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Yesterday we deployed a new experiment for PhD student Lena Holtmanns, looking at the interactive effects of Artificial Light at Night and habitat complexity. Modules have two complexity levels, and half are lit with these floating underwater lights. Super exciting!

Also, a huge thanks to our two undergraduate volunteers, Finlay Smith and Brooke Benyon, who helped out for this day of fieldwork. Having keen volunteers is so amazing, and we had an awesome team to deploy these 16 (!) concrete modules and lights!

Great results coming out of Plymouth Living Seawalls

Congratulations to Ann Flemming Nielsen, who was awarded the Wildlife Ecology Research Scholarship by Australian Wildlife Society for her project: ‘Restoring Seagrass Scars by Combining Shoot Transplanting with Mimicry of Facilitation Processes’, supervised by @CariocaMayer and Dr Adriana Vergés 😊

SIMS highlighting the work of our PhD student Annemie Rose! 🌱✨😊

Congratulations to the winners of the AMSA NSW travel awards! If you're at #ansanzmss2024 this week, be sure to check out the work of these incredible scientists. Details in the images bellow!

Marine infrastructure support fewer producers and more filter feeders than natural habitats: a review and meta-analysis doi.org/10.1088/1748-9… via IOP Environment - first PhD paper from Orla McKibbin with @CariocaMayer, Dr Adriana Vergés and Patrice Pottier. Congratulations Orla! 🎉🎉

New open access paper from our lab out today on the effects of artificial light at night and warming on Ecklonia and Sargassum growth, survival and productivity!

This week's spotlight: Sydney-based marine conservation initiative, #ProjectRestore. The campaign is dedicated to restoring & enhancing degraded seascapes within #Sydney Harbour - integrating flagship projects Operation Posidonia, Operation Crayweed Living Seawalls and Fish Pods.

Living Seawalls is proud to be part of the Cockatoo Island revival Sydney Institute of Marine Science Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Project Restore is advancing Sydney Harbour’s seascape restoration. Plans include Living Seawalls to boost marine biodiversity and provide coastal protection. Plus, #fishpods introduced as artificial reefs, offering shelter for local fish and revitalising underwater ecosystems

We are thrilled to be a part of this effort!

Some good news - here at the Stone Living Lab and UMass Boston we've been collaborating with the Living Seawalls to install LSWs in Boston. And they're IN! Check out this great report about them (and listen to me nerd out) from @MoranWriter at WBUR wbur.org/news/2024/11/0…

🔔News🔔 The first interactive map of European marine & freshwater habitats affected by both #LightPollution & #NoisePollution🌊💡🔊 Led by Plymouth Marine Lab, the AquaPLAN Visualisation Portal will to help manage the combined impacts on aquatic biodiversity aquaplan-project.eu/first-map-of-e…

New paper out this week on the effects of artificial light at night on in-situ fish predation and herbivory intensity on rocky reefs! Led by Honours student Gabby Yeung with @cariocamayer and Milly Caley @millycaley.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.mare…

Valuing Darkness Conference on light pollution will take place March 19th-21st in Naarm (Melbourne). Mariana will be sharing research on the effects of light pollution in marine systems, but lots of other interesting talks as well! australasiandarkskyalliance.org/program?utm_ca…

New paper out on the effects of major global ports on light regimes for marine biofouling communities. doi.org/10.1016/j.jenv…

New paper out from PhD student Dana Lanceman on how to characterise pathways of ecosystem service recovery following restoration. Congratulations Dana! Dana is supervised by Mariana Mayer Pinto and Will Glamore at UNSW.