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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Excited to share this new piece, proposing a spectrum of #NaturebasedSolutions and distinguishing between those which are Human- and Nature-Led... doi.org/10.1016/j.nb... Great working with Alan, Naomi Gatis and Richard Brazier @uoe-creww.bsky.social #NaturalFloodManagement #Carbon #Climate

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Fantastic time on our field course to Freiburg & Black Forest (Germany) this week, looking at sustainable mobilities, human-nature relationships, and coexistence with a lynx reintroduction case study. Using only low carbon transport, we saved 86% of CO2e compared to flying. Excited for next year!

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

En route to a writing retreat, a privileged opportunity to develop my post-PhD thinking around human-wildlife interactions in #reintroductions. And it's off to a beautiful start, with views of my local estuary from the train window

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

A beautiful morning here in Devon

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄 Have a fun and restful break. I will now be offline until the new year... Happy Solstice for tomorrow, best wishes for 2025, and see you then!

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

A very good trip to Liverpool for #BES2024, and great to have chance to present our recent #wildcat work. Thank you to those who came and @britishecolsoc.bsky.social for organising

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

On the train to Liverpool for #BES24 with @uoe-creww.bsky.social colleagues! I'll be presenting Friday on the social feasibility of #wildcat #reintroduction in the south west - see you there? #consocsci #envsocsci #BES2024 @britishecolsoc.bsky.social

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Pleased to share I'll be presenting on #social feasibility research about the possibility of #Wildcat #Reintroduction, at the upcoming BES Annual Meeting in Liverpool. See you there! @britishecolsoc.bsky.social #BES2024

Title and time of talk: Fri 13th Dec, 2.30-2.45pm, Auditorium 1B

Talk Abstract: Will include results from work with representatives of key interest groups and wider publics

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

Enjoyed the Bearded #Capuchin using tails to access water in trees in this week's #Mammals. I was privileged in 2019 to record, for the first time, White-faced Capuchin doing so at an open water source - we think as predator-avoidance...

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Happy #EarthDay! This year, we marked the occasion by completing the return home to Devon from #EGU24 Conference in Vienna - through Austria, Germany, France and Belgium - by rail! @AlanPuttock @RunWildGB & Ben Jackson @ExeterGeography @CREWW_uk #NoFlights #LowCarbon #Train

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

Really enjoyed many great discussions on #Beavers in #NaturalFloodManagement with researchers from across Europe and beyond! #EGU24

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

My #EGU24 Poster is up! Come find me from 4.15pm in Hall X3 (stand 39) if you'd like to chat about Human Perspectives on #Beavers in #NaturalFloodManagement #NatureBasedSolutions

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

As well as being easy and comfortable by #rail, we estimate using the #train saved 14.788 tonnes of CO2e! #LowCarbonFieldTrips (Calculated using gov.uk ghg conversion factors 2023, flight distance 867km, for 42 students and 5 staff) 3/3 @raileurope @EurostarUK

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

In Freiburg, we looked at #BehaviourChange, #Mobility and #SustainableCities. Then at Lake Titisee we explored (renewed) #Coexistence with #Wildlife. (We were lucky with the weather, experiencing both warm spring sunshine and snowfall) 2/3

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

Last week, we had the privilege of taking 42 final-year @ExeterGeography students to Freiburg & the Black Forest (Germany) for the new #Environmental Futures field course. To get there, we used only #LowCarbon #transport (no flights!) 1/3 @UniofExeter

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Tonight's beautiful moonrise. Another reason I love living at the coast

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Other favourites have included #kingfisher, #avocet, #greatnortherndiver - and the sea views of course!

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

This month I've a new rail commute that takes me along the #Exe Estuary, so I started a commuting #bird list. Today I reached 20 species from seven daylight journeys, including #Spoonbill! See evidence shot taken with my phone this morning @DevonBirds @RSPBExeEstuary

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Recently I moved house. Home working lunch breaks just got better 👌

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Today, @MayorofLondon helped to release five beavers into an enclosure in West London, for @CitizenZoo and @WildlifeEaling's beaver project. It will be fascinating to see next how local people engage and respond in this urban setting

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Mindblown by the last week! Beautiful 15km swim between the #IslesofScilly in the #ScillySwimChallenge, followed by my first #Minke #Whale en route back to the mainland aboard the #Scillonian! When can I go back? @IOSTravel

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 15/08/2023

Our lit review of #beaver impacts has been added to a special #WIREsWater collection on: "#EcosystemEngineers in #Water #Environments". An interesting set of papers! See them all...

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 30/07/2023

Great presentation from @AlanPuttock at #KeepitWild Papers he presented: #WaterVole expansion in a #beaver engineered...

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 28/06/2023

Should individual #animals be given #names in #wildlife #reintroductions? Our new perspective in @PaN_BES explores cases for and against... Read here: doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10503 Thanks to coauthors @AlanPuttock @RunWildGB & Rich Brazier @ExeterGeography @CREWW_uk...

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 31/03/2023

Great week in Italy exploring #resilience, urban green space, curation of tourist experiences, and #sustainabletravel with third year @ExeterGeography students. After a successful trip, it's time for the train home! #UoENaples2023 #lowcarbonfieldtrips

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 28/03/2023

Yesterday @ExeterGeography students explored issues in resilience on the Amalfi Coast. Now we're in Sorrento and looking forward to seeing the outcomes of their research projects! #UoENaples2023 @UniOfExeterESE

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 26/03/2023

First day in Italy with #UoENaples2023 and we're rewarded for our travels, with site visits to Mount #Vesuvius and Herculaneum @ExeterGeography

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 25/03/2023

A treat to transit through the Swiss Alps with our third year @ExeterGeography students. Amazing what you see by train that would otherwise have been missed in the air! Next stop, Italy #UoENaples2023 #lowcarbonfieldtrips @UniOfExeterESE

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 24/03/2023

Overnight stop in Lausanne, Switzerland, with this view from the hotel. Looking over la Gare (train station), Lac Leman (Lake Geneva), et les Alpes. Onto Italy tomorrow! #UoENaples2023 #lowcarbonfieldtrips @ExeterGeography

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 24/03/2023

After a leisurely lunch in Paris, next stop Switzerland! #UoENaples2023

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 24/03/2023

And just like that, we are already in Paris! #UoENaples2023

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 24/03/2023

And we are off! Departing St Pancras to head overseas on the Eurostar for #UoENaples2023 with third year @ExeterGeography students. #lowcarbonfieldtrips

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 21/03/2023

Excited to share our latest paper, learning from #Beaver #Management Groups in England! BMGs are an adaptive process, and one way of renewing #coexistence with #beavers. Flexibility in policy is needed to allow them to adapt In Restoration Ecology: doi.org/10.1111/rec.13899

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 13/02/2023

Report 1 - Outline & evaluation of engagement in two #CoastalAdaptation projects: www.pacco-interreg.com/content/uplo… Report 2 - Participant research, #community and #stakeholder...

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 13/02/2023

Community and stakeholder #engagement in #coastal #adaptation and #landscape change New reports share our Model for Engagement, developed from #research at @PACCoInterreg projects in #UK and #France. Summary outline here:...

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 21/12/2022

Happy #WinterSolstice! Signing out for Christmas. Have a happy and restful break, and best wishes for 2023!

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 05/11/2022

This #capuchin photo sequence neatly demonstrates the newly recorded #drinking behaviour: a) Dip tail; b) Return to height; c) Drink from fur. doi.org/10.47603/mano.v8n1.319 #mangrove #CostaRica #primates #nature

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 03/11/2022

#Primates have been observed doing this to access hard-to-reach water (e.g. through a hole in a tree) but this is the first recorded observation at an open water source in the wild

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 03/11/2022

Something different! Recorded for the first time, Panamanian #Capuchins use tales to drink from an open water source in #mangroves, #CostaRica. Potential #predator avoidance behaviour? Note (& video!) from @CollierSoph and I, out now in...

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 23/10/2022

Only a couple months later, the Red-Billed #Chough in #Cornwall (Accept the photo is poor but only had my phone and didn't wish to disturb)

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 21/10/2022

Blimey, we won! As did the River Otter #Beaver Trial and the @SW_EEP team in other categories. What a night! Big thanks to @DevonWildlife @CwallWildlife @plymouthcc @UniofExeter with whom I share this Knowledge Exchange Award, and thanks to @UofE_Solutions for a great evening!

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 10/10/2022

Great gift from colleagues to start the week! #WhiteStork Flight Ale brewed by @FTNLtd, brought back to me from @KneppWilding. After #Beaver Bitter from @OttertonMill, is this the next in line of #reintroduction themed #beers? I see something brewing here...

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 28/09/2022

#Crossbill Seen at the weekend up Vârful Postăvaru, a mountain in #Transylvania, #Romania

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 27/09/2022

We identified BMGs as a process of three stages (Formation, Functioning, and Future?), influenced by external factors (resource limitations, national context, and whether groups are formed proactively or reactively). Figure 1 from report (see report for detail):

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 27/09/2022

We drew on a prior, peer reviewed study that captured experiences of #River Otter Beaver Trial Steering Group members, and explored applicability of those findings to other contexts through interviews with #Tamar Beaver Management Group members

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Dr Roger Auster @austerroger.bsky.social · 24/09/2022

Who cares if this is a poor-quality low-light shot when it evidences finding a real life #European Brown #Bear?? #Transylvania

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