Have you applied for the MRes at UofG_SBOHVM ?gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/t… Great opportunity to also apply for residency at the Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment. Closing date 01 May gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/t…

Delighted to welcome our Journal of Thermal Biology Associate Editor Dr. Katharina Ruthsatz to SCENE UofG_SBOHVM Great to discuss thermal ecology in the Scottish Spring sunshine.

Awesome session on #otoliths & beyond at #WFC2024 . Thank you to all the organisers & presenters! Highlights included new insights into crystal polymorphs, epigenetic clocks, FT-NIR, and the benefits of using different tissues & markers (yes, hoarding is encouraged!) for diff Qs.

Provisional catch statistics for #salmon in #Scotland suggest continued reductions in numbers, with 2023 the lowest catch on record.

On the use of #aquatic #animaltracking to understand world increasingly shaped by #climate change & #extremeevents – study led by Robert Lennox & amazing team from Lake Fish Telemetry Group now published in new Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences issue cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cj… #fishsci #biologging #Telemetry #climate

Thanks to Jessica Rodger and Chris Conroy from Atlantic Salmon Trust for presenting their studies on #Migration of #salmon and the restoration of its #ecosystem !

The #NoWPaS2024 group tried to find Nessie for the first day of the workshop! 🦕

Earlier this week, the second Spey salmon of the season was caught at Arndilly, with a Cascade Conehead. What a beautiful 14lb springer! 👏

Well done to the lucky angler Kevin Barron, pictured here alongside ghillie Keith Mclaren being presented with their prizes😁

#speysalmon

Good to spend time today with fish experts across sectors discussing the range of methodologies that can be used to assess the status of fish pops in lakes, and how these data can be used to assess development impacts. Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters Bernd Hänfling Victoria Pritchard Nathan Griffiths

Working with fisheries folk from across the sector today to evaluate methodologies for sampling fish populations in Scottish freshwater lochs 👍
UHI Biodiversity & Freshwater Conservation Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters Bernd Hänfling Victoria Pritchard Nathan Griffiths Atlantic Salmon Trust Ross Glover Colin Bean Colin Adams

European Tracking Network anyone who have tagged vendace or european smelt with acoustic tags? Wants to learn about your experience including choice of anesthesia

HPAIV outbreak triggers short-term colony connectivity in a seabird metapopulation Jana Jeglinski Jason Matthiopoulos Steve Votier Jude Lane Maggie Sheddan Keith Hamer Ruedi Nager Dominic McCafferty
nature.com/articles/s4159…

#PrePAREDProject colleague Matthew Witt, University of Exeter, presented on PrePARED research at the Scottish Marine Energy Research Symposium (SCOTMER) this week showcasing fish response to offshore wind farms in the Moray Firth.

#ScotMER

We analysed isotopes in Atlantic salmon scales and found that as the salmon increased in size from first to second summer at sea, they reduced their feeding niche and specialized more, and increased their dependency on higher tropic level prey, likely fish dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1…

New paper 👉 “Interannual variation in survival of wild Atlantic salmon smolts through a dynamic estuarine habitat”

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Check out this video showing what the trout in Lough Sheelin got up to in June this year #heatwave #fishsci #tracking

Talk about trial by 🔥! Michael Cameron nailing his talk & panel to 150 ppl at the 6th Symposium of the Scottish Marine Energy Research Programme #ScotMER . He's just FOUR months into his #PhD using #otolith & lens chemistry to trace #salmon provenance. Amazing effort! School of Life Sciences, University of Essex

An excellent event hosted by Jonathan Bolland and University of Hull University of Hull Biological Sciences

Top ten hazards to avoid when modeling species distributions: a didactic guide of assumptions, problems, and recommendations nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec… #review #guidelines #SDM #ENM Nordic Society Oikos Wiley Ecology & Evolution

The #PrePAREDProject continues to work on research into the environmental impacts of offshore wind development.

For further information please see the January blog here: bit.ly/482GuJo