Hugh Venables
@deepseahugh.bsky.social
Birds/dragonflies (Cambridgeshire, Norfolk), Oceanography/cetaceans (Southern Ocean, Antarctica)
A bit of a "last dragonfly of the year" feel to the weather (and forecast). Good to see a few Common Darters still out at lunchtime in Cambridge
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A bit of a "last dragonfly of the year" feel to the weather (and forecast). Good to see a few Common Darters still out at lunchtime in Cambridge
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Worrying reports of bird flu (avian influenza) are coming in, including an outbreak in Whooper Swans in the Fens. Other waterbirds are also being affected, and cases are rising.
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Worrying reports of bird flu (avian influenza) are coming in, including an outbreak in Whooper Swans in the Fens. Other waterbirds are also being affected, and cases are rising.
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
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1/ Calling UK birders! 📢 We need your vital help to fill data gaps for bird populations outside the breeding season via the Winter Bird Survey ➡️www.bto.org/winbs #Ornithology #UKBirding
September 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
1/ Calling UK birders! 📢 We need your vital help to fill data gaps for bird populations outside the breeding season via the Winter Bird Survey ➡️www.bto.org/winbs #Ornithology #UKBirding
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Upper ocean heat content (0 to 700 m depth) also set a new record high with the latest June data update (see my earlier post). Yikes! 🌊
Graphic/data (anomalies) from www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/globa...
Graphic/data (anomalies) from www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/globa...
August 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Upper ocean heat content (0 to 700 m depth) also set a new record high with the latest June data update (see my earlier post). Yikes! 🌊
Graphic/data (anomalies) from www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/globa...
Graphic/data (anomalies) from www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/globa...
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🌊❄️🧪 🇦🇶 Please share:
We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October.
If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)
We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October.
If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)
July 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
🌊❄️🧪 🇦🇶 Please share:
We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October.
If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)
We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October.
If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)
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The Cambs Local Nature Recovery Strategy is now open for consultation.
Take a look at what is proposed our county and give your views. This strategy will influence planning & investment decisions for the county, so it is vital that we have robust plan
yourvoice.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/lnrs/consult...
Take a look at what is proposed our county and give your views. This strategy will influence planning & investment decisions for the county, so it is vital that we have robust plan
yourvoice.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/lnrs/consult...
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Local Nature Recovery Strategy Consultation
- Your Voice - Cambridgeshire County Council
- Citizen Space
Find and participate in activities run by Cambridgeshire County Council
yourvoice.cambridgeshire.gov.uk
July 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The Cambs Local Nature Recovery Strategy is now open for consultation.
Take a look at what is proposed our county and give your views. This strategy will influence planning & investment decisions for the county, so it is vital that we have robust plan
yourvoice.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/lnrs/consult...
Take a look at what is proposed our county and give your views. This strategy will influence planning & investment decisions for the county, so it is vital that we have robust plan
yourvoice.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/lnrs/consult...
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The #SouthWestMarineEcosystems 2024 report reveals some big shifts in marine life - from unusual #jellyfish blooms and #salp swarms, to major fish mortality events and shifts in #fisheries catches 🦞🪼 Read the highlights and access the full report here: pml.ac.uk/news/new-sou...
New South West Marine Ecosystems report published
This comprehensive report on the state of the marine ecosystems around the South West, including contributions from PML scientists, gives an wonderful overview of how the marine environment is fairing
pml.ac.uk
July 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The #SouthWestMarineEcosystems 2024 report reveals some big shifts in marine life - from unusual #jellyfish blooms and #salp swarms, to major fish mortality events and shifts in #fisheries catches 🦞🪼 Read the highlights and access the full report here: pml.ac.uk/news/new-sou...
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We went on a voyage into the depths of polar night on RRS Sir David Attenborough.
The fab @itvnews.bsky.social team came with us, and made a short doc about the adventure! From hoardes of whales, to sticking a camera in a crevasse - there's something for everyone ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KbP...
The fab @itvnews.bsky.social team came with us, and made a short doc about the adventure! From hoardes of whales, to sticking a camera in a crevasse - there's something for everyone ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KbP...
July 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
We went on a voyage into the depths of polar night on RRS Sir David Attenborough.
The fab @itvnews.bsky.social team came with us, and made a short doc about the adventure! From hoardes of whales, to sticking a camera in a crevasse - there's something for everyone ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KbP...
The fab @itvnews.bsky.social team came with us, and made a short doc about the adventure! From hoardes of whales, to sticking a camera in a crevasse - there's something for everyone ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KbP...
Amazing to lead this science trip. With three of us from Cambridge, two we picked up from Rothera, help from a couple of doctors and a great crew as always we got a huge amount done. Mud, nutrients, CTDs, phytoplankton and whales, plus getting swath data (very) near a few glaciers. Many thanks all!
RRS Sir David Attenborough has just wrapped up a first-of-its-kind science cruise, conducting research in the middle of polar winter...
📸Mike Meredith
📸Mike Meredith
June 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Amazing to lead this science trip. With three of us from Cambridge, two we picked up from Rothera, help from a couple of doctors and a great crew as always we got a huge amount done. Mud, nutrients, CTDs, phytoplankton and whales, plus getting swath data (very) near a few glaciers. Many thanks all!
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📢 New paper alert! 📢
New insight into how sea ice controls the ocean uptake of carbon dioxide around Antarctica, obtained from the unique year-round Rothera Time Series.
Delighted to be part of this study, led by the very excellent Elise Droste.
🧪❄️🥼🌊
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
New insight into how sea ice controls the ocean uptake of carbon dioxide around Antarctica, obtained from the unique year-round Rothera Time Series.
Delighted to be part of this study, led by the very excellent Elise Droste.
🧪❄️🥼🌊
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Sea ice controls net ocean uptake of carbon dioxide by regulating wintertime stratification - Communications Earth & Environment
Interannual variability of ocean uptake of carbon dioxide is governed by winter sea ice cover, according to analysis of carbonate chemistry observations along the West Antarctic Peninsula.
www.nature.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
📢 New paper alert! 📢
New insight into how sea ice controls the ocean uptake of carbon dioxide around Antarctica, obtained from the unique year-round Rothera Time Series.
Delighted to be part of this study, led by the very excellent Elise Droste.
🧪❄️🥼🌊
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
New insight into how sea ice controls the ocean uptake of carbon dioxide around Antarctica, obtained from the unique year-round Rothera Time Series.
Delighted to be part of this study, led by the very excellent Elise Droste.
🧪❄️🥼🌊
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Goodbye Rothera Research Station, and good luck! 👋
After an unusual extra-long season, the #RRSSirDavidAttenborough has departed the UK’s largest polar research station for the winter.
The station team will live and work at Rothera Research Station alone until October 💙
📽️ David ‘DJ’ Maxwell
After an unusual extra-long season, the #RRSSirDavidAttenborough has departed the UK’s largest polar research station for the winter.
The station team will live and work at Rothera Research Station alone until October 💙
📽️ David ‘DJ’ Maxwell
June 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Goodbye Rothera Research Station, and good luck! 👋
After an unusual extra-long season, the #RRSSirDavidAttenborough has departed the UK’s largest polar research station for the winter.
The station team will live and work at Rothera Research Station alone until October 💙
📽️ David ‘DJ’ Maxwell
After an unusual extra-long season, the #RRSSirDavidAttenborough has departed the UK’s largest polar research station for the winter.
The station team will live and work at Rothera Research Station alone until October 💙
📽️ David ‘DJ’ Maxwell
Rothera winterers seeing us off with flares. Planes will be back in October, until then they'll be on their own for science and keeping the station running. @bas.ac.uk
June 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Rothera winterers seeing us off with flares. Planes will be back in October, until then they'll be on their own for science and keeping the station running. @bas.ac.uk
Into the polar night down here on our very late visit to Rothera, but still good light for about three hours as dawn merges straight into dusk.
June 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Into the polar night down here on our very late visit to Rothera, but still good light for about three hours as dawn merges straight into dusk.
110 Humpbacks and a male Orca in a three hour survey through Lemaire Channel today. Amazing place and incredible amounts of wildlife still down here. @bas.ac.uk
June 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
110 Humpbacks and a male Orca in a three hour survey through Lemaire Channel today. Amazing place and incredible amounts of wildlife still down here. @bas.ac.uk
Heading south for a winter trip to Rothera for a month. Taking the chance of a very late ship call to base to get some extra samples from the area. Stunning route out of Punta Arenas to start the trip, with several Andean Condors
May 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Heading south for a winter trip to Rothera for a month. Taking the chance of a very late ship call to base to get some extra samples from the area. Stunning route out of Punta Arenas to start the trip, with several Andean Condors
Another Northstowe swan family started. An odd one, with three adults to go with the three cygnets. Same as last year, I assume the third adult is an offspring from an earlier brood. @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Another Northstowe swan family started. An odd one, with three adults to go with the three cygnets. Same as last year, I assume the third adult is an offspring from an earlier brood. @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social
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Falling finch numbers, fading farmland birds, declining Dippers and vanishing Cuckoo calls in England are worrying findings from the 2024 Breeding Bird Survey report out now! Read the report ➡️ www.bto.org/bbs-results
@btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social #Ornithology
@btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social #Ornithology
May 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Falling finch numbers, fading farmland birds, declining Dippers and vanishing Cuckoo calls in England are worrying findings from the 2024 Breeding Bird Survey report out now! Read the report ➡️ www.bto.org/bbs-results
@btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social #Ornithology
@btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social #Ornithology
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Our first photo, submitted 20 years ago today. Now over 7,950,000 photos of Britain and Ireland on the site - where will our eight millionth be?
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4
March 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Our first photo, submitted 20 years ago today. Now over 7,950,000 photos of Britain and Ireland on the site - where will our eight millionth be?
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4
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Commute getting you down? Try starting your day in Antarctica 🇦🇶
We're looking for boating officers, divers, chefs, generator technicians and more to work with us at British Antarctic Survey research stations.
These are jobs unlike any other, in one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
🧵 1/2
We're looking for boating officers, divers, chefs, generator technicians and more to work with us at British Antarctic Survey research stations.
These are jobs unlike any other, in one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
🧵 1/2
January 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Commute getting you down? Try starting your day in Antarctica 🇦🇶
We're looking for boating officers, divers, chefs, generator technicians and more to work with us at British Antarctic Survey research stations.
These are jobs unlike any other, in one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
🧵 1/2
We're looking for boating officers, divers, chefs, generator technicians and more to work with us at British Antarctic Survey research stations.
These are jobs unlike any other, in one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
🧵 1/2
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Newest view of trends in global sea surface temperatures. The cooling trend pattern continues in the eastern Pacific, while most all other areas significantly warm.
+ Data from @noaa.gov OISSTv2.1 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/opt...).
+ Graphic available for download at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
+ Data from @noaa.gov OISSTv2.1 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/opt...).
+ Graphic available for download at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
January 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Newest view of trends in global sea surface temperatures. The cooling trend pattern continues in the eastern Pacific, while most all other areas significantly warm.
+ Data from @noaa.gov OISSTv2.1 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/opt...).
+ Graphic available for download at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
+ Data from @noaa.gov OISSTv2.1 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/opt...).
+ Graphic available for download at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
Bearded Reedling in Northstowe, 154th species for the new town. Have been hoping for them a while now. Ouse Fen being 5 miles away helps, and seems to be a lot around this winter. In a ditch I can see part of from the house, before sensibly moving to the lake @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Bearded Reedling in Northstowe, 154th species for the new town. Have been hoping for them a while now. Ouse Fen being 5 miles away helps, and seems to be a lot around this winter. In a ditch I can see part of from the house, before sensibly moving to the lake @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social
I'm guessing the visibility depends on whether you're at the top of a wave or at the bottom
January 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I'm guessing the visibility depends on whether you're at the top of a wave or at the bottom
Fancy a year diving and doing oceanogrpahy in Antarctica, or know someone who might? Job advert out for wintering Ocean Scientist post (job previously known as Marine Assistant) and many others. Please apply, or share. bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...
January 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Fancy a year diving and doing oceanogrpahy in Antarctica, or know someone who might? Job advert out for wintering Ocean Scientist post (job previously known as Marine Assistant) and many others. Please apply, or share. bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...
Some favourite penguins for #penguinawarenessday though I think some are more aware than others. Looking forward to getting back south to the penguins soon.
January 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Some favourite penguins for #penguinawarenessday though I think some are more aware than others. Looking forward to getting back south to the penguins soon.
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ICYMI - 2024 was also the hottest year on record for our oceans. Unfortunately, we now say this every year. 🥹🌊
+ Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn
+ Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003...
+ Summary: www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the...
+ Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn
+ Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003...
+ Summary: www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the...
January 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
ICYMI - 2024 was also the hottest year on record for our oceans. Unfortunately, we now say this every year. 🥹🌊
+ Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn
+ Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003...
+ Summary: www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the...
+ Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn
+ Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003...
+ Summary: www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the...