🪸Rothera Ocean Scientist 🇦🇶 British Antarctic Survey
Plymouth
Joined October 2017
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Last week we came across a non native, drifting bull kelp (Durvillea) in Ryder Bay @BAS_News Rafts can transport other non native species to the continent. We found open water goose barnacles (Lepas australis). These are not a threat but harmful invaders can also hitch a ride
So happy to hear the final Himanthalia elongata survey, which I worked on for 18 months, has been completed! So many individuals have been recorded over a 2 year period. Can’t wait to hear the results!
We just finished the final monthly Sea Spaghetti survey, started 2 years ago by Larisa Lewis! 🥳💚🙌 a massive team effort 👏 @EmmajStuart @MaxineCanvin @SeaweedSoph @DanSmale1 @thembauk @brough_fraser
Ahhh I miss the Smale Group @DanSmale1 great day out on the shore sampling Laminaria ochroleuca with @cat_wilding, Fraser and Margot.
Met some of the new British Antarctic Survey dive team @DDRCPlymouth 🙌 Chamber operator course ✅ @BAS_News @Bonner_Lab
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Great job going in our lovely research group! 💦🌿🦀🐠🪱🐚🪸🐟But very sad to see the wonderful @EmmajStuart leave to chase her dreams in Antarctica, we'll miss her so much!!😪❄️
We're looking for a field-based diving Research Assistant to join our vibrant/dynamic group at MBA. Will contribute to ongoing projects on kelp forest ecosystems, blue carbon and climate change impacts mba.ac.uk/news/vacancies/res…
🤿 Day 1 diving/snorkling for @MaxineCanvin PhD to find suitable sites for sediment cores to quantify the potential for carbon sequestration at seaweed farms @CornishSeaweed
Today we set up baited underwater camera traps and took samples for gut content and stable isotope analysis to assess if fishes utilise aquaculture sites as a habitat and feeding ground for @SeaweedSoph’s PhD! 🎣🐟🐠⛴
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📢📢NEW PAPER 📢📢and our first dive into microbiology of kelps. Want to know how bacteria communities shift between hosts at various spatial scales?? Well read all about it (DM for pdf)🙀🙀🙀 link.springer.com/article/10…
Great first day on the Collecting and Identifying Seaweed Course 2022 by @marineseen. Today we focused on identifying seaweeds from a sheltered tidal river 🌊🌱
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Another lush day supporting scientific dive surveys with @DanSmale1 and @TritoniaDiving in Plymouth Sound @thembauk @PlymSoundNMP #KelpResearch #ResearchVessel #ScientificDiving
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Enjoying HSE familiariation and longterm Kelp monitoring dives @DanSmale1 @thembauk @MBAEcology @EmmajStuart
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 roll on day two tomorrow!
Thrilled to get the diving season running today. Few drills n skills and then back to the monitoring sites to change loggers and collect some kelp density data. Thanks to @mba_rv and @TritoniaDiving for the superb support as always 😎 🌊 🤿 🌱 ☀️ 🐟 🛥
🤿 Wooo first dive of the season, great to get back surveying our local kelp forests 🌱
First dive of 2022...check! Rescue drills and site checks completed with the Smale research group @DanSmale1 and @TritoniaDiving
