Bioboost+

@bioboostplus.bsky.social and @bioecoocean.bsky.social also joined the Marine SABRES event in Pisa last week

#MarineSABRES #BioEcoOcean #BioBoostPlus #HorizonEU #HorizonEurope #Biodiversa #OceanScience #MarineBiodiversity #MarineBiodiversity #OceanObservation #StakeholderEngagement
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First-week highlights: our octopus “technician” 🐙 (including right on the camera) and a sighting of the invasive dusky spinefoot (Siganus luridus).
Next: 2 more systems planned for Crete + Alonissos in the new year. @jennieacp.bsky.social @skatsanevakis.bsky.social #InvasiveSpecies #AegeanSea

Underwater install shots 📷: preparing the system and mounting the camera housing + survey frame so the imagery is standardised and comparable through time—key for long-term monitoring and automated analysis.
#UnderwaterImaging #OceanMonitoring #BioBoostPlus

Deployed ✅ Our partners from University of the Aegean reef station is live: a Raspberry Pi camera/computing system + solar buoy sending reef images continuously. Built on a small budget to make monitoring more affordable—now we’re testing real-world durability + uptime.
#MarineScience #Bioboostplus

Divers in action for BioBoost+: collecting samples + standardised seafloor images with survey frames to train/validate #AI tools for marine biodiversity monitoring.

📷 Credit: Guy Raanan @rilovlab.bsky.social @iolr-il.bsky.social

#RilovLab #BioBoostPlus #MarineScience #UnderwaterImaging

📸 The NIOZ underwater lab in action — seen here at low tide.
Used to test how different restoration strategies affect benthic biodiversity, it’s fully submerged at high tide, allowing natural water exchange & selective colonisation .

@niozsearesearch.bsky.social
#BioBoostPlus #MarineMonitoring

🦞 A lobster encounter in Lake Grevelingen!
While surveying benthic biodiversity for #BioBoostPlus WP2, @NIOZ_Netherlands researchers caught this Homarus gammarus on ROV.
Restoration work meets AI + imaging.

🎥 Credit: Zhiyuan Zhao
@niozsearesearch.bsky.social

#MarineScience #ROV #Biodiversity

A photo of the lab bench showing the full setup for digitalising zooplankton samples (from sieving and sub-sampling to plate preparation, scanning, and computer processing

#AI4Oceans #MarineBiodiversity #OceanMonitoring

🎥 Here’s ZooImage in action: segmenting and measuring zooplankton from scanned samples — part of a 40+ year time series from Norwegian fjords.

@ribas-deulofeu.bsky.social visited @azti.bsky.social to help build AI tools for faster biodiversity monitoring.

#BioBoostPlus #AI4Oceans #Zooplankton

From sieving and sub-sampling to scanning and segmentation — here’s the full lab setup in action at AZTI. 🧪

Cross-border collaboration like this pushes marine science forward.

#MarineScience #ArcticEcosystems #BioBoostPlus #OceanMonitoring

🧠 This combination of remote exploration and AI image analysis accelerates our ability to monitor biodiversity in complex reef habitats — supporting conservation and management.

🎥 Watch the ROV dive (below) + see how we annotate in RoboFlow (above).

🟡 Using RoboFlow to ID key species like Axinella cannabina (crucial to Mediterranean benthic ecosystems) from ROV footage in Torre Guaceto (Italy).

Tech meets conservation under the sea!

🎥 Marine Ecology Lab, Univ. of Naples Federico II

#ROV #AI4Oceans #MarineScience #BioBoostPlus #Sponges

🧠 CoralNet in action!
Here’s how the Marine Ecology Lab UNINA is using #AI-powered #photoquadrat analysis to identify coralligenous assemblages.

📸 Credit: Marzia Cianflone, Fraschetti - Marine Ecology Lab, Univ. of Naples Federico II
#MarineScience #Coralligenous #BioBoost+

Testing a YOLO-based computer vision model to ID 13 benthic species from underwater images. It boosts automated species recognition, aiding large-scale biodiversity monitoring & better marine conservation. @azti.bsky.social

#AI4Oceans #BenthicEcology #MarineScience #BioBoost+

🚨 Presented at #ICESASC2025!
Igor Granado shared how #ComputerVision is transforming #benthicEcosystems habitat mapping in the Bay of Biscay. Big thanks to all collaborators & inspiring ocean scientists at @icesmarine.bsky.social

🌊 More via www.linkedin.com/posts/igorgr...

@azti.bsky.social

🚨 New from the #BioBoost+ team: 67% of industrial fishing in coastal MPAs goes untracked. 🎣

Satellite imagery + GPS data = urgent wakeup call for enforcement.

📰 Read the Science paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#MPAs #OceanScience #UntrackedFishing

Interesting #summerschool25

First morning of the #SummerSchool25 organisef by @drangelborja.bsky.social ending beautifully at the Donostia Aquarium with @skatsanevakis.bsky.social presenting the new project @guardias.bsky.social

Oh! What nice group attending our @azti.bsky.social #GES4SEAS #summerschool25
#marineecology
@skatsanevakis.bsky.social @helianateixeira.bsky.social

Berta Companys, from ICM-CSIC and #ANERIS project, on how to close the biodiversity gap knowledge using #AI and #citizenscience
#GES4SEAS #summerschool25

I’ve spent this spring with marine video analysis and now diving deeper at #GES4SEAS @azti.bsky.social #SummerSchool in beautiful San Sebastián 🌊 Excited to learn from experts and discuss all the possibilities in this field.

Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay2025 and we finish our @azti.bsky.social #GES4SEAS #Summerschool, that we organize each year this week, coinciding with this date and #WorldOceansDay
@skatsanevakis.bsky.social @helianateixeira.bsky.social @ribas-deulofeu.bsky.social
#MarineEcology
#Research

The 2025 Summer School "Artificial intelligence and
citizen science in monitoring and assessing biodiversity and invasive species at sea" has just started in San Sebastian. Co-organized by AZTI, #GES4SEAS, #GuardIAS, #Bioboost+, #ObamaNext, #ANERIS, and #POMP

#MarineEcology

This year the school is supported by the following projects: GES4SEAS, OBAMA-NEXT Project , Guardias Project , Bioboost+ , ANERIS Project and POMP

Josean Fernandes from @azti.bsky.social presenting the robust validation of #artificialintelligence #GES4SEAS #summerschool25
#marineecologt

AZTI #SummerSchool2025 in progress, with a presentation from our project leader Dr Lissandro Benedetti-Cecchi @azti.bsky.social #MarineEcology

Sorry for the delay in responding, automating posting to GBIF hasn't been discussed as part of the scope of the project but I could ask and see if there are any partners looking into it.

Vulnerability of benthic trait diversity across the Mediterranean Sea following mass mortality events - Nature Communications The future of marine ecosystem function under global change may be predicted by examining past trends. Here, the authors examine mass marine mortality data from 389 benthic Mediterranean species (1986...

🔥🌊 The #Mediterranean is undergoing a rapid ecological shift! Our new study in Nature Communications reveals that #MassMortality events have caused a substantial loss of benthic #trait #diversity in just 5 years
Read the full study:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#ClimateChange #MarineEcology
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In this 21st edition of the #AZTI Summer School, the proposed topic is ‘AI and citizen science in monitoring and assessing biodiversity and invasive species at sea’. This year, the school is supported by the following projects: #GES4SEAS, #OBAMA-NEXT, #GuardIAS, #BioBoost+, #ANERIS and #POMP

SUMMER SCHOOL 2025 “Artificial intelligence and citizen science in monitoring and assessing biodiversity and invasive species at sea” - AZTI Summer School 2025 will focus on innovative and practical tools for monitoring and assessing human pressures on biodiversity in marine systems.

Heyyy!! #MarineResearchers!!!
Our new @azti.bsky.social summer school is here, on #AI and #citizenscience to monitor the #ocean and #biodiversity, with 6 Horizon EU projects #GES4SEAS #Obama-Next @guardias.bsky.social etc.
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#MarineEcology
Info and registration here
www.azti.es/en/event/sum...