Hunga Tonga – Hunga Ha’apai (HTHH), one of 22 volcanoes in the waters around the Kingdom of Tonga, erupted violently on 15th January 2022. This eruption triggered shock waves through the atmosphere and generated a…
Dr Dorothea Heimeier (Harrison) The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a highly polymorphic gene family that is crucial in immunity against pathogens, and its diversity can be effectively used as a fitness…
The EMBL TREC expedition is a large-scale expedition with 120 stops across the UK and Europe over the course of a year (https://www.embl.org/about/info/trec/). The purpose of this expedition is to study coastal…
Please join us for a public lecture on the theme of “blue carbon” by Emeritus Professor Hilary Kennedy, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University – Hilary chairs the UK Blue Carbon Forum and has made a sustained…
Yasmin Viana My name is Yasmin Viana, I am a biologist and PhD candidate at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. My thesis is about the alterations in the acoustic communication of Odontocetes across…
Dr David Civitello Outbreaks of infectious disease affect host populations, ecological communities, the structure and function of natural and managed ecosystems, and global public health. Anticipating and controlling…
Dave Haas is currently the CEO and co-founder of FaunaLabs, a company he started after earning his Ph.D. in Marine Science and Conservation at Duke University and Duke University Marine Lab in 2021. He is a National…
In the last decades passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) density estimation (DE) have been increasingly employed to estimate cetacean abundance, especially for cetacean species which are visually cryptic and spend long…
Marine mammals in UK waters are protected through a series of nature conservation laws, with the main legal protections stemming from the EU Habitats Directive which is implemented in the marine waters of the UK by the…
By the 1880s, Dundee’s maritime industries clearly recognised that hunting ‘Greenland right’ whale was in its final commercial era. Labelling this a period of decline and failure, modern scholars and general narratives…
