We have been quantifying sediment accumulation in Lough Feeagh for 20 years- today we replaced our bashed up old traps with some shiny new ones, designed by Joe Cooney and built by a local metal worker Martin Forrestal. Hope they’ll last another 20 years!!! #BurrishooleLTER
@cathdalt.bsky.social
After one of the wettest Augusts in our records (exceeded only by 1985) we eventually kicked off our electrofishing surveys in the Burrishoole catchment #BurrishooleLTER @MarineInst @MetEireann
Initial indications of very good densities of juvenile salmon and trout 😀🐟🐟
Here’s an excellent dataset for those of you interested in long term ecological monitoring data - published #openaccess in @ScientificData , led by Ellen Welti
Includes ~20 years of @MarineInst samples from the Burrishoole catchment #BurrishooleLTER
https://rdcu.be/dKi5Q
February brings fish and frogs to the #BurrishooleLTER traps 🐟🐟🐸🐸@MarineInst #salmon
#StormIsha testing the moorings of the Furnace Automatic Water Quality Monitoring Station in the Burrishoole Catchment, Co. Mayo. Winds touching 40 m/s for the last few hours (that = 144 km/hr 😬😬) @MarineInst @MetEireann #BurrishooleLTER
First paper from our @inventwater PhD Student Adrian Rinaldo - how global warming is likely to impact the growth of #AtlanticSalmon by the end of the century, using long term #BurrishooleLTER data collected by the @MarineInst
👏👏🐟🐟🌡️🌡️💦
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So many openwater predators in the #zooplankton of Lough Feeagh in July....#BurrishooleLTER @MarineInst
#Bythotrephes
#Leptodora
#Chaoborus
We were lucky enough to get an insight into #COP27 from @shine_tara at our end of year staff day this morning. Lots of (motivational) food for thought on #ClimateAction as we come to the end of a long cold week here @MarineInst Furnace
#BurrishooleLTER
Autumn trout moving downstream #Salmotrutta @MarineInst #BurrishooleLTER
Back at it #Electrofishing #Salmon #Trout #Eel @MarineInst #BurrishooleLTER
Ably assisted this year by our bursar students Janine Durkop @MTU_ie @BPSMTU and Tom Corcoran @MfrcATU @atu_ie
The co-author list includes the current @MarineInst staff + Andrew French @WATExR @mcginnity_p @uccBEES @S_O_Ceallaigh with @InlandFisherIE Couldn't have done it without ye all 😉
We are so lucky to work in this beautiful place and with this AMAZING data....
#BurrishooleLTER
We collect #Macroinvertebrates from 16 index sites around the Burrishoole catchment each year to signal environmental change. Year 20 aided by Adrian Rinaldo @invent_water and Matthew Hoskins @ittralee
Lovely day for it 🙂💦🐟🐛🐌🦟🦟🌞
@MarineInst #BurrishooleLTER
Flashes of silver as the salmon Smolts go to sea #Phenology @MarineInst #BurrishooleLTER #Salmon #Trout
👀 Lovely bloom of dinoflagellates in Lough Furnace (April 2020).
Probably Heterocapsa triquetra
#BurrishooleLTER
#phytoplankton
Lovely Staurodesmus (?) from Lough Furnace #BurrishooleLTER. I 💚these little surprises #Phytoplankton
Watching the progression of #StormBarra up the Atlantic coast http://burrishoole.marine.ie/FeeaghLake.aspx
👀at the barometric pressure dropping!
Wind speed is just starting to pick up here in mayo now @MarineInst #BurrishooleLTER
#CovidPivotProject is a tag I can definitely relate to for 2020/2021- Definitely a couple here #BurrishooleLTER @EmmaDrohan4 @CalderoPM https://https://t.co/QTF05qv0EN
Chaoborus emerging from Lough Feeagh this month @MarineInst #BurrishooleLTER #Zooplankton
Heading to the 🔬 this morning to see what this is - algae bloom on the Mayo costal lagoon Lough Furnace. @MarineInst #BurrishooleLTER
Trout and Midges………and repeat
Must be #Electrofishing season
@MarineInst #BurrishooleLTER 30 years of juvenile salmonid surveys. Bit restricted this year again with #Covid19 but getting the key indicator sites done 👍📈📉📊🐟🦟
Resampling macroinvertebrate river sites today, first sampled in in late 1960s, and again in 2002 with @dtmcloughlin . Passing the baton to @EmmaDrohan4 for a 50 year comparison #BurrishooleLTER @MarineInst @cfes_dkit @McCarthy_V
Join us in 5 minutes to hear about some of the @MarineInst @cfes_dkit @DCUWater @B2020project @MfrcGmit work going on in The Burrishoole catchment
Session 3F SS07 #BurrishooleLTER @SEFS12_DUBLIN #SEFS12
We are expecting a big peak in pCO2 in Lough Feeagh next week based on these carbon rich floods this week @MarineInst #BurrishooleLTER #Carbon
How’s the #outdoordining going for everyone today? 😂😂🇮🇪#IrishSummer
How delighted are we!!! Brian Doyle just passed his viva - huge thanks to his examiners Alo Laas @GLEONetwork and @suelinnane @cfes_dkit @MarineInst @EleanorJennin11 @McCarthy_V @MIFundingOffice
Brian did an amazing job on our #BurrishooleLTER data - last paper on its way
Pretty Epic R package for 1D modelling of lakes. Great job @tadhg_moore @JorritMesman @hydrobert and all the team. Uses the compliant L. Feeagh as an example #BurrishooleLTER LakeEnsemblR: An R package that facilitates ensemble modelling of lake......
4 years sampling with @EmmaDrohan4 🤗 It’s been a blast 🙂Ginger the cockapoo is a new addition to our annual #Macroinvertebrate monitoring #BurrishooleLTER @MarineInst
Silver Salmon Smolts moving to sea through the Burrishoole traps @MarineInst #BurrishooleLTER
🎶🎶HOMEWARD BOUND🎶🎶🎶 (imagine Simon and Garfunkel singing)......
Our Lough Feeagh AWQMS being floated back out to its mooring to start collecting its 25th year of data....@MarineInst #BurrishooleLTER @GLEONetwork
New paper led by Martin Dokulil, examining long term trends in the maximum surface water temperature of lakes across Europe: Lough Feeagh not warming as much as others: moderating influence of the Gulf Stream probably 🌞📈
@MarineInst #BurrishooleLTER
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