Erik Olsen
@erikolsen.bsky.social
Head of Research Group for Sustainable Development
@ Institute of Marine Research, 🇳🇴 Interested in (too) many things: computer models | ecosystem-based management | seafood systems | politics | brewing | cooking | outdoors | photography | board games
@ Institute of Marine Research, 🇳🇴 Interested in (too) many things: computer models | ecosystem-based management | seafood systems | politics | brewing | cooking | outdoors | photography | board games
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September 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Two videos showing the release of one of the sea-turtles 🐢 we rescued from the ghost net we encountered yesterday in the Bay of Bengal . Very impressed by the skill and efficiency of the R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen Crew! 😊 🧪🦑
September 16, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Two videos showing the release of one of the sea-turtles 🐢 we rescued from the ghost net we encountered yesterday in the Bay of Bengal . Very impressed by the skill and efficiency of the R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen Crew! 😊 🧪🦑
🐢 SEA TURTLE RESCUE! 🐢
450km from land in Bay of Bengal, we found 2 sea turtles trapped in a ghost net. Our crew quickly freed both turtles & retrieved the dangerous net. Two lives saved, one less threat in our oceans!
#SeaTurtles #GhostFishing #OceanRescue
450km from land in Bay of Bengal, we found 2 sea turtles trapped in a ghost net. Our crew quickly freed both turtles & retrieved the dangerous net. Two lives saved, one less threat in our oceans!
#SeaTurtles #GhostFishing #OceanRescue
September 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
🐢 SEA TURTLE RESCUE! 🐢
450km from land in Bay of Bengal, we found 2 sea turtles trapped in a ghost net. Our crew quickly freed both turtles & retrieved the dangerous net. Two lives saved, one less threat in our oceans!
#SeaTurtles #GhostFishing #OceanRescue
450km from land in Bay of Bengal, we found 2 sea turtles trapped in a ghost net. Our crew quickly freed both turtles & retrieved the dangerous net. Two lives saved, one less threat in our oceans!
#SeaTurtles #GhostFishing #OceanRescue
Lots of fishing boats around us this morning in the Bay of Bengal. They're fishing for hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha), the national fish of Bangladesh, a high-price, fast-swimming schooling pelagic fish species. 🦑🧪
September 8, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Lots of fishing boats around us this morning in the Bay of Bengal. They're fishing for hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha), the national fish of Bangladesh, a high-price, fast-swimming schooling pelagic fish species. 🦑🧪
🌊 After the gale passe, Bangladesh's waters come alive! Off-shore shelf: modern trawlers meet traditional wooden boats. Nearshore: 30,000+ small artisanal vessels create livelihoods for coastal communities 🎣
#Bangladesh #Fishing 🦑
#Bangladesh #Fishing 🦑
September 6, 2025 at 3:57 AM
🌊 After the gale passe, Bangladesh's waters come alive! Off-shore shelf: modern trawlers meet traditional wooden boats. Nearshore: 30,000+ small artisanal vessels create livelihoods for coastal communities 🎣
#Bangladesh #Fishing 🦑
#Bangladesh #Fishing 🦑
Venomous seasnakes are common here in the Bay of Bengal, and we have to be very careful sorting our trawl catches, handling any snakes we catch safely and with care. Our team is trained & we follow a strict protocal.
After being weighed and photographed the snakes are released back to sea 🧪🦑🐍
After being weighed and photographed the snakes are released back to sea 🧪🦑🐍
September 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Venomous seasnakes are common here in the Bay of Bengal, and we have to be very careful sorting our trawl catches, handling any snakes we catch safely and with care. Our team is trained & we follow a strict protocal.
After being weighed and photographed the snakes are released back to sea 🧪🦑🐍
After being weighed and photographed the snakes are released back to sea 🧪🦑🐍
But it's not just fish who stop by in this underwater selfie-booth. Yesterday a yellow-bellied seasnake stopped to get its photo taken :-D 🧪🦑🐍
August 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
But it's not just fish who stop by in this underwater selfie-booth. Yesterday a yellow-bellied seasnake stopped to get its photo taken :-D 🧪🦑🐍
We're using a camera system mounted in the trawl to see what passes through the trawl at different depths (DeepVision). A great tool to see what is actually in the different layers we see on the echosounder. (see this paper by my colleagues for more details: academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...)
August 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
We're using a camera system mounted in the trawl to see what passes through the trawl at different depths (DeepVision). A great tool to see what is actually in the different layers we see on the echosounder. (see this paper by my colleagues for more details: academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...)
So, Bird-bluesky: What species of bird is this?
It has been hanging around our research vessel all day in the middle of the Bay of Bengal.
nyckel.com thinks it is a 'Short Billed Dowitcher', but only with a 48% confidence. 🧪🦑🐦🦆
It has been hanging around our research vessel all day in the middle of the Bay of Bengal.
nyckel.com thinks it is a 'Short Billed Dowitcher', but only with a 48% confidence. 🧪🦑🐦🦆
August 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
So, Bird-bluesky: What species of bird is this?
It has been hanging around our research vessel all day in the middle of the Bay of Bengal.
nyckel.com thinks it is a 'Short Billed Dowitcher', but only with a 48% confidence. 🧪🦑🐦🦆
It has been hanging around our research vessel all day in the middle of the Bay of Bengal.
nyckel.com thinks it is a 'Short Billed Dowitcher', but only with a 48% confidence. 🧪🦑🐦🦆
🇧🇩 MILESTONE MOMENT! Just crossed into Bangladesh EEZ in the Bay of Bengal and got a call from the Minister of Fisheries herself!
First time EVER a minister has personally reached out to learn about our research. Talk about validation for the science!
The team is absolutely buzzing right now 🙌
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First time EVER a minister has personally reached out to learn about our research. Talk about validation for the science!
The team is absolutely buzzing right now 🙌
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August 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🇧🇩 MILESTONE MOMENT! Just crossed into Bangladesh EEZ in the Bay of Bengal and got a call from the Minister of Fisheries herself!
First time EVER a minister has personally reached out to learn about our research. Talk about validation for the science!
The team is absolutely buzzing right now 🙌
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First time EVER a minister has personally reached out to learn about our research. Talk about validation for the science!
The team is absolutely buzzing right now 🙌
🦑🧪
After 3 days sailing from Colombo 🇱🇰 we arrived at our first station in international waters in the Bay of Bengal. We measured water chemistry, temperature, salinity ++ to 2750m depth. The trawl sampled fish and plankton in the upper 150m, and surprisingly caught a lot of swimming crabs.
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August 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM
After 3 days sailing from Colombo 🇱🇰 we arrived at our first station in international waters in the Bay of Bengal. We measured water chemistry, temperature, salinity ++ to 2750m depth. The trawl sampled fish and plankton in the upper 150m, and surprisingly caught a lot of swimming crabs.
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Blue whales 🐋 ahead!!
Passed a pod of three blue whales south of Sri Lanka (~20km offshore). These ocean giants aggregate in this area, so we hope for more sightings😅
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Passed a pod of three blue whales south of Sri Lanka (~20km offshore). These ocean giants aggregate in this area, so we hope for more sightings😅
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August 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Blue whales 🐋 ahead!!
Passed a pod of three blue whales south of Sri Lanka (~20km offshore). These ocean giants aggregate in this area, so we hope for more sightings😅
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Passed a pod of three blue whales south of Sri Lanka (~20km offshore). These ocean giants aggregate in this area, so we hope for more sightings😅
🦑🧪
Off to adventures in the Bay of Bengal😀 Starting a 32-day #EAFNansen fisheries & ecosystem survey in Bangladesh tomorrow. Colombo 🇱🇰 is our start and end port, & today we were visited by the 🇱🇰 minister of fisheries who got a tour of the vessel
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August 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Off to adventures in the Bay of Bengal😀 Starting a 32-day #EAFNansen fisheries & ecosystem survey in Bangladesh tomorrow. Colombo 🇱🇰 is our start and end port, & today we were visited by the 🇱🇰 minister of fisheries who got a tour of the vessel
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What an Ocean-day in Nice!😀
Very successful India - Norway event on the tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl today co-hosted by the Indian minister for Earth Sciences and the Norwegian Minister for Development & with HRH Crown-Prince Haakon as guest of honour.🤩
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Very successful India - Norway event on the tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl today co-hosted by the Indian minister for Earth Sciences and the Norwegian Minister for Development & with HRH Crown-Prince Haakon as guest of honour.🤩
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June 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
What an Ocean-day in Nice!😀
Very successful India - Norway event on the tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl today co-hosted by the Indian minister for Earth Sciences and the Norwegian Minister for Development & with HRH Crown-Prince Haakon as guest of honour.🤩
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Very successful India - Norway event on the tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl today co-hosted by the Indian minister for Earth Sciences and the Norwegian Minister for Development & with HRH Crown-Prince Haakon as guest of honour.🤩
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The EAF Nansen programme which is developing & promoting more sustainable fisheries management, celebrates it's 50th anniversary in 2025!🥳🎉
The animation below shows where we've carried out surveys since 1975.
Read about our achievements in this (translated) article: tinyurl.com/bdf65t38
The animation below shows where we've carried out surveys since 1975.
Read about our achievements in this (translated) article: tinyurl.com/bdf65t38
May 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The EAF Nansen programme which is developing & promoting more sustainable fisheries management, celebrates it's 50th anniversary in 2025!🥳🎉
The animation below shows where we've carried out surveys since 1975.
Read about our achievements in this (translated) article: tinyurl.com/bdf65t38
The animation below shows where we've carried out surveys since 1975.
Read about our achievements in this (translated) article: tinyurl.com/bdf65t38
The Nansen Programme Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) Transformative Research Challenge Price for 2025 has been launched. youth.world-food-forum.org/innovation-l...
Application deadline May 9th!
Application deadline May 9th!
April 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The Nansen Programme Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) Transformative Research Challenge Price for 2025 has been launched. youth.world-food-forum.org/innovation-l...
Application deadline May 9th!
Application deadline May 9th!
Today FAO’s Council discussed «Global food security challenges & drivers».
Almost all highlighted increased hunger & the need of multilateral solutions.
🇺🇸 instead demanded that FAO should get back to its core mandate, ditch DEI , & that US support to FAO should directly benefit US taxpayers 😣
Almost all highlighted increased hunger & the need of multilateral solutions.
🇺🇸 instead demanded that FAO should get back to its core mandate, ditch DEI , & that US support to FAO should directly benefit US taxpayers 😣
April 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Today FAO’s Council discussed «Global food security challenges & drivers».
Almost all highlighted increased hunger & the need of multilateral solutions.
🇺🇸 instead demanded that FAO should get back to its core mandate, ditch DEI , & that US support to FAO should directly benefit US taxpayers 😣
Almost all highlighted increased hunger & the need of multilateral solutions.
🇺🇸 instead demanded that FAO should get back to its core mandate, ditch DEI , & that US support to FAO should directly benefit US taxpayers 😣
This map (by @theguardian.com ) really shows how #TrumpTarriffs hit the global south. No more US support for global development that's for sure. Better let the people Madagascar, Lesotho, Cambodia, Laos & many more suffer & continue living in poverty. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
April 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
This map (by @theguardian.com ) really shows how #TrumpTarriffs hit the global south. No more US support for global development that's for sure. Better let the people Madagascar, Lesotho, Cambodia, Laos & many more suffer & continue living in poverty. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
In all the outrage on how #TrumpTarrifs will impact EU, & the west, effects on the Global South is worse.
Lesotho, Cambodia, Laos & Madagascar get ̈47-50% tarrifs 😡. These are among the worlds 30% least developed nations & need help to grow their economies, not destroy them.
tinyurl.com/4rmkfrtt
Lesotho, Cambodia, Laos & Madagascar get ̈47-50% tarrifs 😡. These are among the worlds 30% least developed nations & need help to grow their economies, not destroy them.
tinyurl.com/4rmkfrtt
April 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
In all the outrage on how #TrumpTarrifs will impact EU, & the west, effects on the Global South is worse.
Lesotho, Cambodia, Laos & Madagascar get ̈47-50% tarrifs 😡. These are among the worlds 30% least developed nations & need help to grow their economies, not destroy them.
tinyurl.com/4rmkfrtt
Lesotho, Cambodia, Laos & Madagascar get ̈47-50% tarrifs 😡. These are among the worlds 30% least developed nations & need help to grow their economies, not destroy them.
tinyurl.com/4rmkfrtt
Excellent talk by @dickeycollas.bsky.social showing the connections between EAFM, defining bioregions and the CBD convention.
March 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Excellent talk by @dickeycollas.bsky.social showing the connections between EAFM, defining bioregions and the CBD convention.
Good ecosystem state analysis excellently explained by @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social at EAFM in ABNJ Symposium
March 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Good ecosystem state analysis excellently explained by @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social at EAFM in ABNJ Symposium
Feeling small and awed in Basilica San Giovanni in Laterno (the oldest papal church in Rome)
February 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Feeling small and awed in Basilica San Giovanni in Laterno (the oldest papal church in Rome)
First work-week in FAO, Rome where I’m a visiting scientist until May. Looking forward to the weekend for seeing sights & savoring the atmosphere, food and drinks 😎
Pics:
-The main hall at FAO.
-St.Peters basilica seen through a keyhole in Aventino.
- Pantheon.
-My apartment building in Testaccio
Pics:
-The main hall at FAO.
-St.Peters basilica seen through a keyhole in Aventino.
- Pantheon.
-My apartment building in Testaccio
February 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
First work-week in FAO, Rome where I’m a visiting scientist until May. Looking forward to the weekend for seeing sights & savoring the atmosphere, food and drinks 😎
Pics:
-The main hall at FAO.
-St.Peters basilica seen through a keyhole in Aventino.
- Pantheon.
-My apartment building in Testaccio
Pics:
-The main hall at FAO.
-St.Peters basilica seen through a keyhole in Aventino.
- Pantheon.
-My apartment building in Testaccio
But the RGB values of the strawberry pixels show Red ranging from 160 - 178. So no wonder we see a reddish tint. 🧐
January 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
But the RGB values of the strawberry pixels show Red ranging from 160 - 178. So no wonder we see a reddish tint. 🧐
Spotted in an Oxford alley. Made me laugh - and reminiscing of a time when the worst vice a politicians could have was smoking weed 😁
December 7, 2024 at 11:54 PM
Spotted in an Oxford alley. Made me laugh - and reminiscing of a time when the worst vice a politicians could have was smoking weed 😁