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Heidi Burdett

@hlburdett.bsky.social
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Mum | Marine scientist researching photosynthesis, sustainability and conservation in our coastal seas | Associate Professor (Docent) at Umeå University, Sweden | Editor-in-Chief Aquatic Conservation | #FirstGen

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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
** JOIN US! ** @umeaunimarine.bsky.social is hiring! - Research Assistant - #PhD - #Postdoc - Operational & Education Coordinator 📍Umeå Marine Sciences Centre, Sweden 📆Deadlines in July/August 2026 🔗 www.nature.com/naturecareer... 🦑🧪🌎 @nickkamenos.bsky.social @umeauniversitet.bsky.social
Join us in Sweden! Multiple positions at Umeå Marine Sciences Centre! Deadlines in July & August 2026. Plus three images of divers samplnig a coral reef, a scientist sampling water through sea ice, and a measuring buoy in the ocean.
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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 08/07/2026
🌊The Baltic, Barents, and Chukchi Seas play a significant role in the area-normalised global sedimentary carbon stock, dominating high latitudes. @nickkamenos.bsky.social @hlburdett.bsky.social @umeaunimarine.bsky.social 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Hotspots of Arctic and sub-Arctic marine sediment organic carbon are dominated by the Baltic, Barents and Chukchi Seas - Communications Earth & Environment
The Baltic, Barents, and Chukchi Seas play a significant role in the area-normalised global sedimentary carbon stock, dominating high latitudes, according to analysis of quantile regression forests us...
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
** Join us! ** Interested in marine observation? Motivated to make it better for the future? We have a 4-year #PhD position in Marine Observation System Resilience open! 📆 Deadline 16 August 2026 📍 @umeaunimarine.bsky.social, Sweden 🔗 heidiburdett.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/j... 🦑🧪🌎
join us! Phd position in marine observation system resilience, deadline 16 august 2026
plus images of people sampling water on ice and from a boat, and an envirnomental monitoring buoy
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Very nice to be in Montpellier this week for #BioMonWeek26! 📝 Talk on Wed about high frequency coastal monitoring, Session MR05 📚 #AquaticConservation Editor-in-Chief hat: if you have any watery work that you are interested in submitting to #AQC reach out! #BiodiversityMonitoring #BioMonWeek2026
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Join us at #AQC as an Associate Editor! 🧬 Conservation genetics (incl eDNA, across freshwater and marine realms) 🐟 Freshwater fauna (ecology, biogeography, conservation etc, especially, but not limited to, freshwater fish) More info: 🔗 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... 🦑🧪🌎 Please share 💙
compilation of journal front covers from AQC in 2025
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
March issue of #AQC! 📸Investigating freshwater pearl mussel infestation on salmonids. Photo credit: Sebastian Rock. Also: agriculture, turtles, leeches, batoids, crayfish, freshwater protection and barrier removal, beluga, eDNA, wetlands, cod, seagrass 🦑🧪🌎 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755...
journal front cover with the AQC title and an image below of a lake surrounded by trees and a table in the foreground with buckets, tubing and a microscope
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Feb issue of #AquaticConservation 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... 📸 Settlement tiles in Isfjorden, see Sowa et al. Photo credit: P Balazy / IO PAN Diving Team Also: frogs, corals, seaweed, whales, turtles, fishing, eels, crabs, seals, (e)DNA, dolphins, pike, crayfish, sturgeon #AQC 🦑🧪🌎
journal front cover with AQC title on the top and an image below of a diver underwater looking at settlement tiles covered in pink coralline algae
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Editorial: Valuing Impact in Aquatic Conservation Research It's often not $$$ but that doesn't diminish it's importance. Let's embrace the challenge, & value research impact in all it's forms! 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 📸 Word cloud of available abstracts for 2025 AQC publications 🦑🧪🌎
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
**Join us!** Two postdocs currently available in AI-driven marine biology at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social, advancing understanding of ecosystem function, sustainability & conservation! 🔗 www.umu.se/en/umea-mari... 📆Applications considered from March 16 until filled 🦑🧪🌎 #OSM26 @nickkamenos.bsky.social
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
First talk of the day - and by @seabedhabitats.bsky.social from @umeaunimarine.bsky.social! Presenting a year of work in just 3 minutes (!) - where we have predicted loss in blue carbon habitats and carbon stock this century in SE Asia #osm26 🧪🦑🌏
Crowd of people watching a digital presentation Person standing and giving presentation
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I'll have a few hats at #OSM26! 🎤Session chair: Resilience in a Changing Ocean: Bridging Nature-Based Approaches, Conservation Strategies and Maritime Governance 📋Poster 0307: Persistence of extreme low pH conditions in coralline algae habitats 🌊 @umeaunimarine.bsky.social Exhibit Stand 17 🦑🌎🧪
Join me - session, poster and exhibit stand
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
#AquaticConservation January issue 📸Fishers navigating an Amazonian estuary, see Marques et al. Credit: Dayse Marques Also: manatees, MPAs, water lillies, fish, crustaceans, mangrove, molluscs, streamflow, seals, eDNA, mucilage 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... 🦑🧪🌎 #AQC
journal front cover with the AQC title and image below of people in a small boat in a river surrounded by trees
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Very nice to have our recent paper in JGR:Biogeosciences featured as an Editor highlight in #Eos! 🔗 eos.org/editor-highl... Coastal Coralline Algae Naturally Survive Persistent, Extreme Low pH 🦑🧪🌎 📸Coralline algae in Scotland. Credit: N Kamenos @nickkamenos.bsky.social @umeaunimarine.bsky.social
underwater image of the coralline algae habitat. red spiky seaweeds surrounded by other seaweeds, tunicates and brittlestars
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Nov issue of #AquaticConservation! 📸Dam removal in Sweden; Watz et al. Credit: Johan Watz Also: eels, seahorses, turtles, catfish, sharks, urbanisation, seaweeds, management, oysters, reef fish, mangar, tilapia, microplastics, riverscapes 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... 🦑🧪🌎 #AQC
journal front cover with the AQC title at the top, and an image below of a digger removing a stone dam at a lake edge, surrounded by swedish pine forest
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
*Join us!* 2 year #postdoc in #AI driven #ComputationalBiology! Use AI-driven image analysis to investigate decades of coralline algae growth, in collaboration with colleagues in S Korea 🔗 www.umu.se/en/work-with... 📆7 January 2026 📍 Umeå University, Sweden @umeaunimarine.bsky.social 🦑🧪🌎
Join us! postdoc in AI driven computational biology. images behind of red seaweeds and CT scans of those seaweeds
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
A bit late, but October issue of #AquaticConservation #AQC 💙 📸Seagrass surveys in Zanzibar. Photo credit: @researchlina.bsky.social Also: Whale sharks, crocodiles, turtle hatchlings, freshwater mussels, coralline algae and seagrass restoration 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... 🦑🧪🌎
journal front cover with the  AQC title at the top and an image below of a person crouching in shallow water with a quadrat and tape doing a seagrass survey
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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Sept issue of #AquaticConservation 📸Cetacean conservation, Ghana; photo credit: Everlove Asante Also: Arctic, eDNA, Himalyan rivers, tilapia invasion, sturgeon, birds, turtles, urbanisation, wildfire, seagrass, trout, ostracods, seaweed 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... 🦑🧪🌎 #AQC
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
New paper in @plos.org Sus Trans: mangrove restoration increases C storage, but where that C comes from is different... likely because restored mangroves have altered ecological functioning. And old-forests are stable C stores journals.plos.org/sustainabili... 🦑🧪🌎 @umeaunimarine.bsky.social
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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
🚨New paper out!! Restore #mangroves to capture carbon? Yes!🌱 100% positive? Maybe. Study shows that restored mangroves may not regain the ‘normal’ function of older forests. 🧪🦑🌊 Read more here: www.umu.se/en/news/land... #BlueCarbon @umeauniversitet.bsky.social @plos.org @hlburdett.bsky.social
Sediment coring in old-forest mangrove within an intermediate-intensity shrimp farm pond in the Red River delta, northern Vietnam. Photo: Heidi Burdett (CC-BY 4.0)
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
It was a pleasure to lead the Umeå Marine Sciences Centre (#UMF) Autumn Writing Retreat last week! With participants from several departments and all career stages, we tackled a range of topics, including #Sami culture, #plasmonics, #seaweed, #carbon & more. Can't wait for the next in March! 🧪🦑🌍
Upper image of a group of people standing in front of a red building, and below a view overlooking the ocean with clear skies
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Inspiring to listen to Emmanuelle Charpentier (2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry) today at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social! Wonderful to share #Umeå with it's newest Honorary citizen! 🧪
5 people at a podium with a screen behind with dna double helix and the text (in Swedish) Honorary citizen
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A wonderful morning spent at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social #EcoChange annual meeting 🌊 Special bravo to my postdoc Luis González Guerrero, who presented his research on Baltic macrophyte photophysiology - initial data from his busy summer of #fieldwork. More data to come! 🤩 🦑🧪🌎
presentation slide of seaweed and a title "how will the primary benthic producers in the Baltic Sea respond to their light environment?". inset image with the presenter facing his slides.3 panel image - man in the dark with illuminated chambers; walz diving pam ii; landscape image with rocky foreground, coastal sea and forested background
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Aug issue of #AquaticConservation! 📸Mangrove wood market in Ghana. Photo credit: One Tree Planted Also: cetaceans, freshwater fish, agricultural streams, litter-vs-invasives, seals, mussels, trout, turtles, MPAs, fish farming & insect bioindicators! 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... 🦑🧪🌎 #AQC
journal front cover with the AQC title and an image below of piles of mangrove wood next to a river surrounded by mangrove forest
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
July issue of #AquaticConservation! 📸Oyster farming in China. Credit:Qing Liu Also: eDNA, frogs, sharks, coralline algae, blue carbon, eels, river modelling, genetics, MPAs, petrels, crayfish, dolphins, wind farms, mangroves, whales, & management 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... 🦑🧪🌎
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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
** Join us! ** In February 2026 we will offer two residential advanced short courses: 💻 #R course for marine scientists ❄️ #Arctic marine biology, ecology & biogeochemistry 🗓️ Starting 8 & 15 February 2026 📍 Umeå Marine Sciences Centre, Sweden 🔗 umfcourses.github.io ▶️ Apply by 15 Sept 2025! 🦑🧪🌍
Image of the Northern Lights near Umeå, Sweden. Glowing green night sky with a small cottage and snow covered forest trees in the foreground. Photo credit: Fredrik Larsson / Visit Umeå Content Bank
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Join us at #OSM26! Session on: Advances in Marine Conservation for Local-to-Global Sustainability Submit abstract here: agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr... Abstract deadline: 20 August! 🦑🧪🌎 #MarineConservation #AquaticConservation #AQC
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
**Join us!** 2 year #postdoc in algal (photo)physiology Multidisciplinary project as part of the @icelabumu.bsky.social Postdoc Programme 🔗 heidiburdett.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/p... 📆 18 September 2025 📍 @umeauniversitet.bsky.social, Sweden @umeaunimarine.bsky.social 🦑🧪🌎
underwater cartoon scene, with pink algae on the bottom and the text: join us! postdoctoral research in algal (photo)physiology. Deadline 18 September 2025
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Special Issues in #AquaticConservation 🌍Frontiers in African Marine & Aquatic Conservation 🌿Rugulopteryx okamurae (seaweed) invasion 🦑Cephalopod conservation ⚖️Aquatic Conservation in a Wellbeing Economy 🌊Marine Conservation for Sustainability 🥵Climate Change onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... 🧪
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Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems is an international journal focusing on the conservation of freshwater, brackish or marine habitat.
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
May issue of #AquaticConservation! 📷 Spiky sea cucumber, cf Job & Mishra. Credit: Amrit Kumar Mishra Also: sharks, molluscs, eco-engineering, fish diversity, rhodolith diversity, seal by-catch, sticklebacks, dolphins, dugongs, MPAs & urchins! 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... 🌎🦑🧪
journal front cover, with Aquatic Conservation title and an image of a spiky sea cucumber in seagrass
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Great it be at #OOSC this week in Nice! Inspiring science towards blue sustainability, catching up with friends and making new connections! @umeaunimarine.bsky.social was there, with research on carbon, policy, habitat futures and #UMF infrastructure 🦑🌍🧪 @umeauniversitet.bsky.social
7 panels, group of 7 people, a blue hallway, statues in the sea, a research vessel, a OOSC sign, and colourful art 7 panels, a group of 7 people plus 5 panels of people presenting their research
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Dr. Siddhi Joshi @seabedhabitats.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Umeå marine benthic science team @umeaunimarine.bsky.social at the One Ocean Science Congress #OneOceanScienceCongress #OOSC #OceanDecade #SDG14 #WeAreTheOcean
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Let's think more broadly about blue carbon: @nickkamenos.bsky.social reminds us to take land-sea links & carbon transport between ecosystems in blue carbon policy & management 🧪🌍🦑 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌍🦑 @umeaunimarine.bsky.social @umeauniversitet.bsky.social #OOSC
Man in front of a presentation slide with the title re-defining what we consider a blue carbon ecosystem Large presentation hall with presenter and slides at the front
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
#AquaticConservation loves #OOSC! With my Editor-in-Chief hat on for #AQC, if you’re interested in publishing with us, let’s chat! Currently have 3 special issues especially relevant to OOSC: 🌍 #Africa 🥵 #ClimateChange 💙 #WellbeingEconomy 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... 🦑🧪
journal front covers with a marine theme - seals, sea cucumber, rays, divers, dolphins, manatees. Text: aquatic conservation loves one ocean science congress
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Co-chair of #OOSC @jpgattuso.bsky.social address: "Without science we risk losing our way" - science, policy and publics need to work together for action "You will not be bored!" Fantastic efforts to bring OOSC to reality Jean-Pierre, thank you!
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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
We need to reconsider what is a #BlueCarbon #ecosystem! #MudFlats #CorallineAlgae, #Sediments and parts of #Coral #Reefs store significant organic #carbon. ➡️ See you at #OOSC Tue | 14:00 | Room 2 @nickkamenos.bsky.social @hlburdett.bsky.social #ScienceForTheOcean #ClimateScience 🧪🦑🌍
Slide showing key features promoting blue carbon systems in non-classical blue carbon ecosystems.
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
It's nice to be in Nice! #OOSC @umeaunimarine.bsky.social @umeauniversitet.bsky.social
View of a harbour with "One Ocean Science Congress" sign overlooking the sea
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
@umeaunimarine.bsky.social is at the One Ocean Science Congress this week! Details of our seven presentations below ⬇️ #OOSC #ScienceForTheFuture #UMF #AQC 🌎🦑🧪
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Fantastic to hear about Terry Bidleman's environmental chemistry career at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social yesterday! Next week he will deservedly be recognised with the 2025 Career Award from the European Chemical Society Division of Chemistry & the Environment Congratulations to him! 🎉 🧪🦑🌍
Slide presentation with text about atmospheric and aquatic chemistry, and the presenter (older man) to the side
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Great to have Lina Rasmusson (Gothenburg uni) at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social today to talk about all things #CorallineAlgae & #kelp She also presented her ongoing @formasforsk.bsky.social project, which is bringing a research spotlight to Sweden's elusive #maerl beds! @umeauniversitet.bsky.social 🧪🦑🌍
Woman smiling in front of a presentation slide with the title 'fantastic maerl and where to find it'
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Fingers and toes crossed for #KAJ in the #Eurovision final! #BaraBadaBastu #Sauna So lucky to have a sea-view sauna ( #bastu ) in @umeaunimarine.bsky.social!
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Huge welcome to the newest members of the #AquaticConservation Editorial Board! - Anthi Oikonomou (freshwater fish ecology & conservation) - Wei Yu (pelagic fish and fisheries management) Full #AQC editorial team here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... 🌎🦑🧪
four quadrat image: tope left: "welcome to our newest members of the Aquatic Conservation Editorial Board!", top right: image of a lady, bottom left: image of a man, bottom right: latest front cover for AQC
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
April issue of #AquaticConservation 📸 Elephant seals in California (📷 US National Park Service) Also: clams, dolphins, shads, groupers, rhodoliths, sharks, albatross, sea cucumbers, salmon, mayflies, porpoises, frogs, citizen science, blue carbon 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... 🌎🦑🧪🦤💧
journal front cover with the aquatic conservation title and an aerial image below of elephant seals on a beach
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Welcome to our newest postdoc Cristian Ramirez Gutierrez, who will investigate the optical properties & light harvesting of coralline algae! 🌎🦑🧪🌊 heidiburdett.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/w... @umeaunimarine.bsky.social @nickkamenos.bsky.social @nicolomaccaferri.bsky.social @umeauniversitet.bsky.social
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Welcome to Cristian Ramirez Gutierrez!
Big welcome and hello to Cristian, who has joined us in Umeå this week as a new postdoc in the group! Cristian studied Physics at the University of Quindío in Colombia, and then pursued a Master&#8…
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Bumper March issue of #AquaticConservation ⬇️ 📸Alien Nymphaea lotus & CArolina fanwort, Hungary - see Nagy et al Also: turtles, fish, mining, snails, rabbits, caiman, eel, ducks, dolphins, sharks, coral reefs, newts, ponds, stakholders, coralline algae 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755... 🌎🦑🧪
journal front cover with the Aquatic Conservation title header and an image below of a steaming river with flowering lilypads
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
** New paper ** Analysis of #AquaticConservation articles 1991-2023, identifying 30y of trends in aquatic conservation research: internationalising, collaborating, biodiversity vs emerging topics, and prolonged citation impact 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @umeaunimarine.bsky.social 🌎🦑🧪
Word cloud of keywords for all AQC publications 1991-2023. fish, mpa, invertebrate, biodiversity, endangered species and coastal are the biggest words
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
It's been super fun to lead the 1st UMF writing retreat this week! Great for boosting productivity & motivation, we had all career stages join, from clinical microbiology, env genetics, ecophysiology, computational ecology and more! 🧪🦑🌍 @umeaunimarine.bsky.social @umeauniversitet.bsky.social
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