Sussex Kelp Recovery Project (SKRP)
@sussexkelp.bsky.social
Pioneering marine rewilding project to restore the lost kelp forests of the Sussex coast.
www.sussexkelp.org.uk
@sussexkelp
Kelp Summit 2025:
www.sussexkelp.org.uk/news/events
www.sussexkelp.org.uk
@sussexkelp
Kelp Summit 2025:
www.sussexkelp.org.uk/news/events
The Sussex IFCA Nearshore Trawling Byelaw, was enacted to allow the large-scale natural recovery of our seabed (from the devastating effects of bottom-trawling) and therefore the recovery of essential fish habitats...and fish stocks!
'You can't have fisheries unless you have fish.'
📸 Dan Smale
'You can't have fisheries unless you have fish.'
📸 Dan Smale
November 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The Sussex IFCA Nearshore Trawling Byelaw, was enacted to allow the large-scale natural recovery of our seabed (from the devastating effects of bottom-trawling) and therefore the recovery of essential fish habitats...and fish stocks!
'You can't have fisheries unless you have fish.'
📸 Dan Smale
'You can't have fisheries unless you have fish.'
📸 Dan Smale
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Congratulations to @sussexwildlife.bsky.social on winning a vital court case and protecting our local marine ecosystem. Watching @sussexkelp.bsky.social and Sussex Underwater the recovery since the trawling ban has been remarkable. Long may it continue. 👏🏽👏🏽
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Sussex Wildlife Trust claims victory in Brighton dredging battle - BBC News
The Trust challenged the plan to dredge a million tonnes and dump it on a marine conservation area.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Congratulations to @sussexwildlife.bsky.social on winning a vital court case and protecting our local marine ecosystem. Watching @sussexkelp.bsky.social and Sussex Underwater the recovery since the trawling ban has been remarkable. Long may it continue. 👏🏽👏🏽
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🐟Dive into The Ocean Symposium and Marine Exhibition 2025
Come and say hi to the SKRP Team 👋 #TakeaKelpie at our stand. A fantastic opportunity to connect with academics, policy makers, community leaders & ocean enthusiasts.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ocean-...
Come and say hi to the SKRP Team 👋 #TakeaKelpie at our stand. A fantastic opportunity to connect with academics, policy makers, community leaders & ocean enthusiasts.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ocean-...
November 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🐟Dive into The Ocean Symposium and Marine Exhibition 2025
Come and say hi to the SKRP Team 👋 #TakeaKelpie at our stand. A fantastic opportunity to connect with academics, policy makers, community leaders & ocean enthusiasts.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ocean-...
Come and say hi to the SKRP Team 👋 #TakeaKelpie at our stand. A fantastic opportunity to connect with academics, policy makers, community leaders & ocean enthusiasts.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ocean-...
What an evening for our Ocean!
Thanks to Colin Butfield (co-author of Ocean with Sir David Attenborough) and Sean Ashworth (formerly of Sussex IFCA) for a wonderful evening celebrating the film and book of 'Ocean' AND the wonder and importance of our seas for all life.
Storytelling at its very best!
Thanks to Colin Butfield (co-author of Ocean with Sir David Attenborough) and Sean Ashworth (formerly of Sussex IFCA) for a wonderful evening celebrating the film and book of 'Ocean' AND the wonder and importance of our seas for all life.
Storytelling at its very best!
November 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
What an evening for our Ocean!
Thanks to Colin Butfield (co-author of Ocean with Sir David Attenborough) and Sean Ashworth (formerly of Sussex IFCA) for a wonderful evening celebrating the film and book of 'Ocean' AND the wonder and importance of our seas for all life.
Storytelling at its very best!
Thanks to Colin Butfield (co-author of Ocean with Sir David Attenborough) and Sean Ashworth (formerly of Sussex IFCA) for a wonderful evening celebrating the film and book of 'Ocean' AND the wonder and importance of our seas for all life.
Storytelling at its very best!
👻 Shut your portholes! Hide under the mussel carpet! Beware of the Gurnard's ghostly grunts!🎃 It's Halloween!!
👹 What's the spookiest creature you've spotted beneath our waves? Was it an eerily iridescent blue-rayed limpet? A ghostly white nudibranch? Or a terrifying SKRP researcher? 😉
👹 What's the spookiest creature you've spotted beneath our waves? Was it an eerily iridescent blue-rayed limpet? A ghostly white nudibranch? Or a terrifying SKRP researcher? 😉
October 31, 2025 at 7:30 AM
👻 Shut your portholes! Hide under the mussel carpet! Beware of the Gurnard's ghostly grunts!🎃 It's Halloween!!
👹 What's the spookiest creature you've spotted beneath our waves? Was it an eerily iridescent blue-rayed limpet? A ghostly white nudibranch? Or a terrifying SKRP researcher? 😉
👹 What's the spookiest creature you've spotted beneath our waves? Was it an eerily iridescent blue-rayed limpet? A ghostly white nudibranch? Or a terrifying SKRP researcher? 😉
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Catch up with last night's Wild Live session on blue carbon and seabeds, featuring @sussexkelp.bsky.social's George Short with @craigbennett3.bsky.social and an expert panel.
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#Nature #Carbon #NetZero
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#Nature #Carbon #NetZero
Wild LIVE: Mud matters - How do we protect our blue carbon stores in UK seabeds?
YouTube video by The Wildlife Trusts
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October 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Catch up with last night's Wild Live session on blue carbon and seabeds, featuring @sussexkelp.bsky.social's George Short with @craigbennett3.bsky.social and an expert panel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2APd...
#Nature #Carbon #NetZero
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2APd...
#Nature #Carbon #NetZero
TONIGHT!
Hear from our own George Short, @sussexkelp.bsky.social Project Coordinator.
Hear from our own George Short, @sussexkelp.bsky.social Project Coordinator.
How do we protect the 'blue carbon' locked up in our seabeds?
Join Sussex Kelp Recovery Project's George Short and other experts for a live discussion, on 28 October.
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Join Sussex Kelp Recovery Project's George Short and other experts for a live discussion, on 28 October.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
TONIGHT!
Hear from our own George Short, @sussexkelp.bsky.social Project Coordinator.
Hear from our own George Short, @sussexkelp.bsky.social Project Coordinator.
⚡ Kelp Recorders ASSEMBLE!⚡
With the weather turning and storms on the horizon sign up now to our Citizen Science programme and become a Kelp Recorder. If you're on a beach in Sussex and want to contribute to our research (whether you see kelp or not), follow the link in our bio to find out more.
With the weather turning and storms on the horizon sign up now to our Citizen Science programme and become a Kelp Recorder. If you're on a beach in Sussex and want to contribute to our research (whether you see kelp or not), follow the link in our bio to find out more.
October 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
⚡ Kelp Recorders ASSEMBLE!⚡
With the weather turning and storms on the horizon sign up now to our Citizen Science programme and become a Kelp Recorder. If you're on a beach in Sussex and want to contribute to our research (whether you see kelp or not), follow the link in our bio to find out more.
With the weather turning and storms on the horizon sign up now to our Citizen Science programme and become a Kelp Recorder. If you're on a beach in Sussex and want to contribute to our research (whether you see kelp or not), follow the link in our bio to find out more.
People behind the Project. 'Roll out the Researchers' - Madi Bowden-Parry, a CDT SuMMeR PhD Researcher at the University of Exeter. Madi is a marine historical ecologist investigating the history of Sussex kelp habitats. Madi's favourite kelp creature...the small-spotted catshark. 📸Andy Jackson
October 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
People behind the Project. 'Roll out the Researchers' - Madi Bowden-Parry, a CDT SuMMeR PhD Researcher at the University of Exeter. Madi is a marine historical ecologist investigating the history of Sussex kelp habitats. Madi's favourite kelp creature...the small-spotted catshark. 📸Andy Jackson
⚡ RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT⚡
Alice Clark, PhD research student at the University of Sussex is our Sea-SI investigator! She is involved in 2 areas of biodiversity research: Baited Underwater Remote Video systems (BRUVs) & Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis & so far has found more than 80 species in our seas!
Alice Clark, PhD research student at the University of Sussex is our Sea-SI investigator! She is involved in 2 areas of biodiversity research: Baited Underwater Remote Video systems (BRUVs) & Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis & so far has found more than 80 species in our seas!
October 8, 2025 at 7:31 AM
⚡ RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT⚡
Alice Clark, PhD research student at the University of Sussex is our Sea-SI investigator! She is involved in 2 areas of biodiversity research: Baited Underwater Remote Video systems (BRUVs) & Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis & so far has found more than 80 species in our seas!
Alice Clark, PhD research student at the University of Sussex is our Sea-SI investigator! She is involved in 2 areas of biodiversity research: Baited Underwater Remote Video systems (BRUVs) & Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis & so far has found more than 80 species in our seas!
🌏 Why was the #KelpSummit2025 so important?
Hear from some of our key speakers: Cat Wilding @thembauk.bsky.social, Erin Lawes (Environment Agency), @rodneyforster.bsky.social, @grockesibl.bsky.social & @pippajmoore.bsky.social
To view more from the Summit, visit the link in our bio.
Hear from some of our key speakers: Cat Wilding @thembauk.bsky.social, Erin Lawes (Environment Agency), @rodneyforster.bsky.social, @grockesibl.bsky.social & @pippajmoore.bsky.social
To view more from the Summit, visit the link in our bio.
October 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🌏 Why was the #KelpSummit2025 so important?
Hear from some of our key speakers: Cat Wilding @thembauk.bsky.social, Erin Lawes (Environment Agency), @rodneyforster.bsky.social, @grockesibl.bsky.social & @pippajmoore.bsky.social
To view more from the Summit, visit the link in our bio.
Hear from some of our key speakers: Cat Wilding @thembauk.bsky.social, Erin Lawes (Environment Agency), @rodneyforster.bsky.social, @grockesibl.bsky.social & @pippajmoore.bsky.social
To view more from the Summit, visit the link in our bio.
People behind the Project: 'Roll out the Researchers': Alice Clark, a PhD student at University of Sussex whose research focuses on monitoring biodiversity along the Sussex coastline using Baited Remote Underwater Videos (BRUVs) and environmental DNA.
Alice's favourite kelp creature...the stingray
Alice's favourite kelp creature...the stingray
October 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
People behind the Project: 'Roll out the Researchers': Alice Clark, a PhD student at University of Sussex whose research focuses on monitoring biodiversity along the Sussex coastline using Baited Remote Underwater Videos (BRUVs) and environmental DNA.
Alice's favourite kelp creature...the stingray
Alice's favourite kelp creature...the stingray
🎉 Tomorrow marks 6 months since we held the UK's first conference on kelp ecology.
🗓️ Tune in then for a sneaky peak of how it all went, and to access recordings of the presentations from the conference.
Time flies whilst the seabed recovers...
📸 Kai Hilton/Sussex Wildlife Trust
🗓️ Tune in then for a sneaky peak of how it all went, and to access recordings of the presentations from the conference.
Time flies whilst the seabed recovers...
📸 Kai Hilton/Sussex Wildlife Trust
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🎉 Tomorrow marks 6 months since we held the UK's first conference on kelp ecology.
🗓️ Tune in then for a sneaky peak of how it all went, and to access recordings of the presentations from the conference.
Time flies whilst the seabed recovers...
📸 Kai Hilton/Sussex Wildlife Trust
🗓️ Tune in then for a sneaky peak of how it all went, and to access recordings of the presentations from the conference.
Time flies whilst the seabed recovers...
📸 Kai Hilton/Sussex Wildlife Trust
People behind the Project: 'Roll out the Researchers': Marianne Glascott, Doctoral Tutor in Life Sciences and PhD Researcher in Marine Ecology @sussexuni. Marianne's research is dedicated to understanding how environmental factors affect the health of marine ecosystems, particularly kelp forests.
September 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
People behind the Project: 'Roll out the Researchers': Marianne Glascott, Doctoral Tutor in Life Sciences and PhD Researcher in Marine Ecology @sussexuni. Marianne's research is dedicated to understanding how environmental factors affect the health of marine ecosystems, particularly kelp forests.
The wonders of kelp have been known for some time...
📸 Sussex Wildlife Trust
📸 Sussex Wildlife Trust
September 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The wonders of kelp have been known for some time...
📸 Sussex Wildlife Trust
📸 Sussex Wildlife Trust
🧑🤝🧑 People behind the Project: Francesco Marzano, UK Projects Assistant, Blue Marine Foundation. Francesco supports many marine projects involving statistical and spatial analysis & leads BMF's sturgeon project & Sussex potting surveys. Favourite kelp creature - the red gurnard 📸Bernard Picton/TWT
September 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🧑🤝🧑 People behind the Project: Francesco Marzano, UK Projects Assistant, Blue Marine Foundation. Francesco supports many marine projects involving statistical and spatial analysis & leads BMF's sturgeon project & Sussex potting surveys. Favourite kelp creature - the red gurnard 📸Bernard Picton/TWT
⚡ RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT⚡
Claude Annels, PhD Research student at @University of Brighton introduces her sediment core research project, which aims to identify the amount, source and date of carbon stored in our seabed. Sediment cores are sampled from the seabed, and analysed back in the laboratory.
Claude Annels, PhD Research student at @University of Brighton introduces her sediment core research project, which aims to identify the amount, source and date of carbon stored in our seabed. Sediment cores are sampled from the seabed, and analysed back in the laboratory.
September 16, 2025 at 6:31 AM
⚡ RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT⚡
Claude Annels, PhD Research student at @University of Brighton introduces her sediment core research project, which aims to identify the amount, source and date of carbon stored in our seabed. Sediment cores are sampled from the seabed, and analysed back in the laboratory.
Claude Annels, PhD Research student at @University of Brighton introduces her sediment core research project, which aims to identify the amount, source and date of carbon stored in our seabed. Sediment cores are sampled from the seabed, and analysed back in the laboratory.
People behind the Project: 'Roll out the Researchers': Claude Annels, PhD Research student at University of Brighton. Claude’s research is into the potential carbon sequestration of Sussex kelp species.
🌊 Claude's favourite kelp creature...the common cuttlefish!
📸 Paul Parsons
🌊 Claude's favourite kelp creature...the common cuttlefish!
📸 Paul Parsons
September 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
People behind the Project: 'Roll out the Researchers': Claude Annels, PhD Research student at University of Brighton. Claude’s research is into the potential carbon sequestration of Sussex kelp species.
🌊 Claude's favourite kelp creature...the common cuttlefish!
📸 Paul Parsons
🌊 Claude's favourite kelp creature...the common cuttlefish!
📸 Paul Parsons
🤎 Kelp! (Yes, OK and sticks 🤣) In the brown algae/seaweed family (Laminariales), kelp are brown due to the abundance of the pigment, fucoxanthin, in their cells. The stickiness of kelp is due to alginates and fucoidan in its cells and microbes on its surface.
📸 Paul Boniface/Sussex Underwater
📸 Paul Boniface/Sussex Underwater
September 10, 2025 at 6:30 AM
🤎 Kelp! (Yes, OK and sticks 🤣) In the brown algae/seaweed family (Laminariales), kelp are brown due to the abundance of the pigment, fucoxanthin, in their cells. The stickiness of kelp is due to alginates and fucoidan in its cells and microbes on its surface.
📸 Paul Boniface/Sussex Underwater
📸 Paul Boniface/Sussex Underwater
People behind the Project: 'Roll out the Researchers'-Valentina Scarponi, Assistant Prof in Ecology and Animal Biology at the University of Sussex. Valentina has a PhD in shark behaviour and physiology, so no surprise that her favourite kelp creature is the greater-spotted nursehound📸Peter Verhoog
September 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
People behind the Project: 'Roll out the Researchers'-Valentina Scarponi, Assistant Prof in Ecology and Animal Biology at the University of Sussex. Valentina has a PhD in shark behaviour and physiology, so no surprise that her favourite kelp creature is the greater-spotted nursehound📸Peter Verhoog
⚡ RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT⚡
Dr Chris Yesson, SKRP Research Lead and Senior Research Fellow at @zslofficial.bsky.social introduces our ARMS (Autonomous Reef Monitoring Systems) research, used to assess kelp spore availability and the diversity of life on the seabed.
Dr Chris Yesson, SKRP Research Lead and Senior Research Fellow at @zslofficial.bsky.social introduces our ARMS (Autonomous Reef Monitoring Systems) research, used to assess kelp spore availability and the diversity of life on the seabed.
September 4, 2025 at 6:46 AM
⚡ RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT⚡
Dr Chris Yesson, SKRP Research Lead and Senior Research Fellow at @zslofficial.bsky.social introduces our ARMS (Autonomous Reef Monitoring Systems) research, used to assess kelp spore availability and the diversity of life on the seabed.
Dr Chris Yesson, SKRP Research Lead and Senior Research Fellow at @zslofficial.bsky.social introduces our ARMS (Autonomous Reef Monitoring Systems) research, used to assess kelp spore availability and the diversity of life on the seabed.
🔬 SKRP's pioneering research and monitoring program is the engine house of our project. Our researchers use many different survey (& analysis) techniques to examine biodiversity, sediment, ecotoxicology, kelp population genetics, etc within our Sussex waters.
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September 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
🔬 SKRP's pioneering research and monitoring program is the engine house of our project. Our researchers use many different survey (& analysis) techniques to examine biodiversity, sediment, ecotoxicology, kelp population genetics, etc within our Sussex waters.
Follow us to find out more...
Follow us to find out more...
🌏 'Nature-led and science-based.' We believe that our seabed's recovery should be a natural one; allowing it a chance to REWILD in balance with the environmental conditions of that area and without human intervention/active restoration, will result in a more robust and resilient ecosystem recovery.
August 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🌏 'Nature-led and science-based.' We believe that our seabed's recovery should be a natural one; allowing it a chance to REWILD in balance with the environmental conditions of that area and without human intervention/active restoration, will result in a more robust and resilient ecosystem recovery.
🌍 Our underwater forests go through seasonal changes, much like those on land. Shifts in the levels of light and nutrients and the weather, drive changes in our kelp forests.
"In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.” Paul Coelho
📸 Nikki Oliver/SWT
"In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.” Paul Coelho
📸 Nikki Oliver/SWT
August 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🌍 Our underwater forests go through seasonal changes, much like those on land. Shifts in the levels of light and nutrients and the weather, drive changes in our kelp forests.
"In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.” Paul Coelho
📸 Nikki Oliver/SWT
"In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.” Paul Coelho
📸 Nikki Oliver/SWT
🧑🤝🧑 People behind the Project: Next up is Sarah Cunliffe, TV producer, CEO and Founder of Big Wave Productions. She has been involved with kelp since 2018 when she made the ‘Help Our Kelp’ film with Sir David Attenborough. Sarah's favourite kelp creature...the beautiful seahorse!
📸Paul Naylor
📸Paul Naylor
August 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🧑🤝🧑 People behind the Project: Next up is Sarah Cunliffe, TV producer, CEO and Founder of Big Wave Productions. She has been involved with kelp since 2018 when she made the ‘Help Our Kelp’ film with Sir David Attenborough. Sarah's favourite kelp creature...the beautiful seahorse!
📸Paul Naylor
📸Paul Naylor