Sofia Albrecht

PhD student on common dolphin diet and nutritional health at @MfrcATU Ireland

[Blue Planet Society @Seasaver]

Why are so many dolphins dying of starvation off Ireland’s coast?

13% of ­common dolphins stranded or bycaught off the Irish coast between 2017-2019 died from starvation.

This compares to 3% of common dolphins found off the UK coast between 1990-2006.

https://t.co/Y5wiZmO9Io

[Nigel Monaghan @KeeperNH]

As presented at the All-Ireland Mammal Symposium #AIMS2024. Increased numbers of dolphins in poor conditions off Irish coasts https://t.co/6JDxScFKar

Open access full article here
https://t.co/SjEZWZNNPk

[Cynthia Barile, PhD 🐋🎧 @cynthia_barile]

Day 3 of #IMMErSE2023 🌊 Surveying in the #WildAtlantic means weather can turn its back on you... 🌬️ In the fog, pilot whales came close and chatted around 🤩 a couple blows 🐳 and even a breaching Sowerby's treated the strong and dedicated MMOs watching from the bridge 💪🏼

[Cynthia Barile, PhD 🐋🎧 @cynthia_barile]

On top of 🐳, #IMMErSE2023 is also doing night fishing 🌙🎣 where the nocturnal team looks at zooplankton 🦐, fish 🐟, squids 🦑 and everything they can find!
Deep hauls reveal a lot of #mesopelagic fish not often looked at!
@Thibault_Cariou @AylisEmerit @coelacant99

[Cynthia Barile, PhD 🐋🎧 @cynthia_barile]

🐳 THE STAR OF #IMMErSE2023 🐳 Intense moment when this gorgeous #spermwhale showed up ahead of us 🎉
🎧 Acoustic data ✅
👀 Visual data ✅
🧬 Water samples for #eDNA ✅
What a team, beyond grateful for each and everyone onboard ❤️
Hope he brings many of his mates tomorrow 😉🤞🏼

[Cynthia Barile, PhD 🐋🎧 @cynthia_barile]

Thanks to the great work of all the @RVMarineInst crew on board #RVCelticExplorer to get the winch up and running for our night team, we sailed yesterday evening for #IMMErSE2023! Guess how long it took for those 🐳 and 🐦 nerds to have a little watch?

[Cynthia Barile, PhD 🐋🎧 @cynthia_barile]

Team ready and excited for the #IMMErSE2023 Irish Marine Mammal Ecosystem-based SurvEy on board the #RVCelticExplorer 🐳🐟🧬🎧 Stay tuned 👀

[Sofia Albrecht @seasofia]

A rotten #giant washed up the shore of #mayo this weekend. Measures were taken for the #strandingnetwork of the #irishwhaleanddolphingroup. 🐳

This could have natural or anthropogenic reasons.
#spermwhale #loveirishresearch #womeninscience #livingthedream #strandedwhale

[Sofia Albrecht @seasofia]

Great to see the dissemination of our #parasite project at the #ukirsc23 through our #imbrsea master student Sewwandi. 🐍🪱🐛🐬
#loveirishresearch #commondolphin #phdlife @MfrcATU @ATU_GalwayCity @ECOparasites

[UKIRSC MarineMammals @UKIRSC_SMM]

Last of our online speakers, Sewwandi Alwis talks about her investigation of parasite infections of common dolphins, Delphinus delphis 🐬

[Sofia Albrecht @seasofia]

Happy to present my project at the @IWDGnews annual #stranding network meeting. Great to #connectthedots between #samplecollection 🔪 and #analysis 👩‍🔬. #Necropsy samples are used to study 🐬 #diet, #nutrition and #ecology.

#commondolphin #strandingnetwork #loveirishresearch #phd

[George Short @CrabsandCrafts]

🐬🧋🍔Are dolphins eating 'junk food'?🐬🧋🍔Super cool to see @seasofia present her #PhD project live @NAMMCO_sec meeting. She'll use #metabarcoding, #GutContentAnalysis and #Bioenergetics to understand how #HumanImpacts affect feeding ecology of common #Dolphins @MfrcATU 🦑🐟🧬

[Seán O'Callaghan @KerrysWildside]

Right now 8 unspecified vessels are steaming northwest from France in formation towards the exercise area. Another two vessels are at the edge of the Porcupine Seabight

[Seán O'Callaghan @KerrysWildside]

Russia's planned naval exercise inside the Irish EEZ: Repercussions on marine life?
A danger to whales and dolphins🐳🐬 The target area overlaps with a region home to many cetacean species, at high risk of lethal injuries from naval operations 🔊💥
👇🏽Read this thread👇🏽

[UKIRSC MarineMammals @UKIRSC_SMM]

Overfishing influences common dolphins’ nutritional health? Sofia Albrecht will investigate causes of ⬆️ strandings through the past decades and their relation to dietary changes and 🐟 stocks, and establish relevant molecular techniques at @MfrcGMIT @GMIT_Research #UKIRSC22

[Sofia Albrecht @seasofia]

Check out my recent publication on 'Local movements and site-tenacity of minke whale in Iceland in relation to feeding and a northward distribution shift'

https://t.co/pDs9FdLo5r

#marinescience #womeninoceansci #minkewhale #marinebiologyresearch #Iceland @uni_iceland