You would never read a document where a graph or picture, its legend and the text that describes it are in three completely different parts of the document, so why do we still make reviewers do that!
Extremely proud of all the crew for the successful completion of our latest Blue Belt survey, and our first one working with our OT partners in the Caribbean - check out some of the pictures here! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Actively recruiting! If you know any strong leaders in #Ghana who have a track record of successful campaigning for change, please share this with them. Any discipline (comms, law, science, organizing) and any background (environment, ocean, human rights, public health, etc) welcome!
One day, I will remember which way round r- and k-strategists are without having to google it again
not today though....
I need a trick to help remember it. The way I finally learned port and starboard is that port has the same # of letters as left
Hi Andrew - do you have any plans or ideas for how to get openCTD rated for deeper water? Would love to pair it with a camera system we are developing (for work down to ca. 1km)
Our next meeting is 15-16 July at Dove Marine Lab in Newcastle
Attention UK researchers interested in the deep ocean - if you haven't already done so, please join the Challenger Society Deep-Sea Ecosystems Group (www.challenger-society.org.uk/DeepSea_Ecos...)
Our new paper in Scientific Reports - tracks ecological impacts of ENSO cycles through to the SW Atlantic. Really interesting work to be a part of, and well led by BAS www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Almost 20 years ago - FAO agreed that we should avoid 'Significant Adverse Impacts' from deep-sea fishing. Today, at least for the NW Atlantic, we've finally got a method for how to work that out www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A very left-field paper from me but I guess I am also sort of a #seabird scientist now! Work we developed to support development of best practice management for #bycatch in the Atlantic www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Never ask a ChatBot a question when you don't already know the answer
Almost there with our small-boat deep-sea camera. Getting the micro-scale powered winch has been difficult but I'm sure the whole team will appreciate not having to hand wind a kilometre of cable next year!
Cefas team out on Grand Cayman this week as part of UK Blue Belt Programme - conducting water quality surveys to inform future monitoring of this key pollution threats to ocean health
For whatever else it may have been - it's been a really interesting case of a paper sparking interest in a new topic!
People love to prove other people wrong I guess
I'm a fisheries scientist and deep-sea ecologist, working at Cefas in the UK. Mostly I work for Governments of some of the UK overseas territories or within RFMO working groups
I set up this bsky account over a year ago and didn't follow up with any effort on finding people to follow. Marine science & policy folks, please make yourselves known!
I'm James. I'm a deep sea ecologist/ fisheries scientist based in the UK, working primarily with the governments of the UK overseas territories
Having to migrate spatial analysis across to sf/tidy now and oh christ it's a pain in the arse - problem with it being so new is that there's not been the time to build up a base of resolved questions (which as it turns out, is what I almost solely use to learn code!)
A quarter of the countries who sponsor deep-sea mining contractors (meaning they are actively pursuing development of the industry) have come out in favor of slowing things down while we sort out the environmental impacts.
We're offering a great #PhD studentship on the effects of MPAs on people. It'll be led by environmental economist Kat Simpson with partners at Newcastle and York. A really important topic with lots to find out, bringing together natural and social science.
iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...
Successful 'Let's Talk About Race' bake sale and chat for Black History Month this morning. All proceeds in aid of BBSTEM ( bbstem.co.uk )
I'm James. I'm a deep sea ecologist/ fisheries scientist based in the UK, working primarily with the governments of the UK overseas territories
Amen.
I'm rarely less optimistic about the future of our species than when I'm sat in international fisheries meetings listening to the most pointless objections to anything that feels even slightly like progress.
Yup, the oldest I'm aware of (a kind of black coral) was dated at over 4000!
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
A nerve cord and a centralized nervous system is present in a lot of animals outside vertebrates.
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Some deep sea corals can live for at least several thousand years
If it really must be exploited, the true value of the deep ocean is genetic, not mineral or protein
Super hectic One Ocean Hub visit to Ghana over the last ten days, culminating yesterday in a briefing to the parliamentary committee for fisheries on our multi disciplinary decision support tool.
