ICES Journal of Marine Science, for which Howard Browman has been editor-in-chief since 2012, turns 100 this year! We hope that some of the celebratory initiatives listed below will be of some interest to you. The first 100 years of the ICES Journal of Marine Science One hundred years of topics and citations in ICES Journal of Marine Science Centenary …
ECOLUMP project meeting
16-18 March 2026 – Otoliths and project updates were discussed during a productive ECOLUMP workshop (held at Austevoll and later at Solstrand Fjord Hotel). You will find a description of the ECOLUMP project HERE. The aim of the project is to determine the population structure and migratory strategies of Atlantic lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus). We had the pleasure of hosting project …
Generative artificial intelligence in scholarly publishing
16 March 2026 – Howard Browman gave a seminar on this topic at the University of Agder’s research group, Quality in Scientific Scholarship. You can view the seminar HERE.
Hannes Baumann visits the team
26-27 February 2026 – Hannes Baumann, lead scientist of the Evolutionary Fish Ecology Laboratory at the University of Connecticut, visited with us to discuss ongoing and future work on sandeel. A PhD student who is working with Hannes – Emma Siegfried – has been working at the station on the effect of ocean acidification and temperature on sandeel since December. …
What’s the deal with eels?
27 November 2025 – Caroline Durif talks about the European eel on the BBC’s The Infinite Monkey Cage podcast. Listen to the podcast HERE. The BBC description of the podcast: Fishing rods at the ready, Brian Cox and Robin Ince attempt to reel in a creature that has baffled scientists since Aristotle: the eel. Wriggling in to help them uncover …
The NFR-funded ECOLUMP project reaches another milestone!
26 September 2025. The NFR-funded ECOLUMP project (see HERE and scroll down until you get to a description of this project) reaches another milestone! The team completed a field experiment to explore whether the orientation behavior of juvenile lumpfish varies according to the spawning location, and whether their behavior is inherited from their parents. The team observed the behavior of …
Howard Browman receives the ICES Outstanding Achievement Award
15 September 2025 – Howard Browman was presented with the ICES Outstanding Achievement Award at the ICES Annual Science Conference in Klaipeda, Lithuania. Read the laudatios HERE and HERE. It was wonderful to have so many members of our team present to help celebrate: Anne Berit Skiftesvik, Caroline Durif, Alessandro Cresci, Kim Halvorsen, Tonje Knutsen Sørdalen and Ben Ellis.You can …
The team had an impressive presence at the ICES Annual Science Conference
15-18 September 2025 – The team had a major presence at the ICES Annual Science Conference in Klaipeda, Lithuania, 15-18 September 2025. Here are the abstracts that were presented. Durif, C.M.F., R. Bjelland, P. Perrichon, H.I. Browman, A. Cresci, E. Johnsen, T. Larsen, A.B. Skiftesvik & E. Sørhus. Effect of oil and light intensity on the feeding behavior of lesser …
The team acquires a major piece of equipment
25 August 2025 – The research team has acquired a state-of-the-art low-frequency sound projector for underwater studies: the C-BASS M72-50, manufactured by GeoSpectrum Technologies Inc. (Canada). This instrument is capable of reproducing single and combined tones, frequency-modulated sweeps, communication signals, as well as white or shaped noise at high intensity. The projector will be used to expose marine organisms to …
Exposure to cotton and polyester microfibers leads to different fatty acid profiles and chemical contaminants concentrations in juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
Erdle, L.M., K. Stevack, C. Parzanini, M.T. Arts & C.M. Rochman 2025. Exposure to cotton and polyester microfibers leads to different fatty acid profiles and chemical contaminants concentrations in juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 2025;, vgaf093, https://doi.org/10.1093/etojnl/vgaf093.Read the paper
The team’s work is presented at the 2025 Larval Fish Conference
17 June 2025 – Ph.D. student Gauthier Felix Lorillard presented two pieces of work at the 48th Larval Fish Conference in Quebec City: Lorillard, G.F., C.M.F. Durif, C. Guillebon, A. Cresci, A.B. Skiftesvik, H.I. Browman, R. Bjelland, A. Thorsen, G. Zhang, L. Doksæter Sivle & P. Perrichon. Effect of electromagnetic fields on the fertilization success and embryonic development of Atlantic …
Howard Browman is amongst the world’s top 2% of scientists in his subject area discipline
4 May 2025 – Researchers at Stanford University have produced a ranking of the top researchers in the world within their subject area disciplines – see HERE. Based on standardised data on citations, h-index, and a wide range of bibliometric indicators, this list identifies the world’s leading researchers, representing approximately 2% of all scientists worldwide. The excel sheets containing the …
What colours do sandeel see?
1-7 April 2025 – Our long-time (27 years!) collaborator Ellis Loew was with us at Austevoll. His visit was supported by the KNOWSANDEEL project. He worked with the team to characterize the spectral sensitivity of the eyes of sandeel from larvae through juveniles to adults using the microspectrophotometer that he built for us. Preliminary results indicate that all stages have …
Effects of anthropogenic electromagnetic fields used for subsurface oil and gas exploration on the early development of Atlantic haddock
12 December 2024 – Our latest research conducted at the Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway exploring the impacts of methods used for subsea oil exploration on the early life stages of fish was just published in Marine Pollution Bulletin (see below)! Controlled-source electromagnetics (CSEM) uses low-frequency (0.1–10 Hz) electromagnetic fields to discover oil reservoirs laying underneath the sea floor. This …
Team retreat at Flødevigen
25-28 November 2024 – The annual team retreat was held at Flødevigen. Most of the team, and associated colleagues, participated: Torkel Larsen, Ben Ellis, Marthe Stendal, Alessandro Cresci, Kim Halvorsen, Anne Berit Skiftesvik, Caroline Durif, Howard Browman, Rolf Korneliussen, Tonje Sørdalen, James Poling, Guosong Zhang and Reidun Bjelland. Over four days, we shared good meals, listened to updates on our …