First multi author session on Collisions and Other Animal Interactions has started!

Beginning with Gordon Hastie from SMRU talking about the use of sonar to track animals around tidal energy devices.

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Day 1 of the EIMR2024 conference, hearing from Alexander Gilliland about the @scotmer research programme, highlighting work by SMRU and colleagues at SMRU Consulting and CREEM_cake #EIMR2024

And we're off!

Workshop 1: Applying Lessons Learned to next generation collision monitoring around tidal arrays has begun at #eimr2024 led by SMRU MeyGen Ltd and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The SMRU cycle to Orkney is complete! We've covered over 300 miles and raised almost £3000 for the Adaptive Riders Collective. Thank you Hostelling Scotland for the digs along the way and during the EIMR2024 Conference! 🚴🏼‍♀️🍺 You can still donate here: justgiving.com/crowdfunding/S…

332 miles later we have made it to Orkney! Almost at out target of £3000 and still time to donate justgiving.com/crowdfunding/S… EIMR2024 starts tomorrow!! Looking forward to a week of discussion about #wildlife and #tidalenergy and #windenergy

Final day of #ECSconference2024 begins with keynote from Philip Hammond University of St Andrews SMRU explaining how long term studies of cetacean populations can be used to improve ecological understanding

European Cetacean Society Marecamp association

The cyclists have made it to the north coast! Day 5 and Orkney tomorrow!! Another day of tailwinds and some stunning scenery EIMR2024 we're almost there!!! Scottish Association for Marine Science

Day four with the SMRU crew completed with lovely scenery along the way. The seal tag still going strong on the back of Genesis Bikes. Keep
Following our progress smru.st-andrews.ac.uk/protected/socs…. Donations are still much appreciated justgiving.com/crowdfunding/S…

Day 4 of our cycle to EIMR2024 brought sunshine and tailwinds, we have made it to the UK's remotest inn and our total is now over £2.5k!! Thanks everyone for your support

Day 3 of SMRU cycle from St Andrews to EIMR2024 we were joined in Aviemore by a crew from Lighthouse Field Stn they brought the sunshine

SMRU cycle squad make it to Cairngorm Lodge, thanks Hostelling Scotland Day 2 in the bag, another 100k cycled in wet and windy condition and over £2k raised! What a team 💪

Track the SMRU cycling squad using our custom SMRU Instrumentation tag as they make their way north to the EIMR2024 conference smru.st-andrews.ac.uk/protected/socs…

Of course this should say March not April

it's an incredibly sad day today for all of us here and across the marine mammal community worldwide as we say farewell to our beloved Simon Northridge who died suddenly on the 17th April. Simon leaves an amazing legacy of a career dedicated to the conservation of marine mammals

We've been having many conversations about the carbon footprint of travelling to conferences here at SMRU so a group of us decided to cycle to the EIMR2024 conference in Orkney to raise awareness of climate change and raise money for a good cause justgiving.com/crowdfunding/S…

5650 nautical miles covered and six ocean glider deployments; read about the achievements of the #AntarcticPICCOLO cruise: bit.ly/3TsWejx 🌊

UEA Plymouth Marine Lab University of Plymouth University of Leeds University of St Andrews SMRU British Antarctic Survey 🐧

#Research

📸 Lewis Bumstead

Read some of the researchers' reflections on the hugely successful #AntarcticPICCOLO cruise here: bit.ly/4acaALH

UEA Plymouth Marine Lab University of Plymouth University of Leeds University of St Andrews SMRU British Antarctic Survey 🐧

#Research #CarbonResearch #Antarctica

📸 Elise Droste

Join me Wednesday, 13 March 7pm UK for an Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust Winter Webinar: 'Expanding our ideas about how culture enhances the diversity of habitat use and population structure in sperm whales.' eventbrite.co.uk/e/sperm-whale-…
It's a epic March - see also Erich Hoyt:

And finally Patrick's MRes student Ellen Hayward managed to snag a best poster award for her work on acoustic prey capture proxying in killer whales using video logging tags. It should still be online if you missed it! BLS8 Tokyo

Read about the dangerous life of ocean gliders and how seals have been helping the #AntarcticPICCOLO researchers in the latest blog entries: bit.ly/4c6FFCf

UEA Plymouth Marine Lab University of Plymouth University of Leeds University of St Andrews SMRU British Antarctic Survey 🐧

📸 Karen Heywood