@IssyKey

Seagrass, bird & otter PhD student @changing_oceans

 Edinburgh, Scotland
instagram.com/issyinthewild/
Joined January 2018
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New paper! Great to see this out in the world 🦋 It has been a pleasure working on it with the wonderful @NatureBasedSols team 💙 My first first-author publication🙂
Nature-based Solutions Initiative @UniofOxford@NatureBasedSols12 Oct 2022
OUR NEW PAPER: #Biodiversity outcomes of #naturebasedsolutions for climate change adaptation: Characterising the evidence base. In @FrontiersIn Environmental Science. @IPBES @UNBiodiversity 📰:frontiersin.org/articles/10.… 🧵👇

Frontiers | Biodiversity outcomes of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation: Charac...

Nature-based solutions (NbS) are increasingly recognised for their potential to address both the climate and biodiversity crises. Both these outcomes rely on...

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I'm #bikepacking down the #RhineRiver over the next 3 weeks from #SourcetoSea, exploring how positive actions on the river can have positive outcomes for the #ocean 🏞️🚴‍♀️ Follow the journey in my posts below! @IMarEST @NOCnews #IMarESTAwards
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🎵🎶 Had the pleasure of chatting to @AnnaTurns for a podcast on #seagrass soundscapes Featuring some initial findings from my PhD Beautifully put together by @ConversationUK Take a listen if you like 👇 theconversation.com/ive-been…

I’ve been listening to seagrass meadows to understand how their underwater soundscapes reflect...

Recording soundscapes in seagrass is useful because it allows researchers to detect creatures that can’t be seen, because they’re camouflaged, hiding or nocturnal.

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These beautiful sand dunes (just down the coast from one of my seagrass field sites) are likely to be turned into *yet another* golf course Sign to try to prevent this if you wish 👇
Sian Henley@drsianhenley17 Jan 2024
I don't normally share things like this on here, but I also really hate it when billionaires have power to destroy natural environments for their own gain, especially in such important wilderness in #Scotland. Please read & sign if you wish greens.scot/savecoullinks @scottishgreens
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SUPER excited that the applications for the @Youth4Seas flagship training programme (Turning the Tide) are now OPEN! 🌊 Over 5 months, you’ll learn skills & strategies to influence marine policy & receive personal mentoring to help you in your advocacy journey 💙
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Awesome PhD opportunity working with an awesome friend of mine 👇🎵
Laurence De Clippele@LDeClippele27 Oct 2023
*PhD position alert* Use #acoustics and #AI to study #seagrass #restoration and their #EcosystemValue in Scotland! 🤿🎧🦐🐟🦀🫧💰 Apply here: shorturl.at/diEKV @IapetusDTP @UofGlasgow @StirUni @EdinburghUni
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Our PhD student @IssyKey is giving a public talk on her research on #seagrass meadow biodiversity in Scotland Thursday 26th Oct 7pm, hosted by @SeabirdCentre Expect pretty pictures, fun footage, and surprising sounds ☀️🦭🎵 Free tickets 👇 seabird.org/events/meet-the-…
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Wonderful time helping out at @Seawilding’s WildSeas Weekend, displaying some of the PhD work happening at Loch Craignish Great to see people of all ages engrossed in the sounds of seagrass and oyster reefs (and colouring!) We also managed to squeeze in some sunny fieldwork ☀️
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Check out this new education pack on #seagrass! Includes hands-on science and art activities 🎨💻 #scicomm Created by the Scottish Seabird Centre, with some help from our PhD student @IssyKey
Scottish Seabird Centre@SeabirdCentre9 Jul 2023
Our learning team have been busy creating a new Dive-In pack, all about #seagrass. Seagrasses are extremely important to the #marineenvironment, providing safe habitats, storing carbon & playing a key role in tackling #climatechange. Dive-in here ↙️ seabird.org/resources
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Had a stunningly sunny couple of weeks of fieldwork on the #Kintyre Peninsula! We investigated the invertebrate and fish diversity supported by #seagrass, and trialled a new method for monitoring #otters and birds hunting in seagrass
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We also tapped into the underwater soundscape, taking some sound recordings to listen for crab crunches and fish grunts… very excited to look at that data! Thanks to @OpenAcoustics #audiomoths !
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Hugeee thank you to these amazing people (and dog🐾) for helping with data collection and providing ample emotional support (alongside working on another exciting seagrass project !)
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Super exciting to see this!! A while ago I got to help out a little with this beautiful Usborne book - Ecology for Beginners It’s a real gem. Look at that whale spouting a rainbow… 🌈🐋 Led by the lovely Andy Prentice
andyp@prenticeweil14 Apr 2023
Proof of our new book on my desk! It's beautiful! Really proud of what we did. @IssyKey @cecilegirardin @OwenTLewis @AlexFrithAuthor @Usborne
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#Seagrass restoration in the #FirthofForth is officially underway! It was such a treat to help inject seeds into the mudflats - now we just have to wait patiently for them to germinate🌱 Huge congrats to the Restoration Forth team who organised this so elegantly 👏
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Very cool PhD opportunity - will involve monitoring the effect of halting trawling on seabed carbon around the Isle of Man 👇👇 #bluecarbon #seagrass
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Today is the first ever UN-recognised #WorldSeagrassDay ! 🌱🐟💚 Here's some relaxing footage from my fieldsite on Skye to celebrate - featuring a curious pollock, and lots of lil' two-spot gobies
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Thought I'd share some of the footage from my baited camera surveys this summer... Two curious spiny dogfish in a seagrass meadow in the south of Skye - aren't they cute?! #spurdog in #seagrass captured by a #BRUV
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🔔 #Job Opportunity🔔 The #NbSI is looking for a new Communications and Outreach Officer to join our team! The deadline to apply is noon on February 28th. Learn more and apply below ⤵️ naturebasedsolutionsinitiati…
A tropical rainforest in the mist

ALT A tropical rainforest in the mist

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Great day of fieldwork yesterday! We set up underwater microphones to investigate how the #soundscape of a #seagrass meadow changes as it is restored Many thanks to the wonderful @seawilding for letting us study their restoration site! Excited to see what we hear... 🎶🎵
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How can working with nature reduce the vulnerability of people to climate change? We investigated this in a systematic review👇 Such a pleasure to be able to help (a little) with this paper and work with this inspiring team 🌱
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