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Natalie Hicks

@drnataliehicks.bsky.social
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Senior lecturer, University of Essex Benthic biogeochemist, marine sediments, carbon cycling, blue carbon, offshore, coastal

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REWRITE project @rewrite-eu.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
🌿 Last week, our team was on the ground (and in the mud!) in the Scheldt Estuary Our REWRITE field campaigns are helping piece together a complex puzzle: how #CoastalWetlands store #carbon, support #biodiversity, and respond to environmental pressures Read more 🔗 rewriteproject.eu/blog/post/79...
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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
28-mo postdoc OPEN TO ALL in Cork 🇮🇪. Hybrid #ecoengineering in #saltmarshes @ucc.ie. 🇪🇺-funded BLUESHORES Project. Collaborators: Laura Airoldi (Uni Padova 🇮🇹), Tjeerd Bouma & @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social (NIOZ 🇳🇱) Start: 1/9/25. Salary: €45k–€52k. 🌱🌊🦀🐌 See link: universityvacancies.com/university-c...
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Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🦑🌊🧪 Please share among your networks, a Research Fellow post in #Ocean Dynamics and Floating Offshore #Wind Consequences on Key Ecosystem Drivers in the Celtic Sea working with me, @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social & @peterimiller.bsky.social tinyurl.com/44x66b5z #PlanktonImaging #RemoteSensing #AUVs
Advert for Research Fellow post including remote and AUV-based sensing of ocean dynamics to understand impacts of floating offshore wind on fronts and other key ecosystem drivers. It shows an AUV and underwater plankton imaging and other sensors.
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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
New paper out: Hydrology mediates #saltmarsh belowground biomass response to warming 🌊x🌡️=🌾 Very proud of PhD students Caro & Eva and the whole MERIT team
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MASTS @mastscot.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Please join us for the upcoming Open Forum Session by the #Marine Climate Change Forum! The session titled #Climatechange drivers in UK regional seas and Scottish #deepsea with Dr Heather Sugden and Dr Johanne Vad will be taking place online on Tues 8 Apr at 1 pm UTC.
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MASTS Open Forum Session "Climate Change Drivers in UK regional seas and Scottish deep seas" - MASTS
The MASTS Marine Climate Change Forum is excited to host a free Open Forum Session with 2 interesting talks! Register Here! Talk 1: Investigating climate driven changes on marine invertebrates […]
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Natalie Hicks @drnataliehicks.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
New paper with #Cefas and @mastscot.bsky.social colleagues on radioecology legacy around #decommissioned Oil & Gas structures - some fancy imaging to look inside macrofauna. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... From our NERC-INSITE project FuECoMMS #oilandgas #radiochemistry
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A new approach for assessing the radioecological risk associated with the legacy discharge of oil derived natural radioactivity in the UK North Sea
Although oil and gas (O&G) derived produced waters and drill cuttings are known to contain enhanced levels of naturally occurring radium-228 (228Ra) a…
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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🔔Job alert: Postdoc working on Contribution of Blue carbon Ecosystems to climate change mitigation with Prof Hilary Kennedy @sosbangor.bsky.social 🧪 jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
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Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Exciting PhD opportunity with @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social , @padpadpadpad.bsky.social (Exeter) and myself (Bristol) on gulls, their microbiomes, and role in transmitting disease. Details below - deadline 13 January!
Poster of PhD advert about role gulls play in spreading disease and antimicrobial resistance. More info: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/what-role-do-gulls-play-in-spreading-disease-and-anti-microbial-resistance-nerc-gw4-dtp-phd-studentship-for-september-2025-entry-ref-5431/?p178297
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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Happy New Year! I updated my webpage of envirionment-related scholarships, grants, & awards: www.aerinjacob.ca/funding--awa... It includes: * science * action & policy * communication * travel awards * international tho' emphasis on N Am, Africa, & women Please share. #ConservationFunding
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A list of conservation-related scholarships, fellowships, funding, and awards.
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CoastClim @coastclim.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
👉Reminder open PhD position! @tvarminne.bsky.social @helsinkiuni.bsky.social Interested in investigating temporal and spatial variability in coastal sea-air GHG fluxes, impacts of heatwaves and links to biodiversity? Check this out! Apply before 31 January 👉coastclim.org/news
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University of Essex @universityofessex.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Can mistletoe be more than just the spark for a Christmas kiss? Could the festive favourite actually be used as high-quality surgical glue? Discover how School of Life Sciences researchers are exploring the adhesive qualities of mistletoe's white berries. www.essex.ac.uk/news/2024/12...
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University of Essex @universityofessex.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
As we explore Bluesky, we'll be sharing some of our recent successes and research stories. Just like Marine biologist Professor David Smith who has been named in @time-magazine.bsky.social's 100 most influential leaders driving business to real climate action. www.essex.ac.uk/news/2024/11...
Professor David Smith dives with a reef star
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Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
🌊 Exciting #PhD opportunity using autonomous platforms, sensors & sensing. Our studentship explores #ocean physics & key ecosystem drivers in light of floating offshore #wind in the #CelticSea using #AUVs & #satellite remote sensing. Join me, Peter Miller & @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social 🧬🛰️🤖
Graphic for Marine Research Plymouth PhD studentship, including an AUV with sensors (such as acoustic scattering), a satellite, an offshore floating windfarm and seabirds.
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Isaac Santos @barefootlab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Linnea Henriksson’s first paper just out in JGR-B. Drivers of Seasonal and Diel #Methane Emissions From a #Seagrass Ecosystem CO2-equivalent CH4 emissions counteracted 6% of the CO2 uptake, and ~1% of sediment carbon sequestration agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Natalie Hicks @drnataliehicks.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Two PhD vacancies with us @universityofessex.bsky.social for interdisciplinary research on #biodiversity conservation, fully funded by The Leverhulme Trust. Apply by 7 February for an October 2025 start. tinyurl.com/3cym57tn tinyurl.com/2kt3xptt #biodiversitynetgain #protection vs #restoration
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Natalie Hicks @drnataliehicks.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Interested in #marine sedimentary #carbon? 🤔 Concerned with associated human disturbance & climate impacts? 🌊 #bluecarbon 👉Consider our @eurogeosciences.bsky.social session OS3.3: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... Deadline 15th Jan 🗓️ Deadline if applying for travel grant: 2nd Dec 🧳
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Ben Walther @bendw.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
NEW POSTDOC Working with #hypoxia, #tags, #boats, #FishSci, #mud, #otolith & eye #lens #isotope chemistry in the #Baltic. Position is at the University of Essex with Dr Anna Sturrock and collaborating with a large international team (including me!). Deadline Nov 6. More info: tinyurl.com/muddyfish
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