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Nick Kamenos @nickkamenos.bsky.social · 7d

📢 We have an ever increasing number of #student #research opportunities at Umeå Marine Sciences Centre including our #Borealis Internships www.umu.se/en/umea-mari... Come and join us for an exciting #marine #science adventure in #northern #Sweden ❄️ 🌊

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Nick Kamenos @nickkamenos.bsky.social · Jul 28

📢 Very exciting news! 📢

We are now offering advanced courses at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social on #R and #Arctic #MarineScience with more to come!!

See full details below ⬇️

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Jul 28

** Join us! **

In February 2026 we will offer two residential advanced short courses:

💻 #R course for marine scientists
❄️ #Arctic marine biology, ecology & biogeochemistry

🗓️ Starting 8 & 15 February 2026
📍 Umeå Marine Sciences Centre, Sweden
🔗 umfcourses.github.io

▶️ Apply by 15 Sept 2025!

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Image of the Northern Lights near Umeå, Sweden. Glowing green night sky with a small cottage and snow covered forest trees in the foreground. Photo credit: Fredrik Larsson / Visit Umeå Content Bank

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Jul 7

📢Think BIG!! 📢
Set up your LARGE SCALE experiments in an extremely controlled environment - from tropical heat to icy winter. ❄️❄️❄️

Check out our advanced mesocosm facility: www.umu.se/en/umea-m...

Looking for funding? www.umu.se/en/umea-m...
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The UMF aquatic mesocosm facility

Use our highly controlled mesocosm facility to do aquatic replicated experiments concerning impacts on an ecosystem under field relevant conditions.

www.umu.se

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Jun 4

Up to 50% of organic carbon buried in the shallow #BalticSea may be from land! How does land use shape carbon quality?

Let’s talk OC hotspots + isotope-based source tracking at poster P126!

/Alexandra Rouillard 🧪🦑🌍

#OOSC #ScienceForTheOcean #BlueCarbon

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Jun 5

By strengthening governance and aligning the fragmented policies, Southeast Asian countries can unlock the numerous potentials of #BlueCarbon in their local and national frameworks! 🧪🦑🌍

Come and chat at poster: P432
/Long Vu Hoang
#OOSC #ScienceForTheOcean

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Jun 4

🚨 CALLING ALL MARINE RESEARCHERS! 🚨
Bring your science to the Northern Baltic coast and access FREE research funding! Dive into global-scale experiments that drive real-world impact.

www.umu.se/en/umea-mari...

Funding: www.umu.se/en/umea-mari...

Contact: [email protected]

#OOSC #UMF 🧪🦑🌍

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Jun 4

Land use change affects the stability of #mangrove #carbon, and mangrove #restoration can increase carbon storage!

Find out more at poster P309!

@hlburdett.bsky.social

#OOSC #ScienceForTheOcean #Vietnam
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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Jun 3

We need to reconsider what is a #BlueCarbon #ecosystem! #MudFlats #CorallineAlgae, #Sediments and parts of #Coral #Reefs store significant organic #carbon.

➡️ See you at #OOSC Tue | 14:00 | Room 2

@nickkamenos.bsky.social
@hlburdett.bsky.social

#ScienceForTheOcean #ClimateScience 🧪🦑🌍

Slide showing key features promoting blue carbon systems in non-classical blue carbon ecosystems.

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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · Jun 3

@umeaunimarine.bsky.social is at the One Ocean Science Congress this week!
Details of our seven presentations below ⬇️
#OOSC #ScienceForTheFuture #UMF #AQC
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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Jun 2

#ClimateChange is driving brownification of coastal waters - is this bad news for benthic macrophytes? 🧪🦑🌍
Let’s talk DOC & light decline at poster P82!

#OOSC #ScienceForTheOcean #MarineEcology #Brownification

🔬Research at UMF? Explore AQUASERV/IRISCC for funded access. Links in comments. ⬇️

Underwater image, Baltic Sea. Photo: Joakim Ahlgren

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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · May 22

Great to have Lina Rasmusson (Gothenburg uni) at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social today to talk about all things #CorallineAlgae & #kelp
She also presented her ongoing @formasforsk.bsky.social project, which is bringing a research spotlight to Sweden's elusive #maerl beds!
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social
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Woman smiling in front of a presentation slide with the title 'fantastic maerl and where to find it'

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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · Apr 9

Welcome to our newest postdoc Cristian Ramirez Gutierrez, who will investigate the optical properties & light harvesting of coralline algae!
🌎🦑🧪🌊
heidiburdett.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/w...
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Welcome to Cristian Ramirez Gutierrez!

Big welcome and hello to Cristian, who has joined us in Umeå this week as a new postdoc in the group! Cristian studied Physics at the University of Quindío in Colombia, and then pursued a Master&#8…

heidiburdett.wordpress.com

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Dec 31

🎉 Happy New Year! 2024 has been an inspiring year full of exciting research and innovation at #UMF. Here's to carrying that momentum into 2025 and making it just as impactful and groundbreaking. Wishing everyone success and new discoveries ahead! 🥂🦑🧪 #HappyNewYear #MarineResearch

Science Friday at Umeå University. Photo: Gabrielle Beans Picón

Northern lights above campus at Umeå University. Photo: David Jen

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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · Dec 10

Welcome to Vu Hoang Long, who has started his #PhD with us!
Long will be working on our SE Asia #BlueCarbon project, investigating the relationship between nature, society & policy.
Watch this space - an exciting 4 years of research to come!
🌎🦑🧪
@umeaunimarine.bsky.social @nickkamenos.bsky.social

man standing in front of a wooden house holding a basket of green leaves with a tropical forest in the background

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Dec 11

💃🕺These ‘dancing diatoms’ (Bacillaria paxillifera) brought joy to #UMF today! They have been growing on Fucus in our marine heatwave experiment. 🧪🦑

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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · Oct 21

Welcome to Siddhi Joshi - new postdoc with us, conducting habitat modelling on our SE Asia #BlueCarbon VR project!
These data will inform policy intervention & community engagement research we start next year - stay tuned!
🌎🦑🧪
heidiburdett.wordpress.com/2024/10/21/w...
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Person standing on a beach with moutains and the sea behind

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Oct 28

🚨 Coming up! Dr. David McKee from @pndc.bsky.social will visit #UMF to discuss optical technology & radiative transfer modeling. He’ll share recent findings on how zooplankton swarms affect ocean color remote sensing signals. 🌊🔬

🗓️ Monday, Nov 4th. Don’t miss it!

www.umu.se/en/events...

Water fleas (Daphnia). Photo: Mostphotos/Napat

Dr. David McKee leads the Marine Optics and Remote Sensing Group at the Physics Department, University of Strathclyde and holds an adjunct position with the Arctic and Marine Biology Department at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Oct 16

UMF Symposium! Incredible to see the wide range of activities and #research happening at #UMF right now. From #BlueCarbon and #brownification to #CoralBleaching, marine heatwaves and #methylmercury formation in fjord systems... And so much more!
🧪🚢🌊🐋

#umeauniversity #MarineScience

Thibaut Cossart, Postdoc fellow at Department of Chemistry.

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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · Sep 18

Reminder that we have 2 fab #postdoc positions on algae biophysics!

#ClimateChange responses (20 Sept)
#Photosynthesis mechanisms (30 Sept)

w/ @nicolomaccaferri.bsky.social , @nickkamenos.bsky.social & Magnus Andersson

🔗 heidiburdett.wordpress.com/lab-opportun...

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@umeaunimarine.bsky.social

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Sep 18

✨Wow! Three new interns were greeted by swirling Northern Lights above #umeauniversity!
Welcome Helena Zambalos (#Austria), Wilf Breach (#UnivStAndrews) and Sarah Braun (@unigreifswald.bsky.social)! 🧪🌊🐋

www.umu.se/en/umea-m...

#MarineScience #UMF

Northern Lights above campus, Umeå University. Photo: David Jen

Sarah Braun, intern at Umeå Marine Sciences Centre.

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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · Aug 8

Our blue carbon research is featured on TV4 in Sweden today!
Blue carbon research & policy must go beyond seagrass, mangroves & saltmarsh - especially fjords, mudflats & coralline reefs!
Paper📖: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
TV4📺: www.tv4.se/artikel/2ktW...
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@umeaunimarine.bsky.social

Nya upptäckten: Svenska vatten kan bryta ner och lagra kol

Bottenviken och norska fjordar betydande aktörer

www.tv4.se

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Nick Kamenos @nickkamenos.bsky.social · Jun 20

🌊Out this week in #BiologyLetters! We show that #marine calcifying ecosystem engineers recycle more #carbon than previously thought aiding their role as #BlueCarbon ecosystems! 🦑🧪🌎⚒️🌱https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0598 @hlburdett.bsky.social #JinhuaMao @umeaunimarine.bsky.social #umeauniversity

A conceptual summary of the photosynthesis and calcification carbon transport pathways

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Jun 19

We are very excited to welcome Prof. Sinéad Collins from the University of Edinburgh! Through the 2-year UMF Borealis scholarship, she’ll use the #mesocosms @umeaunimarine.bsky.social to investigate which characteristics really make arctic #phytoplankton ”arctic”.

www.umu.se/en/news/new-...

New project investigates the unique characteristics of arctic plankton

Sinéad Collins will provide answers to what makes arctic phytoplankton unique.

www.umu.se

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · Jun 8

It’s #WorldOceanDay! UMF’s core belief is the need for #healthy and #sustainable oceans!
Our research directly contributes to the #WOD24 theme of Catalyzing Action for Our Ocean & Climate
Some examples in the thread below, and read more here: www.umu.se/en/umea-mari...

Umeå Marine Sciences Centre

UMF is a dynamic environment for marine research including a complete suite of analytical platforms.

www.umu.se

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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · May 17

📣Coming up! #EcoChange minisymposium
@umeaunimarine.bsky.social, covering ongoing #marine #research at #umeauniversity. Keynote: Professor Rainer Lohmann, University of Rhode Island, ”Legacy and Emerging Pollutants in the Ocean”. 🌊🧪
📅 Tuesday, June 4
More here: www.umu.se/en/events/mi...

Waves hitting rocks at Ulvön, Bothnian Sea. Photo: Kristina Viklund/UMF

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