Month: April 2019

Climate change, Coastal, Conservation, diver, diving, Ecosystems, Ecotoxicology, fisheries, Oceans and estuaries, Our people, PhD, population, seagrass, Seaworld, turtles, Uncategorized

Turtley sick moves: rescuing weak sea turtles and the science aimed at helping their equally weak populations

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Turtley sick moves: rescuing weak sea turtles and the science aimed at helping their equally weak populations

  Author: Dr Ryan Pearson Sea turtles are threatened. Literal boatloads of things affect their already low survival rates, most attributable to humans. Plastics, fishing entanglements, temperature increases, habitat degradation and actual boat strikes are killing turtles and affecting their populations in many other ways. Ultimately threatening their very existence. Knowing this, when my buddy [...]

Climate change, Coastal, Conservation, Ecosystems, event, fisheries, International, Mangroves, Oceans and estuaries, Opportunities, Our people, PhD, seagrass, Sediment, Uncategorized, Wetlands, womeninstem

From the comfort of warm water to the freezing fjords of Denmark – collaborating in international waters as a PhD student

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From the comfort of warm water to the freezing fjords of Denmark – collaborating in international waters as a PhD student

    Author: Kristin Jinks “I had no idea whether I was going to live up to the expectations of my collaborators, but it was too good an opportunity to let my doubts stop me,” explains Kristin Jinks. - Working in the environmental sciences has its perks. Including the opportunities to visit and work at [...]