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📈 When I became Minister for Heritage, only 2.3% of Ireland's marine area was protected. This new SPA designation for Wexford brings us up to 9.4% - a 400% increase, which makes the 10% I promised under the EU Biodiversity Strategy very achievable within the current year.

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Check out the research I do as part of the Marine Ecology Group here in UCC and how it can contribute to conserving our Irish seabird populations! Thank you to RTÉ Brainstorm for featuring my piece on the complexity surrounding biodiversity and growing ORE production

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📢Call for abstracts! Registration and abstract submissions are open for the #CoimbraSeabirds Conference on 2-6 Sep 2024 in Coimbra. 📅Abstract submission deadline: 15 Apr 📅Registration deadline: 20 Aug Find all the info on our conference website shorturl.at/ehksy

HPAIV outbreak triggers short-term colony connectivity in a seabird metapopulation @JWEJeglinski @JMatthiopoulos @SVotier Jude Lane Maggie Sheddan Keith Hamer Ruedi Nager @DomMcCafferty nature.com/articles/s4159…

NEW IN PRESS - Seabird bycatch in European waters - concerning news, since this review suggests nearly 195,000 #seabirds are bycaught in European waters annually. ECOTOP BirdLife International Departamento de Ciências da Vida - UC doi.org/10.1111/acv.12…

"Dependability of seabird censusing; can we count on our counts?" Emma Murphy's recent census data reveals a 7% decline in Ireland’s gannet population, stressing the need for more frequent monitoring to track impacts like avian flu #CoimbraSeabirds

Northern Gannet foraging trip length increases with colony size and decreases with latitude | royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10… | Royal Society Open Science | #ornithology

Our new paper shows Northern Gannet foraging trip length increases with colony size and decreases with latitude using data for >1000 tracked birds! Blog: seabirdtracking.org/northern-ganne… Paper Royal Society Publishing Open Science: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

This year, with the support of the Seabird Watch Project, we used drones to monitor Alderney's gannets on Les Etacs and Ortac. This method is more cost-effective and less logistically demanding compared to previous methods. Check out the latest PR alderneywildlife.org/press-releases

After 3 years of surveys, Emer Rogan and Mark Jessopp launched the reports for Phase II of the ObSERVE aerial survey programme. If you want to know more about the distribution and abundance of marine megafauna in Irish waters, head to gov.ie/observe

A two-year long aerial survey by a team of researchers at University College Cork has provided new details of a rich biodiversity in Ireland's marine waters rte.ie/news/2024/1016…

Great team representing Irish research at #SMM2024. Well done guys.

Looking for a PhD on seal ecology? Join us at Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC UCC Ireland MaREI on a fully funded 4 year PhD. Details 👇ucc.ie/en/hr/vacancie…

4-Year Postdoc/senior-postdoc: spatial/population ecology of a declining population of hen harriers. Closing date 10/1/25. Apply online ore.ucc.ie quoting competition 082791. IEA EcologyJobs BES careers @raptors @BES_SE BES Movement Ecology Irish Raptor Study Group

Interested in seal diet, population size and haul out behaviour in Ireland? Funded PhD position with Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC and MaREI . Application deadline 31st Jan. ucc.ie/en/hr/vacancie…

New paper shows acute impacts of tags on diving seabirds. Birds with heavier tags do shorter & shallower dives with slower ascent rates, and increased resting time between dives. animalbiotelemetry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

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Looking for a PhD on puffins? We are recruiting: ucc.ie/en/hr/vacancie…. Application deadline 14th March.