Marine ecologist. Soft spot for seabirds, the sea, session music. Frodo lives! 🌈she/they
Thurso, Scotland
Joined January 2019
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Slowly chipping away at outputs from my @UHI_Research @BrydenCentre_EU PhD on #seabird use of tidal stream environments, including surprising "sub-findings". Just out: European shags probably eat more 🦀 than we thought! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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My pawttery assistant Smoky is keeping me company at this weekends ceramics Christmas Market 🎄🐕
Hello #MASTSASM2024 attendees! If you'd like to voice your opinions on using animal tracking to inform how we designate/consent/manage/monitor marine (including offshore) renewable energy sites, please check out: padlet.com/isakssonnatalie/t…
Thanks for your time! 🌊🐧🦭🐬🛰️
@mastscot
✒️ I've learned a lot from this mentorship program (& had fun doing it! 🤓); if you're at all interested in the "behind the scenes" of the journal publishing world, I recommend it! 👍
📝Curious about the world of scientific publishing & journal editing?
🌊ICES Journal of Marine Science offers early career scientists the opportunity to join their editorial board for a 12-24 month mentorship.
⏰Deadline to apply: 10 January 2025.
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1/6 #BOUasm24 #Sesh1 Global governments need to work together to ensure animal migrants that cross human borders are not cumulatively impacted by anthropogenic developments e.g. Net Zero infrastructure. Assessing the vulnerability of migrants to these developments is essential.
ALT Image generated by ChatGPT 4o (21/10/2024) showing animals migrating over borders and encountering spatial pressures created by humans, such as roads, fences, wind turbines and powerlines.
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Researchers reviewed 149 studies on birds and drone use to see if drone speed, bird breeding status, bird size, and the distance between the drone and the bird impacted bird behavior. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
6/6 BOUasm24 #break1
So what IS the appropriate use of bird tracking data for decision-making, consenting, & monitoring #renewables?
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I don’t know!
If you think you do or find the topic thought-provoking, please consider filling out: padlet.com/isakssonnatalie/t…
Thanks! 🪶
1/6 #ornithology #BOUasm24 #break1
Query: Is bird-borne tracking used appropriately in #RenewableEnergy decision-making & monitoring?
If your answer is anything but yes, this thread is for you!
(If your answer is yes I'd love to hear from you though!)
7%Yes
21%No
71%Sometimes?
14 votes • Final results
2/6 #BOUasm24 #break1
The emergence of affordable bird-borne biologging & telemetry devices has resulted in increasingly large tracking datasets. See for example the 1000’s of entries in movebank.org & seabirdtracking.org 🐾
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SMRU Instrumentation are recruiting for two exciting new roles. Experienced tech manager with a track record of leading a group? Researcher who has used animal-borne tags? For details see static1.squarespace.com/stat… @_SMRU_ @SMRU_Consulting #nowhiring #jobsearch #marinecareers
ALT SMRU Instrumentation CTD tag deployed on a southern elephant seal as part of the NERC-funded iSTAR programme.
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📢📢 ETN community! We need your help! ETN is working on developing merch (😍🥳) with sales going to support ECR within the #tracking community. Have your say on the designs by voting for your top 3 species designs (by 20 June)! 😎👇
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A new paper in Environmental Research Letters investigates the impacts of large-scale #offshore #RenewableEnergy deployment. The review classifies these impacts in a table, suggesting when impacts occur, and to what extent. loom.ly/10wLwJ8
While I don't recommend paying any kind of serious attention to research output stats, I am very excited to report that my first first-author paper reached 69 citations today. What a milestone. 😏 #adulting
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We're looking for someone who has worked on the collation and analysis of tracking data, preferably for seabirds and who is proficient in spatial analysis in R and ArcGIS. Come and join @BirdLife_News global science team birdlife.org/careers/science… @BirdLife_Sci
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Trending in #MarineBiology:
ooir.org/index.php?field=Bio…
1) 40 years of ocean acidification observations, 1983–2023 (@FrontMarineSci)
2) Extreme dietary specialisation in adult male southern elephant seals (@MEPS_IR)
3) Genomic reconsideration of fish non-monophyly: why cannot we simply call them all ‘fish’?
4) Whole ecosystem effects of offshore wind farms in shelf seas
5) Need for harmonized long-term multi-lake monitoring of African Great Lakes
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Calling all cormorant connoisseurs! Check out the 'Great Cormorants: Best on the Nest' workflow @seabird_watch (tinyurl.com/a6ttvdmh) and get clicking! All your efforts will contribute to monitoring productivity and phenology in a very under monitored #seabird! 1/
