Rebecca Millington

#AI and #MachineLearning are transforming how we understand marine ecosystems - but how much do our data choices shape the answers we get?

PML scientists reveal how data choices shape AI-defined ocean regions.

🔗 Read the full story and access the open dataset and code:
pml.ac.uk/news/how-dat...

A bit of Christmas cheer was had at the lab yesterday, drawing a reindeer with GPS in the PML Christmas Fun Run!

An excellent first day at the Royal Society event on 'Marine biodiversity loss, fishing and climate change', including this inspiring talk from Camille Parmesan. Always interesting to compare terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Looking forward to more talks tomorrow!

Just published, a land-mark paper by Annemarie Eckes-Shephard et al.! It assesses the performance of a new generation of Demography-enabled Dynamic Global Vegetation (D-DGVMs), that attempt to simulate the changing size and age structure of trees in forests.

Demography, dynamics and data: building confidence for simulating changes in the world's forests Vegetation demographic models (VDMs) are advanced tools for simulating forest responses to climate and land-use changes, and are essential for projecting carbon cycling and large-scale forest manage.....

Our paper is now published! A inter-model evaluation at a variety of forest biomes of nine "state of the art" demographic vegetation models. Well done @annemarie-es.bsky.social and @tompugh.bsky.social for leading this endeavour!

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This past week in Sopot ended on an optimistic note felt across the large OceanICU consortium. An Ocean of Thanks to our partners at the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences - Maciej Telszewski and Dominik Krzymiński - for hosting us and for the incredible hospitality! #OceanICUAM25

New paper out today! Check out our new ‘Everything is Everywhere’ framework for understanding connectivity in the marine environment

The UK imports 57 billion cubic metres (bcm) in gas, whereas the EU imports 74 bcm from Russia.

Energy is key to defeating Russia.

The EU still imports Russian gas, spending >20 billion a year.

The UK imports similar amounts, mainly from mainland Europe

Stronger UK climate policy will help the EU ditch Russian gas.

Taxonomy | Exploring Marine Biodiversity with Plymouth Marine Laboratory YouTube video by ProBleu

Join PML's Benthic Ecologist Tom Mesher and Science Communicator Amy Kenworthy for a hands-on look at benthos sampling, explore diverse marine species like polychaetes, arthropods, echinoderms, and mollusks, and discover how #taxonomy helps us understand our oceans 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMbu...

Rebecca and Helen in front of their presentation slide

Great to visit CEFAS yesterday with Helen Powley to talk about our work on two-way coupling ERSEM-mizer: impacts on mesozooplankton, carbon cycling and interactions with benthic fauna as part of EU projects NECCTON and @oceanicu.bsky.social

New conversation article by my @plymouthmarine.bsky.social colleague May Rodriguez (who isn't on here yet)

earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours.

For anyone who loves visualisation of the Earth's current weather, wind, temperature etc this site is excellent

earth.nullschool.net

In addition to studying ocean transport, particle tracking models can be used for fun! Animation made using the model PyLag (github.com/pmlmodelling...), which I coded while at @plymouthmarine.bsky.social, and surface ocean currents from CMEMS (Product: GLOBAL_REANALYSIS_PHY_001_031). Enjoy!

Exciting #PhD opportunity with @plymouthmarine.bsky.social & @bristoluni.bsky.social's Prof Monteiro.

The project will be about the impact of climate change on marine ecosystems in the future.

Details here:
www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/projects-202...

Okay @rmillington.bsky.social convinced me to try again. Here we go again.

Problem with being an early adopter!

I just reminded you that you have an account!

Research Associate at University of Glasgow Apply now for the Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

If you have expertise in #ML and an interest in the marine environment, please look at this opportunity with the awesome Nicolas Pugeault: jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS129/r...

You will be working on the NERC Science
funded DEAL project (pml.ac.uk/projects/dea...).

Celebrating the wonderful worm art (and other benthic beasties) or our Convex Seascape Survey 😍 Paint made from the same mud as our experiments on benthic carbon fluxes. Super cool.

NEW – COP29: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Baku

#COP29

➡️ https://buff.ly/3V5jndk

We have officially advised our university to ditch carbon offsets – and focus on cutting emissions Your organisation should probably ditch offsets too.

New article by @jamesgyke.bsky.social, Jamie Shutler, and me @gsiexeter.bsky.social,
explaining why carbon offsetting should be removed from Net Zero plans.
theconversation.com/we-have-offi...

@aargles.bsky.social has made me a blue sky account so that he can have an extra follower 👍