26 June 2018 – Neel Aluru from WHOI visiting with us at Austevoll to discuss our new project that will use marine Cladocerans and rotifers as model organisms to assess whether marine organisms can adapt at rates fast enough to track to climate change and to determine what the limits of adaptation might be.
Committee on Publication Ethics – Council Retreat
10-13 June 2018. Howard Browman participated in the COPE Council retreat at which complex but facinating ethical and best practice issues in scholarly publishing were discussed.
Fourth International Symposium on The Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Oceans (ECCWO)
4-8 June 2018, Washington, DC. Howard Browman participated in the symposium. He also presented a brief history of the ICES Journal of Marine Science, its current editorial policies and competitive position, and the details of submitting manuscripts for publication in the special ECCWO symposium issue. For details about ECCWO, go to the symposium’s website, HERE. For a summary of symposium …
Chasing glass eels in Spain
Every year around Christmas, glass eels of the species Anguilla anguilla are recruited to the Spanish coastline. They are the subject of a recreational fishery in the Basque country. Caroline Durif went along with the fishers with a Norwegian author Torolf Kroglund and their host Estibaliz Diaz from AZTI tecnalia. Glass eel sampling was scheduled in the little town of …
Alessandro Cresci wins best student publication award
3 January 2018 – We are proud to announce that Alessandro Cresci has won the award for best student publication for his article, Cresci, A., C.B. Paris, C.M.F. Durif, S. Shema, R. Bjelland, A.B. Skiftesvik & H.I. Browman. 2017. Glass eels (Anguilla anguilla) have a magnetic compass linked to the tidal cycle. Science Advances 3: e1602007, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602007. The Best …
The importance of the marine habitat for the critically endangered European eel
18 December 2017 – The Research Council of Norway’s MARINFORSK Program has funded a four-year project (2018-2021) – led by Caroline Durif – to understand the factors that drive European eels to either colonize freshwater systems or remain in saltwater systems or shift habitat by determining their relative ecological advantage in terms of growth, fatty acid profiles, dietary pattern and …
MAREEL – The importance of the marine habitat for the critically endangered European eel
Funding agencies: The Research Council of Norway, MARINFORSK Program + The Institute of Marine Research, Coastal Ecosystems Program. Project period: 2018-2021 Project leader: Caroline Durif Co-investigators: Howard Browman, Anne Berit Skiftesvik, Even Moland, Eva Thorstad, Francoise Daverat, Michael Arts, Janet Koprivnikar, Michael Power, Leif Asbjørn Vøllestad. Project summary The European eel, (Anguilla anguilla) is semi-catadromous: it spawns in …
The effects of photo-induced toxicity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon on the escape performance and foraging behaviour of larval fish
Funding agency: The Institute of Marine Research, Marine Processes and Human Activity Program Project period: 2018-2021 Project leaders: Bridie Jean Marie Allan and Sonnich Meier Co-investigators: Howard Browman, Caroline Durif, Anne Berit Skiftesvik, Elin Sørhus, Carey Donald, Valeriya Komyakova, Olav Sigurd Kjesbu, Arild Folkvord Project summary This project will use laboratory exposures of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAHs) and ultraviolet radiation …
Committee on Publication Ethics – Board of Directors Retreat
1-4 November 2017 – Howard Browman participated in the COPE Board of Director’s retreat during which many important issues in publication ethics were discussed and plans made to develop new resources for the scholarly community!
Foreslår leppefiske bare hvert tredje år (Fallowing – within zones – for the wrasse fishery)
4 November 2017 – Anne Berit Skiftesvik is interviewed for an article appearing in Bergens Tidende about coastal zoning for the wrasse (cleanerfish) fishery, including the possibility of only fishing within one zone every three years (=fallowing). Read the article HERE (in Norwegian).
Forskerne jobber beinhardt for å få leppefiskoversikt (Researchers are working hard to assess the stock status of cleanerfish)
25 October 2017 – Anne Berit Skiftesvik was interviewed for a story about the coastal fishery for wrasses. Read the article HERE (in Norwegian).
Collaboration with Chile – Linking transcriptomics with ecophysiology and behaviour
22-24 October 2017 – Dr. Cristian Gallardo-Escárate and Ph.D. candidate Gustavo Núñez-Acuña from the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Aquatic Genomics, Interdisciplinary Center for Aquaculture Research (INCAR), University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile, visited us at Austevoll to discuss current and future collaborations on linking transcriptomics in fishes and fish ectoparasites (e.g. sea lice) with ecophysiology and behaviour. Gustavo Núñez-Acuña is working on …
BONUS SYMPOSIUM: Science delivery for sustainable use of the Baltic Sea living resources
17-19 October 2017 – Howard Browman participated in the BONUS SYMPOSIUM: Science delivery for sustainable use of the Baltic Sea living resources, in Tallinn, Estonia. In addition to representing the ICES Journal of Marine Science (the symposium proceedings will be published therein), he was a member of the stakeholder panel on “Main challenges of sustainable balanced management in fisheries”
ICES Working Group on eel
3-10 October 2017 – Caroline Durif participated in the ICES Working Group on Eel meeting held in Greece 3-10 October. The meeting main objective as to update the assessment of the status of the eel stock and fisheries. The updated advice and report will be published on 7 November 2017 on the ICES website. More about the ICES Working Group …
Workshop on the environmental effects of anti-parasitic chemicals used in salmon aquaculture to local populations of crustaceans
21 September 2017 – Rosa Helena Escobar participated in a workshop on the environmental effects of salmon lice therapeutants at the IRIS Research Institute. Representatives from the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, chemical company Solvey, seafood company Marine Harvest ASA, research institutes IMR, NIVA and IRIS, and many other participants presented and discussed research on various chemicals, their use and the …