Ancient Pacific Salmon

@NWC_DTP AHRC Funded PhD project looking at human-salmon relations, prehistoric subsistence & climate change on the Pacific Coast of North America @livAncWorlds

[Ancient Pacific Salmon @archaeoSalmon]

ArchaeoSalmon Project update 😁🐟

[Elodie-Laure Jimenez 🦣🌈 @DrEloJimenez]

This month I'm happy to give a hand to PhD student @archaeoMarghe who works on reconstructing past and present #ecology of Pacific Salmon. Exciting project @archaeoSalmon, investigating subsistence behaviours of prehistoric populations in Alaska! 🐟😍 #archaeology #climatechange

[Margherita Zona @archaeoMarghe]

And finally - All set up for taking pictures of samples for #geometricmorphometrics and properly testing the "fish box" #zooarchaeology #PhDlife @archaeoSalmon

[Margherita Zona @archaeoMarghe]

Chum specimens all cleaned and sampled for both #geometricmorphometrics and #stableisotopes to be added to the Pacific salmonds study - exciting! #zooarchaeology #PhDlife

[Margherita Zona @archaeoMarghe]

Cleaning and sampling modern #salmon reference specimens ahead of #geometricmorphometrics analysis - The modern specimens will comstitute the baseline against which ancient samples will be identified to species @archaeoSalmon

[Margherita Zona @archaeoMarghe]

Chum update: managed to wire the spines together to keep the vertebrae in correct anatomical order. They are now soaking in hot water to get rid of the initial "dirt"

[Ancient Pacific Salmon @archaeoSalmon]

We finally got some chums to include in the #geometricmorphometrics study - They did come with a bit of extra bits though 😆 Now to clean the spines properly in the next few days

[Margherita Zona @archaeoMarghe]

When your chum #salmon reference samples come back from Alaska extra juicy and need to be sort into individuals and cleaned 😱🤯 Joys of research #zooarchaeology #phdlife
PS: Managed to separate the individuals - they'll go in their bath tomorrow

[Margherita Zona @archaeoMarghe]

Celebrating International Women's Day by testing and gathering all my equipment ahead of my 3 weeks #salmon data collection and stable isotope analysis trip to the University of Aberdeen starting Monday 😁 #zooarchaeology #PhDlife #WomenInScience

[Yukon Fisheries @YRDFA]

https://t.co/uyABf1ghW8

Great article! Nice to see this happening. https://t.co/uyABf1ghW8

[Ancient Pacific Salmon @archaeoSalmon]

All set for a busy day of photographic some extra #salmon samples from the modern reference collection to improve our current #geometricmorhpometrics protocol #zooarchaeology #phdlife

[Margherita Zona @archaeoMarghe]

"How weird is your job?"
I'll stretch it as far as finding Pacific salmon reference spines in socks #zooarchaeology #archaeology #phdlife #bones

[Margherita Zona @archaeoMarghe]

My ongoing PhD research on archaeological Pacific #salmon is featuring as a project for the International #YearoftheSalmon. Check it out! @NWC_DTP @LivAncWorlds

[Ancient Pacific Salmon @archaeoSalmon]

Today we are experimenting camera set ups and lighting in order to build a suitable camera box for photographing samples and optimising the digitisation of our vertebrae for #gmm analysis

[Ancient Pacific Salmon @archaeoSalmon]

I tested digital microscope photography today on a Plaice reference sample. This technique can have great applications on #salmon vertebrae to further refine our #geometricmorphometrics species identification protocols

[Margherita Zona @archaeoMarghe]

Had the amazing opportunity to attend a demo for the new #keyence digital microscope (vhx-6000) today @LivAncWorlds. Got some great resolution on the morphological features and growth rings of this tiny Plaice caudal vertebra. Salmon next? @NWC_DTP @archaeoSalmon

[Year of the Salmon - North Pacific @yearofthesalmon]

aaaaaand we're live! The official #Yearofthesalmon website has been launched!! 🎊 🎉 🎊 🎉 🎊 🎉

Head to https://t.co/hoSogTIolL to learn more about IYS and to register your events and projects to be a part of the IYS

[Watershed Watch Salmon Society @WatershedWatch_]

South of the border, Yurok Nation has just completed a major restoration of the South Fork Trinity River to help Chinook salmon. https://t.co/GFMll9UwQT #indigenousleadership #wildsalmon

[Margherita Zona @archaeoMarghe]

Another Thursday morning, another standard tupperware full of fish bones. Couldn't get my hands on any salmon for today's microscope testing, but this gorgeous Plaice will still provide us with an idea of scale for digitising smaller specimens 🐟👩🏻‍💻

[Ancient Pacific Salmon @archaeoSalmon]

First project meeting with the team @LivAncWorlds, launching this #phd project in style. Stay tuned to find out more about Pacific #salmon! Updates will be running up your stream in the next few months 🐟

[Wild Salmon Center @wildsalmoncntr]

What does a healthy salmon river look like? See this Russian stronghold river make a comeback from past mining pollution: https://t.co/yYlqNZ8uWa
Footage taken this summer by Dr. Elizaveta Kirilova from the Russian Academy of Sciences.

[Wild Salmon Center @wildsalmoncntr]

"It’s easy to believe that Alaska will somehow be exempt from our fish runs vanishing. It’s easy to not know what you have until its gone." @StandForSalmon #YesForSalmon #YesOn1 https://t.co/9h3Ep9Fux4

[Natural Environment Research Council @NERCscience]

We helped to develop Google's new Dataset Search tool that let's you find online datasets super easily. Give it a go! https://t.co/3OHrHC5990 @RAL_Space_STFC @STFC_Matters @beisgovuk @UKRI_News