Happy 98th Birthday to the inspiring Sir David Attenborough! 🌎

In his own words engraved outside our main entrance 👉 'The future of the natural world, on which we all depend, is in our hands' 💚

Grand unveiling of the 'Tay Fins' sculpture and announcement of the names of the three dolphins at Broughty Ferry today. The dolphins even came out! Grant Ellis Sustrans Dundee City Council Transport Scotland

Check out NatureScot blog on our new report with SMRU - you'll find out the latest on the bottlenose dolphins🐬 on the east coast of Scotland. And you can read the full details here - nature.scot/doc/naturescot…
School of Biological Sciences University of Aberdeen

It’s a tough time to be an emperor penguin 🐧

14 of the 66 colonies in Antarctica lost some or all of their chicks due to sea ice breakup in 2023.

But colonies some adapted! Here's the story of two colonies we followed from space ⬇️
#WorldPenguinDay

Our tope satellite tag continues to drift, now 130km from the French coastline. Any assistance on it's recovery would be greatly appreciated 🙏

Had the great opportunity of presenting some super interesting results today EIMR2024 - met lots of new people over the week, and listened to some fantastic talks!

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.

1/n 🧵

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.

We finally got some sunshine on our ride 🌞 more than halfway now!

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…

You can follow our journey thanks to a SMRU Instrumentation custom made seal tag 🦭 Day 1 and 100kms down!

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…

🐬🗣️ Join us on Wednesday 27th March at 7pm for an online talk on Passive Acoustic Monitoring for Porpoise Conservation with Jamie Macaulay.

👉👉 Sign up now! eventbrite.co.uk/e/passive-acou…

🤩 this is what a scientist looks like 👩🏼‍🔬🧬

Specifically reaching out to #undergraduate and #Masters #students with an interest in #seabird #research . Come along to the PhULMaR group for 1hr to learn more about gull #stableisotopes , join the discussion and #network . Please RT!

Thrilled to share our latest paper 🤩
Reach out if you have any questions!

Proud to be a part of this amazing team 💙

It's nearly time for the 6th ScotMER Symposium which will take place next week from the 6th to 8th of February.

The final schedule has now been published and is available below. ⬇

If you haven't signed up yet, tickets are available here: bit.ly/3S6CYaU.

SMRU are looking for a talented postdoctoral research fellow to work on a range of exciting projects related to protected species monitoring and bycatch. Apply by 23rd Feb!

And so it starts! First day with whales for our WildWaterWhales-Hungry Humpbacks project in South Georgia! Successful drone photogrammetry and photo-ID images of humpacks so far! School of Biological Sciences British Antarctic Survey 🐧 SGHT