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 …
Assessing the effects of offshore wind turbine facilities on fish early life stages
June 2021 – This has been an intense period for Alessandro Cresci, who has been conducting field work using a unique combination of intruments to assess if/how the operational noise generated by offshore wind turbines affects the swiming and orientation behaviour of fish larvae. Alessandro places fish larvae into drifting chambers and, using a Geospectrum Technologies C-Bass speaker, simultaneously plays …
Field work for offshore wind project ++ kicks off!
7 May 2021 – Studying the orientation behavior of cod, haddock and halibut larvae in situ in Norwegian fjords (using drifting chambers) to support a better understanding, and biophysical coupled simulation modelling, of their dispersal. For cod, haddock, and sandeel, we will also obtain unique data to better understand the possible impact-risk (if any) of planned large-scale offshore wind facilities …
Hunting for sand eel
Mid-december 2020 – A team from IMR consisting of Caroline Durif, Alessandro Cresci and Elin Sørhus went out to the open ocean outside of Karmøy to fetch ripe sandeel. Together with fisherman Geir Kenneth Eriksen and his boat “Åkrabuen”, they caught 45 adult sand eel and brought them back to the IMR’s Austevoll Research Station. Sand eel is a forage …
Tracking individual fish using machine learned facial recognition
12 November 2020. Kim Halvorsen and Tonje Knutsen Sørdalen’s work on tracking individual fish using machine learned facial recognition is covered by Norwegian National Television Network.Read the story (in Norwegian)See the video interview (in Norwegian)
FROM THE BIG APPLE TO THE FJORDS OF NORWAY IN 2020
7 October 2020. Read the story of Alessandro’s Cresci’s harrowing journey from New York City to Austevoll, Norway, to take up his new role as postdoctoral researcher. His blog post for the European Marine Board can be accessed HERE.
The eel field work period has started!
28 July 2020 – Eel season has started and our team is collecting samples to learn more about the life history strategies of the European eel. Eels are catadromous, meaning that they spawn in the sea but grow in freshwater. However, some individuals skip the freshwater phase and complete their life-cycle in marine coastal waters. During our current field work, …
Setting the stage for the machine intelligence era in marine science
20 July 2020 – This themed article initiative published today in the ICES Journal of Marine Science. Read the introduction HERE, read all of the articles in the initiative HERE, and read stories about it HERE and HERE. The great cartoon is by Bas Kohler.
ICES Working Group on Offshore Wind Development and Fisheries
6 July 2020 – Alessandro Cresci has been appointed as a member ICES Working Group on Offshore Wind Development and Fisheries (WGOWDF), chaired by Andrew Lipsky, Andrew Gill, and Antje Gimpel. The working group will generate review papers, methods publications, and recommendation reports assessing the impacts of offshore wind farms on fishery operations and fishing communities, fishery-independent surveys, fishery-dependent data, …
European Marine Board’s Working Group on underwater noise kicks off!
30 June 2020 – Alessandro Cresci has been appointed as a member of the European Marine Board’s (EMB) newly formed working group on underwater noise. This group, chaired by Dr. Frank Thomsen (DHI, Denmark) and co-chaired by Sonia Mendes (JNCC, UK), is populated by leading European experts on underwater noise. The underwater noise working group published a position paper in …
Intense days of wrasse field work underway
25 June 2020 – Torkel Larsen, Anne Berit Skiftesvik and Kim Halvorsen, with some help from Alessandro Cresci, are engaged in an intensive 10 days of field work (8-9 hours a day on the water) as part of the team’s ongoing research on coastal wrasse population dynamics and reproductive ecology. The photos are of Anne Berit with a pollock (a …