Ciarán McLaverty

Oceans Past XI: Abstract and Funding Award Submission The Oceans Past Initiative connects scholars and practitioners interested in documenting and understanding changes in marine systems and human-ocean interactions in past decades, centuries and millenn...

Dear OPI community! We’re thrilled to announce that the Call for Abstracts and ECR Funding Award submissions are now open for the OPI XI Conference, hosted by the University of Victoria on beautiful Vancouver Island, Canada 🇨🇦, 15–19 June 2026!

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#marineecology #conference

📣Opportunity to join the Convex Seascape Survey as Postdoctoral Research Associate 🧪

▶️Collate and map data on seabed disturbing impacts from offshore industry. Analyses will aim to estimate effects of disturbance on organic carbon stored within seabed sediments.

jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

One of the largest Irish animals is at imminent risk of further decline — new report The flapper skate is critically endangered and are top predators and their absence, like taking wolves from a forest, can lead to impacts cascading through the ecosystem. It is hard to imagine that a ...

New research from Queens University shows the critically endangered flapper skate continues its slide to extinction. The lead author, Patrick Collins, told me that it's not too late but decisive action is needed.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...

Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it:
rdcu.be/eEcIt

The #ConvexSeascapeSurvey is in Canada! A collaboration between @ulaval.ca @exetermarine.bsky.social and @unisouthampton.bsky.social is investigating the role of animals that live in mud on the #seafloor in helping bury #BlueCarbon and keep our #climate healthy.

Caviar-producing sturgeon found in Irish waters for first time in 40 years Fishermen off Valencia Island have astonished marine experts by catching a fish long thought extinct in Irish waters.

This verified report of two sturgeon in Irish waters is pretty incredible considering the species is critically endangered & considered functionally extinct in Ireland due to no evidence of breeding. share.google/jyn5MHKpQHjT...

Sustainable seafood guide🐟 🦑🦞🐚: 1883 edition

"Crack on - herring🐟 stocks cannot be impacted by human activity"

(They collapsed in the ~mid 20th century)

Thankfully, we now have robust science-based management @icesmarine.bsky.social

@projectfishistory.bsky.social @oceanspast.bsky.social

NEW PAPER: We discovered some v old but v detailed kelp data in MBA archive (Mary Parke's surveys from the 1940s!! 🤯🤯) and resurveyed some 80 years later. Found that Laminaria hyperborea popns in SW England in decline, likely to due warming.... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We're meeting today to kick off our new NERC-funded project on the 'Impacts of bottom trawling on seabed carbon storage'. It's a consortium project to establish how the disturbance associated with bottom trawling modifies C storage, cycling and air/sea CO2 fluxes.
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...

Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of thre...

NEW in @science.org Global tracking #MarineMegafauna shows <8% of areas used overlap w/ existing MPAs, while >75% of important areas overlapped by threats like #fishing #shipping & ocean warming - 30x30 goal will be insufficient for their conservation www.megamove.org @thembauk.bsky.social

For West Cork locals and lovers: A mussel farm, which would bottom-dredge a massive 23 hectares within the precious Kinsale harbour, has been granted a licence. Meeting this Sunday to organise appeals.

Great talk by @ciaranmc.bsky.social at #OOSC about his ongoing Convex Seascape Survey work on mapping the expansion of trawling and associated sediment disturbance 🌊🌊 @exetermarine.bsky.social @ruththurstan.bsky.social @profcallum.bsky.social

Fantastic talk by @ciaranmc.bsky.social on the big stage at #OOSC! Showcasing his ongoing Convex Seascape Survey research mapping historical trawling expansion and associated seabed disturbance @exetermarine.bsky.social @profcallum.bsky.social

The One Ocean Science Congress (#OOSC) begins in just two days! If you are unable to attend in person but would like to follow some of the discussions, all plenary sessions will be live-streamed.
On day 1: Opening session, 3 June 09:00-10:00 CEST: youtube.com/live/XOSGl7P...

#ScienceForTheOcean 🌊

What is an ecologically or biologically significant area? - npj Ocean Sustainability npj Ocean Sustainability - What is an ecologically or biologically significant area?

What is an ecologically or biologically significant area?

How do we prioritise one seagrass bed over another, or a seagrass bed over a seamount?

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

My first paper is out! 🥳🐠🐟

Mapping the Ocean Floor with Ancient Tides - Eos A new study uses a paleotidal model to trace the formation of carbon-rich mud deposits over thousands of years.

Cool new study from Sophie Ward on the Convex Seascape Survey Project - the team used a paleotidal model to trace the formation of carbon-rich seabed sediment deposits over thousands of years.

eos.org/research-spo...

Climate cost of global trawling still uncertain The amount of carbon released by seabed fishing worldwide is uncertain and must be urgently investigated, researchers say. Convex Seascape Survey scientists are studying the impact of fishing methods ...

The amount of carbon released by seabed fishing worldwide is uncertain and must be urgently investigated, researchers say

Read our press release 👉 news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

Full paper 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@exeter.ac.uk @exetermarine.bsky.social

Rare opportunity.... a permanent observational oceanography position on offer at GEOMAR, one of the world's leading oceanographic centers

www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...

Are you an early career researcher in #marine #science interested in learning more about scientific publishing and editing?
Apply to be mentored with ICES JMS!
www.ices.dk/news-and-eve...
#ECS
@icesmarine.bsky.social

🌊 Calling all researchers! We’re inviting abstract submissions for our #EGU25 session: "Blue Carbon Accumulation & Storage in Continental Shelf Sediments (BG4.11)."
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

#ClimateScience #BlueCarbon #MarineResearch

The demise of the humble herring, on which so much of life relies Once abundant in Irish waters, overfishing and climate change have decimated their numbers - affecting not just the fishing industry but the Northeast Atlantic ecosystem

Herring - the “king of fishes” - was once a hugely abundant species across the North Atlantic.

Nice article by @whittledaway.bsky.social depicting its decline in Irish waters

www.irishtimes.com/science/2024...

Image shows the amount of evidence available on windfarm impacts on fisheries for different types of species. The amount of evidence is represented by lines, with thicker lines meaning more evidence. Most of the lines are thin, signalling little available evidence; the most evidence was found for demersal and reef-associated roundfish.

About 5 years in the making: (there really is) limited evidence on the impacts of #windfarms on #fisheries species.
Wind is a solution to the climate crisis, but we also need food security. These are tough, complex choices and we need evidence to support them.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14672979...

🚨We are HIRING! 🧪 Please repost!

Lecturer/Senior lecturer in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Priority areas:

‘Responding to anthropogenic change’
‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

💡Thinking of sharing your science at our Annual Science Conference 2025?
🌊 We are excited to host #ICESASC25 at Klaipeda University in Lithuania from 15-18 September 2025.
👀 The Call for abstracts opens in January but you can take a sneak peek at the theme sessions now
www.ices.dk/events/asc/2...

Postdoc opportunity to study tropical seabird connectivity & population genetics in the Indian Ocean!

With @malcnicoll.bsky.social & collaborators as part of the @iomarinescience.bsky.social seabird project

📍University of La Reunion
Apply by Jan 15th

#jobopportunity #seabird #ornithology

Our "Nostradamus of Conservation" @billsutherland.bsky.social and his people have spoken! 16th Horizon scan of issues novel or a considerable step-change and have the potential to substantially affect #conservation of biological diversity in coming decade.
🌍🧪🦑 🌐
www.cell.com/action/showP...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Modelling or Trait-based Ecology Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Modelling or Trait-based Ecology

📢#WeAreHiring! I am looking for a #postdoc (2yr position) either in ecological modelling or experimental trait-based ecology to join us in Northern Biodiversity and Ecosystem functioning group at @helsinkiuni.bsky.social

Thanks for reposting!
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

📣New paper by @ruththurstan.bsky.social & colleagues showing that European native oyster reefs have collapsed (as per IUCN Red List criteria + historical data)

This leads on from important recent paper describing the vast extent of historical European oyster reefs ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#jobfairy Come work at Marine Institute in Galway & join the CIBBRiNA project. 4 year post-doc. The role will include developing a modelling framework to design monitoring programmes, estimating bycatch probability, bycatch rates, and total bycatch. Deadline 17th Dec www.marine.ie/site-area/wo...