Timothy Whitton

Views are my own. Interests: Fisheries acoustics, benthic and pelagic ecology, MRE, Ships

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Our new @sos_bangor_uni @SEACAMS2 paper shows that understanding the diel vertical migration #DVM behaviour of forage fish may help in assessing potential collision risk of top predators with tidal energy developments. https://t.co/GoEpwvFjCh

[Timothy Whitton @TimothyWhitton]

This seems likes a very broad policy suggestion. MPAs exist for many reasons. Around Wales there are large MPAs for harbour porpoise, they are not designed based on seabed habitats. Banning bottom fishing from vast MPAs like this may have complex unintended outcomes.

[Oceana UK @OceanaUK]

BREAKING 📢 The Government's own MPs and many others across parties call for a BAN on destructive bottom-trawl fishing in offshore marine protected areas🪸

This intervention from the Environmental Audit Committee shows that pressure is building 💥💥💥
https://t.co/zkmfaG4UHm

[Timothy Whitton @TimothyWhitton]

@MuseumsAssoc This seems a very broad negative position to take. The position seems to be removing anything living thing from the sea is exploitation, and therefore negative. Many museums and public aquaria have fantastic living displays with no measurable negative impact in their context

[Cardiff Curator @CardiffCurator]

Today's #Museum30 theme is NAME. So here's just a few of the new species that have been discovered, described & named by @AmgueddfaCymru scientists & their colleagues. This work is the vital foundation stone in understanding & conserving species in a changing world

[Bangor University @BangorUni]

Researchers @sos_bangor_uni believe they’ve found HMS Stephen Furness, a WWI ship lost in 1917 with over 100 crew. Located via sonar & digital archives through the #UnpathdWaters project, this find reveals history hidden beneath the Irish Sea.

More: https://t.co/WmWCUSv12x

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Another good trip on the #RVPrinceMadog of @sos_bangor_uni with @Macomabalthica and his PhD student. Some highlights were these tiny sea cucumbers (Ocnus planci) and seeing the
@trinityhouse_uk Galatea at night.

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@sos_bangor_uni We also had some great sightings on the other @sos_bangor_uni vessel #RVPrinceMadog of bottlenose and common dolphin in Cardigan Bay. Their whistles could be heard through the hull in our cabins.

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Went to see the piece myself and @TDJ_marine put together for the @BangorCSEE data-art exhibition. It shows the track of the @sos_bangor_uni #RVPrinceMadog over 20 years. Lots of interesting data-art to look at for free in @PontioTweets, but only for a few more days.

[Timothy Whitton @TimothyWhitton]

I see people often quote that seagrass captures more carbon than rainforests when promoting seagrass restoration in Wales, UK. The relevant comparison is between Welsh seagrass habs vs. adjacent sediment that lacks seagrass, not land ecosystems which don't exist here. #bluecarbon

[Timothy Whitton @TimothyWhitton]

The work of @CardiffCurator in marine taxonomy is important. I have especially benefitted from the expertise of their bivalve expert/curator Anna Holmes during my research. I hope their work will be well supported by @WelshGovernment into the future #TaxonomistAppreciationDay

[Cardiff Curator @CardiffCurator]

Celebrating World #TaxonomistAppreciationDay with a few of the new species that have been discovered, described & named by @AmgueddfaCymru scientists & their colleagues. This work is the vital foundation stone in understanding & conserving species in a changing world
#TaxonomyDay

[Timothy Whitton @TimothyWhitton]

@TheSeabirdGroup @LilaBuckingham @KittiwakeGirl @_BTO @RSPBScience @IBIS_journal @AUS_NZ_Seabirds @PacificSeabirds @IndianSeabird Is redefining EDI as 'EQUITY Diversity and Inclusion' in your 2023 action plan doc instead of 'EQUALITY Diversity and Inclusion' a typo or an actual change of aim?

[Timothy Whitton @TimothyWhitton]

@DwrCymru and @angleseycouncil FYI this was the scene outside Ysgol y Borth in Menai Bridge 10 minutes ago.

[Tim Jackson-Bué (D'Urban Jackson) @TDJ_marine]

Beautiful morning on the #menaistrait as the #RVPrinceMadog set sail on another research cruise @sos_bangor_uni

[Timothy Whitton @TimothyWhitton]

@LewisPugh Two of most important metrics of our time? I disagree. Human life expectancy and child mortality.

[Timothy Whitton @TimothyWhitton]

@PlanktonPundit @zeiss_micro Thank you for answering my questions.

[Timothy Whitton @TimothyWhitton]

Interesting report. Clear about uncertainty, knowledge gaps, inconsistency in models, observations, remotely sensed data
'Observed trends in storms and waves cannot be directly attributed to climate change because of the high variability and limited understanding of mechanisms.'

[National Oceanography Centre @NOCnews]

Our report for the @MccipOrgUK shows how UK seas could see significantly higher waves and stronger storms as a result of #climatechange 🌊

Read how our evidence is helping to inform future policy, protecting people across the UK https://t.co/IcZzJ7ywL2

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@Lorna_McKellar @BangorUni @sos_bangor_uni Thanks for all your hard work @Lorna_McKellar during the cruise. My head is still swaying a bit from the swell!

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@jrclarkbf800 @almostneonuk No its a US Navy Pathfinder-class survey ship I think.

[Timothy Whitton @TimothyWhitton]

@UKBlueCarbon @ProjectSeagrass @WWFCymru @PCFCIC @cardiffuni @SwanseaUni Intertidal sediments are already a #BlueCarbon habitat. By planting seagrass on intertidal sediments you change one #BlueCarbon habitat to another.

https://t.co/8cQXRCM02q

[UK Blue Carbon Forum @UKBlueCarbon]

New PhD opportunity at @BangorUniversity investigating the relationship between bottom-trawl #fishing and #BlueCarbon stored in seabed sediments! This project consists of ecosystem modelling, lab analyses of organic carbon, and offshore sampling. Details👉https://t.co/CdkNaKlRvV