Happy, #EarthDay ! We have spent it surveying #seaweed in the very muddy #SevernEstuary today ⛱️, to understand how different facets of the #environment interactively affect the #biodiversity and functionality of intertidal communities across spatial scales. What did you get up to?

Sunny fieldwork in South Wales this weekend ☀️ Monitoring the Pembrokeshire disturbance-recovery plots for the BEF-Scale resilience experiment 🌱

SwanseaMarine Sally Henderson Ilanna Stokes

We have completed the spring disturbance-recovery surveys at all 4 Orkney sites for the fucoid resilience experiment ! 🌱

Thank you to Professor Joanne Porter , Martyna , Rob, and Connor 🤩

Very windy on the shore today at our ‘Totem Pole’ disturbance-recovery site in Orkney ! 🌊

Martyna
Professor Joanne Porter
BEF-Scale

The first of four sites surveyed in Orkney today for the Disturbance-Recovery experiment 🌱 🌊

No rain and even a bit of sun ! ☀️ Thank you to Monty for helping too 🐶

BEF-Scale Professor Joanne Porter Martyna

A bit of a bumpy ferry journey ⛴😅 but we made it to Orkney 🦭

At least we had a lovely sleep on the Caledonian sleeper train 😴

Excited for a week of BEF-Scale fieldwork with @martynazawadz and Professor Joanne Porter 🌊

That’s T2 of the #befscale fucoid disturbance recovery survey for team Brittany done! 🌊🌱🐚🦀1 hobo logger lost, 1 drowned, but 4 recovered 😅 even after all the winter storms 🙌

BEF-Scale Busy few days of surveying at Guardhouse, Orphir and Barrier 3, despite heavy snow!!

Great to get onto the shore just a few km from our campus, with Ruby George and new PhD student Abrar Shakil.

Check out our new paper #OA in Journal of Vegetation Science
on foredune recovery along 500km of SE-US coastline following Hurricane Irma. Plant diversity and key engineers showed opposing latitudinal gradients. FL dunes more dependent on plant diversity than assumed. tinyurl.com/33cxzk6b

The winter disturbance-recovery surveys are now complete in South Wales 🥳 Massive thank you to Sally, Ilanna, Charlie and Tom for their help these past few days !

I’m excited to see how the disturbed plots are recovering in other regions now 😁🌱 BEF-Scale

Another South Wales BEF-Scale disturbance-recovery site surveyed today ! 🌊

Completed winter Disturbance-Recovery monitoring at our first of four sites in South Wales today (East Angle) !

Cold and muddy work but great to be out on the shore 🌊🥶 BEF-Scale

A chilly 4 deg C on the rocky shore today, but great to complete some winter surveys for the BEF-Scale project... investigating resilience of Fucus habitats across a large temp/latitude gradient. 🥶🥶🥶🥶🌊🌊🌊🌊🦐🦐🦐🦐🌱🌱🌱🌱

I had a fantastic time at The British Phycological Society in Reading 🌱🦠 There were some great talks/posters and it was exciting to present some preliminary results from the BEF-Scale disturbance-recovery experiment ! 🌊

Thank you to the organisers & committee members 😊 Hannah Thomas

How are sharks and seaweeds connected? Now that’s what I call a quiz tie-breaker! Great get together with our Coastal Ecology BEF-Scale group and Pimiento Research Group. 🎄

Fantastic weekend as always at WEEN! Endlessly fascinating science throughout! Chuffed to take 1 of the talk prizes too. Big thanks to rest of the committee & shout out to Lewis Williams & Clement Prieul for their 1st conference talks as PhD students 🦈 #WEEN23

Fucus serratus from our Southern Brittany disturbance and control plots having absolutely all their measurements taken! 📏 🌱 Merci beaucoup Justine & Chloé. Note the “remove excess water by spinning in a mesh bag”. BEF-Scale John Griffin Ruby George