Adam Porter
@ap3489.bsky.social
Marine ecologist at the University of Exeter working on the Convex Seascape Survey - investigating how seafloor creatures interact with carbon in a blue carbon seascape (www.convexseascapesurvey.com).
There's something about working on a train that makes you feel like you can achieve anything! And watching the UK go by bathed in summer sun and listening to the new Muse album 🤘 makes for a perfect journey to Scarborough for the #ReMeMaRe Restoring Resistive and Coastal Habitats Conference
A pleasure to be at the South West Marine Ecosystem conference today at @pml.ac.uk Hearing from 40+ researchers, citizen scientists, and practitioners in a sold room. A great conference looking at the stresses on and positives found on the marine environment in the South West.
Working on bugs in mud is a hard sell but if you're at #OSM26 and interested in how worms in seafloor mud might affect ecosystem function and carbon sequestration come and chat to me Poster 729 @ 4pm TODAY (23/02) @agu.org @exetermarine.bsky.social @bluemarinef.bsky.social #ConvexSeascapeSurvey
If you build it… they will submit abstracts... The scientists are amassing for @agu.org and this morning we have a anthropogenic impacts in #bluecarbon session this morning. @exetermarine.bsky.social @cefasgovuk.bsky.social @bluemarinef.bsky.social
I'll be showcasing all we have learnt on www.convexseascapesurvey.com, opening the can of worms that is invertebrate contributions to carbon cycling on the seafloor. Come see my poster...WORMS WITH BENEFITS... Monday 4 - 6pm CM14A #OSM26 @exetermarine.bsky.social @bluemarinef.bsky.social
Flying up to Glasgow @agu.org #OSM26 to join 1000s of ocean scientists to chat about everything from climate physics to deep-sea microbes. If it happens in/on/because of the ocean, someone is presenting on it. Yes… including worms mixing mud 🪱🌊🤘 #OSM26 #OceanScience @exetermarine.bsky.social
Fascinating talk from @sarabenelli.bsky.social about the role of macrophytes and macrofauna in controlling freshwater #biogeochemistry and keeping methane locked into #sediments. Really interesting seeing this next to our marine work! @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social
Interesting findings from @samuelmacaulay.bsky.social presenting his findings with MRES students on enhanced rock weathering as a Carbon Dioxide Removal tool and it's effects on riverine benthic species under experimental conditions with addition of rock material 👍🏻 #BlueCarbon #CDR
Great talk from @drplanktonpoo.bsky.social Krill Poo may sequester as much #carbon as mangroves AND we're messing that up by fishing them out. The fishery near Antarctica shut early for the first time ever due to record catch numbers (because of more fishing) @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social
Certainly not for the hump or in a flap getting here. Very cool to have a conference at @zslofficial.bsky.social London Zoo. Excited to kick off the @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social annual meeting! 🐫 🐧
Excited to be winging my way to London for the @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social annual meeting! A first for me and excited to share mud and worm updates from the #ConvexSeascapeSurvey @exetermarine.bsky.social @bluemarinef.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @britishecologicalsociety.org #BlueCarbon #Inverts
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
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
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
Our work here in Saguenay made it onto Canadian National News. If you want a 2minute TL:DR on what we're doing with grabs and mud! youtu.be/DXhIHK2L1xA?... @exetermarine.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social @ulaval.ca @benthicbecky.bsky.social @profbenthos.bsky.social @cezzalew.bsky.social
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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
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.
It's the @exetermarine.bsky.social Summer Showcase!! A day for networking and sharing with our colleagues across our campuses as well as organisations we are lucky to work closely with including @zslscience.bsky.social @plymouthmarine.bsky.social DEFRA and The Marine Biological Assc. @exeter.ac.uk
Talk day! Excited to be sharing my research on the impacts of bioturbation on nutrient cycling in the benthos and the implications for carbon storage in soft sediment habitats. @egu.eu @exetermarine.bsky.social @bluemarinef.bsky.social #CarbonScience #BlueCarbon #Ecology #MudScience
Granted, it's pretty niche, but when a Google search for Paraleptopentacta elongata comes up with my #seasediment #painting for #convexseascapesurvey I'm pretty proud. Thanks to @ap3489.bsky.social for pointing it out. My offer for #invertefest 🧪🦑 #art #benthicinvertebrates #benthos #bluecarbon
Wir sind angekommen! @egu.eu Day 1 - Team #ConvexSeascapeSurvey and others with a fascinating #BlueCarbon poster session. All talks are tomorrow from 16.15 in Room 2.17 @exetermarine.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @bluemarinef.bsky.social
Excited to be winging my way to Vienna for @egu.eu and looking forward to presenting our work on the #ConvexSeascapeSurvey! If you want to chat mud, worms and carbon I'm all ears! #BlueCarbon #EGU25 #EGUVienna #CarbonScience #ShellYeah #NoSpineFeelFine
Gearing up to: A) Conference season - @egu.eu Vienna next week B) Going to Canada as part of the #ConvexSeascapeSurvey so delivering equipment for the slow boat shipment to Southampton tomorrow C) Finish 5 papers and a fellowship application ASAP So I'll start doing some Bluesky! Not much then!
Great to see @fishtekmarine.bsky.social #DiscoScallops landing on plates at my favourite fish restaurant #Rockfish Innovative marine research that is making for healthier #seafood and a healthier #seabed @exetermarine.bsky.social @bluemarinef.bsky.social
Very lucky to have access to this wonderful space to have some quiet and focussed work time. The Devon and Exeter Institution was founded in 1813 for "The general diffusion of science, literature and the arts". I hope the academic prowess stored within is diffusing into my brain as I work here!
Excited to take a step up to interchangeable lenses in my #underwaterphotograpgy It's twice the size but I'm looking forward to getting to grips with it underwater (literally). Just strobes to get (and more lenses, arms, floats, gears etc.) #Underwater #Olympus #OlympusOMD #Macro #SCUBADiving
As @ap3489.bsky.social has joined BlueSky I thought I'd dig out his award winning pic to introduce him 😀 I'm sure he'll start posting more of his amazing pics soon. Love this worm photo #PolychaetesRock
My first post here seems appropriate...after the arrival of my second child 4 weeks ago he gifted me with maybe 4 hours sleep too begin day 2 of a 5 day R statistics course with @alainzuur.bsky.social However, yesterday was hugely informative so I'm looking forward to getting to grips with GVLMM
