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Dr Luke Helmer

@HelmerLuke

Restoration Science Officer @Bluemarinef, Visiting Researcher @UoPMarineBiol & @OceanEarthUoS, Scientific Committee @NORA_Europe Views are my own

 Portsmouth, England
Joined October 2012
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Extremely excited that the European Native #Oyster Habitat Restoration Handbook is being launched today at the #NORA3 online conference 😁 Feel very privileged to have been a part of an amazing editorial and wider team working on this! #OceanOptimism #oysterlove 🦪 #scicomm
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New Paper!! Proud moment getting my first, first author paper out there, thanks to my amazing @UoPPlastics team, especially @NiemLaura @keiron_roberts @DrSFletcher @StevenKator & Serena. We did it! link.springer.com/article/10…
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK...

From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK...

Sustainability Science - Understanding the use behaviours of plastic items within households is important to enable informed policy development, particularly with the emerging and developing global...

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Melanie Austen@Mel_Austen15 Dec 2022
🚨Apply for a #PhD 🧑🏾‍🎓Link upstream #WaterQuality with downstream #CoastalHabitat restoration -#Seagrass, #Oysters, #Saltmarsh & their #EcosystemServices through wholescape systems thinking across the land-sea interface. @PlymUni @CDT_SuMMeR Partnered with @TheCrownEstate
natural, intertidal, estuarine seagrass meadow

ALT natural, intertidal, estuarine seagrass meadow

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Research Fellow in Marine Restoration Ecology (Biodiversity, Carbon, and Nutrients) at University of Portsmouth jobs.ac.uk/job/CVV488/resear…
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Senior Research Associate in Marine Restoration Ecology (Fish Ecology and Habitat Interactions) at University of Portsmouth jobs.ac.uk/job/CVV541/senior…
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2x Fantastic #Marine #Ecology #postdoc to research #connectivity and ecosystem services of temperate coastal habitats working @UoPScience on the #Solent #Seascape Project #Bluecarbon Jobs.ac.uk Research Fellow & Senior Res Associate bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ha… Retweet🙏
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A new partnership to restore life to the Solent’s seascape has been announced! Blue Marine and nine other organisations have secured a $5million grant from @EndangeredLands to reconnect some of the Solent’s most threatened and fragmented marine habitats. 👉bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ha…
Solent Seascape Project launched to restore marine habitats

Solent Seascape Project launched to restore marine habitats

The project will see 10 organisations work together to restore the Solent's habitats.

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We're hiring! Blue Marine is looking for two new positions to help with our restoration projects in the Solent! 💻 Solent Seascape Project Coordinator 🦪 Solent Oyster Restoration Project Officer Find out more and apply today: bluemarinefoundation.com/con…
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We are bringing together world experts on #marine #coastal #habitat #connectivity and #ecology to bridge science to policy and practice for #seascape #restoration. Check out our programme: bit.ly/3Qa8DoG. Sign up #kelp #saltmarsh #seagrass #oysters. Please RT & share.
ZSL Science (@ZSLScience) profile pictureZSL Science@ZSLScience1 Sep 2022
📢REGISTRATION NOW OPEN📢 Join our upcoming ZSL Symposium to hear a review of the current state of science on #HabitatConnectivity in temperate #coastal systems & the potential of the #seascape 🗓️22 - 23 November 2022 📍London All info & ticket links👉bit.ly/3wuD2qU
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ALT Image advertising a ZSL event saying "Register now; ZSL Symposium; Ecological connectivity across temperate coastal habitats - moving towards seascape scale restoration; When? 22-23 November 2022; Where? London, UK. Collaborators include ZSL, Native Oyster Network UK & Ireland, University of Edinburgh, LIFE Programme and University of Portsmouth." Round image of a grey small-spotted catshark underwater on a seabed floor with green seagrass all around. Image copyright: Lewis Michael Jefferies

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Just posted a photo instagram.com/p/CjDCDGTI2pl0…
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Fiona Woods@Fiona_Woods9819 Aug 2022
More exciting #BRUV footage from @solentnative #NativeOyster reef. Just 10 minutes has #crabs, #scallops, and juvenile #bream, #bass and #cuttlefish! 🦪🦀🐠🐟🦑 @UoPMarineBiol
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Tim Bean@beatnim17 Aug 2022
It’s oyster paper day... Today we see the release of more articles on genetics and genomics of the European native oyster... keep scrolling to find out more... 🦪🧬 @RossHouston @ChantelleHooper @manukg91 @NORA_Europe @roslininstitute
European native oysters; ostrea edulis

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Fiona Woods@Fiona_Woods9825 Jul 2022
Exiting seeing shoals of juvenile bass 🐟, gobies 🐟 and crabs 🦀 at the river Hamble @solentnative restoration site 🦪🌊
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Great week down at @portsmouthuni collecting samples at @solentnative! Haul included water & mud for #eDNA, plankton, crabs and oysters. Aim to see how the native oysters are doing, how these little ecosystem engineers are changing the biodiversity, and checking for disease. 1/2
Image from Lauren Cook (@laurens_colours)
Image from Lauren Cook (@laurens_colours)
Image from Lauren Cook (@laurens_colours)
Image from Lauren Cook (@laurens_colours)
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NEW PAPER OUT 🥳🥳🥳 Great team effort! Open access: Genome-Wide Association and Genomic Prediction of Growth Traits in the European Flat Oyster (Ostrea edulis) frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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What better way to start the week then 800 plus elvers in our elver trap on the river #GreatOuse near Needingworth in #Cambridgeshire We also had a local photographer with us taking pictures of this iconic #Fenland species. @EelGroup @fenshour @Fen_SCENE @thefensmag
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Fiona Woods@Fiona_Woods984 Jul 2022
Cuttlefish blennies and huge crabs spotted in #BRUV footage from Langstone harbour @solentnative oyster reef monitoring!!🦑🦀🐟
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Image from Fiona Woods (@Fiona_Woods98)
Image from Fiona Woods (@Fiona_Woods98)
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Simple demonstration of seagrass drawing down carbon dioxide. Left- start at 393 ppm, slightly below the atmospheric mean. Right - after 5 min enclosure with transparent box - 241 ppm. Bare sediment control - no change in pCO2.
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Image from Rodney Forster (@rodney_forster)
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1st batch of roughly 50.000 native oysters seeds ready for transfer to experimental farming locations in Sardinia. We are all very proud of this first result! @NORA_Europe
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Fiona Woods@Fiona_Woods9830 Jun 2022
#BRUV units ready to go out this afternoon and monitor #fish on the @solentnative #oyster reef 🤞🐟🦈
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Alice Jones@Alice_R_Jones30 Jun 2022
Excited to share that we got funding to restore a large area of seagrass near Adelaide! 🌊🐟🦈🦐 Seagrasses take up lots of #BlueCarbon - a nature based solution to climate change 🌱. They’re also very important marine habitats: bit.ly/3Ot6XGS #Restoration #ClimateAction
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Image from Alice Jones (@Alice_R_Jones)
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