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Dr Lauren Smith@saltwaterlifeuk.bsky.social |
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🤿 Marine Biologist focusing on elasmobranchs 🌊 Project Manager for a non-profit 🏔️ Also partial to mountains & mushrooms
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Dr Lauren Smith
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👀 Ever feel like you’re being watched?
This turbot (Scophthalmus maximusis) is keeping a close eye on me!
#turbot #fish #flatfish #underwater #underwaterphotography #scubadiving #divelife #marinebiologist #saltwaterlife #marinelife
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joeymaier 🌊
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🦑 #Marineresearch #shark
#catshark #Oceanacidification #risingoceantemps
Popular press coverage
"In the worst case scenario, only 11% of the small-spotted shark eggs hatched compared to the 81% and 83% survival rate seen under the control and SSP2 condition, respectively.
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Dr Lauren Smith
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Dr Lauren Smith
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Commonly known as the #seagooseberry , Pleurobrachia pileus is a #combjelly that has longitudinal combs with rows of hairs. As the hairs move in wave like motions the shimmering colourful effect is produced!
The Moray Firth is absolutely full of them just now!
#marinelife #underwater
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🐈 🦈 Recently i was contacted by a production company who are interested in some of my stills & footage of small spotted catsharks (Scyliorhinus canicula).
Going through my files i realised i have had some lovely encounters over the years, predominantly in Scottish Sea Lochs.
#shark #scubadiving
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joeymaier 🌊
@joeymaier.bsky.social
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Residents near
Hayama (Kanagawa Prefecture, #Japan) are planting #seagrass and #seaweed in effort to do #bluecarbon sequestration and simultaneously restore ecosystems along their coasts to improve #seaurchin and #shellfish harvest
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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I’m seeing lots of fishermen complain that there’s “more sharks than ever,” so I made a quick guide to what things look like if you zoom out a little.
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Dr Lauren Smith
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Heck! Northern prawn, not Common prawn!
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Here’s some Monday motivocean from this opulent opalescent nudibranch, Hermissenda opalescens: “Seas the day, frond! You got this!”
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Dr Lauren Smith
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Lovely to get in for a dip at Macduff yesterday evening 💧
📍 Common Prawn
📍 Dab
📍 And tons of Nudibranchs all over the Kelp!
#scubadiving #diving #divelife #underwater #underwaterphotography #olympus #prawn #flatfish #nudibranchs #seaslugs #marinebiologist #coldwaterdiving #marinelife
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Dr Lauren Smith
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Thanks to the Press & Journal for covering my recent trip to Tiger Beach with Epic Diving.
It’s not just the Tigers… I’m chattering about our cold water species here in Scotland too!
www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/envi...
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🦈 🍑 Jitterbug aka Buttface!
One of the easiest sharks to recognise at Tiger Beach!
#tigershark #shark #tigerbeach #sharkdiving #underwater #scubadiving #underwaterphotography #fintasticfriday #bahamas
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🦈 🍺 It’s been a heck of a week BUT i’ve just found my new favourite 🍺!!!
#sharkbait #sharksnearme #beer
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Dr Lauren Smith
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Pretty neat seeing 8 European Bee-Eaters (Merops apiaster) just 5 mins away from home, here in Aberdeenshire!
Not the sharpest of snaps as they were quite a distance away, however always nice to get record shots!
The last time we had one stick around for a while was 1995!!
#beeeater #wildlifeuk
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🧪 🦑 🐋 Inside the bodies of humpback whales are clues about how climate change is transforming Antarctica:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🦈 🦈 In my element! Hanging out with Tiger Sharks!
It doesn’t get any better than this!
I actually find it difficult to articulate just how much i love being in the water with sharks, suffice to say it’s a privilege and it’s where i feel most alive!
📸 Epic Diving
#tigershark #shark #diving
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🦑 🤿 Today is #WorldOceansDay💧
Come take a look below the surface with me at a local spot… rocky gullies, kelp, shoals of juvenile gadoids & beautiful iridescent comb jellyfish!
Immersion in the marine environment helps me to keep pushing for the protection this blue marble deserves!
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🧪 🦑 👋 A remora detaches from its Tiger Shark & comes over to check out its reflection in my camera dome! ℹ️ Remoras have modified dorsal fins which create an oval shape with slat-like structures that open & close to create suction, enabling them to sucker on & hitch a ride with their chosen shark! 🦈
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Dr Lauren Smith
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Yes! I’ve been scuba diving for 22 yrs, both commercially and recreationally!
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🦈 🇧🇸 Vienna cruising on by
Really enjoyed my encounters with her, she always seemed pretty chilled out (as did Kim and Tequila) 🩵
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#tigershark #shark #sharkdiving #sharkbiologist #underwater #underwaterphotography #scubadiving #sharklife #ocean #epicdiving #tigerbeach #bahamas #sharksunday
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🦈 I’m not sure it gets any better than this?!
A stunning Tiger Shark arching in front of me with her little fish pal leading the way!
#shark #tigershark #tigerbeach #sharkdiving #scubadiving #underwater #marinelife #sharkbiologist #sharklife
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🦈 It has been exactly one week since i did my first dive at Little Bahama Bank aka “Tiger Beach”, an area approx 11,000 km2, shallow waters (6-15m) surrounded on all sides by the deep (>500m) waters of the subtropical NW Atlantic.
📷 This is Kim, the largest pregnant female!
#tigershark #sharkdiving
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joeymaier 🌊
@joeymaier.bsky.social
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🌱 #plastics
#Oceanplastic #plasticwaste #microplastics #algae
What if I told you we could build plastics products that break down without leaving microplastics? What if they were made from algae?
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Dr Lauren Smith
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Yes please that would be great!
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Dr Lauren Smith
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Went along to my favourite spot at Bullers last week, once again lovely to see the Sea Parrots back 😍
#puffin #atlanticpuffin #birdphotography #canonphotography #canonr10 #coast #seabirds #outdoors #nature #wildlife #scotland
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🦑 A few other snaps from Boddam, including this interesting parasite attached to the eyeball of a sea scorpion (pretty sure the fish wouldn’t describe it as “interesting” though)!
#scubadiving #diving #divelife #underwater #underwaterphotography #marinebiologist #fish #MarineLife
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🤿 Nudibranch special at Boddam a couple of weeks ago!
The B&W one is a new species for me, not sure on the ID to be honest! Jorunna sp has been suggested….
#nudibranch #seaslug #scubadiving #diving #divelife #underwaterphotography #underwater #marinebiologist #scottishdiving #marinelife 🦑
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Dr Lauren Smith
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📸 Trying to catch up on a few posts!
Here’s a snap of a young #DuskyDolphin that i took from the boat and then a couple of stills from a video i shot when i was in the water in #Kaikoura #NewZealand last month!
Absolutely phenomenal feeling to be amongst a pod of #wilddolphins !
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#marinelife
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🍄 📸 Came across these beautiful Oyster Mushrooms in local woodland the other day!
#mushrooms #foraging #nature
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🧪 🐙 Researchers have found the oldest known sex chromosome in animals — the octopus Z chromosome — which first evolved in an ancient ancestor of octopuses around 380 million years ago
#marinelife
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Dr Lauren Smith
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Mostly recovered from land (the seals will stay on the beach for prolonged periods when moulting) & can be recovered provided the aerial is ok! I was checking on this as a BDMLR (British Divers Marine Life Rescue) medic, tag attached by Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) 👍
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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New by me for Scientific American: Deepwater sharks and rays are threatened by the shark liver oil trade and meat trade, 1 in 7 species are now threatened with extinction. 🧪🦑🦈🌎
www.scientificamerican.com/article/deep...
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🧪 🦑 🦭 This Grey Seal Pup has a telemetry tag attached to her. The tag is glued to the seals fur, which detaches when the seals undergo their annual moult.
This tag tracks the seals activity as well as logging other data which informs a variety of research & marine spatial planning.
#UKWildlife
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Dr Lauren Smith
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Starboard strikes solo!
Every time i hear of Orca(s) predating on Great Whites I’m struck by the sheer power of the Orca(s), having been in the water with Great Whites & seen first hand how solid they are its incredible to think of them being taken out!
amp.theguardian.com/science/2024...
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🌊 I got snapped today riding (what felt like) a giant!!
Sizeable pulse of swell at the Broch, just a couple of us in…. Surf still roaring in my ears!
#surfing #surf #waves #scotland
Thanks to Bruce for the 📸
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🧪🦑 This is the underside of the shell of the critically endangered Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys kempii).
This species is unfortunately the most endangered sea turtle species in the world, this individual washed up a couple of weeks ago off the Scottish coastline.
#kempsridley #seaturtle
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Dr Lauren Smith
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Great interactive sessions today as part of the #MarineForum2024 including a life size, walk in Humpback Whale 😂 yes… of course i went in!
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🧪 🦑 Talks continue with: Alan Munro from CCN discusses how to become a community steward for the seas.
Sophie Smith presents her work on the behaviour of the harbour porpoise around Shetland
& Carol Sparling from SMRU gives an overview of marine mammal research
#MarineForum2024
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🧪 🦑 Next up: Lauren Hartny-Mills from @HWDT_org presents 30yrs of Minke Whale research.
Ewan Edwards explains the challenge of energy transition.
Ellie Maclennan discusses the Scottish Entanglement Alliance & Rona Sinclair from NatureScot discusses Whale & Dolphin monitoring
#MarineForum2024
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🧪🦑 Opening keynotes: George Morris on the West coast Orca pod. Andrew Brownlow from SMASS @strandings.bsky.social discussed the mass stranding of Pilot Whales on Lewis & Emma Eastcott from WDC talks about embracing complexity & diversity in conservation work
#MarineForum2024
#Scotland
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Dr Lauren Smith
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About to kick off here in Elgin at the #MarineForum2024 🙌
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SharkScience
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New Study: Mercury levels in tuna remain nearly unchanged since 1971. 🦑🐟🦤🌎🧪 phys.org/news/2024-02...
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🧪 🦑
Breaking! Defra have announced a ban on industrial-scale sandeel fishing in the English North Sea!
Restrictions on bottom-towed gears in 13 Marine Protected Areas have also been announced! Great news!
#UKWildlife
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Dr Lauren Smith
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Woah! Check it out! #BabyShark
“We enlarged the images, put them in slow motion, and realized the white layer was being shed from the body as it was swimming,” Sternes said. “I believe it was a newborn white shark shedding its embryonic layer.”
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Kevin Connor
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"55-60% of the carbon dioxide in the water released from the seabed by trawlers will make it to the atmosphere within nine years." www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🦑🧪
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🦡 Anyone else enjoying spotting tracks in the snow?
#badger #animaltracks #snow
#ukwildlife #nature #wildlife
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Dr Lauren Smith
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Fascinating paper about the Lyme Bay MPA!
Bringing together all of the MPA research & experience from the last 15 years
Includes valuable lessons to inform MPA management, monitoring & policy at home and abroad
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#LymeBay #MPA
📖 tinyurl.com/49h4u34v
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Dr Lauren Smith
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❄️ Polar explorer mode *activated* 🐻❄️
Interesting conditions on the beach, iced up eyebrows and eyelashes!
#winter #snow #beach #scotland
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Dr Lauren Smith
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🦈 A new and informative open access paper by the Payne Lab “A review of elasmobranch catch-and-release science: synthesis of current knowledge, implications for best practice and future research
directions”
#sharks 🧪🦑
scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=e...
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