24 May 2024 – Marthe Ruud Stendal, a Ph.D. student in the team, reports on a new world record: a 34 year old ballan wrasse. Read more about it HERE (in Norwegian, but you can use the google translate tool).
Sandeel field work underway!
8 May 2024 – Led by Alessandro Cresci and Guosong Zhang, the team successfully completed a complex experiment in situ to assess the behavior of early life stages of sandeel and how this is affected by exposure to oil, by exposure to low-frequency continuous noise (offshore wind operational noise), and by the cumulative effect of exposure to both oil and …
ECOLUMP – acoustic tagging of lumpfish
24 April 2024 – April has been an exciting and intense period for the ECOLUMP project. We are now entering the spring reproduction period for lumpfish. The field season started in Langfjorden in the municipality of Alta in Finnmark, Norway, where the team marked 20 female lumpfish with acoustic tags. The array has more than 50 hydrophones, which will be …
The ECOLUMP project is underway!
25 April 2024 – The ECOLUMP project, led by Caroline Durif and funded by the Norsk Forskningsråd, has started! The project’s objective is to generate new knowledge on the ecology, migration and behavior of the fascinating lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus), a species widely used as cleaner fish (to remove the ectoparasitic salmon lice) in salmon aquaculture. One of the objectives of …
Can a Fishing Ban Save the Elusive European Eel?
25 April 2024 – Caroline Durif is one of the researchers interviewed in this article about the science that informs the eel management – led by ICES’s WGEEL, for which Caroline is co-chair – plan in Europe.
Caroline Durif leads the annual meeting of European eel experts!
9-12 October 2023 – The European Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Advisory Commission (EIFAAC), the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) and the ICES Working Group on Eel (WGEEL) met in Helsinki, Finland this year. Caroline Durif was appointed chair of WGEEL in January 2023 along with Jan-Dag Pohlmann. Thirty-three participants gathered to share their expertise and provide the scientific …
Several members of the team participated in the ICES annual science conference in Bilbao, Spain
11-14 September 2023 – Several members of the team were in Bilbao, Spain for ICES ASC 2023. Alessandro Cresci presented his work, “Effects of low-frequency continuous noise on behaviour of cod larvae (Gadus morhua) in situ” in the session on “Ecosystem science needed to support a new era of offshore marine renewable energy“. Caroline Durif participated in WGEEL meetings and …
Exploring individual recognition in wrasse and its role mating behavior
June 2023 – Do wrasse use individual recognition in mate choice and social interactions? This question is currently being explored in a field experiment involving Ben Ellis, Tonje Sørdalen, Anne Berit Skiftesvik, Torkel Larsen, Noan le Goff (B.Sc. student from Université Bretagne Sud), Kim T. Halvorsen and our team. Using our pit-telemetry system on a corkwing wrasse nest colony in …
Scientific writing and publishing for marine scientists
30 May – 1 June 2023 – Howard Browman and Jan Pechenik were at ICES headquarters in Copenhagen where they co-taught an ICES training course on scientific writing and publishing. Learn more about the course HERE.
Lumpfish survey
May 2023 – Caroline Durif joined the Norwegian Fisheries Directorate to collect data from lumpfish landings. These data will be used to estimate the conversion factor used to calculate a number of fish landed from the volume of roe collected by fishers. The team sampled lumpfish caught on the beautiful island of Senja in Troms og Finmark, Norway.
Effect of operational noise from offshore wind turbines on fish larvae
May 2023 – Alessandro Cresci and the team conducted an experiment – using drifting in situ chambers – to assess the distance at which cod larvae respond to the noise generated by operating offshore wind turbines as part of our ongoing project “Assessing the effects of offshore wind turbine facilities on fish early life stages“. See stories about this project …
CRISPRESIST AND NOLICE COLLABORATORS AT AUSTEVOLL
3-22 April 2023 – The team had a lot of visitors during this period to work on two projects; CRISPRESIST and NOLICE. The overall aim of these projects is to identify naturally produced compounds that are associated with Atlantic salmon susceptibility and resistance to parasitic sea lice and to develop tools that can be applied to boost Atlantic salmon resistance …
Co-designing science for the ocean we want
14 March 2023: A new article theme set was published today in ICES Journal of Marine Science – Co-designing science for the ocean we want. Howard Browman was a co-editor of the collection, and a co-author of the introductory article. Co-design is a central principle of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Cartoon by Bas Köhler.
Navigating the increasingly complex and treacherous scientific publishing landscape
8 March 2023 – Howard Browman presented a lecture – remotely via ZOOM – on “Navigating the increasingly complex and treacherous scientific publishing landscape” to the British Antarctic Survey and the Natural Environment Research Council, UK. Abstract of the talkMy first article was published in 1986. The landscape of scientific publishing was much simpler then, and slower. It was not …
Experiments on sandeel larvae are underway!
23 February 2023 – The team – Caroline Durif, Reidun Bjelland, Alessandro Cresci, Anne Berit Skiftesvik and Howard Browman – conducted an experiment to determine the light level threshold for swimming and feeding behaviour in sandeel (Ammodytes marinus) larvae and their sensitivity to sub-lethal exposure of crude oil. Additional experiments will be conducted to study the behaviour of sandeel when …