2-6 June 2019 – Howard Browman participated in the World Conference on Research Integrity held at the University of Hong Kong. Among other things, he participated in the debate session, organized by COPE, “Preprints: beneficial or harmful for research integrity and publication ethics” where he took the side against the widespread use of preprints, particularly in fields that support public …

14 April 2019 – David Fields, Steve Shema and Karen de Jong et al. (in the photo above) are working on a project to assess whether the airguns used in seismic surveys (for subsea deposits of oil and natural gas) kill zooplankton. To accomplish this we are using a Schindler-Patalas trap to collect zooplankton at different distances from the airgun …

12 April 2019 – Alessandro Cresci presented a seminar at the University of Miami on the last chapter of his Ph.D. thesis. His presentation won the best student seminar award at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School Department of Ocean Sciences. This is the second year in a row that Alessandro has won this award. A manuscript on the work …

10 April 2019 – We are pleased and proud to announce that Caroline Durif has been promoted to “Principal” Research Scientist, the Norwegian Institute sector’s equivalent of Full Professor – congratulations Caroline!

17 January 2019 – Holly Shiels and Ph.D. student Martins Ainuera from the University of Manchester, UK, join Elin Sørhus to work in the electrophysiology lab at Austevoll. The work is one component of a large IMR project – EGGTOX, led by IMR researcher Sonnich Meier – the aim of which is to unravel the mechanistic effects of crude oil …

19 December 2018 – Alessandro presented a talk entitled, “Magnetic orientation in fish: from meso to large-scale migrations” based partly on his work at Austevoll with European eel, cod, haddock, saithe and herring.

Skiftesvik, A.B., R. Bjelland, C. Durif, K. Halvorsen, D. Fields, E. Loew & H. Browman (2018). Lys og rensefisk. Norsk Fiskeoppdrett 12, 2018: 42-55.Read the article (in Norwegian).

The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography gives the Ramón Margalef Award to scientists and educators for excellence in teaching and mentoring in the fields of limnology and oceanography. David Fields of the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has been awarded this distinguished honor for his enthusiastic leadership and effusive commitment to developing transformative, hands-on marine science education …

19 November 2018 – Howard Browman was appointed to a three year term as an independent adviser  to the Marine Stewardship Council‘s (MSC) Peer Review College Oversight Committee. Among other activities, the MSC Fisheries Standard is used to assess if a fishery is well-managed and sustainable. The Standard reflects the most up-to-date understanding of internationally accepted fisheries science and management.The MSC’s Peer …

5-8 November 2018 – Rosa Escobar and Gustavo Nunez (along with about 300 other researchers) participated in the Sea Lice 2018 conference in Chile. Rosa presented her work:  Escobar, R.H., D.M. Fields, H.I. Browman, S.D. Shema, R.M. Bjelland, A.B. Skiftesvik & C.M.F. Durif. The effects of hydrogen peroxide on mortality, escape response and oxygen consumption of Calanus spp.  and Gustavo presented …

19 October 2018 – Howard Browman participated in a webinar on aquatic animal welfare organized by the U.S. Aquaculture Society and the U.S. National Aquaculture Association. Other talks were given by Craig Watson, Director, University of Florida, Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory, Ben Diggles, Director, DigsFish Services Pty and Randy MacMillan, Vice-President for Research, Technical Services and Quality Assurance, Clear Springs Foods. The webinar was recorded …

July-October 2018. Rosa Escobar, Ole Samuelsen, Ann-Lisbeth Agnalt and Aoife Parsons conducted a series of experiments to asses the sensitivity of European Lobster (Homarus gammarus) larval stages I to IV to the delousing agents Hydrogen Peroxide, Deltamethrin, Azamethiphos and the mixture of the last two. This will be followed by a behavioral study on the impacts of sublethal doses of …

October 2018 – Caroline Durif, Anne Berit Skiftesvik and Reidun Bjelland made several trips to southern Norway to talk with fishers (engaged in a sentinel fishery to assess the population status of the European eel along the Norwegian coast) and to tag eel as part of the Team’s MAREEL project (led by Caroline). Eels were tagged with data storage tags that record …

October 2018 – David Fields, Steve Shema and Cameron Thompson spent 3 weeks at Austevoll conducting an experiment to assess epigenetic responses in Cladocerans, rotifers and copepods to ocean acidification and warming. The objective of the project is to improve our understanding of the capacity of marine populations to adapt to climate change. The project is in collaboration with Neel …

October 2018 – Bastien Taormina, a Ph.D. student at IFREMER’s Centre de Bretagne, DYNECO, Laboratoire d’écologie benthique lab and France Energies Marines in Plouzané, France, is visiting us to work on the effect of electromagnetic fields (produced by subsea power cables) on juvenile lobster. To accomplish that, and with the assistance of Florian Freytet, he built a coil system (he is …