16 June 2016 – Caroline Durif gave a talk, co-authored by Anne Berit Skiftesvik and Reidun Bjelland, on the behavior of wrasse used as cleanerfish on salmon farms. The talk was presented at the cleanerfish conference (aqKva rensefisk) in Stord, Norway at which there were over 100 participants from the salmon industry.

6-10 June 2016 – Caroline Durif participated in the meeting of the lumpfish working group in Nuuk, Greenland. Participants from Norway, Iceland, Canada and Greenland presented methods for assessing the status of lumpfish stocks as well as ongoing research. A field trip was organized to collect lumpfish and demonstrate tagging methods. Although a little late in the season, four individuals …

30 May – 3 June 2016 – Howard Browman participated in the ICES-sponsored symposium on “Understanding marine socio-ecological systems: including the human dimension in Integrated Ecosystem Assessments” = MSEAS2016.

9-13 May 2016 – Howard Browman, Caroline Durif, Anne Berit Skiftesvik, and David Fields participated in the ICES/PICES 6th Zooplankton Production Symposium where they presented three posters and one oral presentation: Browman, H.I., J.A. Runge, D.M. Fields, C.R.S. Thompson, S.D. Shema, R.M. Bjelland, C.M.F. Durif & A.B. Skiftesvik. End of the century CO2 concentrations do not have a negative effect …

22 April 2016 – Caroline Durif was invited to participate in the annual meeting of FITFISH, an EU COST action. The meeting took place in Belgrade, Serbia. She presented a talk on “Orientation and navigation of the European eel using the Earth’s magnetic field”. The main objective of FITFISH is to develop a research network in which fish swimming in the wild …

8-9 February 2016, Oslo, Norway – Anne Berit Skiftesvik and Reidun Bjelland participated in the “Cleanerfish 2016” conference about the use of cleanerfish as delousing agents on salmon farms. The conference, organized by the Norwegian Seafood Research Fund, was attended by 320 researchers, salmon farmers and industry representatives. Anne Berit presented  a talk entitled, “Artificial light and cleanerfish” that can …

25-27 January 2016 – Caroline Durif, Anne Berit Skiftesvik and Howard Browman participated in the ICES WKBECEEL workshop, held at the beautiful and historic Solstrand Hotel in Os, Norway.  The workshop was convened to answer the question,  “Are contaminants in eels contributing to their decline?”. The terms of reference of the working group can be viewed HERE.

20-22 January 2016, Copenhagen – Howard Browman participated in the workshop, “Making the ecosystem approach operational“. The workshop addressed challenges and barriers to the implementation of the ecosystem approach to management. Selected contributions to the workshop will be published in the ICES Journal of Marine Science.  

7 January 2016 – Howard Browman was awarded the prize for best weekly departmental seminar of the year for his lecture, “Applying organized skepticism to ocean acidification research, or some organisms will do just fine in a high CO2 world”. The lecture can be viewed HERE.

A selection of the presentations that members of the team have made at conferences and as departmental/institutional seminars can be viewed HERE.

30 November – 1 December 2015, Tromsø – Howard Browman and Anne Berit Skiftesvik participated in the 10th MUNIN Conference on Scholarly Publishing. Howard presented a talk entitled, “The use and misuse of bibliometric indices in evaluating scholarly performance“. A high quality video of the talk can be viewed HERE. Videos of all of the talks presented at the conference …

10-11 November, 2015 – Howard participated in the Fram Science Days conference at which he presented a talk entitled, “Applying organized skepticism to ocean acidification research, or some organisms will do just fine in a high CO2 world”. The poster – “Arctic copepod Calanus glacialis larvae are tolerant to lowered pH” – presented at the conference by our collaborator, Ph.D. …

4-6 November, 2015 – Howard and Anne Berit were at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie’s Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, in Villefranche sur Mer. Howard gave a talk entitled, “Effects of climate change on ichthyoplankton and zooplankton in temperate and sub-Arctic oceans”. Howard was also an examiner at the Ph.D. defense of Dr. Robin Faillettaz – congratulations Robin for a superb …

27-30 October, 2015 – Howard Browman and Anne Berit Skiftesvik participated in the ICES Symposium on “Targets and limits for long term fisheries management” held in Athens, Greece.

29 October, 2015 – Howard Browman and Anne Berit Skiftesvik visited the Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters Division of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, for which Howard is a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel.