Postdoc Research Fellow @AucklandUni with @shellfishrestnz | Green-lipped mussel restoration | Excited by biodiversity🐠🐙🦀🦪

New Zealand
Joined October 2019
Super excited to announce 4 internship opportunities for students who are looking to gain some work experience on marine restoration with us! Find info below!
We are on the search for 4 students to join our 2025 Internship Program. Please share with your networks and help us find the next rising stars in marine restoration! 📧 Interested? projectrestore.sims.org.au/g… #MarineConservation #Internship #ProjectRestore
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Announcements | 📢📢 The result of “#Fishes 2023 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award” ✨ Congratulations! ✨ Emilee Benjamin will receive CHF 800, a certificate and a chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review in Fishes in 2024. 👉mdpi.com/about/announcements…
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What an outstanding and touching opening ceremony to welcome 1000 delegates on Larrakia Country for #SER2023 “Healthy Country, healthy people”
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Underwater technology and the humble oyster working together to bring life to a reef and open the door to a more sustainable future. @AprilCretan9 #9News
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Friday feels... Filmed 1153m Gascoyne Marine Reserve with @ausmarineparks @minderoo @wamuseum @deepseauwa through the Our Marine Parks Grant. @UWAresearch @BiolSci_UWA @uwanews #deepsea #seacucumber
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New oyster restoration project to take place in the Chesapeake Bay More than 210 million juvenile oysters are to be planted over 52.5 acres of sanctuaries in the eastern Chesapeake Bay. thefishsite.com/articles/new…
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Great morning collecting our @VIMS_News @WMNews sentinel oysters, for monitoring oyster diseases in Chesapeake Bay. Beginning year 64 of this long running time series on oyster disease ecology
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We’re still celebrating Women’s History Month, and history was definitely made when Chef Jasmine Norton opened the doors to @_TheUrbanOyster becoming the first black woman to own and operate an oyster bar in the nation! #celebratewomen #womenshistorymonth
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Yesterday I decided to stop editing out all the exclamation marks in my emails. I’ve done this for years to seem “more professional.” But what does that really mean???? Less female? Less young? Less excited? Well I’m young and female and IM EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get used to it.
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You never know what you might find when you put a camera in a seagrass meadow.... These puffer fish are quite shy in person but they are very curious about the camera!
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To make this decade the decade of #GenerationRestoration, we need to restore our ecosystems and environments. This is how we do it. @UNEP
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“I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so later I can build castles.” Shannon Hale, US author. Be kind to your first draft. Get some words down first, then you can build castles. #PhDchat #ECRchat #postdoc #PhDforum #acwri
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Exciting footage of a #cuttlefish hunting🦑🦀🍽️from the last #BRUV survey of the year on the @solentnative #NativeOyster 🦪 reef!
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You'd think they'd come up with a better name for this thing than "flatworm"
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An early breakfast for this hungry seastar. There is a big mussel under there (see the black ‘clams’ in the background) and the star has ‘thrown up’ its stomach and it digesting the mussel slowly. Imagine how the mussel feels.. @PiscoScience
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The Nature Conservancy recently rolled out a new report titled, Global Principles of RestorativeAquaculture. Going beyond conservation and sustainable production, the report calls forincreasing aquaculture systems that actuallyrestore ecological function, productivity and 1/2
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Good morning☀️🌊Today we are very excited to be celebrating #WorldOysterDay 2022! Keep your eyes peeled👀, as throughout the day we will be sharing some of our @WildOysters progress to date🦪🎉👏 #WildOysters #GenerationRestoration #Fridaymotivation
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🚨NEW PAPER🚨 🗣️Women leaders are underrepresented in marine science 🎙️34 women leaders interviewed to identify barriers & enablers 🚧They face a "glass obstacle course" of challenges 📜We provide actionable #genderequality strategies ➡️Access here: bit.ly/3MuqGEv
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"By the end of the day, standing at the prow of the Governors Island ferry, my hands smelling like the bottom of the ocean floor, I allowed myself to feel some hope." bit.ly/3LNS148 @ConEdison @Lendlease
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