Delighted to share our paper describing structure and diversity of holdfast/understorey assemblages associated with kelp Eisenia cokeri in Peru. High species richness and vital habitat forming species. Great collab between 🇵🇪 & 🇨🇱 & 🇬🇧 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Some of the weird and wonderful epifauna found within the nuisance green #macroalgae in Budle Bay 🔬🐚🪱🌱 big thanks to Charlotte for helping us get through the #taxonomy work! LIFE WADER LIFE Programme Heather Sugden NCL Marine NCL Dove Marine Lab Lindisfarne NNR

Great seminar by⁦ ⁦Hannah Earp⁩ on her PhD research on all things kelp. Great audience with people listening in from Chile, Germany & ⁦NCL Dove Marine Lab⁩. Great last two slides - the treat of ⁦Skunk Anansie⁩ karaoke across 3 continents must be a highlight!

A great mix of old and new faces on our hunt for opportunistic #macroalgae in Budle Bay this month🌱🐚🌊followed by some very muddy and rather stinky sample processing 🔬🧪🐚 LIFE WADER NCL Dove Marine Lab NCL Marine Ecology Group, Newcastle University Heather Sugden Charlotte Jennings Prof Darren Grocke Natanael Hazel

Splicing Sunday with Jack Longsden building 60 #INNS monitoring set ups for LIFE WADER. These will be deployed along the NE coast this week 🦐🪼🐠 #invasivenonnativespecies Heather Sugden NCL Dove Marine Lab NCL Marine Ecology Group, Newcastle University Natural England NE LIFE Programme

A good piece in The Conversation by Cat Wilding & Hannah Earp on the potential for seeding kelp to gravel and scallop shells to restore degraded kelp forests theconversation.com/attaching-seaw… via

Researchers at the MBA are exploring whether scallop shells - a waste product from the seafood industry - can be used as a restoration material for growing kelp as part of the #GreenGravel project. Read more in @conversationuk: buff.ly/4aa6J2d Cat Wilding Hannah Earp

A soggy and sunny NE road trip with Jack Longsden to deploy 48 of the LIFE WADER #invasivenonnativespecies monitoring units 🐚🦀🌊 Heather Sugden NCL Dove Marine Lab NCL Marine Ecology Group, Newcastle University Natural England NE LIFE Programme

Some new faces and great car games for our April LIFE WADER opportunistic #macroalgae monitoring in Budle Bay 🌱🌊🐚 NCL Dove Marine Lab LIFE Programme NCL Marine Ecology Group, Newcastle University Heather Sugden Charlotte Jennings Pippa Moore Robyn Mastin-Wynne Peter Almond

Please sign our petition to #SaveObanChamber As of 01/04/24, NHS Grampian have withdrawn funding and support of the Oban Recompression Chamber. This facility provides vital support for all diving operations on the west coast of Scotland and the islands. change.org/saveobanchamber

🌿🌿🐠How do we restore marine forests at ecologically-meaningful scales? In our new article we discuss current challenges and emerging solutions from 25 projects around the world frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #greengravel #kelp #restoration #30by30

Join our team! We have a funded Blue Carbon Canada Postdoc position (bluecarboncanada.ca). The PDF will assess scenarios for Canada's blue carbon ecosystems under climate change (temp, SLR) & local stressors, co-supervised by me, OConnorLab, Sara Knox! Pls RT 🇨🇦🌡️🏙️🗾💻

A successful but soggy field day for the LIFE Programme LIFE WADER macroalgae team 🌱 Much more algae compared to last month means it will be a busy day in the lab tomorrow 🔬🧪 Charlotte Jennings Heather Sugden NCL Dove Marine Lab NCL Marine Ecology Group, Newcastle University Natural England NE Lindisfarne NNR

Settlement panels return for the second year of monitoring. Deployed in marinas, key locations for marine INNS, they provide a surface for INNS to settle on. We then use visual and eDNA methods to identify the species. Ecology Group, Newcastle University Natural England NE LIFE Programme #INNSweek

Amazing opportunity to work in one of the greatest temperate reefs with an even greater supervisor! 🐟🌱

Was great to be involved with NCL Dove Marine Lab team at #cullercoatsfestival last week. Got to share lots of information about #kelp forests and the LIFE WADER project🌱🐚🌊🔬🧪 Can't believe we had over over 1,000 people come and visit! Ecology Group, Newcastle University Sciences at Newcastle LIFE Programme

Join us at UWA Oceans Institute in beautiful Perth, Australia! Thomas Wernberg and I are looking for PhD students to study #kelp #forests and #climatechange. Applications due July 31! Both domestic and international students are encouraged to apply. Please share widely :)

BEST day with the best team 👩‍🎓❤️💚