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hlburdett.bsky.social
Mum | Marine scientist researching photosynthesis, sustainability and conservation in our coastal seas | Associate Professor at UmeΓ₯ University, Sweden | Editor-in-Chief Aquatic Conservation | #FirstGen
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"Great genetic variation in the Baltic – we might have 50 populations of herring, not just two!" – Senior Researcher Kerstin Johannesson (GU) gave an exciting seminar at #UMF, unveiling the fascinating history of Atlantic cod, herring, eelgrass & bladderwrack in the #Baltic! πŸ§ͺπŸ¦‘πŸŒŠ Thanks!

Welcome to the newest member of the #AquaticConservation team: Joshua Kesling from #Yale School of the Environment! With expertise in nature-human interactions & conservation management, Josh will handle our socially-facing papers πŸŒŽπŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺ Full #AQC team here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Great seminar from Kerstin Johannesson (Gothenburg Uni) at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social today - the Baltic galapagos: colonisation of plants and animals since it became a sea (8000 yrs ago) make it an evolutionary melting pot with rapid speciation! πŸ¦‘πŸŒπŸ§ͺ

Excited to welcome master’s student Brooklyn Bolstad (MUN) to UMF! She’ll join Regina Kolzenburg in studying the effects of #GlobalChange on marine calcifying algae. The next few months, Brooklyn will monitor the physiology of #maerl when exposed to low pH and high temp. πŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺ🌊 @memorialu.bsky.social

Beautiful lunchtime walk today on the frozen sea right outside @umeaunimarine.bsky.social Wonderful time of year for some research inspiration! 😍 πŸ§ͺπŸŒπŸ¦‘ #BalticSea #Sweden

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! On its 10th anniversary, I am incredibly proud & thankful for the brilliant women I collaborate with to advance our knowledge and sustainable conservation of coastal ecosystems 🌊 Thank you! πŸ§ͺπŸŒŽπŸ¦‘ #WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM #EveryVoiceInScience

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Enjoying a Saduria-sunrise! πŸŒ… Sampling macrofauna in the Gulf of Bothnia has its moments. Wishing you all a fantastic weekend! 🦐✨ #Fieldwork #GulfOfBothnia #UMF

Jan 2025 issue of #AquaticConservation πŸ“ΈTagging pygmy devil rays Also: rhodoliths, turtles, horseshoe crabs, marine forests, prawns, sawfish, charr, eels, fishways, unionids, seahorses, whales, crayfish, salmon, plants, rivers, cryopreservation πŸ”— onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... #AQC πŸ§ͺπŸŒŽπŸ¦‘

"Most people trust scientists and agree that scientists should engage more in society and policymaking" From a 68-country assessment. Open-access www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excellent seminar today with a packed audience at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social from Staff Scientist LΓ©on Serre-Fredj: exploring the link between climate change and human activity on coastal and riverine algal blooms in the Seine, the lab and the Baltic! #UMF πŸ§ͺπŸ¦ πŸŒπŸ¦‘

Dec 2024 issue of #AquaticConservation πŸ“ΈSeagrass in southern Africa Also: hyperspectral mapping, plankton, skate, mayflies, poplar, invasive fish, coral bleaching, meiofauna, MPAs, mussel & floodplain restoration, environmental racism, seahorses & newts! πŸ§ͺπŸŒŽπŸ¦‘ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755...

πŸŽ‰ Happy New Year! 2024 has been an inspiring year full of exciting research and innovation at #UMF. Here's to carrying that momentum into 2025 and making it just as impactful and groundbreaking. Wishing everyone success and new discoveries ahead! πŸ₯‚πŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺ #HappyNewYear #MarineResearch

Merry Christmas from all of us at #UMF! πŸŽ„βœ¨ Wishing all our friends, followers, and colleagues a joyful holiday season filled with warmth and happiness!! πŸŒŠβ„οΈπŸŽ… #HappyHollidays #MerryChristmas

**Call for papers in #AquaticConservation** Frontiers in African Marine & Aquatic Conservation African aquatic systems face escalating environmental & human challenges - conservation science can help to overcome these challenges! πŸ”— onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... πŸ“†31 October 2025 πŸŒŽπŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺπŸ¦€πŸ’§

The #AquaticConservation Editorial Board is growing! Angelique Pouponneau (law of the sea & natural resources law) Rodrigo Riera (human perturbations on coastal assemblages) Jorge Morales-SaldaΓ±a (mangrove ecology & biodiversity, shark & ray fisheries) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... πŸŒŽπŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺ

Welcome to Vu Hoang Long, who has started his #PhD with us! Long will be working on our SE Asia #BlueCarbon project, investigating the relationship between nature, society & policy. Watch this space - an exciting 4 years of research to come! πŸŒŽπŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺ @umeaunimarine.bsky.social @nickkamenos.bsky.social

πŸ“£New paper! #UMF researcher @hlburdett.bsky.social compares ROV and diver-based surveys for underwater 3D reconstructions #TLDR: ROV = bigger area but higher error, so we need a hybrid approach (for now), using diver surveys for high-detail insight. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... πŸŒŽπŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺ

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A fantastic morning at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social today leading a publication workshop, covering everything from impact, open access, editorial careers, navigating the ocean of journal choices and paper structure! Thanks for the great conversations and look forward to our writing follow-up in 2025!

Nov issue of #AquaticConservation! πŸ“ΈAfrican clawed frog (πŸ“·: Julien Morin) Also: otters, rhodoliths, mussels, porpoise, dolphins, crocodiles, turtles, fishways, crayfish, spatial modelling, whales, grouper, photogrammetry, hydrothermal vents & the Rhine onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... πŸŒŽπŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺπŸ’§πŸ¦€

Wonderful evening for #MarineResearchDays with tours of RV #Svea, the Kalmar lifeboat station & the Kronan shipwreck museum 🩡 Inspiring guides covering centuries of maritime activity and lots of opportunities to get to know conference delegates better! πŸ§ͺπŸ¦‘πŸ’§ #SHF @umeaunimarine.bsky.social

The N Baltic is orange & dark because of coloured dissolved organic matter (cDOM) - @umeaunimarine.bsky.social researcher Terry Bidleman takes us on a deep dive into these coloured compounds, especially halomethoxybenzenes - coming from seaweeds and mushrooms! πŸ§ͺπŸ¦‘πŸ¦ πŸ’§πŸ„ #SHF #MarineResearchDays

How has long term environmental change affect the efficiency of food webs in the northern Baltic subarctic pelagic ecosystems? Tharindu Bandara, researcher at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social, tells us! πŸ’§πŸ¦ πŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺ #SHF #MarineResearchDays #ClimateChange

Busy day for @umeaunimarine.bsky.social researchers! Kesava Ramasamy is investigating the #microbiome composition and function of the habitat-forming macrophyte Potamogeton - a freshwater plant that is common in the northern Baltic Sea πŸ§ͺπŸ¦‘πŸ¦ πŸ’§ #SHF #MarineResearchDays

This week the Swedish Society for Marine Science is hosting their annual conference in Kalmar! Great representation from @umeaunimarine.bsky.social researchers πŸ˜ƒ Currently speaking - Johan Wikner & Ashish Verma with microbial carbon dynamics at the north pole ❄️ πŸ§ͺπŸ¦‘πŸ¦ πŸ’§

❄Winter is coming @umeaunimarine.bsky.social!❄ What better way to celebrate than with gingerbread houses! A sweet combination of creativity and good taste is the key to success! 😍πŸͺ🏠

Welcome all new followers on Bsky! 🌊πŸ§ͺπŸ”¬πŸ¦‘ At @umeaunimarine.bsky.social, we conduct and support #research to drive sustainable development of resilient marine ecosystems in Arctic, sub-Arctic and extreme (inc. coral!) environments. 🌍 Come join us! 🐟 #Sustainability #MarineScience #UmeaUniversity

Huge thanks to David McKee (UofStrathclyde) for visiting us last week in #UmeΓ₯! With a seminar on #OceanColour at #UMF & a keynote at #KBCDays on light in the Arctic polar night he was kept busy! Looking forward to progressing all our ideas for future collaboration! @umeaunimarine.bsky.social πŸ§ͺπŸŒŽπŸ¦‘

Oct issue of #AquaticConservation! πŸ“ΈRiver otter diets in Florida Also: coralline biodiversity, fishers & manatees, fish hybridisation in S American rivers, mussels in Bavaria, a rethink for lake hydrogeomorphology & wildfowl using suburban lakes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... πŸ§ͺπŸŒŽπŸ¦‘πŸ¦€πŸ’§βš’οΈ #AQC

Welcome to Siddhi Joshi - new postdoc with us, conducting habitat modelling on our SE Asia #BlueCarbon VR project! These data will inform policy intervention & community engagement research we start next year - stay tuned! πŸŒŽπŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺ heidiburdett.wordpress.com/2024/10/21/w... @umeaunimarine.bsky.social

So wonderful to see so much marine research going on at #UMF! A great working environment, positive research culture and lots more to look forward to in the future 🌊 πŸ§ͺπŸ¦‘πŸ©΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ͺ

Read the Sept issue of #AquaticConservation! πŸ“Έ #MachineLearning for coral restoration. Credit: New Heaven Reef Conservation Program Also: sandpipers, crayfish, seals, gastropods, prawns, corallines, sharks, frogs, catfish, seagrass & salmon! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... #AQC πŸŒŽπŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺπŸ¦€πŸ’§βš’οΈ

Review in Nature of a new biography of James Lovelock: πŸŒ±πŸ‹πŸ§ͺ🌎 #HistSTM

We officially have a new shape, say mathematicians #Science πŸ§ͺ

New paper! We show how the fundamental characteristics of rhodoliths (free-living calcified seaweeds) allow associated habitat-formers to thrive, creating a multi-level "facilitation cascade" Out today in #BiologicalReviews πŸ‘‰ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... πŸŒŽπŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺ @umeaunimarine.bsky.social

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Amazing weather today at #UMF for a visit from the #Ecology, #EnvironmentalScience & #Geoscience Masters students from the main campus today! β˜€οΈ You don't get views like this on campus for studying πŸ˜‰ #UmeΓ₯University #BalticSea #UmU @umeaunimarine.bsky.social πŸ§ͺπŸ¦‘πŸŒ

Join us as a #postdoc and see the #NorthernLights for yourself! 😍 πŸ‘‰ heidiburdett.wordpress.com/lab-opportun... #Aurora #AuroraBorealis πŸŒπŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺ

✨Wow! Three new interns were greeted by swirling Northern Lights above #umeauniversity! Welcome Helena Zambalos (#Austria), Wilf Breach (#UnivStAndrews) and Sarah Braun (@unigreifswald.bsky.social)! πŸ§ͺπŸŒŠπŸ‹ www.umu.se/en/umea-m... #MarineScience #UMF

Reminder that we have 2 fab #postdoc positions on algae biophysics! #ClimateChange responses (20 Sept) #Photosynthesis mechanisms (30 Sept) w/ @nicolomaccaferri.bsky.social , @nickkamenos.bsky.social & Magnus Andersson πŸ”— heidiburdett.wordpress.com/lab-opportun... πŸŒŽπŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺ @umeaunimarine.bsky.social

Browse the August issue of #AquaticConservation! πŸ“ΈTexas Fatmuckets, de Moulpied et al. Photo credit: Clint Robertson Also: rocky shores, social media, fishes, cobble reefs, turtles, dolphins, inverts, dugongs, seagrass, sharks & mussels πŸ”— onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... #AQC πŸŒŽπŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺπŸ¦€πŸ’§

We're excited to welcome Borealis intern David Jen from #UCLA! He will join our #UMF research team, focusing on how #climatechange and associated stressers may affect the symbiotic community composition within #CoralReefs. πŸ§ͺπŸ‹πŸŒŠπŸ¦ www.umu.se/en/umea-m... #umeauniversity

Join us! We have two #postdoc positions on algal #biophysics: 1. #ClimateChange responses (πŸ“†20 Sept) 2. #Photosynthesis mechanisms (πŸ“†30 Sept) πŸ”—https://heidiburdett.wordpress.com/lab-opportunities/' πŸŒŽπŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺβš›οΈπŸ§¬πŸ–₯️🌾 #Physics @nickkamenos.bsky.social @nicolomaccaferri.bsky.social @umeaunimarine.bsky.social

Guys, it might be the real thing. 😱 Photo of someone from the other site. Still works! βš’οΈπŸ§ͺ

Our blue carbon research is featured on TV4 in Sweden today! Blue carbon research & policy must go beyond seagrass, mangroves & saltmarsh - especially fjords, mudflats & coralline reefs! PaperπŸ“–: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... TV4πŸ“Ί: www.tv4.se/artikel/2ktW... πŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺ🌎 @umeaunimarine.bsky.social

Browse the July issue of #AquaticConservation! πŸ“ΈCute bog turtle in the S Blue Ridge Moutains, USA, credit: Michael Holden Also: porpoise, EU law, mussels, sharks, invasive and endemic fish, snail aDNA, eels, seagrass and stingrays! Full issue here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... #AQC