil war on youth opinions. The expedition collaborated with Kings College London and the Royal Geographical Society in publishing their findings.

This was an unsupported 165km alpine trek around Western Europe’s highest peak, wild camping above the tree-line throughout. The 10 day journey included a research project on team cohesion and leadership that will be pursued on future expeditions and shared with the University of Lancaster.

The 2 month long expedition was completely dive-based and conducted marine surveys in Mnazi and Mikindani bays of the Mtwara region of Tanzania. A well prepared diving / surveying programme was disrupted by difficulties with an unreliable boat captain who needed to be fired. The team did get the programme underway and went on to dive in 21 different sites. Whilst a lot of the sites yielded healthy marine diversity, evidence of dead coral and rubble from dynamite fishing was all too apparent.

Alistair Walker, from Braemar, was one of 86 young people from all over the world taking part in the Students on Ice trip to the Arctic.