Beach Seine netting surveys efficiency certainly increased in howling winds and very cold conditions this morning with super team work by this group of hardy marine biologists SwanseaMarine studying fish in sheltered saltmarsh in Carmarthen Bay

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We might have high wind & waves, but field surveys still went ahead earlier today to collect data to study fish assemblages in Carmarthen Bay - followed by an extended data entry session to warm up!

This week the #Solent and #IsleofWight team, led by Anouska Mendzil have successfully planted #Seagrass seeds via #DIS method in two locations as phase one of active #restoration on the Isle of Wight!❤️🌊🌱

Solent Seascape Project Yachts for Science WWF UK Arksen Liz Earle Beauty Co.

Interested in #Movement #ecology , #biologging , #biodiversity dynamics and conservation? Get in touch via DM or email.

NIMBLE, HMMs, GAMs for movement data, Bayesian MCMCs .. do not miss the fab workshopsvat #ISEC_2024 IN Swansea this July!
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Today @swanseamarine students conducted biotope surveys in their consultancy company groups at alternate (theoretical) sites of planned jetties. Saltmarsh plant ID improving despite unseasonal timing of surveys this year Swansea University

A very different morning of Seine netting with wind, rain and some very resilient students for our Professional Skills in Marine Biology course today! Now warm and dry inputting data with snacks 😊 Swansea University

Life on Mother’s Day - surveys at the start of our Carmarthenshire field course learning saltmarsh plants Swansea University

Early morning bird surveys and sunny salt marsh biotope mapping are keeping SwanseaMarine Swansea University students busy on their Professional Skills field course #swanseafieldwork

Great afternoon teaching cockle stock assessments to our third year Marine Biologists. Counting cockles, and aging them, plus making a note of any other species such as Scrobicularia and Macoma 🐚

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Returning from #isleofwight #solent fieldtrip to monitor our #seagrassoceanrescue seagrass #eelgrass zostera planting trials - happy to report our transplants have survived the winter and looking forward to see how they grow come spring 🌱
WWF UK Project Seagrass #solent seagrass

Western Indian Ocean Green turtles are generally not overgrazing seagrass meadows on which they forage.
New #OpenAccess Journal of Applied Ecology paper looks at home-range across ocean basin & links to habitat quality & management
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🖊️G Hays, Nicole Esteban et al

Swansea biosciences student chosen by National Geographic to join Young Explorer group for her #research .⭐️🏆🌍

Betty Jahateh invited to USA to present her work to National Geographic on protecting rivers in The #Gambia .🇬🇲

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PhD alert! I am advertising not one, not two, but THREE (3!) PhD positions at Nottingham Trent University, two as main supervisor and one as co-supervisor. Deadline for all of them is Jan 12th: check out the thread below👇for details and links (1/6)

Fantastic Open Day today at our Biosciences Department @Swansea University with amazing number of visitors and great atmosphere 😊

Great talk today at our Biosciences Seminar Series Swansea University by Prof John Fryxell from the University of Guelph on 'Anthropogenic disturbance and population viability of woodland caribou'.

#WEEN23 will be taking place at the centre for alternative technology on November 24th-26th!

Registration to open soon! Watch this space!

Big change - I will be the Head of Department for Biosciences Swansea University for the next few years. Here some pics from our beautiful gardens on the back of the department.