Monday, 23 January 2017

Manta Party

Finally got chance to edit some footage my girlfriend and I took last year from Nusa Lembongan... enjoy!


Sepia Boat Survey day with the MBA

Today, I enjoyed a beautiful sunny morning aboard Sepia, the MBAs' research vessel.

We conducted a standard trawl which consists of making two bottom trawls to identify, count and record all life we find. In the trawl we picked up: poor cod, whiting, plaice, octopus, harbour crabs, squid, cuttlefish and more. I can learn alot of see and handling the fish and gain experience from the rest of the crew. 


The MBA has been conducting these surveys for over 100 years making this long-term data set useful to investigate changes and patterns. 






Thanks to all the crew, see you next time. 


Saturday, 14 January 2017

Polhawn Beach Clean and Co-Coast Time Survey

This was a joint event organised with the Rame Peninsula Beach Care group 

www.ramepbc.org

and the Co-Coast citizen science project.


Joined a monthly beach clean at Polhawn Beach, which is in the Whitsand and Looe Bay Marine Conservation Zone. Great to see some many people come down to help, young and old. All the rubbish collected in quantified and categorised then the data is used to inform policy markers to try and reduce our input. Good stuff all round I say!




We then conducted a 20 minute timed search at low tide.
I chose the "Like it of Limpet" package and was tasked to spot and identify as many limpet species as possible. Easier said than done. Others picked different packages to get a full insight to what species were on the rocky shore. All data is added to the Co-Coast data bank to be analysed and process.

A good day was had!



Monday, 9 January 2017

Community Seagrass Initiative

Last week I join a great program run at various locations in the UK.

The aim is to record, protect and promote Seagrass habitats around Britain or in their words

"A citizen science project aiming to raise awareness of seagrass habitats in the South West of England."

During the training day we learnt about the ecology and Seagrass and the survey methods used to assess the health and importance of seagrass. 

I'm looking forward to jumping in and helping out with this amazing project aiming to help a really important habitat. 







http://www.csi-seagrass.co.uk/