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Nick Kamenos
@nickkamenos.bsky.social
Professor of Marine Ecosystem Science & Global Change
at Umeå University in Sweden | Director of Umeå Marine Sciences Centre | Also @nick_kamenos
📣Just a few DAYS to go until the application deadline for our exciting advanced courses!! See 👇 for full details #R and #Arctic marine biology, ecology & biogeochemistry courses in #Sweden! Deadline: 15th October 2025
** Join us! **

In February 2026 we will offer two residential advanced short courses:

💻 #R course for marine scientists
❄️ #Arctic marine biology, ecology & biogeochemistry

🗓️ Starting 8 & 15 February 2026
📍 Umeå Marine Sciences Centre, Sweden
🔗 umfcourses.github.io

▶️ Apply by 15 Sept 2025!

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October 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
📢 We have an ever increasing number of #student #research opportunities at Umeå Marine Sciences Centre including our #Borealis Internships www.umu.se/en/umea-mari... Come and join us for an exciting #marine #science adventure in #northern #Sweden ❄️ 🌊
October 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
📢 Very exciting news! 📢

We are now offering advanced courses at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social on #R and #Arctic #MarineScience with more to come!!

See full details below ⬇️

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** Join us! **

In February 2026 we will offer two residential advanced short courses:

💻 #R course for marine scientists
❄️ #Arctic marine biology, ecology & biogeochemistry

🗓️ Starting 8 & 15 February 2026
📍 Umeå Marine Sciences Centre, Sweden
🔗 umfcourses.github.io

▶️ Apply by 15 Sept 2025!

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July 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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📢Think BIG!! 📢
Set up your LARGE SCALE experiments in an extremely controlled environment - from tropical heat to icy winter. ❄️❄️❄️

Check out our advanced mesocosm facility: www.umu.se/en/umea-m...

Looking for funding? www.umu.se/en/umea-m...
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The UMF aquatic mesocosm facility
Use our highly controlled mesocosm facility to do aquatic replicated experiments concerning impacts on an ecosystem under field relevant conditions.
www.umu.se
July 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Up to 50% of organic carbon buried in the shallow #BalticSea may be from land! How does land use shape carbon quality?

Let’s talk OC hotspots + isotope-based source tracking at poster P126!

/Alexandra Rouillard 🧪🦑🌍

#OOSC #ScienceForTheOcean #BlueCarbon
June 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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By strengthening governance and aligning the fragmented policies, Southeast Asian countries can unlock the numerous potentials of #BlueCarbon in their local and national frameworks! 🧪🦑🌍

Come and chat at poster: P432
/Long Vu Hoang
#OOSC #ScienceForTheOcean
June 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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🚨 CALLING ALL MARINE RESEARCHERS! 🚨
Bring your science to the Northern Baltic coast and access FREE research funding! Dive into global-scale experiments that drive real-world impact.

www.umu.se/en/umea-mari...

Funding: www.umu.se/en/umea-mari...

Contact: regina.kolzenburg@umu.se

#OOSC #UMF 🧪🦑🌍
June 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Land use change affects the stability of #mangrove #carbon, and mangrove #restoration can increase carbon storage!

Find out more at poster P309!

@hlburdett.bsky.social

#OOSC #ScienceForTheOcean #Vietnam
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June 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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We need to reconsider what is a #BlueCarbon #ecosystem! #MudFlats #CorallineAlgae, #Sediments and parts of #Coral #Reefs store significant organic #carbon.

➡️ See you at #OOSC Tue | 14:00 | Room 2

@nickkamenos.bsky.social
@hlburdett.bsky.social

#ScienceForTheOcean #ClimateScience 🧪🦑🌍
June 3, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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@umeaunimarine.bsky.social is at the One Ocean Science Congress this week!
Details of our seven presentations below ⬇️
#OOSC #ScienceForTheFuture #UMF #AQC
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June 3, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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#ClimateChange is driving brownification of coastal waters - is this bad news for benthic macrophytes? 🧪🦑🌍
Let’s talk DOC & light decline at poster P82!

#OOSC #ScienceForTheOcean #MarineEcology #Brownification

🔬Research at UMF? Explore AQUASERV/IRISCC for funded access. Links in comments. ⬇️
June 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Great to have Lina Rasmusson (Gothenburg uni) at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social today to talk about all things #CorallineAlgae & #kelp
She also presented her ongoing @formasforsk.bsky.social project, which is bringing a research spotlight to Sweden's elusive #maerl beds!
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social
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May 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Welcome to our newest postdoc Cristian Ramirez Gutierrez, who will investigate the optical properties & light harvesting of coralline algae!
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Welcome to Cristian Ramirez Gutierrez!
Big welcome and hello to Cristian, who has joined us in Umeå this week as a new postdoc in the group! Cristian studied Physics at the University of Quindío in Colombia, and then pursued a Master&#8…
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April 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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🎉 Happy New Year! 2024 has been an inspiring year full of exciting research and innovation at #UMF. Here's to carrying that momentum into 2025 and making it just as impactful and groundbreaking. Wishing everyone success and new discoveries ahead! 🥂🦑🧪 #HappyNewYear #MarineResearch
December 31, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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Welcome to Vu Hoang Long, who has started his #PhD with us!
Long will be working on our SE Asia #BlueCarbon project, investigating the relationship between nature, society & policy.
Watch this space - an exciting 4 years of research to come!
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December 10, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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💃🕺These ‘dancing diatoms’ (Bacillaria paxillifera) brought joy to #UMF today! They have been growing on Fucus in our marine heatwave experiment. 🧪🦑
December 11, 2024 at 12:16 PM
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Welcome to Siddhi Joshi - new postdoc with us, conducting habitat modelling on our SE Asia #BlueCarbon VR project!
These data will inform policy intervention & community engagement research we start next year - stay tuned!
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October 21, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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🚨 Coming up! Dr. David McKee from @pndc.bsky.social will visit #UMF to discuss optical technology & radiative transfer modeling. He’ll share recent findings on how zooplankton swarms affect ocean color remote sensing signals. 🌊🔬

🗓️ Monday, Nov 4th. Don’t miss it!

www.umu.se/en/events...
October 28, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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UMF Symposium! Incredible to see the wide range of activities and #research happening at #UMF right now. From #BlueCarbon and #brownification to #CoralBleaching, marine heatwaves and #methylmercury formation in fjord systems... And so much more!
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#umeauniversity #MarineScience
October 16, 2024 at 7:37 AM
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Reminder that we have 2 fab #postdoc positions on algae biophysics!

#ClimateChange responses (20 Sept)
#Photosynthesis mechanisms (30 Sept)

w/ @nicolomaccaferri.bsky.social , @nickkamenos.bsky.social & Magnus Andersson

🔗 heidiburdett.wordpress.com/lab-opportun...

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@umeaunimarine.bsky.social
September 18, 2024 at 9:49 AM
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✨Wow! Three new interns were greeted by swirling Northern Lights above #umeauniversity!
Welcome Helena Zambalos (#Austria), Wilf Breach (#UnivStAndrews) and Sarah Braun (@unigreifswald.bsky.social)! 🧪🌊🐋

www.umu.se/en/umea-m...

#MarineScience #UMF
September 18, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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Our blue carbon research is featured on TV4 in Sweden today!
Blue carbon research & policy must go beyond seagrass, mangroves & saltmarsh - especially fjords, mudflats & coralline reefs!
Paper📖: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
TV4📺: www.tv4.se/artikel/2ktW...
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@umeaunimarine.bsky.social
Nya upptäckten: Svenska vatten kan bryta ner och lagra kol
Bottenviken och norska fjordar betydande aktörer
www.tv4.se
August 8, 2024 at 10:49 AM
🌊Out this week in #BiologyLetters! We show that #marine calcifying ecosystem engineers recycle more #carbon than previously thought aiding their role as #BlueCarbon ecosystems! 🦑🧪🌎⚒️🌱https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0598 @hlburdett.bsky.social #JinhuaMao @umeaunimarine.bsky.social #umeauniversity
June 20, 2024 at 6:53 AM
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We are very excited to welcome Prof. Sinéad Collins from the University of Edinburgh! Through the 2-year UMF Borealis scholarship, she’ll use the #mesocosms @umeaunimarine.bsky.social to investigate which characteristics really make arctic #phytoplankton ”arctic”.

www.umu.se/en/news/new-...
New project investigates the unique characteristics of arctic plankton
Sinéad Collins will provide answers to what makes arctic phytoplankton unique.
www.umu.se
June 19, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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It’s #WorldOceanDay! UMF’s core belief is the need for #healthy and #sustainable oceans!
Our research directly contributes to the #WOD24 theme of Catalyzing Action for Our Ocean & Climate
Some examples in the thread below, and read more here: www.umu.se/en/umea-mari...
Umeå Marine Sciences Centre
UMF is a dynamic environment for marine research including a complete suite of analytical platforms.
www.umu.se
June 8, 2024 at 5:11 AM