🌊🐬 New Paper Out! 🧬✨

We’ve developed the first ever epigenetic clock for common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) — using DNA from stranded & bycaught individuals to estimate age non-lethally and with high accuracy. A major step forward for dolphin conservation.

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New research out! 🐬

We tested 16 NZ toothed whale species to see if habitat predicts PFAS levels.

Results:
• Habitat = weak predictor
• Sex & age = stronger predictors
• Even remote oceans aren’t safe from PFAS

doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
#PFAS #MarineScience #Cetaceans #MAVELab #CERG

'Forever chemicals’ contaminate more dolphins and whales than we thought – new research theconversation.com/forever-chem... @australianmuseum.bsky.social @kjpeters.bsky.social @fredsaltre.bsky.social @ecologybrad.bsky.social

We’ve just started a blog where we’ll share our #research in #Ecology, #ClimateChange, #Biogeography, data & softwares. 🌿

It’s still early days, but we’d love for you to check it out and connect if these topics resonate.

🔗 www.biogeographyuts.org/blog
#OpenScience #ScienceInContext #ResearchLog

@fredsaltre.bsky.social worked with Year 5–6 students in Adelaide ont how #ClimateChange, #LandClearing, and #InvasiveSpecies affect animals distributions and survival. 🌱🌏

Big thanks to the amazing teacher who made this happen.💚
#ScienceEducation #Ecology #Biodiversity #STEM #Sustainability

🎤 @fredsaltre.bsky.social presenting “Trait-Space divergence & the use of #non-native #mammals in #conservation strategies” as part of the #EnvironmentalFutures #UOW #Seminar Series 🌿

A great opportunity to discuss how better understand & protect #biodiversity 🌏 #Ecology #Research #Science

🐨 New paper out on #Genomics Kangaroo Island #Koalas #Australia. Islands protect species from threats, but...
🔎 Findings:
• KI koalas = lower #genetic #diversity than mainland
• Evidence of inbreeding + maladaptation from a bottleneck
• Genetic rescue needed
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🎓 Always a joy to celebrate achievements, but even more special when it’s your students!

Big congrats to Elise Beaumont, Lavinia Stokes & Will Perkins on graduating to #Honours!

#MarineScience #StudentSuccess #ResearchJourney @kjpeters.bsky.social @fredsaltre.bsky.social

Our new research shows northern #Australia’s monsoon #rainfall over 150,000 years was shaped by sea level shifts + coastal proximity, often out of phase with the East Asian #monsoon.

#ClimateChange #Paleoclimate @ciehf.bsky.social @fredsaltre.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our new #paper is out!

Sahul’s large-bodied animal #communities have drastically changed since the Late #Pleistocene.

#Mammals and #herbivores were the hardest hit, leading to major shifts in the structure and function of #ecosystems over time. @beamuts.bsky.social @globecoflinders.bsky.social

Attended the @aciucn.bsky.social Species Survival Symposium. 🌧️ Weather aside, it was brilliant to reconnect, share research cross-sectors, and listen to #FirstNations, backing their leadership in healing Country.

#Conservation #Biodiversity @euanritchie.bsky.social @fredsaltre.bsky.social

Great to contribute to this paper led by @citizenstem.bsky.social @globecoflinders.bsky.social @conservbytes.bsky.social

A guide for developing demo-genetic models to simulate genetic rescue onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#GeneticRescue @ecologybrad.bsky.social @ciehf.bsky.social

🚀 We’re live!
The Biogeography, Ecology & Modelling Lab at UTS finally has a website! 🎉

🌐 Check it out: www.biogeographyuts.org

#Ecology #Biogeography #ClimateChange #Conservation #ScienceWithImpact #Science
@ecologybrad.bsky.social @globecoflinders.bsky.social
@ciehf.bsky.social