Ollie Thomas
@olliethomas0.bsky.social
Multidisciplinary marine biologist with a focus on #Seagrass ecosystems, ecosystem services, and conservation 🌱 Senior science officer at Project Seagrass.
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Ollie Thomas
@olliethomas0.bsky.social
· Jan 13
I am pleased to say that I have finally submitted my PhD thesis! It's been an incredible journey to get to this point, looking forward to sharing my findings!
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Thanks to Oceanographic magazine for this nice article on our new paper about the value and decline of #sustainable #fisheries oceanographicmagazine.com/news/urgent-... @thembauk.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🐟
"Urgent action" needed to stop collapse of UK sustainable fisheries - Oceanographic
Policymakers urged to take crucial steps to maintain marine biodiversity, support sustainable fisheries, and preserve UK’s coastal heritage.
oceanographicmagazine.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Thanks to Oceanographic magazine for this nice article on our new paper about the value and decline of #sustainable #fisheries oceanographicmagazine.com/news/urgent-... @thembauk.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🐟
What better way to spend both World Seagrass day and St Davids day than planting heaps of seagrass out in North Wales !!! 🌱🏴
@projectseagrass.bsky.social @marinehgreen.bsky.social @patterson-00.bsky.social Heather Robinson
@projectseagrass.bsky.social @marinehgreen.bsky.social @patterson-00.bsky.social Heather Robinson
March 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
What better way to spend both World Seagrass day and St Davids day than planting heaps of seagrass out in North Wales !!! 🌱🏴
@projectseagrass.bsky.social @marinehgreen.bsky.social @patterson-00.bsky.social Heather Robinson
@projectseagrass.bsky.social @marinehgreen.bsky.social @patterson-00.bsky.social Heather Robinson
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🐚Still time to join our team!🐚
We're looking for a dynamic new member of our core team, responsible for ensuring smooth operations including:
🪸Aquarium husbandry
⚒️General maintenance
💻IT management
☣️Health & safety
⛵Boat operations
🤿SCUBA compressor
Details and apply 👉 www.arrancoast.com/vacancies
We're looking for a dynamic new member of our core team, responsible for ensuring smooth operations including:
🪸Aquarium husbandry
⚒️General maintenance
💻IT management
☣️Health & safety
⛵Boat operations
🤿SCUBA compressor
Details and apply 👉 www.arrancoast.com/vacancies
February 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🐚Still time to join our team!🐚
We're looking for a dynamic new member of our core team, responsible for ensuring smooth operations including:
🪸Aquarium husbandry
⚒️General maintenance
💻IT management
☣️Health & safety
⛵Boat operations
🤿SCUBA compressor
Details and apply 👉 www.arrancoast.com/vacancies
We're looking for a dynamic new member of our core team, responsible for ensuring smooth operations including:
🪸Aquarium husbandry
⚒️General maintenance
💻IT management
☣️Health & safety
⛵Boat operations
🤿SCUBA compressor
Details and apply 👉 www.arrancoast.com/vacancies
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New paper hot of the press for #phycologyfriday !!!! 🌱🌊🌞We conducted a warming experiment in the field to test stress responses of the intertidal habitat forming seaweed Fucus serratus: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
February 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
New paper hot of the press for #phycologyfriday !!!! 🌱🌊🌞We conducted a warming experiment in the field to test stress responses of the intertidal habitat forming seaweed Fucus serratus: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Sea Slugs, Nudibranchs that swim ! The Lamlash No Take Zone established in 2008 has allowed this small area to recover. For 2 decades COAST has been using Seasearch and working with our academic partners to monitor any changes. www.arrancoast.com/research/
January 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Sea Slugs, Nudibranchs that swim ! The Lamlash No Take Zone established in 2008 has allowed this small area to recover. For 2 decades COAST has been using Seasearch and working with our academic partners to monitor any changes. www.arrancoast.com/research/
I am pleased to say that I have finally submitted my PhD thesis! It's been an incredible journey to get to this point, looking forward to sharing my findings!
January 13, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I am pleased to say that I have finally submitted my PhD thesis! It's been an incredible journey to get to this point, looking forward to sharing my findings!
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Good news stories such as this show that we absolutely can put nature into recovery - with the right political will and support - but we need a lot more of this to really bend the curve of biodiversity decline..
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#wildlife #biodiversity #nature #rewilding #restoration
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#wildlife #biodiversity #nature #rewilding #restoration
‘It absolutely took off’: five UK biodiversity success stories
‘It absolutely took off’: five UK biodiversity success stories
From new butterfly habitats in the Cotswolds to arctic willow planting in the Scottish Highlands, there are increasing numbers of places where humans are giving nature a helping hand to re-establish itself
It is easy to get mired in a sense of…
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Good news stories such as this show that we absolutely can put nature into recovery - with the right political will and support - but we need a lot more of this to really bend the curve of biodiversity decline..
🙌💚💪🌱
#wildlife #biodiversity #nature #rewilding #restoration
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#wildlife #biodiversity #nature #rewilding #restoration
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Hey folks! Interested in seagrass and other coastal submerged aquatic planty things? This starter pack is for you!
It’s small for now, so hit me up if you’d like to be added!
go.bsky.app/Jk81YjR
It’s small for now, so hit me up if you’d like to be added!
go.bsky.app/Jk81YjR
December 4, 2024 at 6:44 AM
Hey folks! Interested in seagrass and other coastal submerged aquatic planty things? This starter pack is for you!
It’s small for now, so hit me up if you’d like to be added!
go.bsky.app/Jk81YjR
It’s small for now, so hit me up if you’d like to be added!
go.bsky.app/Jk81YjR
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#PhD opportunities are like buses - you wait for ages and then two come along at once! Check out this chance to work with @benciotti.bsky.social, Michael Collins & me on 'Environmental drivers of variation in populations of sandy beach #fishes' www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/scho... Please share 🏖 🐟
Environmental drivers of variation in populations of sandy beach fishes
This PhD project will will involve extensive field sampling, laboratory assays and analysis of large datasets to understand what controls variation in...
www.plymouth.ac.uk
December 6, 2024 at 9:34 AM
#PhD opportunities are like buses - you wait for ages and then two come along at once! Check out this chance to work with @benciotti.bsky.social, Michael Collins & me on 'Environmental drivers of variation in populations of sandy beach #fishes' www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/scho... Please share 🏖 🐟
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The deadline for the interdisciplinary #PhD with myself at Bangor, Mark Fitzsimons, Plymouth and Rosie Williams, ZSL has been extended to 6th Dec! It will research how AMR and antibiotics from wastewater affect marine mammals and the ecosystem.
Please repost
www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...
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Study with CDT SuMMeR
Information for Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Management of UK Marine Resources (CDT SuMMeR) applicants including PhD projects,...
www.plymouth.ac.uk
November 29, 2024 at 4:25 PM
The deadline for the interdisciplinary #PhD with myself at Bangor, Mark Fitzsimons, Plymouth and Rosie Williams, ZSL has been extended to 6th Dec! It will research how AMR and antibiotics from wastewater affect marine mammals and the ecosystem.
Please repost
www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...
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www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...
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Check our new paper reporting that Mediterranean seagrasses provide essential coastal protection under climate change.
Bottom line: Seagrass loss may double the risk of coastal flooding with rising sea levels.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bottom line: Seagrass loss may double the risk of coastal flooding with rising sea levels.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mediterranean seagrasses provide essential coastal protection under climate change - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Mediterranean seagrasses provide essential coastal protection under climate change
www.nature.com
December 5, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Check our new paper reporting that Mediterranean seagrasses provide essential coastal protection under climate change.
Bottom line: Seagrass loss may double the risk of coastal flooding with rising sea levels.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bottom line: Seagrass loss may double the risk of coastal flooding with rising sea levels.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨Paper Alert🚨
⚠️Over 80% of the #EU’s #MPAs only marginally regulates human activities.
🤏0.2% are #fully or #highly protected.
🌊Reaching the EU’s 10% strict protection target will require radical changes to the regulation of activities in EU MPAs.
📃 doi.org/10.1016/j.on...
⚠️Over 80% of the #EU’s #MPAs only marginally regulates human activities.
🤏0.2% are #fully or #highly protected.
🌊Reaching the EU’s 10% strict protection target will require radical changes to the regulation of activities in EU MPAs.
📃 doi.org/10.1016/j.on...
November 21, 2024 at 1:16 PM
🚨Paper Alert🚨
⚠️Over 80% of the #EU’s #MPAs only marginally regulates human activities.
🤏0.2% are #fully or #highly protected.
🌊Reaching the EU’s 10% strict protection target will require radical changes to the regulation of activities in EU MPAs.
📃 doi.org/10.1016/j.on...
⚠️Over 80% of the #EU’s #MPAs only marginally regulates human activities.
🤏0.2% are #fully or #highly protected.
🌊Reaching the EU’s 10% strict protection target will require radical changes to the regulation of activities in EU MPAs.
📃 doi.org/10.1016/j.on...
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🦑 Squid Anatomy🦑
I am so genuine- if you are a marine biologist who has written or wants to write a comic, please consider this post my application.
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I am so genuine- if you are a marine biologist who has written or wants to write a comic, please consider this post my application.
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November 29, 2024 at 3:00 PM
🦑 Squid Anatomy🦑
I am so genuine- if you are a marine biologist who has written or wants to write a comic, please consider this post my application.
🐡🌊💥
I am so genuine- if you are a marine biologist who has written or wants to write a comic, please consider this post my application.
🐡🌊💥
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🌊🌡️ marine heat waves are becoming increasingly common and widespread. New review. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
A global overview of marine heatwaves in a changing climate - Communications Earth & Environment
Improved understanding of marine heatwave predictability and impacts requires analysis of these extremes at full ocean depth, using models and observations capturing their key drivers at the relevant ...
www.nature.com
November 23, 2024 at 8:00 AM
🌊🌡️ marine heat waves are becoming increasingly common and widespread. New review. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Really nice to see Martin Attrill's and my article 'Marvellous Meadows' in the latest Blue Carbon focused MBA Marine Biologist magazine!
We focus on cutting edge research of carbon stocks in subtidal and intertidal seagrass present in Plymouth Sound and the Tamar estuary🌱🌊
We focus on cutting edge research of carbon stocks in subtidal and intertidal seagrass present in Plymouth Sound and the Tamar estuary🌱🌊
November 15, 2024 at 8:00 AM
Really nice to see Martin Attrill's and my article 'Marvellous Meadows' in the latest Blue Carbon focused MBA Marine Biologist magazine!
We focus on cutting edge research of carbon stocks in subtidal and intertidal seagrass present in Plymouth Sound and the Tamar estuary🌱🌊
We focus on cutting edge research of carbon stocks in subtidal and intertidal seagrass present in Plymouth Sound and the Tamar estuary🌱🌊
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Informative thread on the recent estimates of the ocean carbon sink and its variability 🧵🧪
The ocean takes up anthropogenic CO₂ emissions, 26% on average over the past decade.
The #GlobalCarbonBudget 2024 confirms that the ocean sink increased in 2023 after 3 years of stagnation due to rare triple La Niña event. 2023 was an El Niño year, with an expected increase in the sink.
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The #GlobalCarbonBudget 2024 confirms that the ocean sink increased in 2023 after 3 years of stagnation due to rare triple La Niña event. 2023 was an El Niño year, with an expected increase in the sink.
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November 13, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Informative thread on the recent estimates of the ocean carbon sink and its variability 🧵🧪
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It’s #WorldSeagrassDay 🌊
Seagrass meadows are biodiversity hotspots, home to thousands of species.
What's more, they act as incredible carbon sinks, helping combat climate change.
But 92% of the UK’s seagrass has been lost.
Protecting & restoring what we have left is vital.
Seagrass meadows are biodiversity hotspots, home to thousands of species.
What's more, they act as incredible carbon sinks, helping combat climate change.
But 92% of the UK’s seagrass has been lost.
Protecting & restoring what we have left is vital.
March 1, 2024 at 11:30 AM
It’s #WorldSeagrassDay 🌊
Seagrass meadows are biodiversity hotspots, home to thousands of species.
What's more, they act as incredible carbon sinks, helping combat climate change.
But 92% of the UK’s seagrass has been lost.
Protecting & restoring what we have left is vital.
Seagrass meadows are biodiversity hotspots, home to thousands of species.
What's more, they act as incredible carbon sinks, helping combat climate change.
But 92% of the UK’s seagrass has been lost.
Protecting & restoring what we have left is vital.
Happy World #seagrass day! 🌱
Currently busy writing up my first PhD paper on #bluecarbon in intertidal seagrass meadows in Southwest England.
Watch this space!
Currently busy writing up my first PhD paper on #bluecarbon in intertidal seagrass meadows in Southwest England.
Watch this space!
March 1, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Happy World #seagrass day! 🌱
Currently busy writing up my first PhD paper on #bluecarbon in intertidal seagrass meadows in Southwest England.
Watch this space!
Currently busy writing up my first PhD paper on #bluecarbon in intertidal seagrass meadows in Southwest England.
Watch this space!
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CDT SuMMeR #PhD opportunity! Hosted by @uniofexeter.bsky.social
Evaluate the socio-economic & ecosystem impacts of marine heatwaves in the UK, supervised by a transdisciplinary team from Uni of Exeter, Plymouth Marine Lab, Cefas & the Met Office.
#ExeterMarine 🧪🦑
plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...
Evaluate the socio-economic & ecosystem impacts of marine heatwaves in the UK, supervised by a transdisciplinary team from Uni of Exeter, Plymouth Marine Lab, Cefas & the Met Office.
#ExeterMarine 🧪🦑
plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...
December 6, 2023 at 10:02 AM
CDT SuMMeR #PhD opportunity! Hosted by @uniofexeter.bsky.social
Evaluate the socio-economic & ecosystem impacts of marine heatwaves in the UK, supervised by a transdisciplinary team from Uni of Exeter, Plymouth Marine Lab, Cefas & the Met Office.
#ExeterMarine 🧪🦑
plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...
Evaluate the socio-economic & ecosystem impacts of marine heatwaves in the UK, supervised by a transdisciplinary team from Uni of Exeter, Plymouth Marine Lab, Cefas & the Met Office.
#ExeterMarine 🧪🦑
plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...