Emma Stuart

🪸Rothera Ocean Scientist 🇦🇶 British Antarctic Survey

[Emma Stuart @EmmajStuart]

A very excited @nadiafrontier @Bonner_Lab

[Emma Stuart @EmmajStuart]

Last week we came across a non native, drifting bull kelp (Durvillea) in Ryder Bay @BAS_News Rafts can transport other non native species to the continent. We found open water goose barnacles (Lepas australis). These are not a threat but harmful invaders can also hitch a ride

[Emma Stuart @EmmajStuart]

From the Falklands to Rothera, Antarctica - home for the next year! 🚢🐧❄️

[Emma Stuart @EmmajStuart]

So happy to hear the final Himanthalia elongata survey, which I worked on for 18 months, has been completed! So many individuals have been recorded over a 2 year period. Can’t wait to hear the results!

[Cat Wilding @cat_wilding]

We just finished the final monthly Sea Spaghetti survey, started 2 years ago by Larisa Lewis! 🥳💚🙌 a massive team effort 👏 @EmmajStuart @MaxineCanvin @SeaweedSoph @DanSmale1 @thembauk @brough_fraser

[Emma Stuart @EmmajStuart]

Amazing to celebrate Christmas with the BEECH team 💖 fantastic group of people!

[Emma Stuart @EmmajStuart]

Ahhh I miss the Smale Group @DanSmale1 great day out on the shore sampling Laminaria ochroleuca with @cat_wilding, Fraser and Margot.

[Emma Stuart @EmmajStuart]

Fire, search and rescue training last week! Only 6 weeks to go to deployment 🇦🇶

[Emma Stuart @EmmajStuart]

Winter Training - Tents, Stoves and Tilley Lamps ⛺️❄️

[Emma Stuart @EmmajStuart]

Met some of the new British Antarctic Survey dive team @DDRCPlymouth 🙌 Chamber operator course ✅ @BAS_News @Bonner_Lab

[Cat Wilding @cat_wilding]

Great job going in our lovely research group! 💦🌿🦀🐠🪱🐚🪸🐟But very sad to see the wonderful @EmmajStuart leave to chase her dreams in Antarctica, we'll miss her so much!!😪❄️

[Emma Stuart @EmmajStuart]

@kmurquizoR Great shot! We’re you diving bovi yesterday???

[D Smale @DanSmale1]

Fantastic couple of days diving around kelp farm in Cornwall to collect data on carbon dynamics. Beautiful spot despite Cornish weather! Great collaboration between mba, Newcastle, tritonia, Cornish seaweed co and wwf-uk 😎😎😎

[Emma Stuart @EmmajStuart]

🤿 Day 1 diving/snorkling for @MaxineCanvin PhD to find suitable sites for sediment cores to quantify the potential for carbon sequestration at seaweed farms @CornishSeaweed

[Emma Stuart @EmmajStuart]

Today we set up baited underwater camera traps and took samples for gut content and stable isotope analysis to assess if fishes utilise aquaculture sites as a habitat and feeding ground for @SeaweedSoph’s PhD! 🎣🐟🐠⛴

[Nathan King @King_Nath1]

📢📢NEW PAPER 📢📢and our first dive into microbiology of kelps. Want to know how bacteria communities shift between hosts at various spatial scales?? Well read all about it (DM for pdf)🙀🙀🙀 https://t.co/VruwWFs4wz

[Emma Stuart @EmmajStuart]

Great first day on the Collecting and Identifying Seaweed Course 2022 by @marineseen. Today we focused on identifying seaweeds from a sheltered tidal river 🌊🌱

[RV MBA Sepia @mba_rv]

Another lush day supporting scientific dive surveys with @DanSmale1 and @TritoniaDiving in Plymouth Sound @thembauk @PlymSoundNMP #KelpResearch #ResearchVessel #ScientificDiving

[Cat Wilding @cat_wilding]

Enjoying HSE familiariation and longterm Kelp monitoring dives @DanSmale1 @thembauk @MBAEcology @EmmajStuart

[Emma Stuart @EmmajStuart]

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 roll on day two tomorrow!

[D Smale @DanSmale1]

Thrilled to get the diving season running today. Few drills n skills and then back to the monitoring sites to change loggers and collect some kelp density data. Thanks to @mba_rv and @TritoniaDiving for the superb support as always 😎 🌊 🤿 🌱 ☀️ 🐟 🛥

[Emma Stuart @EmmajStuart]

🤿 Wooo first dive of the season, great to get back surveying our local kelp forests 🌱

[RV MBA Sepia @mba_rv]

First dive of 2022...check! Rescue drills and site checks completed with the Smale research group @DanSmale1 and @TritoniaDiving