🌊 How do seafloor activities like bottom trawling affect the ocean’s carbon cycle—and climate policy? 🎧 In our latest #PolicyPod, we speak with Southampton’s @profbenthos.bsky.social & Prof. Susan Gourvenec about the NERC-funded C-Floor project. 🔗 Listen: buff.ly/rldAJt3

Listen to our podcast on managing the shelf sea carbon cycle and greenhouse gas release from physical disturbance of the seafloor. open.spotify.com/episode/7zTm...

NEW PAPER - we add co-extinctions and co-compensation to our extinction models to establish plausible biodiversity-function trajectories across a climate change gradient.

Was great to have opportunity to present my perspectives on how biodiversity can contribute to ecosystem futures at @ulaval.ca Thank you to all that attended.

Biodiversity-function curves change from expectation when co-extinctions and co-compensatory responses are taken into account. See our *NEW PAPER* exploring these changes across an Arctic climatic gradient here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Finally somebody recognised what we do! 😂

Although assessing the extent and role of biogenic sediment mixing in the fossil record has been informed by knowledge of bioturbation in modern oceans, extrapolating concepts and quantifying proxies is problematic. We offer our perspectives in our new paper: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/sepm/palaios...

Excited….new bit of kit leaving USA right now to help in our quest to quantify bioturbation. What could it be? Answer to follow, add your guess in reply.

Fork lifting in the first few of our intact macrofaunal sediment communities ! Thanks team, great day, and plenty of exciting data to come for our NERC funded Ecowind project (ecological effects of offshore wind).

One way business can adjust is to carbon costing and control through activity-based emissions accounting. Read our report here: www.aicpa-cima.com/cpd-and-lear...

Must read out this week…

Great to make observations throughout an entire offshore wind farm to investigate the ecological effects of offshore wind expansion in our shelf seas. Fieldwork led by @krysiamazik.bsky.social and looking forward to receiving intact communities for follow-up lab experiments.

Eat. Sleep. Sieve. Repeat.

Launched our new NERC C-Floor project on the effects of bottom fishing, and other human activities on benthic carbon stocks with collaborators from @pml.ac.uk, @exetermarine.bsky.social, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social, and @noc.ac.uk, with policy and impact facilitated by @publicpolicyuos.bsky.social

Do you work on bioturbation? If yes, come join the conversation.

Nice summary of terrestrial bioturbation by some major groups below. Add to this marine bioturbation (see here for global map: www.cell.com/current-biol... and we soon realise that virtually all of the planet is reworked continuously by a diversity of fauna.

This is what we are measure! A worm & our sand used to measure burrowing. We link this to functioning on the seafloor. We're almost done! @exetermarine.bsky.social @profbenthos.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social @ulaval.ca @cezzalew.bsky.social @benthicbecky.bsky.social @omparrish.bsky.social

Listen to @benthicbecky.bsky.social speaking about our work, the role of benthic invertebrates on carbon cycling in Saguenay Fjord on CBC Quebec AM: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... @jagodbold.bsky.social @ap3489.bsky.social @omparrish.bsky.social @cezzalew.bsky.social @philarchambault.bsky.social

Love this title featuring our work in the Toronto Sun. I’ll take that as a compliment! torontosun.com/news/nationa...

Delighted that our research in Saguenay fjord made it onto Canadian national news… @cezzalew.bsky.social @ap3489.bsky.social @philarchambault.bsky.social @benthicbecky.bsky.social @omparrish.bsky.social @jagodbold.bsky.social

Grabbing muddy bottoms in Saguenay Fjord 🌊 We haul mud from 250 m down, in each a world of hidden life. In the lab we learn how they keep the seabed healthy 💙 @exetermarine.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social @benthicbecky.bsky.social @profbenthos.bsky.social @cezzalew.bsky.social @ulaval.ca

Check out our research as featured on Canadian national news channel CTV at 15:56 mins… m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z4g...

Introducing Yorkshire pudding with cauliflower cheese and mashed potatoes to our colleagues from @ulaval.ca to keep us going through our fieldwork on Saguenay fjord!

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.

Thanks to the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (uqac.ca) for allowing us to set up our field ready mesocosm facility as part of our international collaboration between @ulaval.ca, @uniSouthampton.bsky.social and @exetermarine.bsky.social to work on the benthic communities of Saguenay fjord.

Great team at Fjord Marine made sampling Saguenay Fjord in Quebec possible - two experiments running in the lab. Working with colleagues from the University of Laval and @exetermarine.bsky.social to investigate how benthic communities modify carbon.

Heading north to start a field campaign in Saguenay fjord in Quebec with @philarchambault.bsky.social, @[email protected], @omparrish.bsky.social, @cezzalew.bsky.social, @ap3489.bsky.social looking at benthic faunal contributions to carbon.

As someone who studies bioturbation, I like the sound of this town…

**WE ARE HIRING** Research fellow in seafloor imaging and data management - CLOSING DATE 17 February. Full details at: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

***New Paper*** We find that failure to embrace sources of inherent temporal and spatial dynamics in key trait-process-function relationships leads to less robust estimates of the ecological consequences of change. Read our findings here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

So excited to see our paper out in Functional Ecology doi.org/10.1111/1365... @trystansanders.bsky.social @profbenthos.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social

The effect size and confidence interval guide has now been reformatted into a Quarto book. This guide contains all the equations and code you will need to compute effect sizes and their confidence intervals. It will be constantly updated and maintained! #stats

**PhD Fee waiver** Students from EU-Horizon countries no longer have to pay international fees @unisouthampton.bsky.social - equivalent to the difference between overseas and UK fees. If have benthic interests, let’s discuss. Eligibility info: Southampton.ac.uk/doctoral-college/eu-fee-waivers.page

Deadline approaching, 8th January.

Do you work on bioturbation? If yes, come join the conversation.

Just discovered Bluesky Roast, here’s what the algorithm says about me after my first week on BlueSky. I’ll take Benthic Crusader!! Get your roast summery here: blueskyroast.com

Ever wondered whether marine protected areas substantially promote bioturbation, a process vital to the health of marine ecosystems? Find out in our recent paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social. View here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

**NEW PAPER** Seeing #bioturbation in 3 dimensions - we combine 3D acoustics with a convolutional neural network to quantify species contributions to benthic ecosystems. Open access here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

**Fully funded PhDs** - places remain on our prestigious Black and Mixed Black Futures Scholarship Programme. If interested in benthic biodiversity and functioning, or if you are proficient in computer vision, let’s explore possibilities together. Details here: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

Bioturbation on the map - delighted to see a nice accessible summary of our work by @alisoncribb.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social, read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu.... We are working on a follow up, watch this space! In (A) bioturbation intensity, in (C) the mixed depth.

**PhD opportunity** at the University of Southampton to better understand the impacts of multiple stressors on coastal habitat potential to provide long-term solutions to coastal protection and biodiversity. Collaboration with Natural England. Full details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...