14 September 2017 – Howard Browman participated in an information day on ocean acidification at the Norwegian Environment Agency where he presented a talk – intended to motivate discussion – entitled, “How applying organized skepticism to ocean acidification research can inform us about what we must/must not do next”. You can watch the lecture HERE.
Fiskar etter svar om ålen (Fishing for answers about the eel)
22 August 2017 – HERE is an article, and video, about the Team’s work (led by Caroline Durif) on population dynamics of the European eel in Norwegian waters (in Norwegian). The opening of a small-scale (20 tons) eel fishery in Norway in support of this research – in collaboration with 29 fishers – was reported on by the Norwegian trade …
Howard Browman elected to serve on the Council of the Committee on Publication Ethics
28 July 2017 – Howard Browman was recently elected to serve a three year term as a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics‘ Council. With >11000 members, and growing, COPE is the worldwide authority on best practice and ethics in scholarly publishing and journal editing. This important position complements well Howard’s role as Editor-in-Chief of the ICES Journal of …
The Odyssean migration of the European eel – How a magnetic compass linked to an internal biological clock prevents glass eels from being lost at sea
09 June 2017 – The odyssey of the European eel begins when they hatch in the Sargasso Sea. As little leptocephalus larvae, they travel thousands of kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean, hopefully making it to the European continental shelf. When eel leptocephali arrive at the continental shelf, they metamorphose into transparent glass eels, changing shape, physiology and behavior. At some point …
Howard Browman at the European Food Safety Authority
11-12 May 2017 – Howard Browman was Program Moderator for the animal consciousness sub-program, and a Scientific Expert, at the Annual Meeting of the European Food Safety Authority‘s Annual Animal Health and Welfare Network Meeting, Parma, Italy. Read the executive summary of the document on animal consciousness HERE, and the complete document HERE.
Incredible aerial video of our MagLab taken with our Mavic Pro drone!
29 April 2017 – Check out this amazing aerial video of our magnetic orientation testing laboratory, and surroundings, taken by Alessandro Cresci! To see where the lab is located, go to these coordinates in google earth – 60°07’02.9″N 5°12’42.5″E – or click HERE.
High-level delegation tours the lab!
21 April 2017: Howard Browman, Anne Berit Skiftesvik, David Fields and Alessandro Cresci showed the lab, and explained our projects, to Per Sandberg (Norwegian Minister of Fisheries) and Shuping Zhi (Chinese Minister of Veterinary Issues).
The team’s recent (= 2017) publications
2017 Bailey, A., P. Thor, H.I. Browman, D.M. Fields, J.A. Runge, A. Vermont, R. Bjelland, C. Thompson, S. Shema, C.M.F. Durif & H. Hop. 2017. The early life stages of the Arctic copepod Calanus glacialis are unaffected by increased seawater pCO2. ICES Journal of Marine Science 74: 996-1004.Read the paper Bailey, A., P. de Wit, P. Thor, H.I. Browman, R.M. …
Ph.D. student Alessandro Cresci at Austevoll to conduct his field work!
April-June 2017 – Alessandro Cresci is here to work with us on swimming and orientation in glass eels. He will be working in our Magnetic Laboratory facility to assess how glass eels use the earth’s magnetic field as an orientation cue in their migrations. He will also test glass eel (and saithe larvae) swimming and orientation in the field using …
Visiting researcher from China
28 March 2017 – Bin Kang, from the Fishery College of Jimei University in Xiamen, China, will be visiting with us for three weeks this spring in order to plan a longer collaborative visit sometime in the near future.
Fake News – the real-life dangers of over-interpreting your results in an alternative facts world
22 March 2017 – Howard Browman delivered a lecture, “Fake News – the real-life dangers of over-interpreting your results in an alternative facts world”, at the Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway. Watch the lecture HERE.
Howard Browman wins award
22 March 2017 – Howard Browman was awarded the Institute of Marine Research’s best weekly seminar award (2016) for his lecture, “Where has all the recruitment research gone?”. The lecture was based on this article, Rice, J. & H.I. Browman. 2014. Where has all of the recruitment research gone, long time passing? ICES Journal of Marine Science 71: 2293-2299. Click HERE …
ICES WKEELDATA workshop
28 February – 2 March 2017 – A workshop on designing a data call for the European eel (WKEELDATA), Chaired by Caroline Durif, met in Rennes, France. The eel working group (WGEEL) relies on a variety of biological, catch and other impacts data from countries across this endangered species’ distribution range. This new data call, hosted by ICES, EIFAAC and …
Visiting researcher from Chile
February-May 2017 – Gustavo Núñez-Acuña, a Ph.D. student with Dr. Cristian Gallardo-Escárate at the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Aquatic Genomics, Interdisciplinary Center for Aquaculture Research, University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile, is visiting us for 3 months to collaborate on physiological and behavioural responses of salmon lice to host-specific chemical attractants.
Lumpfish working group meeting
7-9 February 2017 – The working group on lumpfish (WGlump) was hosted by Caroline Durif, in Bekkjarvik, Austevoll, Norway. Participants were Rasmus Hedeholm (Greenland Institute of Natural Ressources, Greenland), James Kennedy (Marine Research Institute, Iceland), Halldor Olafsson (BioPol, Iceland), and Johanne Gauthier (DFO, Canada). The group discussed recent updates on lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) research and compared the different methods of assessments of …