George McGavin

Dr George McGavin and Dr Zoe Laughlin set up base camp at one of the UK's biggest sewage works to investigate the revolutionary science finding vital renewable resources and undiscovered life in human waste. Teaming up with world-class scientists, they search for biological entities in sewage with potentially lifesaving medical properties, find out how pee can generate electricity, how gas from poo can fuel a car and how nutrients in waste can help solve the soil crisis. They follow each stage of the sewage treatment process, revealing what the stuff we flush can tell us about how we live today, and the mindboggling biotechnology being harnessed to clean it, making the wastewater safe enough to return to the environment.

Oceanographer Dr Helen Czerski and zoologist Dr George McGavin carry out an ‘autopsy’ on the North Sea to understand the startling changes taking place in the world's oceans.

After being diagnosed with a rare, deadly form of malignant melanoma, George McGavin embarks on a unique, and deeply personal, journey as he learns about the science behind his treatment.

Oak Tree: Nature's Greatest Survivor. In this landmark new BBC documentary, entomologist George McGavin takes us on a fascinating journey through a year in the life of a 400-year-old oak tree.

Zoologist and explorer George McGavin goes in search of some of the world's most impressive swarms. By getting right to the heart of these natural spectacles, he finds out why swarms are the ultimate solution to surviving against all odds and discovers how unlocking the secrets to how animals swarm could be crucial to understanding our own increasingly crowded lives.

Этот фильм - взгляд на тайну подземного мира колонии муравьёв. Соорудив специально спроектированный массивный и полномасштабный муравейник, энтомолог доктор Джордж МакГейвин и эксперт по муравьям-листорезам профессор Адам Харт в течение месяца наблюдают за многомиллионной колонией муравьёв-листорезов из Тринидада. Используя камеры с покадровой съёмкой, микроскопы, микрофоны и технологии радио-слежения, они исследуют, как эти крошечные насекомые могут достичь таких захватывающих высот коллективной организации. Этот уникальный проект показывает, как работает одна из самых сложных и таинственных социальных систем в мире природы и удивительные способы, с помощью которых муравьи помогают нам решать глобальные проблемы.

Ever wondered what would happen in your own home if you were taken away, and everything inside was left to rot? The answer is revealed in this fascinating programme, which explores the strange and surprising science of decay. For two months in summer 2011, a glass box containing a typical kitchen and garden was left to rot in full public view within Edinburgh Zoo. In this resulting documentary, presenter Dr George McGavin and his team use time-lapse cameras and specialist photography to capture the extraordinary way in which moulds, microbes and insects are able to break down our everyday things and allow new life to emerge from old. Decay is something that many of us are repulsed by. But as the programme shows, it's a process that's vital in nature. And seen in close up, it has an unexpected and sometimes mesmerising beauty.