Steve Hall FIMarEST

A peaceful morning on a hillside overlooking the Usk Valley planting #sequoia with ‘The Great Reserve’ team. Will help offset my carbon footprint, & by co-planting with oak & other native species enhance biodiversity in Cymru.
Was good having quiet time & giving thanks to our good Earth /|\

Standing by edge of St Lawrence with ice in the water

Ships frozen into the ice

Ship frozen into ice

In Montreal to attend @theeconomistevents.bsky.social World #Ocean Summit. Impressive seeing how well the Quebec people cope with snow & ice that would paralyse transport home in Cymru, though some of those icebound ships aren’t going far :)

Wales passes landmark environment bill in defining moment for nature recovery - Ocean and Coastal Futures Ocean and Coastal Futures - We’re all about connecting people – organising events, creating communications and promoting job opportunities.

Well done @senedd.wales passing such an important piece of environmental legislation - diolch senedd

Wales passes landmark environment bill in defining moment for nature recovery www.cmscoms.com?p=46550

Thanks - I’m still quite clunky in how I use bluesky - are things posted to the Grove just seen there or viewable by anyone? Will be good to be part of the family :)

Can you add me? Diolch :)

Was good to be briefly in Glasgow meeting friends old & new in marine science, on behalf of @seabed2030.bsky.social
Good evening reception too with @schmidtocean.bsky.social - thanks for the warm welcome.

Thank you Ariel - much appreciated :)

Sharing knowledge about @seabed2030.bsky.social & #GEBCO at 1st Conference of the Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme hosted at #INCOIS Hyderabad. Learning lots - & messaging that good #bathymetry is essential for tsunami prediction.
#hydrospatial #oceandecade
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@gisellewest.bsky.social of the shortlist, probably Whitesands as it’s close to St David’s and faces west towards the sunset.

🎙️ New podcast episode alert!

This month, join us as we dive into:
🇫🇷 Key takeaways from Seabed 2030's presence at #UNOC3
✍️ The Nice Ocean Action Plan
🗺️ Updates on percentage of the #ocean floor mapped

Listen here www.buzzsprout.com/2093154/epis...

@saltwatersteve.bsky.social

Best beaches in Wales in the Times 2025 guide Eight Welsh coastal spot made the publication's list of the top 50 across the UK.

I’m utterly biased of course, but pleased to see some of our beautiful Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 beaches listed in the Times 2025 UK top 50..

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good to see that Endeavour has been found - Archaeologists Have Confirmed the Shipwreck of Captain Cook’s Long-Lost Endeavour - Popular Mechanics

Ocean current ‘collapse’ could trigger ‘profound cooling’ in northern Europe – even with global warming - Carbon Brief A “collapse” of key Atlantic ocean currents would cause winter temperatures to plunge across northern Europe, overriding the warming driven by human activity.

We don’t know how close we are to triggering an Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC breakdown - but now we know a lot more about what it would mean for extreme temperatures in Europe. Good @carbonbrief.org piece on a new study just out by the Dutch colleagues! 🌊

www.carbonbrief.org/ocean-curren...

Excellent presentation from representatives of the next generation at the Ocean Decade Forum in Nice today - a powerful message of our need to work to deliver clean sustainable ocean and seas.
Left many of the audience damp-eyed afterwards ;) 🌊
@heirstoourocean.bsky.social
#hydrospatial

With the ocean not ‘we’ ;)

Good opening words from Vidar Helgesen at the Ocean Decade Forum in Nice - “at a bad time for multilateralism we are still making good progress we the ocean” - he also said however that much needs to be done to deliver SDG14 by 2030.
🌊 #oceandecade

#worldoceanday #worldoceanday #unoceandecade | Paris Peace Forum 🌊 This #WorldOceanDay, discover the unexplored   Did you know that only 26% of our ocean floor has been mapped so far? 🗺️   Through our Scale-Up Program (SCUP), the Seabed 2030 project - led by The Ni...

Great World Ocean Day video from my friends at @parispeaceforum.bsky.social made with materials from @seabed2030.bsky.social - thanks!
#hydrospatial 🌊

www.linkedin.com/posts/parisp...

@saltwatersteve.bsky.social, Seabed 2030’s Head of Partnerships, is in Portugal’s capital for #SubOptic2025, a weeklong showcase for the subsea cable industry - a sector very active in global seabed mapping.

Walking in the Elan Valley earlier this week - water levels looking very low in the reservoirs, a mix of lack of rainfall, and planned engineering work.
The UK really does need to build more water storage infrastructure as rainfall patterns change and the whole place warms up.

Are there billions more people on earth than we thought? If so, it’s no bad thing | Jonathan Kennedy A study suggests the global population has been undercounted – but we shouldn’t let the overpopulation alarmists win the argument, says academic and writer Jonathan Kennedy

Interesting article - global population could already be much higher than we thought..
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Taking time lapses last night with my @omsystem.bsky.social camera and noticed in one frame at 00.02.53 UTC there’s a nice bright meteor heading west. A rare clear night!
(One for you Edward
@edwardcooperb16.bsky.social )

Drone photo of floodlit Neath castle

Used one of my (licensed & insured) drones to photograph the lighting of the VE Day 80th beacon at Neath Castle this evening. #lestweforget

Attending #ChangeNOW2025 on behalf of @seabed2030.bsky.social as a guest of the @parispeaceforum.bsky.social
Opening speeches by Laurent Fabius, Mary Robinson & Ana Toni encourage audience not to lose hope, & know that science-based solutions can solve pressing global challenges.

Santorini volcano probed for clues about next big explosion Scientists are investigating for the first time how dangerous the island's next big one could be.

RRS Discovery & @noc.ac.uk mentioned in this article on volcanism at Thira - one day we’ll see another mighty eruption in the eastern Mediterranean, but it’s hard to predict exactly when..

‘Could an almighty eruption destroy a dreamy Greek island?’ www.bbc.com/news/article...

Could taking carbon out of the sea cool down the planet? A pilot project will test whether it is a useful way of fighting climate change.

Interesting new carbon removal experiment from the team at @plymouthmarine.bsky.social Project to suck carbon out of sea begins in UK www.bbc.com/news/article... 🌊 #geoengineering

I enjoyed a really good Ocean Business week in Southampton - full of people, technology and hope - good to see the ships and robots too :)

Excellent day in Southampton for first day of Ocean Business - sun is shining, plenty of people here too. I’m at the @seabed2030.bsky.social booth V1E by the dockside if you’d like to say hello 👋

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Camera set up to catch Loch Ness Monster unearthed No sign of the famous monster was found on the camera that had been in Loch Ness for 55 years.

Nice Autosub story here :)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very apt slogan for Seabed 2030 - “Our knowledge below, shapes our future above” - true in many ways in the world of ocean science! #hydrospatial 🌊