Covid-19 Update
I last wrote to our colleagues, partners and collaborators to inform you of the arrangements SAERI has in place to continue our work as part of the response to Covid-19 on 27th March 2020. At that time, following Falkland Islands Government advice, we asked our teams to work from home and implemented policies to minimise …
SAERI’s Executive Director, Dr Paul Brickle has been awarded the prestigious Ecological Society of America W. S. Cooper award
We are super excited that SAERI’s Executive Director, Dr Paul Brickle has been awarded the prestigious Ecological Society of America W. S. Cooper award (https://www.esa.org/) with co-authors, which recognises the outstanding scientific paper led by Dulcinea Geoff. Full paper citation and link: Dulcinea V. Groff, Kit Hamley, Trevor J. R. Lessard, Kayla E. Greenawalt, Moriaki …
Movements in the deep: Using deep-sea loggers to track longline movements on the seabed.
Dr Tabitha Pearman, Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems Project With the assistance of the crew from the CFL Hunter the Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VME) Project has been deploying loggers onto longlines to measure longline movement on the seabed. The ability to measure longline movement is very exciting because it gives us our first ever insight into how …
SAERI Scientists attends Careers Day 2022
Amy Constantine SAERI scientists, were once again happy to receive an invitation to Careers Day 2022 to share their research highlighting some of the amazing opportunities available to those thinking of following a career in science. Careers Day is a day to showcase to all students attending the Falkland Islands Community School (FICS) the varied …
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PhD Student Katy Ross visits the Falkland Islands
Katy Ross On the 27th of January I stepped off the Air Tanker at MPC and saw for the first time the Falkland peat I had spent the past few months of my PhD reading all about. I seemed to arrive at the perfect time, coming out of quarantine to attend SAERI’s Wetlands Symposium and …
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Amy Guest – PhD continues well
Amy Guest The last 3 months I have spent some time diving with my collaborators SMSG to collect data for my PhD chapter ‘Temporal Ecology of the Falkland Islands’. This involves returning to my regular dive sites to monitor how seasons might influence local marine communities. As usual with the Falklands, the main challenge has …
SAERI Group visit to St Helena for DPLUS NCA Project and MOVE-ON South Atlantic Anchor Project
Azra Gordy The SAERI Group has a tripled presence on St Helena Island this month, as Tara Pelembe, Deputy Director (Innovation) and Jack Ingledew, GIS Officer and Database Manager arrived earlier this month to join Azra Gordy, Spatial Data Analyst for the MOVE-ON Project. The purpose of the visit is to deliver training, events, and …
Beautiful Biodiversity on the Seafloor
Dr Narissa Bax On the 9th of March 2022 the world was shown incredible images of the Endurance at ~3000 metres on the Antarctic seafloor. The ship is beautifully preserved, and the biodiversity living on board includes stalked crinoids, sea anemones, hydroids, sponges, sea squirts and crustaceans. Viewing this ship through the eyes of a …
DPlus153 – Getting to know the TCI Fisheries
Dr Ed Butler The Darwin Plus 153 has recently gotten underway with plenty happening on the Turks and Caicos Islands. I arrived on the islands at the beginning of March to a very warm welcome from project partners at the Department of Coastal Resources and Fisheries and Marine Resources Management. Together we have begun to …
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Report from the field – DPLUS139 “Improving Falklands marine management effectiveness for marine higher predators.”
Dr Al Baylis Colonial breeding seabirds and seals link our marine and terrestrial environments. They are abundant marine predators near the top of the food chain, and are often referred to as sentinel species, because they provide clues to ecosystem health, and reflect the state of the wider marine environment. Tracking the movements of seabirds …
Wetlands – Fieldwork & Symposium
Dr Steffi Carter Thanks to fieldwork volunteers Mark Horne, Jack Ingledew and Jo Zanker the fieldwork for our Darwin Plus funded Wetlands Project was completed swiftly in November and December and included visits to Fitzroy, West Falkland, Lafonia and several farms in North Camp. Highlights included the lovely zebra trout Aplochiton sp. at North Arm, …