VUW Marine Ecology and Ecosystem Modelling Lab

We use fieldwork and statistical modelling to quantify the impacts of environmental change on marine ecosystems @VicUniWgtn. Led by @DrAliceRogers

[Victoria Grace Carrington (she/her) @VGCarrington]

Cool paper I found today:

Effect of scavenging on predation in a food web https://t.co/sCFcGzV028

[Victoria Grace Carrington (she/her) @VGCarrington]

Another cool paper - discussing the natural history and selective pressures for scavenging 😃😱

A recipe for scavenging in vertebrates - A natural history of behaviour
https://t.co/xDEhtjShia

[Victoria Grace Carrington (she/her) @VGCarrington]

Yay guy contents 😂🎉 I’ve been working on the gut contents chapter of my thesis looking at what deep sea sharks are eating! In particular we are looking for hoki - which we haven’t found - but look at these other cool things we DID find! 🤩 #deepsea #sharks #science #marinelife

[Victoria Grace Carrington (she/her) @VGCarrington]

One highlight of #WFC2021 so far was the @mizer_model workshop! Great intro to size-spectrum multi-species models and how they've been used to address a wide variety of questions. And a great R tutorial testing the mizer package! @Dralicerogers @BlanchardJulia @world_fisheries

[Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences @ecology_science]

Low oxygen levels are pushing fish into shallower waters, with potentially devastating impacts for fisheries and ecosystems https://t.co/2q3xiVQp1d

[Dr Christopher Cornwall @chrisecornwall]

Ok everyone, we currently have 0 students based in New Zealand that have applied for this - international students please feel free to flick me an email about this great opportunity. PhD scholarship in seaweed aquaculture for restoration of degraded urban kelp forests

[Victoria Grace Carrington (she/her) @VGCarrington]

#WFC2021 Currently tuning into the Ecosystem-based fisheries management session of @world_fisheries 🐟🐠 Awesome talk from Samik Datta from @niwa_nz presenting results of a multi-species size structured model of the Chatham Rise using @mizer_model

[Victoria Grace Carrington (she/her) @VGCarrington]

Day 1 of the World Fisheries Congress online #WFC2021 @world_fisheries. Loving the welcome by Adelaide's local aboriginal tribe, the Kaurna people, it's great to still be able to experience this online from New Zealand! 👏

[Victoria Grace Carrington (she/her) @VGCarrington]

Snapshot of today’s lab work down at @niwa_nz looking at gut contents of some #deepsea #sharks! Our focus for this is looking at which species eat hoki so we can better understand links between sharks and #fisheries!

[Georgia Third @fish_science_]

Had an absolute blast at @NZMarineSociety 2021 conference! Thanks for hosting @waikato Tauranga campus. Great way to kick off my academic career 👩‍🔬

[Victoria Grace Carrington (she/her) @VGCarrington]

More #NZMSS2021 greatness - @chellybiologist presented her work on key #coralreef refuge characteristics to promote #fisheries productivity! @NZMarineSociety @waikato @MEEMLab_NZ @Dralicerogers

[Sustainable Seas @Sust_SeasNZ]

Closing message: it’s a learning process. Kia ora Maru #NZMSS2021

[Victoria Grace Carrington (she/her) @VGCarrington]

Great talk from @sea_andymone at #NZMSS2021 on blue cod nursery habitats! His research shows some interesting results on growth in different habitat types! @MEEMLab_NZ @NZMarineSociety @waikato

[Victoria Grace Carrington (she/her) @VGCarrington]

Day 3 of #NZMSS2021 - great talk from @NoraOnTheRocks on sponge microbiome shifts due to climate impacts! Super cool stuff Nora! @NZMarineSociety @waikato

[Chelsey Beese @chellybiologist]

Great talk from @bighamkt on the changes in deep sea benthic community structure following the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake. Thanks Katie!

[Chelsey Beese @chellybiologist]

@NZMarineSociety Thankful for the focus on incorporating mātauranga Māori (indigenous knowledge) into scientific exploration and management today. We have so much to learn. Now thinking about ways to bring these ideas of cooperation to my own community. @MEEMLab_NZ #NZMSS2021

[Victoria Grace Carrington (she/her) @VGCarrington]

Awesome talk from @Dralicerogers about using Mizer size based models and the benefits over more complicated ecosystem based models! @NZMarineSociety @MEEMLab_NZ

[Diversity & Distributions @consbiog]

New paper from @vgcarrington shows how the unique traits of deep-sea species drive higher functional diversity - so much so that it rivals that of a shallow coastal region! @MEEMLab_nz @DrAliceRogers https://t.co/SDchOkpM6c

[VUW Marine Ecology and Ecosystem Modelling Lab @MEEMLab_NZ]

New paper from our lab group! Looking into functional diversity in deep sea fish communities 🐠 🐟 🦈They compared entire fish communities and found similar levels of diversity!! Congrats @VGCarrington @Dralicerogers @yvan_papa @chellybiologist 🎉

[Victoria Grace Carrington (she/her) @VGCarrington]

First paper o-fish-ally published 🎉🐟 Follow the link to find out how functionally diverse are fish in the deep! https://t.co/2kBQ0RmpTl #deepsea #fish #research #MarineBiology

[Yvan Papa 🇳🇿🐟🧬🇨🇭 @yvan_papa]

Phylogeographic structure and historical demography of tarakihi (Nemadactylus macropterus) and king tarakihi (Nemadactylus n.sp.) in New Zealand https://t.co/cYeJxATxfW
The second one's out! And stay tuned for more soon... 🐟🧬
#fisheries #Genetics #NewZealand