Rodney Forster
@rodneyforster.bsky.social
Professor, Marine Science at the University of Hull.
satellite image from November 2024, before the dumping : looks like the site will flood completely if there is another very heavy rain event.
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
satellite image from November 2024, before the dumping : looks like the site will flood completely if there is another very heavy rain event.
Maybe he had the chart upside down.
November 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Maybe he had the chart upside down.
Yougov and other pollers always talk about what 'Brits' think when they show their results. I've always wondered about this, and whether polling does include everyone elgible to vote. Local election registers would include around 5 million EU citizens, are their voices ever heard?
October 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Yougov and other pollers always talk about what 'Brits' think when they show their results. I've always wondered about this, and whether polling does include everyone elgible to vote. Local election registers would include around 5 million EU citizens, are their voices ever heard?
This one. Possibly a weever fish larvae?
October 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This one. Possibly a weever fish larvae?
My students were sampling in the Clyde last week and found some beauties.
October 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
My students were sampling in the Clyde last week and found some beauties.
Leitmotif through this year's Coastal Seas field course is for the students to use their own data to decide whether the Clyde is ecologically dead (T&R, 2010), or whether it is alive, but different, and likely to have a cetacean-rich future (L&F,2021). Final hour of today's survey was like this:
October 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Leitmotif through this year's Coastal Seas field course is for the students to use their own data to decide whether the Clyde is ecologically dead (T&R, 2010), or whether it is alive, but different, and likely to have a cetacean-rich future (L&F,2021). Final hour of today's survey was like this:
Nice optics this morning looking south from FSC Millport to a floating Ailsa Craig. Pods of dolphins in the far distance.
October 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Nice optics this morning looking south from FSC Millport to a floating Ailsa Craig. Pods of dolphins in the far distance.
Millport field trip week, with an unusually fantastic weather forecast ahead of us.
October 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Millport field trip week, with an unusually fantastic weather forecast ahead of us.
I have a little side-hustle to monitor changes in wildlife at a local site. I've installed a Song Meter in the grounds with dawn/dusk monitoring, analysis with Chirpity. Here's the data showing the arrival and build-up of the spectacular skeins of pink-foot that are now filling the evening sky.
October 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I have a little side-hustle to monitor changes in wildlife at a local site. I've installed a Song Meter in the grounds with dawn/dusk monitoring, analysis with Chirpity. Here's the data showing the arrival and build-up of the spectacular skeins of pink-foot that are now filling the evening sky.
Wondering whether Gladstone Dock lock is the largest structure of its type in the world? Seems larger than what I remember of Panama locks. And we saw a pirate ship earlier in the day.
September 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Wondering whether Gladstone Dock lock is the largest structure of its type in the world? Seems larger than what I remember of Panama locks. And we saw a pirate ship earlier in the day.
Seaforth container terminal as we wait for the dock gates to open. I’m in the minority of about 0.1% of people that think the second Stone Roses album was better than the first.
September 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Seaforth container terminal as we wait for the dock gates to open. I’m in the minority of about 0.1% of people that think the second Stone Roses album was better than the first.
End of a day’s sampling out on the wind farm for NERC Ecowind project.
September 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
End of a day’s sampling out on the wind farm for NERC Ecowind project.
Zeus the olympic wonder horse on display in Nantes this evening.
September 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Zeus the olympic wonder horse on display in Nantes this evening.
The original Discovery in its final berth.
September 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The original Discovery in its final berth.
First sight of Discovery returning after cruise DY197, berthing not far from the original Discovery this evening @carolinehack.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
First sight of Discovery returning after cruise DY197, berthing not far from the original Discovery this evening @carolinehack.bsky.social
the area burnt by the August fires is immense.
August 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
the area burnt by the August fires is immense.
Interesting sites in the North Sea spotted by Sentinel-2 this week. Left, an oil or gas platform in the centre of a small but intensely white phytoplankton bloom. Right, a survey ship near the Silver Pit towing a wide array of probably siesmic survey gear.
August 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Interesting sites in the North Sea spotted by Sentinel-2 this week. Left, an oil or gas platform in the centre of a small but intensely white phytoplankton bloom. Right, a survey ship near the Silver Pit towing a wide array of probably siesmic survey gear.
We had a good meal there on the second last night before finish.
August 21, 2025 at 7:28 AM
We had a good meal there on the second last night before finish.
Treac’h Salus on a busy day. Kelp (Saccorhiza) forest around the point still in good shape, lots of wrasse.
August 19, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Treac’h Salus on a busy day. Kelp (Saccorhiza) forest around the point still in good shape, lots of wrasse.
Perfect beach read
August 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Perfect beach read
Spot the turnstone
August 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Spot the turnstone
Had to wade out some distance to get the angle for tonight’s big red sunset.
August 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Had to wade out some distance to get the angle for tonight’s big red sunset.
To swim or not to swim? Beach closed by mystery pollution, the mayor is furious. But green flag flying and the sailing schools have gone out as normal.
August 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
To swim or not to swim? Beach closed by mystery pollution, the mayor is furious. But green flag flying and the sailing schools have gone out as normal.
Scarborough is spoiling us with the views, here at #Rememare25
July 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Scarborough is spoiling us with the views, here at #Rememare25
Spot the data logger, buried to measure sediment surface temperature during the past three weeks.
July 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Spot the data logger, buried to measure sediment surface temperature during the past three weeks.