One week to go until the application deadline!

I had great fun leading a guided flapper skate egg case walk on Orkney at EIMR2024 - 15 people, 1 hour, many smiling faces, and 72 eggcases!

Katie Rapson EIMR2024 All of your talks/posters were brilliant, and the research so important and interesting. Such a credit to SMRU and University of St Andrews - well done everyone!

Emma Longden Philippa Wright Katie Rapson Jessica Montabaranom Doug Gillespie Carol Sparling Gordon Hastie

Day 2 at EIMR2024 and our Katie Rapson doing a fantastic job talking about #porpoise behaviour and depth distribution in tidal environments

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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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

332 miles later we made it to Orkney, cycling for a great cause justgiving.com/crowdfunding/S… with SMRU peaking at 69 km/h 🚴‍♂️🥵after some spicy headwinds and hills.

What an effort! Congratulations to the SMRU and Scottish Association for Marine Science team for their amazing pedal to attend #eimr2024 . We are thrilled to welcome you all in Kirkwall to kick off the conference tomorrow.

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

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 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…

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 💪

Day 3: Sunshine and downhill 🌞

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

Day 2 and another 100km further north with the SMRU crew. Keep following us via seal tag smru.st-andrews.ac.uk/protected/socs… and donations are still much appreciated justgiving.com/crowdfunding/S…

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…

Today so many of us in the Marine Science world are fondly remembering our colleague Andy Brierley. He was a remarkable scientist, but more importantly he was a considerate and caring friend to those of us privileged to work with him

Interested in marine mammal conservation? Check out this new fully funded
SUPER Doctoral Training Partnership
PhD opportunity from SMRU researcher
Gill Braulik
and colleagues on Indus River dolphin. Come and study
University of St Andrews
! Closing date: 14th Feb findaphd.com/phds/project/a…

Congratulations to Philippa Wright and Grant Ellis - winners of best poster and best runner up poster at the #UKIRSC24 conference this week - a huge well done to both of you 👏👏👏 🦭🐟🐬