Next week I'm excited to be attending and speaking at #GreenTech, in Halifax, Canada 🇨🇦 I'll be speaking in the Arctic session, sharing the work of the 'Navigating the Future' project ❄️🚢 Catch me there to talk whales, vessel impacts, strike risk and all things marine! 💙🐳❄️

Getting near the end of the Scottish Vessel Project analysis-SO MUCH DATA! If you have collected data with Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) Shorewatch, Arran Coast or Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust, your data is going to contribute to understanding vessel impacts around Scotland very soon🤩. THANK YOU! Watch this space!🙏🏼

A failed application for me this week for something I was really hoping for, and a rejected (before review 🤦🏼‍♀️) manuscript last week. I know I post a lot of the 'highs' of my PhD on here, but there are also plenty of low points and speed bumps along the way! 😅🤪🎢

🐳CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!🐋 Really excited to be hosting a special session at the MASTS Annual Science Meeting (5-7 Nov) on 'Marine mammals in an ocean of change' 🐳🚢🔊🎣☢ We are seeking abstracts for 12 or 5 min talks 🗣 All career stages welcome🐋 🔗 masts.ac.uk/annual-science…

My PhD supervisor Lauren McWhinnie came to visit Shetland, and our work meeting took a great turn when killer whales appeared! Extra special that it was part of the 27s group, who we published a paper on back in 2022 🥰🐳🌊 Aquatic Mammals J. Read it here: aquaticmammalsjournal.org/wp-content/upl…

This is incredible, my (very) wishful thinking hopes that this is the first glimmer of recovery this side of the Atlantic 🥹🤞🏼

This is so so monumental for the long running (since the 90s!) monitoring project on bottlenose dolphins - back then it began with surveys only around Cromarty, and now the surveys continue to follow the dolphins and their range expansion right down to Yorkshire! Amazing 💙🐬

🎥Totally honoured to be a featured researcher for Scotland Is Now 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿! 🌊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It's a joy to see my (previous) home and work on understanding marine impacts showcased in this wonderful video, where I discuss my Scottish Funding Council funded trips to SATURN Project 🛳⚓🌊 youtube.com/watch?v=XBiMTl…

🗣 Reminder that the call for abstracts for our special session on 🐳🦭 MARINE MAMMALS 🐬🐋 at the MASTS ASM is still open!

What an EPIC day in Shetland (less so for the seal, eiders, tysties and geese these guys decided to play with like popcorn 🫣😬..) 🌊🐳🩵 Another unreal day with the oceans top predators ☠️🖤🤍🖤 Promote Shetland Shetland News On the Killer Whale Trail wwfscotland 🌍 Young Leaders - Scottish Wildlife Trust Scottish Wildlife Trust

🧊❄️🚢🐳 Some great coverage on some of our recent research at ILES, exploring the impacts of increasing vessel traffic to belugas, bowheads and narwhals 🧊❄️🚢🐳

🚨 2 days till the deadline to submit an abstract!! 🐳🌊 Want to go to MASTS? Want to present your work on marine mammals? It doesn't matter whether you're an early stage researcher, student, Prof.. we are welcoming all stages to submit and get together to chat about whales! 🫶🏽

Spent a day away from the desk yesterday helping Sophie Smith check on the hydrophones she has deployed to monitor porpoise aggregations off Shetland, as part of her UHI Shetland SUPER Doctoral Training Partnership PhD 🌊 A fab day at sea with brilliant skipper James John 🐟💙

Technology + collaboration = making the ocean a better place for whales 🥰🌊🐳✨️

Had a fascinating few hours yesterday helping the lovely Peter take measures and samples of this harbour porpoise for SMASS 🌊🐳 So cool to see this little cetacean up close! Anybody any thoughts on what the banana shaped markings might be?

Brilliant to virtually attend the 'Special Committe on Seals' #SCOS Science Day today and hear more about the state of UK seal populations and the latest SMRU research 🦭 Brill to see Izzy Langley and Julia Sutherland present their PhD findings, now they're submitted! 🥳👑🎓🦭