Today is the #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience we should celebrate all the women involved in science and highlight the importance of diversity in science today and every single day!

Attending #BIIGLE user meeting to understand the new features available for annotating #deepsea #benthic creatures after working with this program for over 5 years. Incredible work being done to make annotating large volumes of imagery quicker and more accurate.

Canada has signed the UN High Seas Treaty, which aims to protect biodiversity in #internationalwaters. Fantastic news, as much of my work has been focused on documenting the incredible levels of #biodiversity in the #highseas! nationalobserver.com/2024/03/04/new…

Happy #InternationalWomensDay ! Excited to be interviewed by The Crown Estate for their profiles on women in the Marine Industry. Read about me and 5 other incredible women making waves in the marine sector. marinedataexchange.co.uk/content/previe…

See my #InternationalWomensDay profile on the The Crown Estate Marine Data Exchange and read about the other amazing women who are making waves in the marine sector. So thankful to be a part of it! @sos_bangor_uni CDT SuMMeR marinedataexchange.co.uk/content/blog/W…

Officially back from my first research cruise on the Prince Madog 🚢! An incredible experience surveying #seabedintegrity in the #IrishSea. Cute critter photos to follow! 🐙 CDT SuMMeR @sos_bangor_uni Bangor University

Zoom in & you’ll see that the deep sea is recognised as a critical knowledge gap 🔎! Fantastic to see this acknowledged at the global level & thus identified as a priority for the remainder of the UN Ocean Decade!

The #Orkney adventure begins! 🚢 I will be presenting at the Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewables conference next week. Excited to talk about how to use trait-based analysis to monitor the impact of offshore wind farms on #benthicecosystems.

Day 1: EIMR2024 conference begins! Participated in workshops learning about next generation collision and displacement monitoring around tidal arrays. Presentation by EMEC highlighting new technology development and the need to focus on creating positive community impact.

Day 2: EIMR2024 Interesting to hear about the different tools being developed to understand #ecosystem change. It seems it is time to address potential impacts on a cumulative scale as we need to provide data in short time frame to be useful during the consenting process.

Thank you EIMR2024 for giving me an opportunity to speak about this exciting new project! CDT SuMMeR @sos_bangor_uni Dr Stephen Watson

An amazing and thought provoking conference EIMR2024 . Met so many great people, participated in my first Ceilidh ＦΛＲΛ, and got to talk about the importance of seabed ecosystems and how best to monitor them. Goodbye Orkney, I can’t wait to come back!

Saw it this morning live! Well done, @Macomabalthica. Made a great point about shifting distributions of species in response to climate change and how this could change the target fisheries species.

Day 1 of CDT SuMMeR school featured presentations on #offshorerenewableenergy. To see that my PhD project fell within a key evidence gap for OWF ‘#benthicecosystem-habitat loss’ was encouraging as it shows that our work is relevant to needs identified by the sector.

Day 2 of CDT SuMMeR school brought thought provoking presentations on marine licensing and planning from Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru | Natural Resources Wales, Dr Ellie Ford from Defra UK, and the Marine Management Organisation. The following panel discussion provided a great learning experience to understand careers in civil service.

Flash presentation CDT SuMMeR school on using #traitbased approaches to document #change in the #benthic community as a result of #offshorewind development. Excited that my snapshot of work from my first year of PhD inspired questions and discussion from my peers.

Day 3 of CDT SuMMeR school brought together a panel of advisors to discuss #career opportunities. Everyone’s willingness to share their experiences provided valuable learning for all participants. Thank you David Curnick Melanie Austen @louisa_evans @micheljkaiser and Martin Skov.

Day 4 of CDT SuMMeR brought us to #Newborough on #IsleofAnglesey. Learned about the importance of sand dunes to protect from coastal erosion. Finished the day presenting our group results of the #datachallenge. SuMMeR school was an amazing opportunity to connect with my cohort!

An initial discovery of high levels of oxygen in complete darkness on the seafloor prompted a revolutionary new study which shows that #deepseanodules containing metals such as cobalt, lithium and copper can produce oxygen through seawater electrolysis! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Great to hear updates about the scientific findings of the ECOWind projects and learn about how they could be used to inform policy objectives. I presented a poster highlighting how we plan to use trait-based approaches to document ecosystem change within OWF. CDT SuMMeR