We had a great time at the #ECSconference2025 hosting a workshop, giving talks or presenting posters, eating some excellent pastel de nata, and topping the week of with a whale watching trip seeing orca, sperm and sei whales!! ๐
Big news from the Indian Ocean! First sighting of the incredibly rare Omuraโs whale, confirming previous acoustic recordings in the Chagos Archipelago. Project to determine cetacean ๐ diversity by @iomarinescience.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social Photos by me ๐งช ๐ ๐งต1/5
And congrats to you too!! ๐๐ฅณ
Thanks to the ECS team for having me!! and to everyone here for sharing such exciting work - what a cool group of people, and in a very cool place!! ๐๐ฌ
Surprised and delighted to have received the Bernie McConnell prize for Innovation, for a short talk on my (very in-the-works) PhD outline. Huge thanks to all my supervisory team for giving me the chance to get stuck in, excited to see where we end up!! ๐
Huge congrats!!! ๐
And also big thanks to the committee for organizing a corker of a week. Somehow managed to win the pub quiz too, which was definitely a fluke ๐ณ See ya soon! ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
As one of the organising committee for the UK & Ireland student chapter of @marinemammalogy.bsky.social, I'm especially pleased to share that the next event will take place at my own stomping ground @plymuni.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social. Keen to welcome everyone here, spread the word!
We wrote a wee blog post detailing the findings of our most recent study @seamammalresearch.bsky.social and why the results are important! Give it a read below โฌ๏ธ
๐ฆญ๐ New paper alert in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! I'm excited to share my 1st first author paper, showing how seals avoid tidal turbines when they're operating! doi.org/10.1111/1365... ๐งต
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Beth Harvey ๐ฌ๐ฑ
Beth Harvey ๐ฌ๐ฑ
The result showing that seals exhibit avoidance of the turbine during operation is important for industry developers and regulators, as lower numbers of seals close to the turbine reduces the potenti...
