Back in the UK and reflecting on SILS2022. I learnt so much (still processing), and met so many brilliant peers, and have returned inspired! Thanks to the organisers SILS, Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste and to Challenger Society for supporting this opportunity with their generous Travel Award

My day so far 8am: It’s going to be 21C today 9am: I cycle past a heavily policed Just Stop Oil protest 10am: Shell confirms it paid no tax on North Sea oil this quarter 12pm: UN predicts 2.5C global heating & catastrophic extreme weather 4pm: Rishi Sunak will not attend COP27

In absence of PM Rishi Sunak, UK environment minister Therese Coffey says she will attend #Cop27. Asked what she personally does for the environment, she says she uses reusable cups. #BBCBreakfast

Today's Google Doodles is celebrating renowned marine biologist Irene Bernasconi, who at age 72 became the first Argentine woman to lead a research mission to Antarctica in 1968. #WomenInSTEM #OceanScience

Could our handy practical guide for seagoing research help you? See our open access guide here: zenodo.org/record/7311891…

The ‘highly protected’ Langstone Harbour near Portsmouth received a total of 1068 hours of sewage discharges in 2022. It’s early February and so far it has received 619 hours in 2023.

Trace metal chemistry on the #RRSSirDavidAttenborough. A big milestone for us on the trials, the return of the first "clean" seawater chemistry samples. A titanium CTD and special lab facilities ensure that the metal of the ship does not contaminate the water samples! #SDAScience

Surely not? If so, both Natural England and Tony Juniper have stooped lower than ever & huge changes are needed.

Great 3-min clip from GEOTRACES on the use of radium as an ocean chronometer! Radium is a unique tool for tracing sedimentary influence, which we can use to calculate fluxes of other sediment-derived material to the ocean, such as iron

Funded PhD position now OPEN! Dive inside our ocean ‘ferrous-wheel’, and use isotope tracers to unravel Antarctic nutrient pathways 🕵️‍♀️🌊🦠 Deadline Jan 5th 2024. Enquiries welcome 👋 @marmite_usf Alastair Lough @ESSILeeds GEOTRACES NERC Panorama DTP Natural Environment Research Council panorama-dtp.ac.uk/research/the-s…

Super excited to have my second paper published online today. Take a look at how we are fine-tuning deep learning algorithms for multi sound source detection in different soundscapes! #Dolphins #vesselnoise. Big thanks to all my co-authors