'Seabirds are one of the most threatened and most travelled of marine vertebrates. Unravelling the mysteries of their at-sea behaviour is not only exhilarating, but is also at the cutting-edge of marine science' Steve Votier #ScientistSpotlight

Deadline: Thursday, 6 June 2024 - one week to go!

🎉 We are pleased to share more details on the #SCAR2024 Open Science Conference programme!

Enjoy plenary lectures, mini-symposia, parallel sessions, panel discussions, posters, and much more in Pucón this August.🌟

Learn more: scar2024.org/programme/over…

Are the Halley penguins safe? We'll be keeping an eye out for them with our newly started Natural Environment Research Council grant with Peter T Fretwell and Grant Macdonald ❄️🌎🇦🇶 at Geography at Durham and British Antarctic Survey 🐧

Next week I'm excited to be attending and speaking at #GreenTech , in Halifax, Canada 🇨🇦 I'll be speaking in the Arctic session, sharing the work of the 'Navigating the Future' project ❄️🚢 Catch me there to talk whales, vessel impacts, strike risk and all things marine! 💙🐳❄️

📢 Great news!
➡️ SCAR is now officially accredited by the UN Environment Programme 🍃
➡️ Read more in our news story scar.org/scar-news/unep… 📰

Unbelievable!!!! 😂😂😂

Fantastic opportunity to join the RSPB Science marine team 🌊🐦 as a Project Manager (P/T) on an exciting tracking feasibility project | Deadline 5th June | shorturl.at/82UW5

‘Never-ending’ UK winter rain made 10 times more likely by #climatecrisis , World Weather Attribution study finds

- Downpour also made 20% wetter and will occur every three years without urgent carbon cuts, experts warn

Story by me
theguardian.com/world/article/…

Remember the really low levels of #SeaIce in Antarctica last year? Records tumbling?

For the first time, now we know:
1) how rare this sea ice loss was
2) if climate change made it more likely

Spoiler: it was super rare; now it’s four times more likely.
Buckle up for a 🧵⬇️

For #WorldBeeDay I’m going to share one of the WILDEST things (literally) about Rosslyn Chapel.

So, I usually tell people that all the things you think are weird about Rosslyn are fairly normal, and the things you think are normal are actually extremely weird… 🧵

Exciting and positive seabird news from the Isle of May with the first puffins seen carrying fish which tells us they have chicks. The same date as last year and two days earlier than the long term average. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology The Seabird Group NatureScot David Steel

The biggest VIP lane winner of the pandemic was a company called Innova. Good Law Project has seen a cache of documents from US courts about its 🤯 affairs. 🧵

Want to learn a bit more about the most abundant species of seal in the world? Come listen to me whilst I talk about crabeater seals 🦭 🦐 🇦🇶 marineconservationhappyhour.libsyn.com/luis

This is a balloon clip to hold helium balloons together.

Mr Gaspo operated between 1975-1980.

We hauled this out of a dead seabird three weeks ago.

Work with us!

We're looking for a spatial analyst interested in conservation & collaboration to join BirdLife in Cambridge, UK, mainly mapping seabirds (seabirdtracking.org) & their sensitivity to offshore wind farms (avistep.birdlife.org).

birdlife.org/careers/scienc…

We are excited to announce a PhD opportunity in the IMAS Mpred team to investigate how seabirds and seals are using Australia’s subantarctic marine parks.
utas.edu.au/research/degre…

World Online Ranking of Best Ecology & Evolution Scientists – 2024. Only THREE women in top 100. The fact this isn’t even mentioned in the article is telling 🤦‍♀️ #InvisibleInSTEM research.com/careers/world-…

EMPTY LEDGES. First visit to North Sutor colony revealed the extreme impact bird flu, storms and rising sea temps have had on seabirds. Cormorants down by 36% to only 86 nests, shags by 60% to 60 nests and Guillemots down by a massive 83% on last year.

New Postdoc Research Scientist position available to work on #shark movements & distributions under #ClimateChange w/ biologging data
Please apply here: mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/postdoctor…