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Nick Kamenos

@nickkamenos.bsky.social
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Professor of Marine Ecosystem Science & Global Change at Umeå University in Sweden | Director of Umeå Marine Sciences Centre | Mainly @ linkedin.com/in/nick-kamenos-4018276/

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Nick Kamenos @nickkamenos.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Thrilled to see this out in #CommsEarthEnv - great job by our #PhD student Beth Langley! We show that the #Baltic, #Barents & #Chuchki Seas are hotspots #Arctic and #SubArctic marine #OrganicCarbon with high global stock BUT low protection!! 🧪🦑🌍https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03720-8
Map of the Arctic and sub-Arctic showing organic carbon concentrations in marine sediments
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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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Nick Kamenos @nickkamenos.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
From #Arctic sea ice to #OSM26 in Glasgow! Come and visit our booth #17 and find out about our 2x #AI-driven #MarineBiology post doc positions, Borealis #Fellowships & #Internships and funded access to our infrastructures @umeaunimarine.bsky.social in Sweden 🌊🌞❄️ 🦑🧪🌍
Scientists at Umeå Marine Sciences Centre booth
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Nick Kamenos @nickkamenos.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
📣Just a few DAYS to go until the application deadline for our exciting advanced courses!! See 👇 for full details #R and #Arctic marine biology, ecology & biogeochemistry courses in #Sweden! Deadline: 15th October 2025
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Nick Kamenos @nickkamenos.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
📢 We have an ever increasing number of #student #research opportunities at Umeå Marine Sciences Centre including our #Borealis Internships www.umu.se/en/umea-mari... Come and join us for an exciting #marine #science adventure in #northern #Sweden ❄️ 🌊
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The Borealis UMF Fellowships and Internships
We invite internationally competitive candidates to apply for research fellowship or Internship awards.
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Nick Kamenos @nickkamenos.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
📢 Very exciting news! 📢 We are now offering advanced courses at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social on #R and #Arctic #MarineScience with more to come!! See full details below ⬇️ 🌊🧪🌍🦑
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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
📢Think BIG!! 📢 Set up your LARGE SCALE experiments in an extremely controlled environment - from tropical heat to icy winter. ❄️❄️❄️ Check out our advanced mesocosm facility: www.umu.se/en/umea-m... Looking for funding? www.umu.se/en/umea-m... 🦑🧪🌊
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The UMF aquatic mesocosm facility
Use our highly controlled mesocosm facility to do aquatic replicated experiments concerning impacts on an ecosystem under field relevant conditions.
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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Up to 50% of organic carbon buried in the shallow #BalticSea may be from land! How does land use shape carbon quality? Let’s talk OC hotspots + isotope-based source tracking at poster P126! /Alexandra Rouillard 🧪🦑🌍 #OOSC #ScienceForTheOcean #BlueCarbon
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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
By strengthening governance and aligning the fragmented policies, Southeast Asian countries can unlock the numerous potentials of #BlueCarbon in their local and national frameworks! 🧪🦑🌍 Come and chat at poster: P432 /Long Vu Hoang #OOSC #ScienceForTheOcean
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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🚨 CALLING ALL MARINE RESEARCHERS! 🚨 Bring your science to the Northern Baltic coast and access FREE research funding! Dive into global-scale experiments that drive real-world impact. www.umu.se/en/umea-mari... Funding: www.umu.se/en/umea-mari... Contact: regina.kolzenburg@umu.se #OOSC #UMF 🧪🦑🌍
Photo: Mattias Pettersson
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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Land use change affects the stability of #mangrove #carbon, and mangrove #restoration can increase carbon storage! Find out more at poster P309! @hlburdett.bsky.social #OOSC #ScienceForTheOcean #Vietnam 🧪🦑🌍
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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
@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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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
#ClimateChange is driving brownification of coastal waters - is this bad news for benthic macrophytes? 🧪🦑🌍 Let’s talk DOC & light decline at poster P82! #OOSC #ScienceForTheOcean #MarineEcology #Brownification 🔬Research at UMF? Explore AQUASERV/IRISCC for funded access. Links in comments. ⬇️
Underwater image, Baltic Sea. Photo: Joakim Ahlgren
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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 · 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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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
🎉 Happy New Year! 2024 has been an inspiring year full of exciting research and innovation at #UMF. Here's to carrying that momentum into 2025 and making it just as impactful and groundbreaking. Wishing everyone success and new discoveries ahead! 🥂🦑🧪 #HappyNewYear #MarineResearch
Science Friday at Umeå University. Photo: Gabrielle Beans PicónSymposium at UMF.Northern lights above campus at Umeå University. Photo: David JenWinter sampling on ice with hovercraft.
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Welcome to Vu Hoang Long, who has started his #PhD with us! Long will be working on our SE Asia #BlueCarbon project, investigating the relationship between nature, society & policy. Watch this space - an exciting 4 years of research to come! 🌎🦑🧪 @umeaunimarine.bsky.social @nickkamenos.bsky.social
man standing in front of a wooden house holding a basket of green leaves with a tropical forest in the background
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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
💃🕺These ‘dancing diatoms’ (Bacillaria paxillifera) brought joy to #UMF today! They have been growing on Fucus in our marine heatwave experiment. 🧪🦑
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Welcome to Siddhi Joshi - new postdoc with us, conducting habitat modelling on our SE Asia #BlueCarbon VR project! These data will inform policy intervention & community engagement research we start next year - stay tuned! 🌎🦑🧪 heidiburdett.wordpress.com/2024/10/21/w... @umeaunimarine.bsky.social
Person standing on a beach with moutains and the sea behind
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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
🚨 Coming up! Dr. David McKee from @pndc.bsky.social will visit #UMF to discuss optical technology & radiative transfer modeling. He’ll share recent findings on how zooplankton swarms affect ocean color remote sensing signals. 🌊🔬 🗓️ Monday, Nov 4th. Don’t miss it! www.umu.se/en/events...
Water fleas (Daphnia). Photo: Mostphotos/NapatDr. David McKee leads the Marine Optics and Remote Sensing Group at the Physics Department, University of Strathclyde and holds an adjunct position with the Arctic and Marine Biology Department at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
UMF Symposium! Incredible to see the wide range of activities and #research happening at #UMF right now. From #BlueCarbon and #brownification to #CoralBleaching, marine heatwaves and #methylmercury formation in fjord systems... And so much more! 🧪🚢🌊🐋 #umeauniversity #MarineScience
Thibaut Cossart, Postdoc fellow at Department of Chemistry.Coffee break at UMF.Audience at UMF symposium.
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Reminder that we have 2 fab #postdoc positions on algae biophysics! #ClimateChange responses (20 Sept) #Photosynthesis mechanisms (30 Sept) w/ @nicolomaccaferri.bsky.social , @nickkamenos.bsky.social & Magnus Andersson 🔗 heidiburdett.wordpress.com/lab-opportun... 🌎🦑🧪 @umeaunimarine.bsky.social
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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
✨Wow! Three new interns were greeted by swirling Northern Lights above #umeauniversity! Welcome Helena Zambalos (#Austria), Wilf Breach (#UnivStAndrews) and Sarah Braun (@unigreifswald.bsky.social)! 🧪🌊🐋 www.umu.se/en/umea-m... #MarineScience #UMF
Northern Lights above campus, Umeå University. Photo: David JenSarah Braun, intern at Umeå Marine Sciences Centre.
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
Our blue carbon research is featured on TV4 in Sweden today! Blue carbon research & policy must go beyond seagrass, mangroves & saltmarsh - especially fjords, mudflats & coralline reefs! Paper📖: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... TV4📺: www.tv4.se/artikel/2ktW... 🦑🧪🌎 @umeaunimarine.bsky.social
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Nya upptäckten: Svenska vatten kan bryta ner och lagra kol
Bottenviken och norska fjordar betydande aktörer
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Nick Kamenos @nickkamenos.bsky.social · 20/06/2024
🌊Out this week in #BiologyLetters! We show that #marine calcifying ecosystem engineers recycle more #carbon than previously thought aiding their role as #BlueCarbon ecosystems! 🦑🧪🌎⚒️🌱https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0598 @hlburdett.bsky.social #JinhuaMao @umeaunimarine.bsky.social #umeauniversity
A conceptual summary of the photosynthesis and calcification carbon transport pathways
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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
We are very excited to welcome Prof. Sinéad Collins from the University of Edinburgh! Through the 2-year UMF Borealis scholarship, she’ll use the #mesocosms @umeaunimarine.bsky.social to investigate which characteristics really make arctic #phytoplankton ”arctic”. www.umu.se/en/news/new-...
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New project investigates the unique characteristics of arctic plankton
Sinéad Collins will provide answers to what makes arctic phytoplankton unique.
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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 08/06/2024
It’s #WorldOceanDay! UMF’s core belief is the need for #healthy and #sustainable oceans! Our research directly contributes to the #WOD24 theme of Catalyzing Action for Our Ocean & Climate Some examples in the thread below, and read more here: www.umu.se/en/umea-mari...
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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre
UMF is a dynamic environment for marine research including a complete suite of analytical platforms.
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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
📣Coming up! #EcoChange minisymposium @umeaunimarine.bsky.social, covering ongoing #marine #research at #umeauniversity. Keynote: Professor Rainer Lohmann, University of Rhode Island, ”Legacy and Emerging Pollutants in the Ocean”. 🌊🧪 📅 Tuesday, June 4 More here: www.umu.se/en/events/mi...
Waves hitting rocks at Ulvön, Bothnian Sea. Photo: Kristina Viklund/UMF
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Nick Kamenos @nickkamenos.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
New review in #GlobalChangeBiology! There's more to #BlueCarbon than mangrove, seagrass & saltmarsh... #MudFlats, #coralline #algae reefs, #sediments & #CoralReef #Lagoons are all really important too! But lots still to work out for the best policies 🦑🧪🌎⚒️🌱 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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It's time to broaden what we consider a ‘blue carbon ecosystem’
Global Change Biology is an environmental change journal tackling issues such as sustainability, climate change and environmental protection.
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
Join us! 2 year #postdoc position on algal #physiology & #photophysics w/ @nicolomaccaferri.bsky.social, @nickkamenos.bsky.social & Magnus Andersson 🔗 heidiburdett.wordpress.com/2024/05/06/p... 📆Deadline 2 June 2024 🦑🧪🌎🦤💧⚒️
a coralline algae bed underwater, with visible brittle stars and other marine creatures
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Umeå Marine Sciences Centre @umeaunimarine.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
🌞Summer is nearly here! The #SeaIce has melted so it's time to deploy our #oceanographic buoy and onboard sensor array - but first, sensor calibration! #SeaBird #4HJena #research #marine 🧪🦑🦤💧🌍
Scientist calibrating multiple sensors and CTDs
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Nick Kamenos @nickkamenos.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
Fantastic opportunity for early career marine scientists looking for hands-on experience in world-class research projects! Join us and become a #BorealisIntern - deadline for applications is soon! 🧪🦤💧🌍🦑
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Heidi Burdett @hlburdett.bsky.social · 09/04/2024
Join us! #PhD in #BlueCarbon policy in SE Asia - integrating #NaturalScience, #SocialScience, community #engagement and #policy devlopment! 🌏 Fieldwork in #Vietnam & #Cambodia 🔗 heidiburdett.wordpress.com/2024/04/04/p... 📆 30 April 2024 💰Fully funded! 🦑🧪🦤💧⚒️ @nickkamenos.bsky.social #AcademicSky
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PhD: blue carbon policy in SE Asia
PhD position in Environmental Science - blue carbon policy in SE Asia We are currently accepting applications for an exciting 4-year fully-funded PhD to develop a framework for blue carbon policy impl...
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Nick Kamenos @nickkamenos.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
Out this week in @plos.bsky.social! Making #CoralReef #Restoration decisions in the context of current & future #environmental & #ClimateChange maximises success journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... 🧪🦤🌍🦑💧 @verenaschoepf.bsky.social @thefosterlab.bsky.social @hlburdett.bsky.social #PlusOthers
coral growing on frame during restoration
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Nick Kamenos @nickkamenos.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Come and join our dynamic team in Sweden! We are inviting applications for a staff scientist in #marine #numerical #ecology Check it out! nature.com/naturecareer... Deadline soon: 29 March 2024! #UmeåUniversity #Research #ClimateChange
Umeå Marine Sciences Centre at Umeå University in Sweden
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Nick Kamenos @nickkamenos.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
📢 Deadline for our Borealis #Fellowship & #Internship Programme is in just 10 days! You can apply for up to 200000 SEK (~€20K) within the #environmental #GrandChallenge theme of ”#Marine #ecosystem resilience in a #ChangingWorld” #Research umu.se/en/umea-mari...
Brochure for Borealis Fellowship and Internship Scheme
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