The BUC alumnus interview: adventure botany with Calum McLennanThymes
Calum McLennan is an ecology and conservation student at the University of Lancaster and a recent member of the Lancaster Botanical University Challenge (BUC) team. In this BUC alumnus interview, Calum talks to Dr M about his ‘adventure botany’ activities, how BUC2023 was for him and the Lancaster team, he discusses some of the reasons he thinks plants are not always given the recognition they deserve and outlines his ideas for developing a botany chat platform using Discord to provide a space for botany minded students to hang out and discuss their interests and all things planty. This is an extended version of the interview reported in issue #3 of The Thymes https://botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/
Calum McLennan is an ecology and conservation student at the University of Lancaster and a recent member of the Lancaster Botanical University Challenge (BUC) team. In this BUC alumnus interview, Calum talks to Dr M about his ‘adventure botany’ activities, how BUC2023 was for him and the Lancaster team, he discusses some of the reasons he thinks plants are not always given the recognition they deserve and outlines his ideas for developing a botany chat platform using Discord to provide a space for botany minded students to hang out and discuss their interests and all things planty. This is an extended version of the interview reported in issue #3 of The Thymes https://botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/