Happy #BiodiversityDay! 🌱💚 This year’s theme, “Acting locally for global impact,” reminds us that actions taken close to home can contribute to global efforts to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. Explore ways to take part 👉 www.cbd.int/biodiversity... #IDB2026 #LocalAction

Today, we join the @unbiodiversity.bsky.social in marking #BiodiversityDay. Marine biodiversity is shaped by processes hidden below the surface. Sustained ocean observation makes them legible. Read more: https://bit.ly/4dA25h0 #IDB2026 #OceanObservation #ForNature

New article by Turner et al. demonstrates how Complementary Accounting Network (CAN) framework captures economic, ecological, and socio-cultural dimensions of marine and coastal resources. 🍃 Out now in the #EcosystemServices journal: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🎉The registration is open! 🎉 You can now secure your spot at BEeS 2026 by filling out the form at the link below. 🔥 Note: the deadline applies to: - Call for abstracts - Social dinner - Request for early career researchers reduced-fee accommodation Register here 👉 bit.ly/4bFMUmD

📣Coming up! 🎟️Ocean with David Attenborough (screening + panel session) 📅17th April, 1:30 pm, The New Theatre in Dublin🇮🇪 www.eventbrite.ie/e/ocean-with... @marbefes.bsky.social

"Seagrass meadows buffer inputs from coastal aquaculture, reducing anthropogenic pressure on more vulnerable systems such as coral reefs”. 🧪 Wang et al., 2026: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Seagrass #EcosystemServices #CoralReefs

Better understanding of marine and coastal #EcosystemServices requires integration of scientific assessments and stakeholder perceptions - check out this case study from northern Portugal 🇵🇹, published in @peopleandnature.bsky.social ✅ Cunha et al., 2026: doi.org/10.1002/pan3...

In a recent publication in Ocean & Coastal Management, Polette et al. explore how: 🌆urbanisation and industrialisation, 🎣increased use of natural resources &🌡️low resistance and resilience to climate change play out in the coastal area of Balneário Camboriú 🇧🇷 ➡️ shorturl.at/tgK8X #EcosystemServices

”Comprehensive understanding of benthic ecology, essential for robust marine management, reliable numerical analysis, and taxonomic consistency, cannot be achieved without the continuity provided by long-term data”. 🌐 Read more: Birchenough et al., 2026, doi.org/10.1093/ices...

What? Oh, just the biggest gathering of ocean scientists in the world… #OSM26 Also, four sessions on Food webs in changing oceans and seas. Four!! @helsinki.fi @marbefes.bsky.social #MarineResearch #OceanSciences #InterEarth

Cultural #EcosystemServices of offshore environments: see this short commentary piece to the article published last year by MARBEFES researchers in @ucdearth.bsky.social blog Earth Comment. 🌊 shorturl.at/Wj0gQ

Out now: 🌐A new method combining ecological valuation and EUNIS habitat classification system can help assess marine ecosystem extent and condition. 🗺️Tested on 3 European Atlantic case studies. ➡️Egidazu-de la Parte et al. (2026), doi.org/10.1016/j.in... #ecosystemservices #SEEA-EA

2️⃣weeks until registrations and abstract submissions open for May’s #BioMonWeek2026, the European conference for Biodiversity Monitoring! Choose to apply among the sessions tied to the conference's 9️⃣ themes. ℹ️ www.biodiversa.eu/wp-content/u... 🌐 www.biomonweek.eu #BiodiversityMonitoring

Today is #WorldWetlandsDay under the theme "Wetlands & traditional knowledge: Celebrating cultural heritage." For migratory birds, wetlands are critical stopover sites and breeding & wintering habitats. Protecting wetlands means protecting the journeys that connect countries, cultures & wildlife.

⿻Marine conservation designations often overlap and duplicate efforts due to similar criteria. ✅A new study highlights the need to streamline and better integrate these designations for more effective marine management. ➡️ shorturl.at/FYQCR #MarinePlan #GES4SEAS @marinesabres.bsky.social

🔑Communication is key! Jan Marcin Węsławski from #IOPAN has been recently interviewed on NCBR channel, where he talked about his experience as MARBEFES General Project Coordinator - watch below [🇵🇱interview in Polish]: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXV1...

🎨How does art support wellbeing, sense of place, and care for coastal environments? 🌅The MARBEFES story map, Art and the Healing Powers of #MorecambeBay, highlights artworks that strengthen place connection across the Bay: shorturl.at/FJZeA 💻Developed by Ashley Cahillane (UEA, UCD).

Throwback to November 2025, when MARBEFES was present at the interdisciplinary conference ‘Humans and the European Marine Environment – Adaptation to Climate and Biodiversity Change’ in Sopot🇵🇱 📝Read more about the conference here: shorturl.at/LGKbN

Today we celebrate #WorldFisheriesDay and recognize the importance of sustainable fisheries in maintaining the livelihoods of communities and in ensuring healthy ocean ecosystems. 🐟 Find out more with this IPBES#WorldFisheriesDayinfographic.

Today we are attending the @marbefes.bsky.social conference on climate change, biodiversity, and the relationship between humans and the marine environment, where our presentation is focused on the Mediterranean Sea. Here's a few snapshots 👇 👇 👇

🛳️ In 2023, our colleague Ashley Cahillane asked researchers and crew of the RV #CelticExplorer: how do you interact with the sea? Do you think the sea benefits the society? Should the sea be valued? 🌐 Results of her research on offshore cultural #EcosystemServices are out now: shorturl.at/hzcbE

🌐What can you learn from 40 years of environmental data? 📈Turns out quite a lot, including how pressures have changed over time. 🐟Example: Gulf of Gdańsk has shifted from industrial/fishery to largescale tourism, meaning that key pressures also changed. shorturl.at/7kFu3 (Węsławski et al., 2025)

MARBEFES team at the General Assembly in Seville 🇪🇸 Ready for the final year of the project! @lifewatcheric.bsky.social @wormbotherer.bsky.social

🇪🇸 That's a wrap for our 2025 General Assembly! 🔎 We've heard lots of ideas and contributions from all the consortium - and the discussions will continue in the final year of the project. Thank you @lifewatcheric.bsky.social for hosting us this year, Seville was wonderful 💃

🇪🇸Day 2 of MARBEFES General Assembly is behind us! 🔎Looking into going beyond the project case studies and tools - through outscaling, upscaling, stakeholder engagement, and publications. 🔑Also, a lot of discussions around lessons learned from the project so far. @lifewatcheric.bsky.social

🍂 Enjoy a few pictures from @marbefes.bsky.social Autumn School "Protecting marine biodiversity for nature & humans", co-located with the project's General Assembly in Seville. 👉 bit.ly/3WtJlaG @cefasgovuk.bsky.social @lifewatchvliz.bsky.social @vliz.be @aboakademi.bsky.social @klaipeda.bsky.social

We are all set! 🙌 The @marbefes.bsky.social Autumn School 2025 starts today and our selected students are ready to learn about biodiversity and ecosystem assessment and measurement, and tools for ecological, social and economic evaluation! 👉 bit.ly/3WtJlaG

🇪🇸Day 1 of MARBEFES General Assembly in Seville comes to an end. 🔎Topics covered (among many others): data gaps, toolbox applications and challenges stemming from the interdisciplinarity of the project. @lifewatcheric.bsky.social

These days at @marbefes.bsky.social annual meeting, as advisory board member, and building bridges with other projects, such as #GES4SEAS Looking for the legacy of our projects #research #MarineEcology

We’ve recently supported #SopotScienceDay, an open event for science-enthusiasts and science-curious. Over 800 visitors 🙋🏼‍♀️ and representatives from 30 institutions👩‍🔬 gathered at #IOPAN to talk all things marine biodiversity, and sustainability. 👓 Read more here: oceanofchanges.com/en/sopot-sci...

Past year we had @azti.bsky.social #GES4SEAS summer school with 6 @horizoneu.bsky.social projects, today, we have a paper published on the topic of science-policy #communication. #Research @marinesabres.bsky.social @marbefes.bsky.social Read it for free: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

A snapshot from #ICESASC2025, where MARBEFES team showcased their research📑 🛜 Read more here: shorturl.at/CYuVY @icesmarine.bsky.social @wormbotherer.bsky.social

MARBEFES tools in practice🔨 🎀Bow-tie analysis includes mapping the main activities and pressures contributing to #BiodiversityLoss in 3 case studies. 🦭Next step is analysing the consequences of losing important species and habitats, and suggesting appropriate control measures: shorturl.at/5fFtD

At the core of yesterday's #marineSABRES session at @icesmarine.bsky.social 2025 was the big Q -'How can we protect & maintain marine ecosystems so they continue to deliver societal goods & benefits sustainably?' Thanks to partners from @maremadeira.bsky.social @DTU @MaREI @Klaipeda Uni! #icesasc25

#ICESASC2025 session Q on ecosystem services continues today, with a talk on the MARBEFES toolbox by Cristina Huertas-Olivares.

If you are following #ICESASC25 from afar, you can now watch our opening keynote from Mike Elliott. Check out his talk on Emerald Growth on our YouTube channel now ▶️ youtu.be/KHA3vePtLA0?... #ICESASC25 @uniofhull.bsky.social

Come visit MARBEFES posters today in the section of in the #ICESASC2025 poster area! Themes: Ecological Value Assessment in two case studies + Biological Trait Analysis.

Insightful discussions during session Q at #ICESASC2025. And some big questions from the audience about nature restoration, ecosystem functioning, climate change, and more!

Mike Elliott (University of Hull; IECS Ltd.) giving a keynote talk on #EmeraldGrowth at #ICESASC2025.

#ICESASC2025 starts tomorrow, with strong MARBEFES representation. 🌐Session Q will be dedicated to marine biodiversity and #ecosystemservices.

🔵 Presenting the last of 12 MARBEFES case studies: #GulfofGdańsk BBT. 🔵 Gulf of Gdańsk is a a coastal inlet of the #BalticSea located in northern Poland🇵🇱 🔵 Its shallow waters serve as an important habitat for various species of fish, birds, and marine mammals (including the iconic grey seal🦭😉)

🇮🇪On 23rd of August our colleagues from @ucddublin.bsky.social hosted a #BioBlitz at the Irish National Sailing and Powerboat School in Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. 🔬Throughout the day several scientists and public participants worked on species identification. 📖Results will be available soon!

🗺️One of 12 case studies of MARBEFES: #NorthSea BBT. It’s quite a long transect (450 km!), starting in Ostend and extending up to Dogger Bank. 🐟This area is home to 140 species of fish, including commercially exploited common sole, plaice, cod, and European seabass.

Call for abstracts! We are excited to invite contributions to the Ocean Sciences Meeting #OSM26 session ME008: Food Webs in Changing Oceans and Seas Abstract submission is open until 20 August 2025. Read more and submit here: www.agu.org/ocean-scienc... Hope to see you in Glasgow!

🌊Marine Bioblitz: Explore and Record Life on the Seashore! 📍Coming up August 23rd in Dún Laoghaire🇮🇪 Learn about marine species living in the intertidal zone, and become a part of a unique #CitizenScience initiative. Free of charge. ➡️ shorturl.at/AkaTD #heritageweek @marbefes.bsky.social

Great news! The Call for Applications is now open: hurry up, there are only 20 seats! 👉 bit.ly/3U6oLMt The Marbefes project Autumn School 2025 takes place in Seville from 8 to 10 October 2025.

Congratulations to Burak Kaynaroglou and his colleagues from Klaipeda University and CNR-ISMAR, who published a new article in #EcologicalInformatics. 💻 In the paper, they describe a new way to automatically calibrate a computer model of the #Curonian Lagoon's ecosystem. 🛜 shorturl.at/mQtun

Be one of 20 participants that will be hosted in Seville by the MARBEFES project: learn about tools for biodiversity and ecosystem assessment and measurement. The open call opens in mid-July! 👁️ 👁️ Read more 👉 bit.ly/4eFDJT2 and stay tuned for the updated programme! 🙌

📑New paper alert! Luis Garrido Mateos, Fernando Rodríguez-López and José Ignacio Sánchez-Macías from University of Salamanca discuss moving from theory to operational #NaturalCapital applications. 🛜 Read more: shorturl.at/y96Jv #ecosystemsevices #economicvaluation #ecosystemaccounting

🇵🇱 Do you live or ever visited the Gulf of Gdańsk? Help us understand its significance by filling in this short (15 min) questionnaire: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run... #zatokagdanska #uslugiekosystemowe #ecosystemservices #culturalvaluation