The UK Pelagic Habitats Expert Group has developed a new, flexible plankton lifeform indicator, allowing assessment of pelagic biodiversity for marine policy, regardless of sampling regime or level of taxonomic identification. Marine Institute planktonpolicy.org/?p=966 #Plankton2020

So this is impressive. Uni of Reading is reporting today that at midnight 19/20 January 2020, the mean sea level barometric pressure at London’s Heathrow Airport reached 1049.6 millibars (mbar). This is the highest barometric pressure ever recorded in London, in over 300 years.

A widely resented dress code, harassment reports & complaints of unequal work assignments plagued an Arctic research ship last fall. Experts say these issues illustrate wider challenges women still face in polar science & field research across the board. eenews.net/stories/106371…

That time I went to Antarctica..

Check our paper published on time for #planktonweek Cefas. We have made the most of the #PlanktonImager Peltic surveys, collecting in-situ copepod sizes to build and test an indicator for food webs. Carolyn Graves Hayden Close James sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Challenger Society have announced an early career research grant in Chris’s name 💙 this is so fitting and a perfect legacy. Thank you so much to the committee for making this a reality - it means a lot! challenger-society.org.uk/Chris_Daniels_…

Had the opportunity to work with really amazing people from the Kiribati Ministry of the Environment for this CME Programme water quality project in Tarawa. The environmental issues facing Small Island Developing States are huge and complex; more scientific observations are needed!

New Research: Marine Water Quality at Diego Garcia: A Preliminary Study of Pollution Levels in Coastal and Lagoon Waters: Diego Garcia is the largest atoll within the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. Since the 1960s it has been a… frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #MarineScience

Carolyn Graves Cefas stands in for Ruth Parker to describe how seabed sediments within the UK EEZ might contribute to climate change mitigation (through long-term carbon storage), and the implications of future marine management. Challenger 150 Conference #Challenger150

NEW PAPER: with Cefas colleagues, we identify research priorities for #BlueCarbon and emerging capabilities for #shelfsediments Ruth Parker @Coastal_Carbon Research at Essex School of Life Sciences, University of Essex @lisa_benson1 @clarewoulds ift.tt/gqRC1B6

New research in Frontiers - Marine Science 'Sedimentary carbon on continental shelf: Emerging capabilities & research priorities for #BlueCarbon' frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… Ruth Parker @Coastal_Carbon @lisa_benson1 @clarewoulds Cefas Carolyn Graves Natalie Ruth Hicks St Andrews Geography & SD

Research from Carolyn Graves & colleagues from Cefas identifies research priorities for #BlueCarbon & emerging capabilities for #ShelfSediments. The toolbox provides a starting point to inform choice of techniques for future studies. Read more 👉 buff.ly/3d76qNr

Cefas gave several presentations at the Challenger 150 Conference conference, including sharing research into long term carbon storage in seabed sediments providing climate change mitigation and what this means for marine management #Challenger150

Interested in carbon, climate change & geochemistry? We are looking for a student for an exciting #phd opportunity on characterisation, vulnerability & management of peatlands now submerged under the sea. Project ⁦supported by ⁦Cefas⁩ panorama-dtp.ac.uk/research/subme…

A new iceberg the size of Greater London has calved from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf. Last night, the crack Chasm-1 fully extended through the 150m thick ice - a decade after BAS scientists first detected that cracks in the ice sheet were growing. 1/2

A chunk of ice I once called home

🔴#Breaking Yesterday, a 🆕 #iceberg of the size of Greater London calved from the Brunt Ice Shelf in #Antartica 🇦🇶 ⬇️#Copernicus #Sentinel3 🇪🇺🛰️ captured the first image this morning (24 January at 05:34 UTC) #Chasm1

The vast new Brunt Ice Shelf #iceberg has been officially named #A81 - very catchy. 📸 also NEW: Sentinel-1 radar image of the new iceberg provided by Copernicus EU and ESA Earth Observation, which shows A81 moving west.

A massive iceberg broke off Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf on Jan. 23, 2023. This image sequence was captured by NASA’s Aqua and Terra satellites from Jan. 21 - Feb. 5. It shows the new iceberg separating from the ice shelf and the breakup of nearby seasonal sea ice.

Cefas internal item of joy by @ShellBell2227: Warp SmartBuoy (SE England) 150 deployments since 2000. With >70 papers on the data, the ole Warp has an h-index of 37! 🌊 #timeseries data are crucial for understanding our #Environment. Check them out wavenet.cefas.co.uk/Smartbuoy/Map