Meet Zelin Chen Zelin Chen. He studies the effects of man-made structures on community biodiversity and food web structure in the North Sea ecosystem. He is enthusiastic in cruise sampling on sea.

PhD opportunity!!! CoastClim University of Helsinki I am recruiting a PhD student to work on carbon cycling in coastal ecosystems using a food web approach. Application deadline is 31st of January. Find more details about the position here: twitdoc.com/BWXC Please re-post!

Looking for some light Christmas reading? Our new study with Alexia M. González Ferreras in Nature Communications shows how long-term exposure to warmer environments can reduce the thermal sensitivity of salmonid fish. A little hope for their response to climate change? nature.com/articles/s4146…

Last chance to make it a particularly happy new year by joining my EcoSAGE group with a 3-year post doc or 3.5-year competitively funded PhD in aquatic ecology. Deadines are both next week, links below: Post doc: hrorganiser.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrecru… PhD: aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships/o…

Hi folks - I'll shortly be offering a short duration postdoc (~1.5 years) to work on observational data in the North Atlantic. Please ping me if you know of any folks who might be interested. Location: Hamburg, start: soon, end: Oct 2025

We're hiring! If you are an aquatic ecologist with experience in zooplankton (particularly Daphnia), environmental variability, trophic interactions and willing to teach (in German and English), apply for a post-doc position with us! (1/2) uni-greifswald.de/universitaet/i…

We're looking for a 2.5 year post doc with a strong computer science, mathematics, or ecological modelling background to work with Athen Ma on our NERC project investigating impacts of climate change on sub-structural properties of ecological networks: qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies…

🔖Check out the complete KEY CONCEPTS IN ECOLOGY series: Reading lists & introductions to help learn the key topics in #ecology! 🔗britishecologicalsociety.org/learning-and-r…

Check out this cool paper in NatureClimate by Benoit Gauzens, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Gregor Kalinkat @[email protected], Malte Jochum & Susanne Kortsch, showing how fish shift from trait- to density-dependent foraging in warmer, more productive environments. Delighted to have been involved! nature.com/articles/s4155…

Excited to see the first paper from the Ring of Fire project Ring of Fire led by Michelle Jackson out in Communications Biology, examining how warming alters biodiversity across 5 geothermal stream catchments around the Arctic Circle link.springer.com/article/10.103…

Ever wondered how temperature alters size-based feeding relationships in Southern Ocean mesopelagic fish? Have a read of our new paper in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s4146…

With prey size from 10 Southern Ocean lanternfish species across 10° of latitude, Eskuche-Keith et al. show that higher temperatures were associated with smaller fish & a decrease in the size of fish relative to prey. Eoin O'Gorman Lucía López López Benjamin Rosenbaum nature.com/articles/s4146…

What habitats contribute to the nursery function of estuarine systems for juvenile sea bass? More than you might think! Have a read of our new paper in The Journal of Fish Biology as part of fsbi symposium 2023 special issue with University of Essex! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Oil impacts - how marine drilling platforms affect seabed benthic animal communities. Research from Zelin Chen Gareth Thomas NHM, Eoin O'Gorman &al. doi.org/10.1016/j.scit…

Super excited to have received The Leverhulme Trust funding with Stefano Mariani to explore how environmental DNA analysis can turbo-boost the reconstruction of aquatic food webs across habitat types and over multiple time scales. Watch this space for 2 x 3-year post doc opportunities.

Here we go! The first #webDNA #Postdoc is now open LJMU Biological & Environmental Sciences : jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/postdo… LJMUResearchSupport The Leverhulme Trust EcoSAGE

Zelin Chen first PhD publication, full paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… School of Life Sciences, University of Essex INSITE lots of data analysed for this! Prof Tom Cameron

In high sediment contamination concentration near oil and gas platforms, we showed a general decline in total species richness while pollution-resilient species dominant. Loss of larger predators and dietary specialists showed a degraded but more connected food web structure.

Congrats Dr Paddy Keith for acing his viva! Loved discussing his amazing research w/ him & Mark Emmerson. Great mentoring by Eoin O'Gorman, Dr Michelle Taylor, Phil Hollyman & Simeon Hill. And lovely to see a Sea-Unicorn STSM with Lucía López López lead to a Nature Communications paper. Bravo! 🐳🐟🦐

Super proud of Paddy Keith, my first PhD student to completion since joining University of Essex five years ago. Two great papers already (nature.com/articles/s4146…; frontiersin.org/journals/marin…), Defra UK lucky to have him for now, and a very promising career ahead. Congrats Paddy! 👏 👏