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Ciarán McLaverty
@ciaranmc.bsky.social
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Marine & Historical Ecology | Ecosystem Effects of Fishing | Seabed Ecology | Human Pressures Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Exeter @exetermarine.bsky.social Dad of 2 🙉s | 🇮🇪 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FB5YjQIAAAAJ&hl=e
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Ciarán McLaverty @ciaranmc.bsky.social · Nov 20
Time for a change!

Hey👋 I'm Ciaran and I research the effects of human activities on marine ecosystems

I collect ecological data to examine how bottom trawling impacts seabed communities 🦀🐛🐟 & I now work with historical data to estimate human disturbance to shelf sea sediments back in time 🌍
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Ciarán McLaverty @ciaranmc.bsky.social · 2d
📣Opportunity to join the Convex Seascape Survey as Postdoctoral Research Associate 🧪

▶️Collate and map data on seabed disturbing impacts from offshore industry. Analyses will aim to estimate effects of disturbance on organic carbon stored within seabed sediments.

jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 29d
New research from Queens University shows the critically endangered flapper skate continues its slide to extinction. The lead author, Patrick Collins, told me that it's not too late but decisive action is needed.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
One of the largest Irish animals is at imminent risk of further decline — new report
The flapper skate is critically endangered and are top predators and their absence, like taking wolves from a forest, can lead to impacts cascading through the ecosystem. It is hard to imagine that a ...
www.irishexaminer.com
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Laetitia Navarro @laenavarro.bsky.social · Sep 5
Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it:
rdcu.be/eEcIt
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Adam Porter @ap3489.bsky.social · Aug 10
The #ConvexSeascapeSurvey is in Canada! A collaboration between @ulaval.ca @exetermarine.bsky.social and @unisouthampton.bsky.social is investigating the role of animals that live in mud on the #seafloor in helping bury #BlueCarbon and keep our #climate healthy.
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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · Jul 13
This verified report of two sturgeon in Irish waters is pretty incredible considering the species is critically endangered & considered functionally extinct in Ireland due to no evidence of breeding. share.google/jyn5MHKpQHjT...
Caviar-producing sturgeon found in Irish waters for first time in 40 years
Fishermen off Valencia Island have astonished marine experts by catching a fish long thought extinct in Irish waters.
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Alec BM Moore @alecbmmoore.bsky.social · Jul 4
Sustainable seafood guide🐟 🦑🦞🐚: 1883 edition

"Crack on - herring🐟 stocks cannot be impacted by human activity"

(They collapsed in the ~mid 20th century)

Thankfully, we now have robust science-based management @icesmarine.bsky.social

@projectfishistory.bsky.social @oceanspast.bsky.social
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Dan Smale @dansmale1.bsky.social · Jun 9
NEW PAPER: We discovered some v old but v detailed kelp data in MBA archive (Mary Parke's surveys from the 1940s!! 🤯🤯) and resurveyed some 80 years later. Found that Laminaria hyperborea popns in SW England in decline, likely to due warming.... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · Jun 9
We're meeting today to kick off our new NERC-funded project on the 'Impacts of bottom trawling on seabed carbon storage'. It's a consortium project to establish how the disturbance associated with bottom trawling modifies C storage, cycling and air/sea CO2 fluxes.
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...
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Prof David Sims @thesimslab.bsky.social · Jun 5
NEW in @science.org Global tracking #MarineMegafauna shows <8% of areas used overlap w/ existing MPAs, while >75% of important areas overlapped by threats like #fishing #shipping & ocean warming - 30x30 goal will be insufficient for their conservation www.megamove.org @thembauk.bsky.social
Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets
The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of thre...
science.org
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · Jun 6
For West Cork locals and lovers: A mussel farm, which would bottom-dredge a massive 23 hectares within the precious Kinsale harbour, has been granted a licence. Meeting this Sunday to organise appeals.
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Mara Fischer @marafischer.bsky.social · Jun 5
Great talk by @ciaranmc.bsky.social at #OOSC about his ongoing Convex Seascape Survey work on mapping the expansion of trawling and associated sediment disturbance 🌊🌊 @exetermarine.bsky.social @ruththurstan.bsky.social @profcallum.bsky.social
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Ruth Thurstan @ruththurstan.bsky.social · Jun 4
Fantastic talk by @ciaranmc.bsky.social on the big stage at #OOSC! Showcasing his ongoing Convex Seascape Survey research mapping historical trawling expansion and associated seabed disturbance @exetermarine.bsky.social @profcallum.bsky.social
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Jean-Pierre Gattuso @jpgattuso.bsky.social · Jun 1
The One Ocean Science Congress (#OOSC) begins in just two days! If you are unable to attend in person but would like to follow some of the discussions, all plenary sessions will be live-streamed.
On day 1: Opening session, 3 June 09:00-10:00 CEST: youtube.com/live/XOSGl7P...

#ScienceForTheOcean 🌊
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Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · Jun 1
What is an ecologically or biologically significant area?

How do we prioritise one seagrass bed over another, or a seagrass bed over a seamount?

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
What is an ecologically or biologically significant area? - npj Ocean Sustainability
npj Ocean Sustainability - What is an ecologically or biologically significant area?
www.nature.com
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Mara Fischer @marafischer.bsky.social · Apr 30
My first paper is out! 🥳🐠🐟
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Prof Ceri Lewis @cezzalew.bsky.social · Apr 29
Fish are important benthic bioturbators too! Great new #ConvexSeascapeSurvey paper from our @exetermarine.bsky.social PhD student Mara Fischer. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A functional assessment of fish as bioturbators and their vulnerability to local extinction
The seabed is one of the key ecological interfaces on the planet, exerting a major influence on global biogeochemical cycles. Biological processes suc…
www.sciencedirect.com
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Ciarán McLaverty @ciaranmc.bsky.social · May 12
Cool new study from Sophie Ward on the Convex Seascape Survey Project - the team used a paleotidal model to trace the formation of carbon-rich seabed sediment deposits over thousands of years.

eos.org/research-spo...
Mapping the Ocean Floor with Ancient Tides - Eos
A new study uses a paleotidal model to trace the formation of carbon-rich mud deposits over thousands of years.
eos.org
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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · Mar 25
The amount of carbon released by seabed fishing worldwide is uncertain and must be urgently investigated, researchers say

Read our press release 👉 news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

Full paper 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@exeter.ac.uk @exetermarine.bsky.social
Climate cost of global trawling still uncertain
The amount of carbon released by seabed fishing worldwide is uncertain and must be urgently investigated, researchers say. Convex Seascape Survey scientists are studying the impact of fishing methods ...
news.exeter.ac.uk
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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · Mar 20
Rare opportunity.... a permanent observational oceanography position on offer at GEOMAR, one of the world's leading oceanographic centers

www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...
Scientist (m/f/d) in Observational Physical Oceanography
www.geomar.de
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Ole Henriksen @olehenriksen.bsky.social · Dec 16
Are you an early career researcher in #marine #science interested in learning more about scientific publishing and editing?
Apply to be mentored with ICES JMS!
www.ices.dk/news-and-eve...
#ECS
@icesmarine.bsky.social
IJMS Mentorship for Early Career Scientists
www.ices.dk
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Zoe Roseby @zroseby.bsky.social · Dec 19
🌊 Calling all researchers! We’re inviting abstract submissions for our #EGU25 session: "Blue Carbon Accumulation & Storage in Continental Shelf Sediments (BG4.11)."
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

#ClimateScience #BlueCarbon #MarineResearch
Session BG4.11
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Ciarán McLaverty @ciaranmc.bsky.social · Dec 19
Herring - the “king of fishes” - was once a hugely abundant species across the North Atlantic.

Nice article by @whittledaway.bsky.social depicting its decline in Irish waters

www.irishtimes.com/science/2024...
The demise of the humble herring, on which so much of life relies
Once abundant in Irish waters, overfishing and climate change have decimated their numbers - affecting not just the fishing industry but the Northeast Atlantic ecosystem
www.irishtimes.com
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Julie Bremner @wormbotherer.bsky.social · Dec 17
About 5 years in the making: (there really is) limited evidence on the impacts of #windfarms on #fisheries species.
Wind is a solution to the climate crisis, but we also need food security. These are tough, complex choices and we need evidence to support them.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14672979...
Image shows the amount of evidence available on windfarm impacts on fisheries for different types of species. The amount of evidence is represented by lines, with thicker lines meaning more evidence. Most of the lines are thin, signalling little available evidence; the most evidence was found for demersal and reef-associated roundfish.
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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · Dec 17
🚨We are HIRING! 🧪 Please repost!

Lecturer/Senior lecturer in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Priority areas:

‘Responding to anthropogenic change’
‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
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ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea @icesmarine.bsky.social · Dec 17
💡Thinking of sharing your science at our Annual Science Conference 2025?
🌊 We are excited to host #ICESASC25 at Klaipeda University in Lithuania from 15-18 September 2025.
👀 The Call for abstracts opens in January but you can take a sneak peek at the theme sessions now
www.ices.dk/events/asc/2...
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Alice Trevail @alicetrevail.bsky.social · Dec 13
Postdoc opportunity to study tropical seabird connectivity & population genetics in the Indian Ocean!

With @malcnicoll.bsky.social & collaborators as part of the @iomarinescience.bsky.social seabird project

📍University of La Reunion
Apply by Jan 15th

#jobopportunity #seabird #ornithology
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