Marcons COST action in Haifa, Israel
We are participating in a COST action (Marcons), discussing the importance of thermal refugia for the impacts of climate change.
Irish coast
We have finished our field trip to Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It was cold, rainy and windy but the beautiful landscape lifted our spirits. Finally we finished servicing all the loggers we had to visit in 2017.
5th ESA Advanced Training on Ocean Remote Sensing and Synergy
We are attending this European Spage Agency advanced course to improve our usage of satellite products for coastal applications!
More fieldwork at Cape Touriñan, Spain
Back to our quadrat surveys, this time at Cape Touriñan, in Galicia, Spain. Towards the south, the dominance of macro-algae is now just a memory, but here it is still possible to see these magnificent algae belts! More brown and red algae to feast your eyes 🙂 There was still time for robolimpet deployment:
Reehab survey at Buarcos
On the 23rd of June we finished our Summer 2017 survey for the project Reehab. Here you can see Rui taking notes on the percentage of cover of Sabellaria alveolata in one of the five 5x5m permanent quadrats in Buarcos, Figueira da Foz, central Portugal. Even though this location is known for having some of the most impressive S. alveolata reefs… Read more »
Biodiversity surveys
It is time to return to basic ecology methodology and do our quadrat surveys 🙂 During this trip we were lucky enough to record major biogeographic changes in some of the locations, which will prompt further analyses. Stay tuned for news!
Mindelo
Another morning spent at the beach surveying algae with quadrat frames. Despite a chilly weather I managed to get the job done and to recognise on the spot most of them! Those species that were unknown were instead took to the lab for identification with guides.
The end… for now!
Today I serviced loggers in the final shore of this block of fieldwork trips. With its characteristic cover of oysters, Royan is quite different compared to the other shores in our European network of loggers. Work was complicated by a constant drizzle, but not too much. The oysters cover a lot of the substrate, making it quite hard to pinpoint… Read more »
Le Croisic
After begging the ferry officials to let me be among the first to exit upon arrival, they were kind enough to let me be the very first! This allowed a swift passage through border control, and ensured that I could arrive at the shore (which was 300 km away from the port) just a few minutes after low tide. Work… Read more »
Buarcos
Great day in Buarcos monitoring the midshore intertidal species!