EuroMarine OYSTER

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Welcome to OYSTER, the early career network from @euromarine.bsky.social 🐟🐠

Our OYSTER Member Mar Roca Mora, PhD is currently attending the International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species (ICAIS) #ICAIS2026. She will be presenting the EuroMarine Early Career Researcher Cooperation RugOBSS project results and representing OYSTER. Reach her out to know more!

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😍 The OYSTER EuroMarine community keeps growing! 2000! 🫴 A mirror of the value of the opportunities created within OYSTER for ECRs across Europe. Together, we create, build and support new horizons for marine sciences. Who better than ECRs know what we need? We build to fill the gaps. Keep posted!

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Applications for the 2nd period of the EuroMarine Young Scientist Fellowship Programme are open until 30/09/26 🌊 If you are an ECOP from EuroMarine Member Organisations you can receive up to €500 to attend conferences, workshops, training activities & summer schools. Apply now!! 🔗 lnkd.in/dFyQ3nmR

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Applications for the 2nd round of the EuroMarine Young Scientist Fellowship Programme are open until 30/09/2026 🌊 ECOPs from EuroMarine Member Organisations can apply for up to €500 to attend conferences, workshops, training activities & summer schools. 🔗 lnkd.in/dFyQ3nmR

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Our team at OYSTER wakes up for the ocean every day. We're early-career scientists diving into coastal waters, tracking changes in the open ocean, and finding solutions. Happy World Ocean Day! 🌊

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🌊 Diving for seagrass restoration! For #WorldEnvironmentDay, check out this cool footage of OYSTER member Isabella Provera (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn) monitoring Posidonia oceanica seedlings transplanted into degraded meadows to help support the recovery of these vital marine ecosystems.

👁️‍🗨️ Last Thursday, Mar Roca Mora, PhD, was attending the European Digital Twin Ocean - Blue-Cloud 2026 Conference. 🗣️There, Mar presented the advances of the OYSTER ECR RugOBSS project, one of the winners of the Blue-Cloud 2026 Hackathon, by combining remote sensing data with ocean modelling.

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☀️ Today we celebrate #SunscreenDay! Protecting your skin shouldn't mean harming our oceans. Every year, roughly 14,000 tons of sunscreen wash into aquatic ecosystems worldwide. We advocate for evidence-based choices. ❌ Ditch chemical UV filters ✅ Choose "non-nano" mineral sunscreens Enjoy!

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🌊 OYSTER EuroMarine member Garry Kett will join the official launch of ECOP Portugal on May 26th 🇵🇹 He will present opportunities for ECOPs through the OYSTER network and Youth4Ocean Forum during a panel on ocean careers and impact. 📍 Lisbon + online ⚠️ Register: lnkd.in/et-rdG4i

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