Marine ecologist, science writer, lover of all things weird in the ocean.
Currently: Comms around mesophotic & deep restoration in the Gulf.
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Erin Spencer, PhD
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Horrible, horrible news out of USF marine lab. Thankfully, no one is believed to be injured. But the fire today likely "total loss" -- thinking of all our colleagues who are grappling with the loss of their labs, gear, samples, and their research "home" 🐟🌍🌊🐙
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Playing around with motivational plant posters this weekend
Excited to share The Incredible Octopus won the 2026 Delaware Diamond Book Award in the 3-5 grade category! The students vote for the winners, which makes this extra special. So happy they enjoyed learning about the weird & wonderful octopus 🐙
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/erin-... 🦑🌊📚
Our family horse is obsessed with cake! He gets a cupcake (or two) every year on his birthday. #horsesdeservecaketoo
Great hammerhead sharks outperform the curve journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Today is One Tribe One Day, @wm.edu's annual day of giving. I am excited to support the Institute for Integrative Conservation, all gifts today support the Conservation Research Program that funds student teams working on real-world conservation challenges. 🌍🌊🐟 donate.wm.edu/schools/Will...
With deep sea corals, as with real estate, location is everything. In my new piece for NOAA NCCOS we highlight some incredible new models that help us predict where deep corals might be found in the Gulf, allowing for targeted restoration. 🌊🦑🧪 Read it here: coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/where-i...
New fish news: Salmon on cocaine swim 1.9x further than those not on cocaine (!?!)
An example of how human habits can affect fish & other marine organisms. 🧪🐟🌊🌍
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Florida wildlife officials are trying to determine who scattered hundreds of toxic mothballs Monday across a stretch of St. Pete Beach near a colony of protected black skimmers that had gathered near the dunes. 🌍🌊 @tampabaytimes.bsky.social @maxchesnes.bsky.social
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More than 60 units and 200 firefighters were called to the scene.
It's great to see this paper out in Animal Conservation @zslofficial.bsky.social! We show that prey availability is an important correlate of shark abundance and hence the need for a holistic management approach.
doi.org/10.1111/acv....
Read more at @fiu.bsky.social news
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Erin Spencer, PhD
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Erin Spencer, PhD
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An animal's body temperature controls all sorts of processes, from how they digest food to how fast their muscles contract. Marine creatures that rely on the temperature of their surroundings to…
Along with reducing exploitation, maintaining prey abundance may also be important for increasing populations of upper trophic-level predators, but we typically have little information on their prey ....
Brand et al. show that environmentally realistic benzoylecgonine exposure increases
movement and dispersal of Atlantic salmon smolts in a natural lake. Exposed fish swam
and dispersed farther than con...
A wildlife officer on the case believes they were placed across the beach to deter protected birds from nesting.
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With deep sea corals, as with real estate, location is everything. To thrive, corals need the right combination of seafloor substrate, depth, slope, and structure, and finding these habitat sweet spot...
Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the...
