compilation of journal front covers from AQC in 2025
Join us at #AQC as an Associate Editor!
🧬 Conservation genetics (incl eDNA, across freshwater and marine realms)
🐟 Freshwater fauna (ecology, biogeography, conservation etc, especially, but not limited to, freshwater fish)
More info: 🔗 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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journal front cover with the AQC title and an image below of a lake surrounded by trees and a table in the foreground with buckets, tubing and a microscope
March issue of #AQC!
📸Investigating freshwater pearl mussel infestation on salmonids. Photo credit: Sebastian Rock.
Also: agriculture, turtles, leeches, batoids, crayfish, freshwater protection and barrier removal, beluga, eDNA, wetlands, cod, seagrass
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🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755...
🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲
👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest
This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!
Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚
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journal front cover with AQC title on the top and an image below of a diver underwater looking at settlement tiles covered in pink coralline algae
Feb issue of #AquaticConservation
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755...
📸 Settlement tiles in Isfjorden, see Sowa et al. Photo credit: P Balazy / IO PAN Diving Team
Also: frogs, corals, seaweed, whales, turtles, fishing, eels, crabs, seals, (e)DNA, dolphins, pike, crayfish, sturgeon
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Editorial: Valuing Impact in Aquatic Conservation Research
It's often not $$$ but that doesn't diminish it's importance. Let's embrace the challenge, & value research impact in all it's forms!
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
📸 Word cloud of available abstracts for 2025 AQC publications
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**Join us!**
Two postdocs currently available in AI-driven marine biology at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social, advancing understanding of ecosystem function, sustainability & conservation!
🔗 www.umu.se/en/umea-mari...
📆Applications considered from March 16 until filled
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#OSM26
@nickkamenos.bsky.social
Crowd of people watching a digital presentation
Person standing and giving presentation
First talk of the day - and by @seabedhabitats.bsky.social from @umeaunimarine.bsky.social!
Presenting a year of work in just 3 minutes (!) - where we have predicted loss in blue carbon habitats and carbon stock this century in SE Asia
#osm26
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Join me - session, poster and exhibit stand
I'll have a few hats at #OSM26!
🎤Session chair: Resilience in a Changing Ocean: Bridging Nature-Based Approaches, Conservation Strategies and Maritime Governance
📋Poster 0307: Persistence of extreme low pH conditions in coralline algae habitats
🌊 @umeaunimarine.bsky.social Exhibit Stand 17
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journal front cover with the AQC title and image below of people in a small boat in a river surrounded by trees
#AquaticConservation January issue
📸Fishers navigating an Amazonian estuary, see Marques et al. Credit: Dayse Marques
Also: manatees, MPAs, water lillies, fish, crustaceans, mangrove, molluscs, streamflow, seals, eDNA, mucilage
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755...
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underwater image of the coralline algae habitat. red spiky seaweeds surrounded by other seaweeds, tunicates and brittlestars
Very nice to have our recent paper in JGR:Biogeosciences featured as an Editor highlight in #Eos!
🔗 eos.org/editor-highl...
Coastal Coralline Algae Naturally Survive Persistent, Extreme Low pH
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📸Coralline algae in Scotland. Credit: N Kamenos
@nickkamenos.bsky.social @umeaunimarine.bsky.social
journal front cover with the AQC title at the top, and an image below of a digger removing a stone dam at a lake edge, surrounded by swedish pine forest
Nov issue of #AquaticConservation!
📸Dam removal in Sweden; Watz et al. Credit: Johan Watz
Also: eels, seahorses, turtles, catfish, sharks, urbanisation, seaweeds, management, oysters, reef fish, mangar, tilapia, microplastics, riverscapes
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755...
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Join us! postdoc in AI driven computational biology. images behind of red seaweeds and CT scans of those seaweeds
*Join us!*
2 year #postdoc in #AI driven #ComputationalBiology!
Use AI-driven image analysis to investigate decades of coralline algae growth, in collaboration with colleagues in S Korea
🔗 www.umu.se/en/work-with...
📆7 January 2026
📍 Umeå University, Sweden
@umeaunimarine.bsky.social
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journal front cover with the AQC title at the top and an image below of a person crouching in shallow water with a quadrat and tape doing a seagrass survey
A bit late, but October issue of #AquaticConservation #AQC 💙
📸Seagrass surveys in Zanzibar. Photo credit: @researchlina.bsky.social
Also: Whale sharks, crocodiles, turtle hatchlings, freshwater mussels, coralline algae and seagrass restoration
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755...
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A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine
Sept issue of #AquaticConservation
📸Cetacean conservation, Ghana; photo credit: Everlove Asante
Also: Arctic, eDNA, Himalyan rivers, tilapia invasion, sturgeon, birds, turtles, urbanisation, wildfire, seagrass, trout, ostracods, seaweed
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755...
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New paper in @plos.org Sus Trans: mangrove restoration increases C storage, but where that C comes from is different... likely because restored mangroves have altered ecological functioning. And old-forests are stable C stores
journals.plos.org/sustainabili...
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@umeaunimarine.bsky.social
Sediment coring in old-forest mangrove within an intermediate-intensity shrimp farm pond in the Red River delta, northern Vietnam. Photo: Heidi Burdett (CC-BY 4.0)
🚨New paper out!!
Restore #mangroves to capture carbon? Yes!🌱
100% positive? Maybe. Study shows that restored mangroves may not regain the ‘normal’ function of older forests. 🧪🦑🌊
Read more here: www.umu.se/en/news/land...
#BlueCarbon
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social @plos.org @hlburdett.bsky.social
Thanks for coming @seabedhabitats.bsky.social!
And for hosting @nickkamenos.bsky.social!
Upper image of a group of people standing in front of a red building, and below a view overlooking the ocean with clear skies
It was a pleasure to lead the Umeå Marine Sciences Centre (#UMF) Autumn Writing Retreat last week!
With participants from several departments and all career stages, we tackled a range of topics, including #Sami culture, #plasmonics, #seaweed, #carbon & more. Can't wait for the next in March!
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5 people at a podium with a screen behind with dna double helix and the text (in Swedish) Honorary citizen
Inspiring to listen to Emmanuelle Charpentier (2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry) today at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social!
Wonderful to share #Umeå with it's newest Honorary citizen!
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presentation slide of seaweed and a title "how will the primary benthic producers in the Baltic Sea respond to their light environment?". inset image with the presenter facing his slides.
3 panel image - man in the dark with illuminated chambers; walz diving pam ii; landscape image with rocky foreground, coastal sea and forested background
A wonderful morning spent at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social #EcoChange annual meeting 🌊
Special bravo to my postdoc Luis González Guerrero, who presented his research on Baltic macrophyte photophysiology - initial data from his busy summer of #fieldwork. More data to come! 🤩
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journal front cover with the AQC title and an image below of piles of mangrove wood next to a river surrounded by mangrove forest
Aug issue of #AquaticConservation!
📸Mangrove wood market in Ghana. Photo credit: One Tree Planted
Also: cetaceans, freshwater fish, agricultural streams, litter-vs-invasives, seals, mussels, trout, turtles, MPAs, fish farming & insect bioindicators!
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755...
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July issue of #AquaticConservation!
📸Oyster farming in China. Credit:Qing Liu
Also: eDNA, frogs, sharks, coralline algae, blue carbon, eels, river modelling, genetics, MPAs, petrels, crayfish, dolphins, wind farms, mangroves, whales, & management
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755...
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Image of the Northern Lights near Umeå, Sweden. Glowing green night sky with a small cottage and snow covered forest trees in the foreground. Photo credit: Fredrik Larsson / Visit Umeå Content Bank
** Join us! **
In February 2026 we will offer two residential advanced short courses:
💻 #R course for marine scientists
❄️ #Arctic marine biology, ecology & biogeochemistry
🗓️ Starting 8 & 15 February 2026
📍 Umeå Marine Sciences Centre, Sweden
🔗 umfcourses.github.io
▶️ Apply by 15 Sept 2025!
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Join us at #OSM26!
Session on: Advances in Marine Conservation for Local-to-Global Sustainability
Submit abstract here: agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr...
Abstract deadline: 20 August!
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#MarineConservation #AquaticConservation #AQC
underwater cartoon scene, with pink algae on the bottom and the text: join us! postdoctoral research in algal (photo)physiology. Deadline 18 September 2025
**Join us!**
2 year #postdoc in algal (photo)physiology
Multidisciplinary project as part of the @icelabumu.bsky.social Postdoc Programme
🔗 heidiburdett.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/p...
📆 18 September 2025
📍 @umeauniversitet.bsky.social, Sweden
@umeaunimarine.bsky.social
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Special Issues in #AquaticConservation
🌍Frontiers in African Marine & Aquatic Conservation
🌿Rugulopteryx okamurae (seaweed) invasion
🦑Cephalopod conservation
⚖️Aquatic Conservation in a Wellbeing Economy
🌊Marine Conservation for Sustainability
🥵Climate Change
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
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journal front cover, with Aquatic Conservation title and an image of a spiky sea cucumber in seagrass
May issue of #AquaticConservation!
📷 Spiky sea cucumber, cf Job & Mishra. Credit: Amrit Kumar Mishra
Also: sharks, molluscs, eco-engineering, fish diversity, rhodolith diversity, seal by-catch, sticklebacks, dolphins, dugongs, MPAs & urchins!
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755...
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7 panels, group of 7 people, a blue hallway, statues in the sea, a research vessel, a OOSC sign, and colourful art
7 panels, a group of 7 people plus 5 panels of people presenting their research
Great it be at #OOSC this week in Nice!
Inspiring science towards blue sustainability, catching up with friends and making new connections!
@umeaunimarine.bsky.social was there, with research on carbon, policy, habitat futures and #UMF infrastructure
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@umeauniversitet.bsky.social
Umeå marine benthic science team @umeaunimarine.bsky.social at the One Ocean Science Congress
#OneOceanScienceCongress #OOSC #OceanDecade #SDG14 #WeAreTheOcean