Dr Rowan Whittle
@rowanwhittlebas.bsky.social
Palaeobiologist at the British Antarctic Survey
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Hi I am Dr Rowan Whittle. My research is currently focused on protecting Antarctic sea floor ecosystems from environmental change by studying their evolution, their structure, and how they function, as a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the British Antarctic Survey.
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Heading to Honolulu for #ICCV? 🌺 Ease into the week with my talk on automating detection of seafloor organisms around Antarctica for biodiversity monitoring! 🐙 Catch it at the Joint Workshop on Marine Vision, Oct 19, Room 318B, 09:50–10:20. 📄: arxiv.org/abs/2507.21665
October 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Heading to Honolulu for #ICCV? 🌺 Ease into the week with my talk on automating detection of seafloor organisms around Antarctica for biodiversity monitoring! 🐙 Catch it at the Joint Workshop on Marine Vision, Oct 19, Room 318B, 09:50–10:20. 📄: arxiv.org/abs/2507.21665
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🇦🇶 Our new paper detailing the automated detection of Antarctic benthic organisms using high-res in situ imagery has been accepted to the #ICCV2025 Joint Workshop on Marine Vision!
📄 Read the preprint now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.21665
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📄 Read the preprint now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.21665
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July 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🇦🇶 Our new paper detailing the automated detection of Antarctic benthic organisms using high-res in situ imagery has been accepted to the #ICCV2025 Joint Workshop on Marine Vision!
📄 Read the preprint now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.21665
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📄 Read the preprint now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.21665
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🚨 New paper 🚨
Benthic ecologist curious about using computer vision? 🤖
Computer scientist wondering how to help protect benthic biodiversity? 🦀
Our latest review bridges the gap between these fields!
Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Benthic ecologist curious about using computer vision? 🤖
Computer scientist wondering how to help protect benthic biodiversity? 🦀
Our latest review bridges the gap between these fields!
Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Surveying the deep: A review of computer vision in the benthos
The analysis of image data for benthic biodiversity monitoring is now commonplace within the domain of marine ecology. Whilst advances in imaging tech…
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January 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🚨 New paper 🚨
Benthic ecologist curious about using computer vision? 🤖
Computer scientist wondering how to help protect benthic biodiversity? 🦀
Our latest review bridges the gap between these fields!
Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Benthic ecologist curious about using computer vision? 🤖
Computer scientist wondering how to help protect benthic biodiversity? 🦀
Our latest review bridges the gap between these fields!
Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We are ready to get off!
December 22, 2024 at 11:31 AM
We are ready to get off!
Approaching King George island, on the bridge of the Sir David Attenborough
December 22, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Approaching King George island, on the bridge of the Sir David Attenborough
We're making the most of our last hot breakfast on board the Sir David Attenborough before being dropped off on King George Island to camp for a month.
December 22, 2024 at 10:18 AM
We're making the most of our last hot breakfast on board the Sir David Attenborough before being dropped off on King George Island to camp for a month.
King George Island, home for the next month
December 22, 2024 at 9:13 AM
King George Island, home for the next month
We are approaching King George Island and the first big icebergs have appeared!
December 22, 2024 at 9:04 AM
We are approaching King George Island and the first big icebergs have appeared!
We're headed towards the Antarctic Peninsula and it has just started snowing!!
December 21, 2024 at 7:19 PM
We're headed towards the Antarctic Peninsula and it has just started snowing!!
The wonderful crew of the Sir David Attenborough are helping us with our kit and filling up our water bottles.
December 21, 2024 at 1:24 PM
The wonderful crew of the Sir David Attenborough are helping us with our kit and filling up our water bottles.
Andy our field guide is making sure all our camping equipment is in the right place and Saurav and I are checking we have all the geological equipment
December 21, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Andy our field guide is making sure all our camping equipment is in the right place and Saurav and I are checking we have all the geological equipment
Today we are in the cargo hold of the Sir David Attenborough, checking our equipment and preparing it for offloading
December 21, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Today we are in the cargo hold of the Sir David Attenborough, checking our equipment and preparing it for offloading
Following our safety drill on the ship this morning, we carried out the essential field preparation of checking our satellite communications equipment on the ship's deck.
December 20, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Following our safety drill on the ship this morning, we carried out the essential field preparation of checking our satellite communications equipment on the ship's deck.
We are currently sailing through Drake's Passage to King George Island, to collect 26 million year old fossils. This will help us understand how Antarctic sea floor ecosystems evolved. Our team of me, Saurav Dutta (geochemist) and Andy Moles (field guide) will be camping for a month on the island.
December 20, 2024 at 8:03 PM
We are currently sailing through Drake's Passage to King George Island, to collect 26 million year old fossils. This will help us understand how Antarctic sea floor ecosystems evolved. Our team of me, Saurav Dutta (geochemist) and Andy Moles (field guide) will be camping for a month on the island.
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Fantastic talk today by @ming-tfk27.bsky.social talking about ecological complexity in the run up to the K-Pg extinction in Seymour Island
December 12, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Fantastic talk today by @ming-tfk27.bsky.social talking about ecological complexity in the run up to the K-Pg extinction in Seymour Island
PhD Opportunity:
'Eocene sea-floor ecosystem structure in response to environmental change'.
Student will be based at British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge), with Bristol University.
Project and contact details: www.bas.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Deadline 13th January
www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/apply
'Eocene sea-floor ecosystem structure in response to environmental change'.
Student will be based at British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge), with Bristol University.
Project and contact details: www.bas.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Deadline 13th January
www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/apply
December 6, 2024 at 5:17 PM
PhD Opportunity:
'Eocene sea-floor ecosystem structure in response to environmental change'.
Student will be based at British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge), with Bristol University.
Project and contact details: www.bas.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Deadline 13th January
www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/apply
'Eocene sea-floor ecosystem structure in response to environmental change'.
Student will be based at British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge), with Bristol University.
Project and contact details: www.bas.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Deadline 13th January
www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/apply
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Starting out in Bluesky with one of my favourite photos of #Antarctica - here I am with a colleague on Lagoon Island, admiring the gorgeous view and the blue sky (very appropriate for this post!!).
I'm very lucky to work for @bas.ac.uk 😄 Follow me and you'll see more like this with some geology 🔬
I'm very lucky to work for @bas.ac.uk 😄 Follow me and you'll see more like this with some geology 🔬
November 28, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Starting out in Bluesky with one of my favourite photos of #Antarctica - here I am with a colleague on Lagoon Island, admiring the gorgeous view and the blue sky (very appropriate for this post!!).
I'm very lucky to work for @bas.ac.uk 😄 Follow me and you'll see more like this with some geology 🔬
I'm very lucky to work for @bas.ac.uk 😄 Follow me and you'll see more like this with some geology 🔬
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Hello Bird Lovers of Bluesky! 🪶 Any chance of adding us to your Feeds?
Our team at Bird Island near Antarctica have sent us some cracking bird content to share over the next few weeks...
#addBirder #LetsGoBirding #seabirds
Our team at Bird Island near Antarctica have sent us some cracking bird content to share over the next few weeks...
#addBirder #LetsGoBirding #seabirds
Get those wing exercises in, kids. You're gonna need them!
These big fluffy wandering wandering albatross made it through their first winter in ground nests on South Georgia.
Now they're preparing to begin their adult lives, mostly in the sky. Albatross can fly 10,000km in one trip!
🎥 Katie Wells
These big fluffy wandering wandering albatross made it through their first winter in ground nests on South Georgia.
Now they're preparing to begin their adult lives, mostly in the sky. Albatross can fly 10,000km in one trip!
🎥 Katie Wells
November 28, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Hello Bird Lovers of Bluesky! 🪶 Any chance of adding us to your Feeds?
Our team at Bird Island near Antarctica have sent us some cracking bird content to share over the next few weeks...
#addBirder #LetsGoBirding #seabirds
Our team at Bird Island near Antarctica have sent us some cracking bird content to share over the next few weeks...
#addBirder #LetsGoBirding #seabirds
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#Dragons! Face to face with some #Antarctic worms!
Collected and photographed by @hwiklund.bsky.social on our @bas.ac.uk expedition to the marine protected area around the South Orkney Islands in Antarctica. 588 species of seafloor worms are currently known from the Southern Ocean!
Collected and photographed by @hwiklund.bsky.social on our @bas.ac.uk expedition to the marine protected area around the South Orkney Islands in Antarctica. 588 species of seafloor worms are currently known from the Southern Ocean!
November 28, 2024 at 1:23 PM
#Dragons! Face to face with some #Antarctic worms!
Collected and photographed by @hwiklund.bsky.social on our @bas.ac.uk expedition to the marine protected area around the South Orkney Islands in Antarctica. 588 species of seafloor worms are currently known from the Southern Ocean!
Collected and photographed by @hwiklund.bsky.social on our @bas.ac.uk expedition to the marine protected area around the South Orkney Islands in Antarctica. 588 species of seafloor worms are currently known from the Southern Ocean!
Hi I am Dr Rowan Whittle. My research is currently focused on protecting Antarctic sea floor ecosystems from environmental change by studying their evolution, their structure, and how they function, as a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the British Antarctic Survey.
November 28, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Hi I am Dr Rowan Whittle. My research is currently focused on protecting Antarctic sea floor ecosystems from environmental change by studying their evolution, their structure, and how they function, as a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the British Antarctic Survey.