Rhian Taylor

PhD student trying to understand the Falkland Island zooplankton community with University of Aberdeen and SAERI 🦀🐟🦐 she/her

[Rhian Taylor @RhianTaylor]

Happy #WorldKrillDay!! One of my favourite animals in my zooplankton samples 💙 @SAERI_FI @UoABioSci

[Tilly (Matilda) S Scott @TillySScott]

I doodled some presentation mascots for @RhianTaylor , who is ID-ing zooplankton from the Falklands, lots of which for the first ever time. We've got some cool old morphological ID guides in our office as a result

@QUADRATdtp @SAERI_FI #zooplankton #dnabarcoding #morphology

[Rhian Taylor @RhianTaylor]

@TillySScott @QUADRATdtp @SAERI_FI These are amazing!! I can't wait use them in presentations 🦑😁🦐

[Rhian Taylor @RhianTaylor]

The last few weeks in the Falklands were insanely busy, so a bit late, but here is me with my 214 sorted samples! Over 130,000 things counted - it only took me a year 😅 Now just have to do the barcoding, analysis, writing and a few other bits... 😁 @SAERI_FI @UoABioSci

[Rhian Taylor @RhianTaylor]

Happy #WorldAlbatrossDay! Such amazing birds - I have loved having these birds observe and judge my fieldwork!!

[Rhian Taylor @RhianTaylor]

I wrote an article for the Penguin News talking about my project on Falklands zooplankton! I couldn't think of a fun title, but I'm happy to get some zooplankton pictures in this weeks paper! @SAERI_FI @UoABioSci @shallow_marine

[Rhian Taylor @RhianTaylor]

Happy #WorldPenguinDay 🐧🐧🐧There are 5 penguin species to see here in the Falkland Islands (sometimes supervising my fieldwork). You've got the southern rockhopper, gentoo, Magellanic (or jackass), King, occasional macaroni- and Pebble Island's giant penguin for fun!

[Rhian Taylor @RhianTaylor]

Last month we did the last of the zooplankton collections for my PhD (ending with the highest biomass sample - go out with a bang!) In total I have over 200 samples, collected over about 18 months, so lots of analysis to do now!! @SAERI_FI @UoABioSci @shallow_marine #DPLUS148

[School of Biological Sciences @UoABioSci]

Seasonal variations in the zooplankton and ichthyoplankton community composition for the near-shore environment of the Falkland Islands with @RhianTaylor who submitted a digital poster #SBSPGR24

[Government House🇬🇧🇫🇰 @GHFalklands]

March was a busy month for Government House as we welcomed those from the #Falklands community as well as those visiting.

As chair of the Shackleton Scholarship Fund, the Governor invited Shackleton Scholars for tea at Government House to discuss their ongoing projects. 🫖

[SAERI @SAERI_FI]

🤩A highlight from 2023 for PhD student Rhian Taylor, whose project is looking at zooplankton and ichthyoplankton (fish larvae) here in the #Falklands was identifying two different species of lantern fish (that live in the deep sea as adults!) using DNA barcoding 🧬🐟
#DPLUS148

[SAERI @SAERI_FI]

What a contrast we had for the December & January DPLUS148 zooplankton surveys: we went from hail, rain & lightning 🌩️ to sunshine!🌞
Some similarities though: lots of lobster krill (especially in January in Port William) & an amazing crew & group of volunteers! 😊
@UKBCFs

[Rhian Taylor @RhianTaylor]

We've invented a new game. It's called 'tweezer ninja' and the aim is the capture as many fish larvae and krill as you can while the sample moves with the boat!

[SMSG @shallow_marine]

It’s heads down and busy tweezers on spring #plankton surveys in the #Falklands #DarwinPlus #ClimateChange project aboard RV Jack Sollis.

[Rhian Taylor @RhianTaylor]

As it's #WorldKrillDay I figured I'd share the topical book I'm currently reading - the Curious Life of Krill (pictured on top of my thematically appropriate cushion) 🦐🦐🦐

[Rhian Taylor @RhianTaylor]

@SAERI_FI @UoABioSci

[Rhian Taylor @RhianTaylor]

Happy #WorldKrillDay! I have several krill species in my zooplankton samples, so here's a selection of photos from when I was looking at the morphology while I work on the molecular side of things!

[SAERI @SAERI_FI]

Catch up on all the latest SAERI news in out latest edition of Southern Currents : June 2023
Read about new projects, new staff, project updates and more!
https://t.co/zCLoWuxN8V
#newsletter #ProjectUpdates #falklandislands #southerncurrents #ReadMoreLearnMore

[Rhian Taylor @RhianTaylor]

Now that my zooplankton samples have safely travelled from the Falklands to Aberdeen, here's the stage where I was essentially playing soldiers, lining everything up to find the missing 12 (out of over 100) tubes. Next step: identify what's in them! @SAERI_FI @UoABioSci

[Rhian Taylor @RhianTaylor]

Happy #WorldAlbatrossDay! These black-browed albatross like to keep a close eye on what goes on during my zooplankton surveys - there's always a few supervising!!