Stuart Corney
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Stuart Corney
@corneystuart.bsky.social
Associate professor in Oceans and Cryosphere at @utas.edu.au, studying impacts of climate change in the Southern Ocean with a focus on ecosystems
Reposted by Stuart Corney
1/ Crabeater seals are the most abundant top predator in the Southern Ocean and probably the most numerous large wild mammals on earth. Because they live almost their entire lives amongst floating sea ice around #Antarctica, it’s difficult to count them – total population is an estimated 15 million.
October 31, 2025 at 5:28 AM
New paper led by PhD student Ben Viola. We used shipboard data to better understand how snow petrels associate with their marine habitat!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
August 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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July 28, 2025 at 6:18 AM
There is so much to unpack in this article, from the ethics of de-extinction to whether a mouse is a good proxy for an elephant... but boy are the woolly mice cute
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice
Genetically modified mice have traits geared towards cold tolerance, in step towards modifying elephants
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Reposted by Stuart Corney
The world’s oceans experienced three-and-a-half times as many marine heatwave days last year and in 2023 compared with any other year on record according to a new study in Nature Climate Change.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Surge in marine heatwaves costs lives and billions in storm damage – study
Floods, whale strandings and coral bleaching all more likely, say researchers, as 10% of ocean hits record high temperatures in 2023-24
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM