marina rees

Marine Lead Adviser for Natural England and Freelance Artist.

[marina rees @marinarees]

We were out in the pouring rain with my team for the Great British Beach Clean, but nothing stopped us and we still collected bags of litter from the beach 🌊🌧️🚮

[marina rees @marinarees]

Examples of paper based artefacts from the Science Museum Group collection I have come across during my work: 1908 diagram of tidal curves, art piece by David Shrigley, 1700s manuscript transcription on a work by Nicolas Flamel, sculptures made by the Royal College of Art.

[marina rees @marinarees]

Great being involved in the fish survey at Langstone Harbour, and helping gather data to contribute to our knowledge of the area, so we can protect it better!

[marina rees @marinarees]

Discovery of the week while doing an intertidal survey in the Bembridge MCZ on the Isle of Wight: this lovely stalked jellyfish hanging on to seagrass ✨

[CSF-HA @CsfHa]

MCZ assessment Bembridge Isle of Wight
Stalked jellyfish 😍
Seagrass beds😍
Too much Sargassum seaweed🥲😭
Too much bleached seaweed 🥲😭
Ocean warming is real
@solent_forum @EnvAgency @NaturalEngland

[峯水亮-Ryo Minemizu @ryo_minemizu]

Happy #PolychaeteDay #Tomopteris TL10cm, Depth -15m open sea (bottom depth Approx. 1,000m) of the Kume Is. Okinawa Japan #Deepsea #planktonic

[Richard Kirby @PlanktonPundit]

The pulsating, swimming bells of the planktonic siphonophore Muggiaea atlantica. They are buoyed by a golden droplet of oil to help keep the animal afloat at the sea surface where they feed on other plankton. @zeiss_micro

[Schmidt Ocean @SchmidtOcean]

While surfacing from last #OctoOdyssey dive, ROV SuBastian came across what we believe to be a gulper eel that had VERY recently eaten. AKA "Pelican eel" for its ability to expand throat & stomach into a massive balloon-like scoop to swallow up squid or swarm of shrimp. Thoughts?

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

BREAKING 🚨: An iceberg the size of London has broken off the Antarctic ice shelf

[Dr Katie Strang @palaeokatie]

330 million year old perfection - a wee crinoid ossicle that beautifully highlights their five-fold (pentaradial) symmetry. There’s also a tiny fragment of bryozoan in the bottom right 🖤

[Scott Duncan @ScottDuncanWX]

Europe is insanely warm right now. It has never been this warm so late in the year for some.

Can't believe it is only 43 days until Christmas.

[Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik]

The pic shows our tear-down of a disposable vape by the way, that big lozenge in the middle is the lithium battery. 2 million a week sold in the UK. All thrown away.

[Paul Stamets @PaulStamets]

More mushroom music for you all! 🙌🏼 

🎥: @NatureOfNow

[NHM Library and Archives @NHM_Library]

Found some unusual bones and don’t know where to turn? Hey, we’ve all been there. This pre-printed form on official #stationery suggests the @NHM_London Geology Keeper may have seen one or two pig teeth in his time. Oh, the glamour. #Ephemera #NotAFossil #Palaeontology

[Christy T. Judd (She/Her) @BadBiologist]

Attended a 5ft blue shark (P. glauca) stranding with @BDMLR in Cornwall. I have been on the scene since 9:30am, and it has been continuously stranding itself since then (video next tweet). It is now low tide and have havent seen it in over an hour, so hopefully it’s gone!

[Natural History Museum @NHM_London]

The biggest ever bacterium has been discovered in the Caribbean 🦠🏖️

Measuring up to 2cm, Thiomargarita magnifica is a tiny trendsetter. Despite being a bacteria, it keeps its DNA similarly to an animal cell.

Find out all about this massive microbe 👇 https://t.co/8hwY0N94Jn

[Meg Vandenberg @fishbioMeganist]

How wickedly cool is this agnopsis vulsa armor! Obsessed @Fishguy_FHL @CMDonatelli @KolmannMA

[marina rees @marinarees]

My Icelandic Sea Saying Booklet is in the new permanent exhibition of the National Museum in Oslo, Opening today!

[marina rees @marinarees]

Very happy to have my Icelandic Sea Saying booklet as part of the new permanent display of the National Museum in Oslo!

[VisitOSLO @VisitOSLO]

Norway's brand new National Museum opens in Oslo tomorrow! Largest art museum in the Nordics. Houses older, modern, contemporary art, architecture and design under 1 roof. Open Tuesdays - Sundays, 10 am - 9 pm. Go to the museum's website to book tickets: https://t.co/0xkLYIRAwS