Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Alex Nimmo-Smith

Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · Jul 16

It's official: @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social & I have launched the HOLOtag for ocean observation on a micro-AUV! An ultra-compact plankton imaging sensor, the #HOLOtag is a real breakthrough in sensor innovation and now backed by the @royalsociety.org 🌊🦑🧪

2 5 32

Reposted by Alex Nimmo-Smith

Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · Jun 19

🧪🌊🦑 #jobs #postdoc Last call for applications, deadline is this Sunday for a 42-months #Research Fellow post in Plymouth (Salary £39,355-£45,413). All things #plankton, #predators, remote #sensing & #autonomy
APPLY NOW 👇

Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · Jun 4

🦑🌊🧪 Please share among your networks, a Research Fellow post in #Ocean Dynamics and Floating Offshore #Wind Consequences on Key Ecosystem Drivers in the Celtic Sea working with me, @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social & @peterimiller.bsky.social tinyurl.com/44x66b5z #PlanktonImaging #RemoteSensing #AUVs

Advert for Research Fellow post including remote and AUV-based sensing of ocean dynamics to understand impacts of floating offshore wind on fronts and other key ecosystem drivers. It shows an AUV and underwater plankton imaging and other sensors.

6 3

Reposted by Alex Nimmo-Smith

Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · Jun 12

🧪🦑From #plankton to predators 🌊 Out for sea trials testing our new #autonomy technology when this beauty surfaced right in front of us! #sunfish A timely reminder of how #ocean change is reshaping #biodiversity on our doorstep. @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social

1 4 9

Reposted by Alex Nimmo-Smith

Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · Jun 4

🦑🌊🧪 Please share among your networks, a Research Fellow post in #Ocean Dynamics and Floating Offshore #Wind Consequences on Key Ecosystem Drivers in the Celtic Sea working with me, @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social & @peterimiller.bsky.social tinyurl.com/44x66b5z #PlanktonImaging #RemoteSensing #AUVs

1 26 19

Reposted by Alex Nimmo-Smith

Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · Apr 15

Through sustained collaborations with the maritime industries, we are building new directions and applications in science & technology - bringing these advanced directly into the classroom with @plymuni.bsky.social 🧪🌊🦑 An amazing week @ Ocean Business in Southampton with @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social

2 7

Alex Nimmo-Smith @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social · Mar 27

🧪🌊🦑 When Marine Science Gets Eel-y Interesting ;) After 4 months, our Sonardyne ADCP frame was due for recovery—but it had an unexpected resident! We @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social retrieved the frame only to find a large conger eel inside. Watch its dramatic escape! 👇

4 13

Reposted by Alex Nimmo-Smith

Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · Mar 27

Had the pleasure this week to go out on the University of Plymouth' Falcon Spirit. Heading out with such engaged and experienced skippers & technicians with a can-do attitude, the University can really take pride as research & teaching always is a #team effort. @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social 🧪🌊🌍🦑

1 5 18

Alex Nimmo-Smith @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social · Mar 6

Beautiful boil!

Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · Mar 6

🌊🧪🦑 Another fine day to be out in #Plymouth Sound! This time with our MRes & MSc project students sampling urban oceanographic features and the salinity front.

Smooth operations and interesting science to be uncovered 👏 with @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social, Nicole & Scott!
@plymbiomarsci.bsky.social

Project students on the wavedance boat, Plymouth uni

2

Reposted by Alex Nimmo-Smith

Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · Mar 6

🌊🧪🦑 Another fine day to be out in #Plymouth Sound! This time with our MRes & MSc project students sampling urban oceanographic features and the salinity front.

Smooth operations and interesting science to be uncovered 👏 with @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social, Nicole & Scott!
@plymbiomarsci.bsky.social

1 19

Reposted by Alex Nimmo-Smith

Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · Mar 5

🌊 Hands-on marine monitoring with MSc students!

A fine day to be out in Plymouth Sound with @plymouthuniccc.bsky.social Master students in MSc Data Science and Environmental Intelligence on the Marine Environmental Monitoring module that @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social & I teach on, a thread! 🧵

Multispectral drone surveys launched from boat

2 3 16

Reposted by Alex Nimmo-Smith

Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · Mar 4

🌊🦑🧪 #postdoc alert 🌍working with NERC's #BoatyMcBoatface (ALR 1500) equipped with cutting-edge #plankton imaging technology developed at @plymuni.bsky.social with @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social and me & #satellite remote #sensing with @peterimiller.bsky.social at @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social
#FRONTLINE

1 11 15

Reposted by Alex Nimmo-Smith

Tim O'Hare @timohare.bsky.social · Feb 26

21 jellyfish. Don't ask me why - one moment they weren't there and then an armada arrived.

1 1 5

Reposted by Alex Nimmo-Smith

Edward Steele @edwardccsteele.bsky.social · Feb 22

🌊 SUT Evening Seminar & Networking Event: Advances in Marine Renewables & Maritime Autonomy.
📍 University of Plymouth.
📅 March 6, 2025 @ 18:30.
🤩 Speakers: Becky Fowell (Regen) & Anahita Laverack (Oshen).
💰 FREE!
👉 Details & Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sut-south-...

1 2

Reposted by Alex Nimmo-Smith

Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · Feb 18

🌍🌊🦑🧪Hot off the press @theguardian.com: "The researchers will attach holographic plankton imaging devices, integrated with artificial intelligence, to container ships, new underwater robots and to filter-feeding ocean giants, such as whales."

tinyurl.com/yck6h5sy

@alexnimmosmith.bsky.social

1 18 34

Reposted by Alex Nimmo-Smith

Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · Feb 17

🧪🦑🌊🌍 How can we forecast climate tipping points? By capturing the pulse of our #ocean.

@alexnimmosmith.bsky.social & I are jointly leading on sensor innovation and new platform deployments to provide low cost, sustainable & scalable #plankton observations in the #Arctic👇@aria-research.bsky.social

1 5 23

Reposted by Alex Nimmo-Smith

Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · Jan 10

Last night's celebration of the Marine Research Plymouth Alliance—the UK’s largest cluster of marine scientists & researchers! We also took the opportunity to toast to our MRP Work Package within NERC's ECOFLOW Frontline project with @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social & @peterimiller.bsky.social 🧪🌊🦑🌍

MBA Chief Executive Willie Wilson giving a speech at the MRP event

Planet Ocean Exhibition at the Box, Plymouth

2 9 43

Reposted by Alex Nimmo-Smith

Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · Dec 16

What an absolute joy being back in the lab with @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social. As you do, we used our hair to create our first holograms with our new #plankton imaging prototype! Thrilled to be pushing the limits of #sensor technology to capture the pulse of our #ocean, from plankton to predators 🧪🌊🦑🌍

Lab set-up, with Alex taking an holographic image of hair.

5 6 32

Alex Nimmo-Smith @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social · Dec 12

Yes please :)

Reposted by Alex Nimmo-Smith

Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · Dec 5

Chuffed that our #OA paper addressing the energy-environment nexus is still high up on the @natureportfolio.bsky.social focus page,
driving innovation in our energy transition! Check it out if you use #drones & ADCPs in your research: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
🧪🌊🦑 @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social

Sheared turbulent flows and wake dynamics of an idled floating tidal turbine - Nature Communications

Ocean energy extraction is on the rise, but complex flows still challenge reliable tidal stream energy generation. Here, using aerial drones and boat-based surveys, authors map out the turbulent flows...

doi.org

6 19

Reposted by Alex Nimmo-Smith

Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · Dec 4

🧪🌊🦑Excited to be starting our newly funded ECOFLOW project Frontline, working with @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social & @peterimiller.bsky.social to explore the consequences of floating offshore wind on Celtic Sea #ecosystem dynamics, spanning ocean physics, #plankton & forage #fish! #oceanography

The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · Dec 4

The MBA is proud to be co-leading on the new #FRONTLINE project to explore the consequences of floating offshore wind (#FLOW) on ocean fronts and key #ecosystem drivers in the Celtic Sea. Congratulations @lilianlieber.bsky.social on this exciting project! 🌊

Read here ➡️ https://buff.ly/41nslXc

Ambitious study to explore effects of offshore wind farms on ocean life | Marine Biological Association

The Marine Biological Association (MBA) will play a key role in an ambitious new project exploring the consequences of floating offshore wind farms (FLOW) on

www.mba.ac.uk

1 3 11

Reposted by Alex Nimmo-Smith

Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · Dec 4

I'm very excited to offer this #PhD on the majestic Atlantic bluefin #tuna in Southwest UK waters using #drones, remote sensing, #ocean profiling & eDNA! Working with #anglers & this fantastic team: @bd-stew.bsky.social @peterimiller.bsky.social @marinemicrobes.bsky.social 🧪🌊🦑 tinyurl.com/mrxyh62t

29 70

Alex Nimmo-Smith @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social · Nov 30

@plymbiomarsci.bsky.social

1

Reposted by Alex Nimmo-Smith

Isabelle Cox (She/Her) @isabellec-ocean.bsky.social · Nov 28

🌊 Oxygen Minimum Zone Chlorophyll Maximums 🌊

🚀🛰️🦠When the upper boundary of an OMZ approaches the euphotic depth in stratified regions, an OMZ-chlorophyll maximum can form at depths of 68-160m in extremely low-light and low oxygen.🚀🛰️🦠

Learn more about this community here → doi.org/10.3389/fmar...

Frontiers | Monitoring low-oxygen-adapted subsurface phytoplankton distribution in a changing ocean

Recent decadal trends of deoxygenation in the global ocean interior have resulted in the expansion and shoaling of oxygen minimum zones (OMZs). When the OMZs...

doi.org

1 5 16