New Paper Alert!
great to have been involved with the BAS BIOPOLE team and collaborators in Dan Mayor's group at Exeter University. Looking forward to beginning work on Antarctic food webs shortly!
#copepods #calanus #zooplankton #lipidbiomarkers #lipids #isotopes #bas #biopole
Just love these birding pics from Borneo. I visited here early in 1995 before decent affordable cameras. And just before I turned up at a job interview at Liverpool University with a panel of 5 grilling me before one of the Profs sort pity and asked me how things had gone in Borneo :)
Sabena Blackbird
Technical Job opportunity available to support the LIFER stable isotope facility within the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Liverpool but also involving fantastic fieldwork in Tropical Ecology. A 3 year contract.🌳🐙🐡🐚🐜🐋
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Trophic connections between Calanus spp. and deep-sea benthos in the Fram Strait, Arctic Ocean #stableisotopes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Today, 17 January 2026, the BBNJ Agreement enters into force. 🎉👏
#BBNJ creates a long-awaited legal framework to protect marine biodiversity across nearly half of our planet, strengthening ocean governance, enabling marine protected areas, and safeguarding the high seas for future generations.
Last night's Aurora Borealis over Greenland.
Sabena Blackbird
Word and meetings are not sufficient. By request, we are deploying a contingent of Heard Island Defense Forces to Greenland to send a simple message. Flippers up and F*%# right Off! -General Thaddeus Snowclaw
Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.
Join the Deep Ocean Ecology and Biogeography lab at @icmcsic.bsky.social! We are looking for a postdoc or experienced technician to work in environmental, climate and ecological modelling of abyssal seascape ecosystems (project AbyScapes). 2 years, extendable. More info: icm.csic.es/en/calls/pos...
Copepods of the genus Calanus are central to the ecological and biogeochemical functioning of polar pelagic ecosystems. They graze on seasonal phytopl…
🟢 "In Green Company," 2014
by photographer Max Rive in the Lofoten islands, Norway 🇳🇴
Composition of 3 separate exposures.
After two fruitless nights of waiting under the clouds, perseverance finally paid off on the third attempt at the summit of Austnesfjorden.
#photography #aurora #mountains