Brendan Godley

Nesting flatback turtle

🦤🧪🌐 🐢 Concern about nesting #flatback #turtles on Delambre Island, Western Australia. Despite natural cycles, population currently appears to be dropping. Monitoring and adaptive management are vital to understand and protect this unique population.
bit.ly/esr_58_287

I am a freelance writer, have written about sea turtles for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Emory Magazine, am a frequent visitor and patron of the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, and looking for ways to contribute to sea turtle and ecological conservation.

Vísindavøka '25 - Ben Porter, Umhvørvisstovan Ben Porter: Ávirkan av ljósdálking á drunnhvíta

Please check out this interesting presentation on #stormpetrels and #lightpollution in the Faroes by collaborator and PhD student @bardseyben.bsky.social

#seabirds 🧪🌍

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A lake chubsucker in a water tank.

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Endangered Lake Chubsucker in Canada are feeling the heat – literally. 🔥🐟 While they hold their own in low-oxygen waters, rising temps are already affecting their behaviour, which is concerning as climate change intensifies. bit.ly/esr_58_275

Habitat degradation may hinder #pangolin ability to raise pups, despite their perceived adaptability. We documented the elusive wild female #ManisJavanica during maternal and non-maternal stages, offering insights for evidence-based conservation. bit.ly/esr_58_223

Green sea turtle

#Conservation works

Green sea turtles are making a comeback, IUCN says 'no longer endangered' though some subpopulations are still in trouble, news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

They're not rare in the Galapagos where I made this image (saw up to 4 at once!) but E. Pacific pop is still 'vulnerable'

Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win' Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.

Green turtles are making a comeback! 🐢🌊

After decades of global conservation work, these once-endangered sea turtles are showing encouraging signs of recovery. While they still face threats, this is proof that protection works! https://bbc.in/4q9uIqH

Solar-powered lights on fishing nets cut sea turtle entanglement by 63% Studies have shown that lighted nets can reduce bycatch of sea turtles and sharks, but the idea has faced many hurdles to adoption.

Solar-powered lights integrated into fishing nets have been shown to reduce sea turtle entanglement by 63% without impacting target fish catch, offering a promising solution for sustainable fisheries.

Saving sea turtles with solar-powered fishing nets For fishers working the inky dark night, it can be difficult to keep endangered or unwanted animals out of their nets. While lighted nets can reduce the bycatch of sharks and sea turtles, their batteries...

Saving sea turtles with solar-powered fishing nets #Technology #EmergingTechnologies #Other #SeaTurtles #SustainableFishing #CleanTech

Portrait of a Chaco eagle

🦤🌐🧪Wind beneath my wings: we describe the spatial and temporal extent of the post-fledging dependence period of the endangered #ChacoEagle (Buteogallus coronatus), related with individual sex, body condition and ecoregion. bit.ly/esr_58_193

@brendangodley.bsky.social

POSITIVE NEWS 🗣️

Green turtles move from ‘Endangered’ to ‘Least concern’ on the IUCN Red List, thanks to decades of hard work by conservationists globally.

Read the full assessment - iucnredlist.org/fr/species/4615/285108125

Footage from Open Planet / @brendangodley.bsky.social

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🌐🧪🦤 A population assessment and ecological study confirmed that Sulcaria isidiifera is a critically endangered lichen that only occurs on the central coast of California. Translocation was also tested as a potential conservation measure to protect this rare lichen. bit.ly/esr_58_103

A teal flyer for a PhD opportunity to investigate how warming may change antimicrobial resistance. The project will use experiments on Klebsiella bacteria to answer questions about how temperature affects their response to antibiotics, plasmid transfer, and fitness costs. The research involves microbiology lab work, bioinformatics, and mathematical modeling. The flyer includes contact details for Dr. Daniel Padfield and the logos of the sponsoring institutions.

I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky

Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.

Photo of a double crested cormorant.

🌐🧪🦤 Automated cameras in remote field sites captured breeding data for at-risk #doublecrestedcormorant in #StraitofGeorgia #BritishColumbia. Multievent capture-recapture models were used to understand negative effects on nest success across entire breeding season. bit.ly/esr_58_85

Three bottlenose dolphins in the water.

🌐🧪🦤 Using DNA from skin samples, age (1–45 yr) and sex of Lahille’s bottlenose #dolphins in Brazil were estimated. With <600 left, this non-invasive #epigenetic tool aids survival predictions and #conservation 🧬🐬. bit.ly/esr_58_137

🪂Species reintroductions have a radical history; in the UK, where official rewilding remains tightly regulated, a covert counterculture has emerged🐗

🦅Glentworth et al. explore guerilla rewilding: unlicensed releases reshaping landscapes and challenging norms🦫

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New issue!🏝
The unique challenges and rewards of island conservation🦎

This theme highlights the importance of protecting island biodiversity, which is particularly vulnerable to extinction🦇🌋

You can read our new Island Conservation issue (🔓fully Open Access) here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Chagos study highlights value of vast Marine Protected Areas Large ocean animals can be protected throughout much of their lifecycle by huge Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), new research shows. Scientists tracked sea turtles, manta rays and seabirds – all of whic...

New study by @exetermarine.bsky.social
@heriotwattuni.bsky.social
@zslofficial.bsky.social underscores the critical importance of Very Large Marine Protected Areas for safeguarding wide-ranging marine species. #MPAs
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

Brilliant to see our research featured in this Scientific American article: Microplastics Could Be Turning Bacteria into Drug-Resistant Superbugs
www.scientificamerican.com/article/micr...

@pml.ac.uk @hls.exeter.ac.uk @ecehh.org @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk @exetermarine.bsky.social

We're so proud to see our Professor @cezzalew.bsky.social on this list of incredible women! 💪
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Study tracks UK’s journey from seafood self-sufficiency to dependence on imports More than a century of data reveals how the UK has gone from supplying domestic seafood needs from productive home waters to importing seafood from almost 90 countries. University of Exeter researcher...

More than a century of data reveals how the UK has gone from supplying domestic seafood needs from productive home waters to importing seafood from almost 90 countries

Read more here 👇 @exeter.ac.uk @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @profcallum.bsky.social @ruththurstan.bsky.social

Our September jobs round-up has arrived (early), with lots of great UK marine roles.

Please share this thread widely with your network of ECRs/marine conservationists.

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#PhDsky #academiasky #conservationjobs #sciencejobs

NEW RESEARCH
Application of spatially robust stereo-BRUV sampling for quantifying fish assemblages in UK marine protected areas

Watch the video to learn more, and find the paper here - esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@owenexeter.bsky.social @kristianmetcalfe.bsky.social
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An Atlantic sturgeon lying caught on a boat in the water next to a wooden jetty.

🌐🧪🦤 We reveal that #AtlanticSturgeon #Acipenseroxyrinchus produce low frequency thunder-like sounds associated with #spawning, similar to #lakesturgeon #Acipenserfulvescens. This finding lays the groundwork for passive acoustic monitoring of this endangered species. bit.ly/esr_58_1

North Atlantic right whales “Arpeggio” (Catalog #2753) and Catalog #4617 pass by each other while skim feeding in the Great South Channel in February 2024

🌐🧪🦤 Considering prey availability has the exciting potential to improve marine conservation efforts, as evidenced in this case study modeling the habitat of critically endangered North Atlantic #RightWhales. #OceanScience #Maine #ProtectOurOceans #BluePlanet. bit.ly/esr_58_67

A small step forward.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Support this incredible project and find out more - www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/atlantic-b...

Our latest blog post focuses on the Caribbean Spiny Lobster Project, talking about aquaculture, fisheries and the importance of community engagement.

Read the full story here - sites.exeter.ac.uk/exetermarine...

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Photos of a reef manta ray, red-footed booby, and a hawsbill turtles with biologging devices attached to them. The journal logo is also featured, alongside the article title and author list. Some text reads: "Tracking data reveal that very large marine protected areas offer protection for mobile marine megafauna including benthic foragers (turtles), pelagic planktivores (manta ray), and oceanic predators (seabirds)".

New research led by @alicetrevail.bsky.social combines tracking data to show the value of large marine protected areas in encompassing diverse megafauna movements 🐢

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

@jappliedecology.bsky.social @iomarinescience.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social