Dr Paul Rooney is an internationally esteemed environmental scientist whose central focus is sand dunes. He calls himself a sand dune nerd. He visited to offer the team and the community his views on the sand dunes of Barra and Vatersay and how we can best care for them. He spend time on site with groups of pupils from Castlebay and Eoligarry Primary Schools. They share their thoughts for the blog and you can read these below. Amy It was a boring Monday morning in school but

In the August of 2025, Muir Is Tir kicked off the project’s coastal monitoring work with a month of fieldwork on the dunes of Vatersay and Eoligarry. This being the project’s first summer in operation, the goal of this year’s field season was to gather initial baseline data on the plants and soils from each of our sites. Over the course of a month, Muir Is Tir’s researcher Amanda Vestergaard surveyed a total of 30 plots alongside local volunteers and community groups. After d