PhD student, phylogeny and biogeography of deep-sea Antarctic sea spiders. Also got a soft spot for Polychaetes
He/Him ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฎ๐ช๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธ science & other stuff
Hello there #LGBTQScience! I am Jamie (he/him ๐ฎ๐ช), a gay marine biologist whose @IrishResearch PhD is investigating the phylogeny and biogeography of Antarctic Sea spiders @nuigalway and @BAS_News ๐ฆ๐ถ๐๐ท๏ธ
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After over 7 weeks at sea the #SDAScience expedition is finally at an end and the science team flies home tomorrow. A gentoo penguin turned up at the harbour to see us off!
Over the past week @griffiths_huw & @morroghmax, the crew and #SDAScience team have been testing the new deep sea research capabilities of the #RRSSirDavidAttenborough in one of the deepest and least explored parts of #Antarctica, the Hesperides Deep! ๐งต(1/4)
A few #seaspider beauties from our test of the Agassiz trawl. A couple of Nymphon species and an Austropallene.
Phpotographing them under UV light to check for any biofluorescence.
Next trawl is 5.5km deep, really looking forward to seeing what we discover
#SDAScience
1st sea spiders of the trip & 1st time I've ever seen them alive. These 2 Nyphons (australe I think) came up in the multicorer. 2nd ๐ธ is under UV, highlighting their "hairs". One was carrying round a large brood.
#SDAScience#seaspidersaturday