Rowan Smith

Environmental Consultant

[SMASS @strandings]

Sowerby's beaked whale post mortem yesterday on a very windy Lewis, but back in time for tea!🌬️⛴️☕️Adult female who had live stranded the previous day - PM found lots of white matter in the brain indicating potential age related death 🐳

[Colin Adams @C_Adams1758]

Interested in an exciting technical post for an ecologist working in a field station in some of the most important habitats in Scotland? We have a new position at SCENE on Loch Lomondside @sceneUofG @GlasgowUniFish https://t.co/hh4XNDRQv4

[Rowan Smith @Rowanm_smith]

For those of you incorporating multi-observer geometric morphometrics into your research see our new paper below >

[Paolo Moccetti @PMoccetti]

📣Check out our new preprint!📣

“Is shape in the eye of the beholder? The reproducibility of geometric morphometric analyses on live animals” 📸🐟

👉 https://t.co/QOxlRPmGfg

[SCENE @sceneUofG]

🚨New paper: Review by @C_Adams1758, @Rowanm_smith, @W_El_Bestawy and others highlights just how well-studied the natural environment of the Loch Lomondside area is. They recorded 1,436 references!
https://t.co/q3aPgdo2rf

[Rowan Smith @Rowanm_smith]

UK policy and management of relict sea-dumped munitions is posing continued health and ecological risks to our marine environments- what can be done and are we doing enough? We explored this > https://t.co/YyBls6JZOe

[Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS) @ceobs_org]

To mark #UNOceanConference, our new post by @UniStrathclyde MSc student Rowan Smith explores how UK policies to manage the health and ecological risk posed by sea-dumped munitions are falling behind those of EU countries https://t.co/ku8mlzVahj

[Rowan Smith @Rowanm_smith]

Slightly different from the usual wader get up but none the less very interesting to see what M-Four are doing to tackle fuel poverty in Glasgow #COP26 #ClimateAction, even treating us to a sunset on the highest point in #Glasgow @MomentumFour

[Y a r a • يارا • Hectic Skeleton @Yara_Haridy]

Me handling my multiple projects vs me showing off multiple projects

[Rowan Smith @Rowanm_smith]

How do we go about fork length for this one? @Green1Amy @hanhonkanen #Salmon #Derwent

[Rowan Smith @Rowanm_smith]

(Charr)ismatic fish out on Loch Tay today! @JPeterKoene1 @sceneUofG

[Rowan Smith @Rowanm_smith]

A fitting name for quite the monster- great tagging with you guys!

[Rowan Smith @Rowanm_smith]

@NatalieACWelden I’ve found around 33g of salt per L is giving me good hatch return!

[Amy Green @Green1Amy]

Retrieved VR2TX’s from the Bassenthwaite Lake with @C_Adams1758 @Rowanm_smith , excited to see what proportion of tagged Atlantic salmon made it through and analyse their behaviour @EnvAgency @sceneUofG @vemcoteam @NECumbria #acoustictelemetry

[Rowan Smith @Rowanm_smith]

Promising start to the day finding salmon parr in a previously unsurveyed Loch Lomond tributary- hopefully with more to follow! @megr_macdonald @sceneUofG #LLAIAmasters

[Colin Adams @C_Adams1758]

Frightening to see this enormous coil of polypropylene rope and discarded fishing net emerging from the stomach of a sperm whale during a post-mortem I attended on Harris today @sceneUofG

[Dàibhidh @ClydePorpoise]

The Arran Millpoint fish farm application says there has only been 2 porps sighted in last 20 years. Eh, We know desk top studies are incapable of assessing risk to our porpoises! The place should be a protected SAC or MPA not a feedlot! @nature_scot @ArranCoast @North_Ayrshire

[Rowan Smith @Rowanm_smith]

Just finishing a great week completing electrofishing surveys on the rivers Kilmaluag, Slighachan, Strathmore and Brogaig on the Isle of Skye. Good to see the fish populations are nearly as high as the midge! @C_Adams1758 @sceneUofG #fishsci #electrofishing #Skye

[Loch Lomond Fisheries Trust @LochTrust]

Another NEPS site completed, big thanks and shout out to @sceneUofG staff and interns for their help today. We hope you had a eely nice time, we know we did! 🐟🐟🐟

[Deveron Bogie Isla @DBIRCT]

The 100th tagged salmon smolt from the river Deveron is now on its way to sea ! Huge thank you to the @AST_Salmon team @MissingSalmon @IYS_Atlantic @fms_scotland #riverdeveron #looptackle #loopaktiv

[Joe Crowley @joe_crowley]

Heading home after a whistlestop trip to the stunning Spey and Muick / Dee rivers for @BBCCountryfile to film one of my favourite subjects: Atlantic salmon. Lovely to meet so many dedicated & passionate people and to catch & tag smolts as they head to sea. On TV May 12th...

[Craig @Castabroad_Collective @CastabroadMedia]

A day spent with these cool cats on the Moray Firth. @JarcherP @Rowanm_smith @Mnewton87