Elvira de Eyto
@edeeyto.bsky.social
Zoologist 🐟🦟🐌🐛🌲🌳🌳long term ecological monitoring
Older posts were migrated from twitter…….
Older posts were migrated from twitter…….
This month, we have been lucky enough to observe the various stages of larval development of Freshwater Pearl Mussels, Margaritifera margaritifera
We are running a captive breeding program in collaboration with NPWS and Moorkens and associates
These are stage 4
We are running a captive breeding program in collaboration with NPWS and Moorkens and associates
These are stage 4
July 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This month, we have been lucky enough to observe the various stages of larval development of Freshwater Pearl Mussels, Margaritifera margaritifera
We are running a captive breeding program in collaboration with NPWS and Moorkens and associates
These are stage 4
We are running a captive breeding program in collaboration with NPWS and Moorkens and associates
These are stage 4
Surface water temperatures on Lough Feeagh (west coast of Ireland) have been pretty high this year! Daily temperatures in May above the 99th% on most days. 🥵🌡️💦
May 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Surface water temperatures on Lough Feeagh (west coast of Ireland) have been pretty high this year! Daily temperatures in May above the 99th% on most days. 🥵🌡️💦
So exciting to see the first of our 2024/2025 cohort of Freshwater Pearl Mussels starting to drop off their salmon host. We are working with NPWS to breed this endangered species at the Marine Institute’s hatchery in Newport, Co. Mayo
@marineinst.bsky.social
@philkeena.bsky.social
@marineinst.bsky.social
@philkeena.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
So exciting to see the first of our 2024/2025 cohort of Freshwater Pearl Mussels starting to drop off their salmon host. We are working with NPWS to breed this endangered species at the Marine Institute’s hatchery in Newport, Co. Mayo
@marineinst.bsky.social
@philkeena.bsky.social
@marineinst.bsky.social
@philkeena.bsky.social
The Marine Institute in Newport will be having an open day on April 27th
Lots of interesting activities for all ages
bit.ly/MIopenday
Lots of interesting activities for all ages
bit.ly/MIopenday
April 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The Marine Institute in Newport will be having an open day on April 27th
Lots of interesting activities for all ages
bit.ly/MIopenday
Lots of interesting activities for all ages
bit.ly/MIopenday
Heterocapsa season in Lough Furnace. A coastal lagoon on the west coast of Ireland
April 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Heterocapsa season in Lough Furnace. A coastal lagoon on the west coast of Ireland
Last leg of the trip- on the ferry back from Holyhead to Dublin and the rain starts 🙂
April 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Last leg of the trip- on the ferry back from Holyhead to Dublin and the rain starts 🙂
Finally on Thursday we landed at the Kielder Salmon Centre , run by the Environment Agency, to meet Ben Strachan, Louise Peter and Richard. It was great to hear about the Kielder Salmon work on the Tyne, as well as learn about how they handle the mussels
April 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Finally on Thursday we landed at the Kielder Salmon Centre , run by the Environment Agency, to meet Ben Strachan, Louise Peter and Richard. It was great to hear about the Kielder Salmon work on the Tyne, as well as learn about how they handle the mussels
We were very lucky to have a spare hour on Wednesday evening to check out Hadrians wall at Greenhead and the infamous sycamore gap 😢
April 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
We were very lucky to have a spare hour on Wednesday evening to check out Hadrians wall at Greenhead and the infamous sycamore gap 😢
Next stop was the Ark facility run by the @freshwaterbio.bsky.social where we spent the whole day with @louiselavictoire.bsky.social Ben King, Sam and Jodie chatting about mussels and our shared experience of working in research stations
Lovely to cross Lake Windermere by ferry
Lovely to cross Lake Windermere by ferry
April 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Next stop was the Ark facility run by the @freshwaterbio.bsky.social where we spent the whole day with @louiselavictoire.bsky.social Ben King, Sam and Jodie chatting about mussels and our shared experience of working in research stations
Lovely to cross Lake Windermere by ferry
Lovely to cross Lake Windermere by ferry
First stop was the Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru / Natural Resources Wales’s hatcheries in Cynrig and Clywedog
Super work going on, not only on mussels but also Arctic charr, water vole and crayfish
Thanks to Haydn and John Taylor for their time
Super work going on, not only on mussels but also Arctic charr, water vole and crayfish
Thanks to Haydn and John Taylor for their time
April 4, 2025 at 7:50 AM
First stop was the Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru / Natural Resources Wales’s hatcheries in Cynrig and Clywedog
Super work going on, not only on mussels but also Arctic charr, water vole and crayfish
Thanks to Haydn and John Taylor for their time
Super work going on, not only on mussels but also Arctic charr, water vole and crayfish
Thanks to Haydn and John Taylor for their time
As we prepare for the 2015 drop-off of glochidia from our fish at the @marineinst.bsky.social hatchery in Furnace, @philkeena.bsky.social , Darija and I headed across the Irish Sea to visit the Freshwatwr Pearl Mussel hatcheries in Wales and England …..🧵
April 4, 2025 at 6:32 AM
As we prepare for the 2015 drop-off of glochidia from our fish at the @marineinst.bsky.social hatchery in Furnace, @philkeena.bsky.social , Darija and I headed across the Irish Sea to visit the Freshwatwr Pearl Mussel hatcheries in Wales and England …..🧵
Wishing you all a peaceful St. Patrick’s Day ☘️ Lá Fhéile Pádraig
Looking south across Lough Furnace to Croagh Patrick
Looking south across Lough Furnace to Croagh Patrick
March 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Wishing you all a peaceful St. Patrick’s Day ☘️ Lá Fhéile Pádraig
Looking south across Lough Furnace to Croagh Patrick
Looking south across Lough Furnace to Croagh Patrick
We have been quantifying sediment accumulation in Lough Feeagh for 20 years- today we replaced our bashed up old traps with some shiny new ones, designed by Joe Cooney and built by a local metal worker Martin Forrestal. Hope they’ll last another 20 years!!! #BurrishooleLTER
@cathdalt.bsky.social
@cathdalt.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We have been quantifying sediment accumulation in Lough Feeagh for 20 years- today we replaced our bashed up old traps with some shiny new ones, designed by Joe Cooney and built by a local metal worker Martin Forrestal. Hope they’ll last another 20 years!!! #BurrishooleLTER
@cathdalt.bsky.social
@cathdalt.bsky.social
Incoming #StormEowyn
Watch it approaching over the Atlantic at buoy M6 webapps.marine.ie/IWPGraphs/De...
and then hit inland in Lough Feeagh
erddap.marine.ie/erddap/table...
Watch it approaching over the Atlantic at buoy M6 webapps.marine.ie/IWPGraphs/De...
and then hit inland in Lough Feeagh
erddap.marine.ie/erddap/table...
January 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Incoming #StormEowyn
Watch it approaching over the Atlantic at buoy M6 webapps.marine.ie/IWPGraphs/De...
and then hit inland in Lough Feeagh
erddap.marine.ie/erddap/table...
Watch it approaching over the Atlantic at buoy M6 webapps.marine.ie/IWPGraphs/De...
and then hit inland in Lough Feeagh
erddap.marine.ie/erddap/table...
Beautiful big trout headed out to sea from the Burrishoole traps this morning
December 28, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Beautiful big trout headed out to sea from the Burrishoole traps this morning
One of the main conclusions of our book is that the Lakes in Ireland are under threat from all sides. The solutions to declining water quality are already known. They need to be implemented. doi.org/10.1093/bios...
Copying this @wwfeu.bsky.social image from a post by @davetickner.bsky.social
Copying this @wwfeu.bsky.social image from a post by @davetickner.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 12:17 PM
One of the main conclusions of our book is that the Lakes in Ireland are under threat from all sides. The solutions to declining water quality are already known. They need to be implemented. doi.org/10.1093/bios...
Copying this @wwfeu.bsky.social image from a post by @davetickner.bsky.social
Copying this @wwfeu.bsky.social image from a post by @davetickner.bsky.social
Lakes in Ireland - Mirrors of Change.
Available to download here: oar.marine.ie/handle/10793...
Edited by @cathdalt.bsky.social @ejen.bsky.social and @edeeyto.bsky.social with chapter contributions from 52 authors and sponsorship from state agencies & HEIs
Limited print copies available - DM me
Available to download here: oar.marine.ie/handle/10793...
Edited by @cathdalt.bsky.social @ejen.bsky.social and @edeeyto.bsky.social with chapter contributions from 52 authors and sponsorship from state agencies & HEIs
Limited print copies available - DM me
December 11, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Lakes in Ireland - Mirrors of Change.
Available to download here: oar.marine.ie/handle/10793...
Edited by @cathdalt.bsky.social @ejen.bsky.social and @edeeyto.bsky.social with chapter contributions from 52 authors and sponsorship from state agencies & HEIs
Limited print copies available - DM me
Available to download here: oar.marine.ie/handle/10793...
Edited by @cathdalt.bsky.social @ejen.bsky.social and @edeeyto.bsky.social with chapter contributions from 52 authors and sponsorship from state agencies & HEIs
Limited print copies available - DM me
I really enjoyed the short talk about the High Seas by @oliveheffernan.bsky.social today at #OceanKnowledge2030 in the RDS
👏🏼👏🏼🐟🐟🪼🪼🐋🌊🌊
@marineinst.bsky.social
👏🏼👏🏼🐟🐟🪼🪼🐋🌊🌊
@marineinst.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 6:01 PM
I really enjoyed the short talk about the High Seas by @oliveheffernan.bsky.social today at #OceanKnowledge2030 in the RDS
👏🏼👏🏼🐟🐟🪼🪼🐋🌊🌊
@marineinst.bsky.social
👏🏼👏🏼🐟🐟🪼🪼🐋🌊🌊
@marineinst.bsky.social
I had a lovely trip to Tromso to examine Eloise Rochat’s thesis on the parasites of Arctic charr. Her first paper is already published and I hope the next two will be out soon
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
November 14, 2024 at 10:06 PM
I had a lovely trip to Tromso to examine Eloise Rochat’s thesis on the parasites of Arctic charr. Her first paper is already published and I hope the next two will be out soon
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Trichodiniasis and glochidiosis in one 📽️!!
Once the Pearl mussel glochidia have been released from their mother, they have 24 hours of snapping to find a🐟
Heres some footage of encysted glochidia, and Trichodina, a gill parasite 🛸
@KeenaPhilip @MarineInst @NPWSIreland
Once the Pearl mussel glochidia have been released from their mother, they have 24 hours of snapping to find a🐟
Heres some footage of encysted glochidia, and Trichodina, a gill parasite 🛸
@KeenaPhilip @MarineInst @NPWSIreland
November 13, 2024 at 7:54 AM
Trichodiniasis and glochidiosis in one 📽️!!
Once the Pearl mussel glochidia have been released from their mother, they have 24 hours of snapping to find a🐟
Heres some footage of encysted glochidia, and Trichodina, a gill parasite 🛸
@KeenaPhilip @MarineInst @NPWSIreland
Once the Pearl mussel glochidia have been released from their mother, they have 24 hours of snapping to find a🐟
Heres some footage of encysted glochidia, and Trichodina, a gill parasite 🛸
@KeenaPhilip @MarineInst @NPWSIreland
After one of the wettest Augusts in our records (exceeded only by 1985) we eventually kicked off our electrofishing surveys in the Burrishoole catchment #BurrishooleLTER @MarineInst @MetEireann
Initial indications of very good densities of juvenile salmon and trout 😀🐟🐟
Initial indications of very good densities of juvenile salmon and trout 😀🐟🐟
November 13, 2024 at 7:55 AM
After one of the wettest Augusts in our records (exceeded only by 1985) we eventually kicked off our electrofishing surveys in the Burrishoole catchment #BurrishooleLTER @MarineInst @MetEireann
Initial indications of very good densities of juvenile salmon and trout 😀🐟🐟
Initial indications of very good densities of juvenile salmon and trout 😀🐟🐟
2 of our PHD students got away from the Co Mayo rain this week. @c_guilfoyle presented his work at the @SER_Europe conference in Estonia #SERS2024 while Adrian Rinaldo met with fellow @invent_water ESRs at @siwi_www in Sweden.
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@MarineInst @MfrcATU @uccBEES
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@MarineInst @MfrcATU @uccBEES
November 13, 2024 at 7:55 AM
2 of our PHD students got away from the Co Mayo rain this week. @c_guilfoyle presented his work at the @SER_Europe conference in Estonia #SERS2024 while Adrian Rinaldo met with fellow @invent_water ESRs at @siwi_www in Sweden.
👏🏼👏🏼
@MarineInst @MfrcATU @uccBEES
👏🏼👏🏼
@MarineInst @MfrcATU @uccBEES
Glochidia of Margaritifera (Freshwater Pearl mussels) attaching onto our hatchery salmon 🤩🤩 this week
Love to see it ❤️💚
@MarineInst @NPWSIreland
Love to see it ❤️💚
@MarineInst @NPWSIreland
November 13, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Glochidia of Margaritifera (Freshwater Pearl mussels) attaching onto our hatchery salmon 🤩🤩 this week
Love to see it ❤️💚
@MarineInst @NPWSIreland
Love to see it ❤️💚
@MarineInst @NPWSIreland
Listening in on the @invent_water talkshow at @siwi_www
Great representation from @maud_siebers , Keerthana and Ricardo
Young Minds, Global Waters: networked collaborative science for boosting innovation
Great representation from @maud_siebers , Keerthana and Ricardo
Young Minds, Global Waters: networked collaborative science for boosting innovation
November 13, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Listening in on the @invent_water talkshow at @siwi_www
Great representation from @maud_siebers , Keerthana and Ricardo
Young Minds, Global Waters: networked collaborative science for boosting innovation
Great representation from @maud_siebers , Keerthana and Ricardo
Young Minds, Global Waters: networked collaborative science for boosting innovation