The concept makes the most of the surface vessel available to the ROV to provide the advantages of towed cameras with the versatility of ROVs. Team @krisfish.bsky.social @drkjoyce.bsky.social #JaneWilliamson #JoanLi Funded by #MQ and #GreatBarrierReefFoundation /end

A new method of aquatic surveying based on an affordable @bluerobotics.bsky.social ROV that lets scientists run > 2km long underwater transects at depths of 2 to 60 m! 🧵 #OA 🦑🧪 @griffith.edu.au #MQUni @uni-newcastle.bsky.social @geonadir.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

So excited to be in the Torres Strait. Dodging bad weather but a perfect start to the fieldwork! Let's find some sea cucumbers! @griffithuniversity.bsky.social #MQ #JCU

‼️ New Paper ‼️ This collaborative paper presents length-weight data for 6 species of sea cucumber harvested in the QLD Sea Cucumber Fishery. These data were collected on the GBR, from 2,421 individuals, across 9 degrees of latitude, from 89 reefs 🥒🪸 www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/16...

New #GlobalSharkTrends study published in @science.org reveals #overfishing has more than halved shark & ray populations over the past 50-years causing widespread erosion of ecological function and exceptionally high extinction risk 👉Full article bit.ly/GlobalSharkTrends 🧵1/20

A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

Thanks @asfbc.bsky.social for having me! #ASFB2024

Hello new followers! I study a lot of things, but at the moment I'm deep diving into Sea Cucumbers. These animals related to sea urchins and starfish are everywhere, but while they might look like a log (uhum), research is finding they're important for our oceans 🧪🦑🧵 Pics by @krisfish.bsky.social

Beautiful sunset for the student night at #ASFB2024

Excited for ASFB 2024! #ASFB2024

I haven't had a chance to be part of #30DayMapChallenge this year, and am a few days behind... but Day 11 "Time and space" is too good to resist: Here's one week of ocean tides animated across Australasia (🔵= high tide, 🔴 = low tide). 🌊 Pretty incredible how complex (and hypnotic!) they are!

During my many museum visits-you see some CRAZY stuff! Here's a goniasterid starfish, Ceramaster patagonicus-but with only FOUR ARMS! SEA SQUARE? Ocean RAVIOLI? ha! #echinoday (specimen at California Academy of Sceinces)

Read about my Honours research from 2021 here 👇 🐠🐟

If you're a bit tired of bad news (like I am), know this: Imaging sonar has shown almost 50 TONS of fish moving in an out of an estuary, every HOUR. They do this more at night during the day, probably to hide from predators. Your regular fish highways... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What an epic research trip on the Great Barrier Reef! Many hundreds of sea cucumbers were surveyed, over 60km of ROV transects, and I even got to sneak in some shark time. Thanks to Great Barrier Reef Foundation, the MEG lab, JCU, and UoN. Epic photo of me by @krisfish.bsky.social

Stoked to be back on Kalinda for more #seacukescience! Going to conduct ROV and drone surveys from Townsville to Cairns over the next two weeks, fingers crossed for some nice weather. Thanks to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation