Dr Alex Rattray

♥️⚪⚫Ecologist#conservation #landforwildlife

[Dr Alex Rattray @AlexRattray5]

@hollystokes94 @DamesOfDrones @EstebanNicole @j_laloe @MortimerJeanne @Marine_Science @ChagosTrust @ESAEcosphere @MarineSwansea @ZoologySwansea @SwanseaPostgrad Such a great use of drones, satellite tracking and mark recapture methods to accurately assess numbers of a critically endangered species. An insight into the possibilities across many taxa. Great work Holly.

[Holly Stokes @hollystokes94]

✨ New paper! ✨
The first of my PhD!

Find out how we combined mark-recapture, #drone surveys, and sat tracking to estimate the population of foraging turtles in a shallow lagoon in the Indian Ocean 🛰️🌊 https://t.co/7oa3xYsDJl #WomeninDronesWednesday #IWD2023

[Dr Alex Rattray @AlexRattray5]

@DFATVic @Deakin @AusIndiaCouncil https://t.co/0wHmgKEoDc

[Dr Alex Rattray @AlexRattray5]

@jenny_friel Nice one Jen! ❤️

[Dr Owen Holland @OwenJHolland]

Tune into ABC Radio South West Victoria tomorrow at 7:45 am Melbourne time to listen to my colleague Zach Clark discuss his research on white #sharks
Zach has done some amazing work, so this will be well worth a listen!
Stream here: https://t.co/GwdGQ9OZAf

[Dr Alex Rattray @AlexRattray5]

@adambspencer What's your sauce?

[Nicole Esteban @EstebanNicole]

@MarineSwansea @Marine_Science @GiuliaCerritel1 @AlexRattray5 @j_laloe @MortimerJeanne @SwanseaUni @Deakin @Unipisa @RSocPublishing Migration tracks of 3 post-nesting hawksbill turtles in a dynamic ocean current field. Ocean current modelling showed no evidence for correction of current drift. Active swimming explained majority of deviation rather than current advection https://t.co/OcB0J8QMmR

[Nicole Esteban @EstebanNicole]

New paper alert! Migrations to remote banks present major challenges for migrating hawksbill turtles. Over short beeline distances (<178km), 22 turtles migrated much longer distances (2-7x), correcting courses in open ocean & slowing down in shallow water https://t.co/OcB0J8QMmR

[Dr Alex Rattray @AlexRattray5]

@jasonpizzino 🍆

[The Nature Conservancy in California @Conserve_CA]

❗Groundbreaking new tool from @Conserve_CA, @UCLAIoES, @WHOI and UCSB -- the world’s largest dynamic #kelp map.❗

➡️Check out https://t.co/AXplM9whNc!

#Landsat #opendata #kelpwatch @NASAOcean

[Dr. Stephanie Roe @stephanieroe]

The #IPCC #ClimateReport has just been approved!! 🙌 16 days, capped off with a final ~40hrs straight of line-by-line negotiation & approval. As one of the authors of the report, this moment culminates years of work. Congratulations to all the authors, Chairs and delegates 🎉

[Nicole Esteban @EstebanNicole]

Fantastic talk by @rees_carina at #ists40 about optimising use of drone imagery to identify hawksbills vs green turtles in Chagos Archipelago using 122 survey transects in lagoon and reef habitats on 2 islands - successful MRes completed @SwanseaUni

[Dr Dani Rabaiotti @DaniRabaiotti]

My favourite thing is when people stick trackers on animals and one does literally nothing interesting and sits in 1 place 99% of the time and the researchers are like oh yeah that weird datapoint is Lazy Geoff, he doesn't ever do anything for reasons we don't entirely understand

[Dr Alex Rattray @AlexRattray5]

@Guildford @abcnews 2 shipwrecks were found

[Dr Alex Rattray @AlexRattray5]

@Hairy_Ballerina @daniel_espo_ @tomskiweb Thanks

[Dr Alex Rattray @AlexRattray5]

@100trillionUSD This is the lack of logic and blatant fact choosing that will debunk the stock to flow model. Just let it go.

[Dr Alex Rattray @AlexRattray5]

@leighsales 7.30 was so good for a little while

[Dr Alex Rattray @AlexRattray5]

@EstebanNicole @agvocate_au @hollystokes94 @MovebankTeam @DeakinCIE @BritishEcolSoc @museumsvictoria @RoyalSocietyVic

[Dr Alex Rattray @AlexRattray5]

Panel B is the overlap of home ranges of 17 juvenile turtles in the lagoon at Diego Garcia. I wouldn't be swimming around too much if I was shark food either. Read more here https://t.co/ADQgDw8Kql

[Nicole Esteban @EstebanNicole]

Observations of a key predator of green turtles, the tiger shark, are very rare in Chagos Archipelago. So the report of this juvenile in shallow waters of Peros Banhos lagoon is super special. Thanks to Mattie Russell. @Marine_Science

[Dr Alex Rattray @AlexRattray5]

@EstebanNicole @DeakinCIE https://t.co/ADQgDw8Kql

[Dr Alex Rattray @AlexRattray5]

Feel free to hit me up for the code. Our new paper https://t.co/El2kmAqVgK
shows that even small protected areas
are important for endangered species @EstebanNicole @DeakinCIE

[Dr Alex Rattray @AlexRattray5]

I can't wait to present our work on sea turtle conservation using free and open source software to my people at @foss4g. With #OpenData made easy @MovebankTeam. Check out this open source animation of green turtles migrating up to 5000km from our study site in Diego Garcia.