28 September 2022 – Howard Browman was recently appointed to the Trustee Board (= board of directors) of the Committee on Publication Ethics. He will also continue on the COPE Council. Howard looks forward to continuing to contribute to COPE’s important work: COPE “is committed to educating and supporting editors, publishers and those involved in publication ethics with the aim …
CoastVision project start-up meeting
14-16 September 2022 – The start-up meeting of the CoastVision project took place in Grimstad/Arendal last week. Sixteen of the project’s partners participated in the meeting. The project members presented data and state-of-the-art methods, which resulted in exciting discussions. We also took time to explore Grimstad’s rich culture of food production and maritime history. The next 12 months of the …
Exposure to magnetic fields from subsea cables slows down haddock larvae
12 September 2022 – Alessandro Cresci’s latest article reports that Atlantic haddock larvae swam more slowly after being exposed in the laboratory to magnetic fields similar to those created by undersea cables connecting offshore wind farms. Read a stories about the work HERE, and HERE (in Norwegian) and the article in PNAS Nexus HERE.
Alessandro Cresci presents at the 32nd Congress of the European Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
30 August 2022 – Alessandro Cresci presented a talk – “A unique approach to assessing the impact of low-frequency noise and magnetic fields generated by offshore wind farms on behavior and dispersal of fish larvae” – at 32nd Congress of the European Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry in Napoli, Italy. The talk was one of two recognized as “best …
Who are the scientists with the biggest social media impact in Norway? Howard Browman is one of them.
16 August 2022 – Who are the scientists with the biggest social media impact in Norway? That is the question that the TwiLi Index attempts to answer. The ‘Twitter-LinkedIn’ index ranks researchers affiliated with research institutions in Norway based on their Twitter and LinkedIn following. Howard Browman is on the list. To be impactful on social media you have to …
Wrasse field work underway!
16 June 2022 – Kim Halvorsen, Tonje Knutsen Sørdalen, Anne Berit Skiftesvik and our team study the ecology and reproduction of wrasse in a small MPA in Austevoll, Norway. More than 15000 individuals have been tagged with PIT-tags since 2017. Understanding how fishing and temperature affects mating behavior and the phenology of the reproductive season is important because the wrasse …
Lesser sandeel larvae are unaffected by subsea electrical cables
21 April 2022 – Alessandro Cresci et al. recently published an article showing that the magnetic fields associated with subsea electrical cables associated with offshore wind facilities are unlikely to affect the larvae of lesser sandeel. Read a story about the work HERE. Read the article HERE.
Could fish larvae be disturbed by offsore wind farms?
10 February 2022 – Alessandro Cresci‘s postdoctoral work on offshore wind is described in a recent article. Alessandro is also providing advice at the European level on the impacts of noise on marine life as Young Ambassador for the European Marine Board (EMB), a body that provides guidelines on research priorities in Europe. He recently co-authored a new comprehensive report from the …
Nordic Council of Ministers report on sustainable use of cleaner fish
7 December 2021 – Kim Halvorsen, Anne Berit Skiftesvik and Caroline Durif were part of the core writing team for this important report: Halvorsen, K., A.B. Skiftesvik, C. Durif, E. Faust, H. Wennhage, C. André, J.L. Rønfeldt, P.R. Møller, H. Carl, T. Jørgensen, M. Quintela, N. Sandlund, L.H. Stien, K. Nedreaas, E. Jansson, H.H. Stockhausen, K. Korsnes, P. Reynolds, A. …
A unifying hypothesis for the spawning migrations of temperate anguillid eels
12 October 2021 – Caroline Durif lead the way in conceptualizing, synthesizing, analyzing and writing this important review article that puts forward a unifying hypothesis to explain how anguillid eels, including the European eel, manage their amazing long distance migrations. Read the article HERE, the press release, and a story about the work in The Economist, HERE.
ADDRESSING UNDERWATER NOISE IN EUROPE
20 October 2021 – Alessandro Cresci contributed to the European Marine Board‘s future science brief on addressing underwater noise in Europe. Read the brief HERE.
A TRIBUTE TO THE LIFE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF SIDNEY J. HOLT
1 October 2021 – Read the articles published in tribute to Sidney Holt in the latest issues of the ICES Journal of Marine Science! Cartoon by Bas Kohler.
Should I stay or should I go (home)?
21 September 2021. The team is investigating the homing ability of the goldsinny wrasse, a territorial reef fish that performs relatively short winter migrations from shallow to deeper water. In September, a team from IMR (Kim Halvorsen, Torkel Larsen, Even Moland and Esben Moland Olsen) and the University of Agder (Lars Korslund) surgically implanted telemetry tags in 60 goldsinny wrasse. …
Alessandro Cresci wins Fisheries Oceanography’s first award for best article by an early career researcher!
17 August 2021 – Alessandro Cresci has been awarded Fisheries Oceanography’s first best article by an early career researcher award for his article: “The lunar compass of European glass eels (Anguilla anguilla) increases the probability that they recruit to North Sea coasts“, by Alessandro Cresci, Anne D. Sandvik, Pål N. Sævik, Bjørn Ådlandsvik, Maria Josefina Olascoaga, Philippe Miron, Caroline M. …
COASTVISION is funded by the Research Council of Norway!
25 June 2021 – Kim Halvorsen and the team have been awarded a new project, “Computer vision to expand monitoring and accelerate assessment of coastal fish (COASTVISION)”, by The Research Council of Norway’s Oceans Program. COASTVISION seeks to develop computer vision for efficient processing of video from coastal surveys. This approach will be applied to case studies for detection, species …