Disturbing images from WCS Argentina from Peninsula Valdes show a massive recent mortality event in elephant seal colonies. Signs point to avian influenza, but lab results pending. We are monitoring situation and informing government and distributing info to keep tourists safe.

📢We will soon be announcing the new #PhD research opportunities in #interdisciplinary management of #marine resources for the third cohort. Watch this space for more details ....

Dionne Warwick: Do you know the way to San Jose Me: You take a 7hr night coach to Heathrow, 11hr flight to Phoenix, and a 2hr connection 😴 Plus side: I get to learn how to work with elephant seals for a month with #UCSC very..very..lucky!

New Paper 📣. Privilege to be a part of this & working with Danielle Orrell. High site fidelity expressed in grouper in contrast to yellow spotted eel, with both expressing similar trophic niche.

In all the bad news this was a little ray of sunshine today - Conservation shown to be slowing biodiversity loss. Action sometimes works! #conservation #marine 🌊 bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Really interesting day at @ExeterMarine helping my CSIP colleague James Barnett and CMPT team conduct #CSIOfTheSea marine mammal exams for J. Wilson-Aggarwal and @LuisHuckstadt students. Two young and thin common dolphins- gastric impaction (bones) and other with heavy gastric parasitism.

Great day working with the CMPT & CSIP . Two common dolphins and two grey seals necropsied for students at #universityofexeter

Planes, trains, and automobiles...it's been a long journey but excited to get started at the #SMM2024.

Great first day at #SMM2024 . Lots of bycatch mitigation work going on, genetics, and acoustic research. Plus an inspiring opening ceremony and talks from #Jodiedwards and #Chelsmarshall

Privileged to also get the chance to present a poster on our work looking at how we can use marine mammals as sentinels of ecosystem change. With a great team @LuisHuckstadt Rob Deaville @CwallWildlife Dr Lauren Biermann 🌱 , James Barnett & @StuBearhop #SMM2024 #isotopes #seals

Great talk by @LuisHuckstadt on shifting crab eater seal habitat preferences in the face of climate change

#SMM2024 What an amazing week, amazing talks, amazing people-thanks to everyone who took the time to meet with me. A truly inspiring experience 🦭💙🐋

Carried out a #CSIOfTheSea exam on a young 4.36m male minke whale yesterday near Dungeness, Kent. Marked nutritional loss and evidence of live stranding. Stomachs empty- severe parasitism within the intestinal tract and this may be linked to the poor condition. More work pending.

This is an amazing course run by amazing people. Did it last year and learned so much.

Over 5 years of writing code, collating metadata, processing, QCing, reprocessing, QCing, reprocessing… not to mention the weeks, months, & years of field work by a small army of researchers. I am SO excited that we’re sharing this incredible dataset. 👉 nature.com/articles/s4159…

Pit-stop at Punta Arenas before heading down to Bahia Jackson in Tierra del Fuego to work with the Southern elephant seals. Excited to work with this great team! #seals #divephysiology #isotopes #biologging

Day1 of ECS. Some great talks from Luke Rendell, Anita Gilles, and Carla Freitas, to name a few... and a new love of sperms whales. #ECS #Whales #StillLoveSeals