Congratulations to new Aberdeen University Oceanlab research assistant Leigh Murray, who has just graduated with an honours BSc in zoology. Murray decided she wanted to work with animals during a gap year in Australia, and she helped out with the penguins at Edinburgh Zoo and lambs on a farm while waiting to join the degree course. She is now tackling benthic marine organisms, but enthuses: "I work with lots of mud so it's pretty messy, which is great."