Natalie Hicks
drnataliehicks.bsky.social
Natalie Hicks
@drnataliehicks.bsky.social
Senior lecturer, University of Essex
Benthic biogeochemist, marine sediments, carbon cycling, blue carbon, offshore, coastal
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🌿 Last week, our team was on the ground (and in the mud!) in the Scheldt Estuary

Our REWRITE field campaigns are helping piece together a complex puzzle: how #CoastalWetlands store #carbon, support #biodiversity, and respond to environmental pressures

Read more 🔗 rewriteproject.eu/blog/post/79...
August 5, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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28-mo postdoc OPEN TO ALL in Cork 🇮🇪. Hybrid #ecoengineering in #saltmarshes @ucc.ie. 🇪🇺-funded BLUESHORES Project. Collaborators: Laura Airoldi (Uni Padova 🇮🇹), Tjeerd Bouma & @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social (NIOZ 🇳🇱) Start: 1/9/25. Salary: €45k–€52k. 🌱🌊🦀🐌
See link: universityvacancies.com/university-c...
June 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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🦑🌊🧪 Please share among your networks, a Research Fellow post in #Ocean Dynamics and Floating Offshore #Wind Consequences on Key Ecosystem Drivers in the Celtic Sea working with me, @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social & @peterimiller.bsky.social tinyurl.com/44x66b5z #PlanktonImaging #RemoteSensing #AUVs
June 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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New paper out: Hydrology mediates #saltmarsh belowground biomass response to warming 🌊x🌡️=🌾
Very proud of PhD students Caro & Eva and the whole MERIT team
May 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Please join us for the upcoming Open Forum Session by the #Marine Climate Change Forum!

The session titled #Climatechange drivers in UK regional seas and Scottish #deepsea with Dr Heather Sugden and Dr Johanne Vad will be taking place online on Tues 8 Apr at 1 pm UTC.
MASTS Open Forum Session "Climate Change Drivers in UK regional seas and Scottish deep seas" - MASTS
The MASTS Marine Climate Change Forum is excited to host a free Open Forum Session with 2 interesting talks! Register Here! Talk 1: Investigating climate driven changes on marine invertebrates […]
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March 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
New paper with #Cefas and @mastscot.bsky.social colleagues on radioecology legacy around #decommissioned Oil & Gas structures - some fancy imaging to look inside macrofauna. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... From our NERC-INSITE project FuECoMMS #oilandgas #radiochemistry
A new approach for assessing the radioecological risk associated with the legacy discharge of oil derived natural radioactivity in the UK North Sea
Although oil and gas (O&G) derived produced waters and drill cuttings are known to contain enhanced levels of naturally occurring radium-228 (228Ra) a…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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🔔Job alert: Postdoc working on Contribution of Blue carbon Ecosystems to climate change mitigation with Prof Hilary Kennedy @sosbangor.bsky.social 🧪

jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
Job Details | Bangor University Jobs
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February 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Exciting PhD opportunity with @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social , @padpadpadpad.bsky.social (Exeter) and myself (Bristol) on gulls, their microbiomes, and role in transmitting disease.

Details below - deadline 13 January!
January 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Happy New Year!

I updated my webpage of envirionment-related scholarships, grants, & awards: www.aerinjacob.ca/funding--awa...

It includes:
* science
* action & policy
* communication
* travel awards
* international tho' emphasis on N Am, Africa, & women

Please share.

#ConservationFunding
Funding & awards
A list of conservation-related scholarships, fellowships, funding, and awards.
www.aerinjacob.ca
January 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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👉Reminder open PhD position!
@tvarminne.bsky.social @helsinkiuni.bsky.social
Interested in investigating temporal and spatial variability in coastal sea-air GHG fluxes, impacts of heatwaves and links to biodiversity? Check this out!

Apply before 31 January
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December 17, 2024 at 11:04 AM
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Can mistletoe be more than just the spark for a Christmas kiss? Could the festive favourite actually be used as high-quality surgical glue?

Discover how School of Life Sciences researchers are exploring the adhesive qualities of mistletoe's white berries.

www.essex.ac.uk/news/2024/12...
December 9, 2024 at 10:29 AM
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As we explore Bluesky, we'll be sharing some of our recent successes and research stories.

Just like Marine biologist Professor David Smith who has been named in @time-magazine.bsky.social's 100 most influential leaders driving business to real climate action.

www.essex.ac.uk/news/2024/11...
December 4, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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🌊 Exciting #PhD opportunity using autonomous platforms, sensors & sensing. Our studentship explores #ocean physics & key ecosystem drivers in light of floating offshore #wind in the #CelticSea using #AUVs & #satellite remote sensing. Join me, Peter Miller & @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social 🧬🛰️🤖
November 18, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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Linnea Henriksson’s first paper just out in JGR-B.

Drivers of Seasonal and Diel #Methane Emissions From a #Seagrass Ecosystem

CO2-equivalent CH4 emissions counteracted 6% of the CO2 uptake, and ~1% of sediment carbon sequestration

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
November 25, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Two PhD vacancies with us @universityofessex.bsky.social for interdisciplinary research on #biodiversity conservation, fully funded by The Leverhulme Trust. Apply by 7 February for an October 2025 start.
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#biodiversitynetgain #protection vs #restoration
November 25, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Interested in #marine sedimentary #carbon? 🤔
Concerned with associated human disturbance & climate impacts? 🌊 #bluecarbon
👉Consider our @eurogeosciences.bsky.social session OS3.3:
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Deadline 15th Jan 🗓️
Deadline if applying for travel grant: 2nd Dec 🧳
Session OS3.3
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org
November 22, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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NEW POSTDOC Working with #hypoxia, #tags, #boats, #FishSci, #mud, #otolith & eye #lens #isotope chemistry in the #Baltic. Position is at the University of Essex with Dr Anna Sturrock and collaborating with a large international team (including me!). Deadline Nov 6. More info: tinyurl.com/muddyfish
October 2, 2023 at 2:20 PM