Prof. Martin Solan

Using our sediment profile imaging camera to look at how bottom contact fishing affects carbon dynamics in the North Sea for @nerc-eof.bsky.social C-FLOOR project. On site right now and here for 35 days. Interdisciplinary data pipeline is flowing thick and fast!

Lands end to John o’groats. 1600km, one bike. All to support women subject to domestic abuse. See my live updates and progress at: ridewithmart.co.uk If you can, please donate what you can afford. Thank you.

I’m currently cycling lands end to John o’groats - see my live updates at ridewithmart.co.uk starting Day 5 today, 450km done and 1200km to go. If you can, please support, all going to charity to support women subject to domestic abuse. Please give what you can afford, every donation will help.

*Paper* - Evaluation of species translocation success should move beyond the assessment of population persistence and next-generation recruitment to consider the biotic and environmental context under which species deliver ecological functioning. doi.org/10.1002/2688.... @naturalengland.bsky.social

Does species translocation offer a solution for species at risk? Only if you think about species-environment interactions. See our findings, published today: doi.org/10.1002/2688...

**PAPER** Differences in environmental condition and location challenge the assumption that translocated species will sustain ecological functioning. doi.org/10.1002/2688....

My big event is coming in a matter of days… track everything via my own website. Daily updates and tracking me live. Go to: ridewithmart.co.uk

5 weeks until I start my challenge, cycling Lands End ton John O’Groats. My route is 1640km, and just short of 10,000m of elevation. Please give what you can for a good cause, but if you can’t give, please forward to your network: gofund.me/e76f47004

Bioturbation Starter Tutorial - I’m considering hosting 1-2-1 tutorials on how to run and analyse bioturbation experiments. Interested? Let me know.

Please sponsor me, I’m cycling 1600km from lands end to John o’Groats. Whatever you can afford, or just the equivalent of a coffee, all going to a good cause. See more here: gofund.me/2487cd134

Help me reach my target…I’m going to cycle 1000 miles across the UK. Donate what you can, and more details here: gofund.me/f06530c42

*JOB* We are seeking a marine ecologist to investigate how physical disturbance - bottom trawling - influence carbon, nutrient and greenhouse gases. The advert is now live until 08/06/2026. PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY. jobs.soton.ac.uk/3416326HN

I am taking on the legendary "End to End"— cycling 1000 miles across the length of the UK from Land’s End to John o’ Groats. The furthest I have cycled before this year is about 10 miles. I’m self-funding the trip, so 100% of your donations go straight to a good cause. Thank you. Scan the QR code.

1000 miles. Two wheels. One epic UK crossing. I’m cycling Land’s End to John O’ Groats. Donate what you can at: gofund.me/1ffb178eb

So far, 47 participants from 25 countries signed up to take part in our global bioturbation experiment across freshwater, terrestrial and marine ecosystems. No prior experience needed and we’ll send you a bioturbation kit - to join in, sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org/projects

We are co-ordinating global bioturbation study across freshwater, terrestrial and marine ecosystems. We’ll send you everything you need, and experiment will be very simple. Sign up to be part of it by clicking on the bioturbation project here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org/projects.

*NEW* We’ve just released 337 harmonised layers from 35 sources capturing human pressures, heritage features, ecological assets and net-ocean conditions for UK waters. Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Explore our interactive portal: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...

Learn about the NERC C-Floor project (buff.ly/92vIdPa), and explore its related project, Bowie (buff.ly/NJYo5f1), which examines how fixed offshore wind farms impact marine ecosystems. 🎧 Listen now: 🔹 Podbean: buff.ly/CXH7A8f 🔹 Spotify: buff.ly/CPjQRQS 🔹 Applemusic: buff.ly/y5qIguF

🌊 How do seafloor activities like bottom trawling affect the ocean’s carbon cycle—and climate policy? 🎧 In our latest #PolicyPod, we speak with Southampton’s @profbenthos.bsky.social & Prof. Susan Gourvenec about the NERC-funded C-Floor project. 🔗 Listen: buff.ly/rldAJt3

Listen to our podcast on managing the shelf sea carbon cycle and greenhouse gas release from physical disturbance of the seafloor. open.spotify.com/episode/7zTm...

NEW PAPER - we add co-extinctions and co-compensation to our extinction models to establish plausible biodiversity-function trajectories across a climate change gradient.

Was great to have opportunity to present my perspectives on how biodiversity can contribute to ecosystem futures at @ulaval.ca Thank you to all that attended.

Biodiversity-function curves change from expectation when co-extinctions and co-compensatory responses are taken into account. See our *NEW PAPER* exploring these changes across an Arctic climatic gradient here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Finally somebody recognised what we do! 😂

Although assessing the extent and role of biogenic sediment mixing in the fossil record has been informed by knowledge of bioturbation in modern oceans, extrapolating concepts and quantifying proxies is problematic. We offer our perspectives in our new paper: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/sepm/palaios...

Excited….new bit of kit leaving USA right now to help in our quest to quantify bioturbation. What could it be? Answer to follow, add your guess in reply.

Fork lifting in the first few of our intact macrofaunal sediment communities ! Thanks team, great day, and plenty of exciting data to come for our NERC funded Ecowind project (ecological effects of offshore wind).

One way business can adjust is to carbon costing and control through activity-based emissions accounting. Read our report here: www.aicpa-cima.com/cpd-and-lear...

Must read out this week…

Great to make observations throughout an entire offshore wind farm to investigate the ecological effects of offshore wind expansion in our shelf seas. Fieldwork led by @krysiamazik.bsky.social and looking forward to receiving intact communities for follow-up lab experiments.

Eat. Sleep. Sieve. Repeat.

Launched our new NERC C-Floor project on the effects of bottom fishing, and other human activities on benthic carbon stocks with collaborators from @pml.ac.uk, @exetermarine.bsky.social, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social, and @noc.ac.uk, with policy and impact facilitated by @publicpolicyuos.bsky.social

Do you work on bioturbation? If yes, come join the conversation.

Nice summary of terrestrial bioturbation by some major groups below. Add to this marine bioturbation (see here for global map: www.cell.com/current-biol... and we soon realise that virtually all of the planet is reworked continuously by a diversity of fauna.

This is what we are measure! A worm & our sand used to measure burrowing. We link this to functioning on the seafloor. We're almost done! @exetermarine.bsky.social @profbenthos.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social @ulaval.ca @cezzalew.bsky.social @benthicbecky.bsky.social @omparrish.bsky.social

Listen to @benthicbecky.bsky.social speaking about our work, the role of benthic invertebrates on carbon cycling in Saguenay Fjord on CBC Quebec AM: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... @jagodbold.bsky.social @ap3489.bsky.social @omparrish.bsky.social @cezzalew.bsky.social @philarchambault.bsky.social

Love this title featuring our work in the Toronto Sun. I’ll take that as a compliment! torontosun.com/news/nationa...

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Delighted that our research in Saguenay fjord made it onto Canadian national news… @cezzalew.bsky.social @ap3489.bsky.social @philarchambault.bsky.social @benthicbecky.bsky.social @omparrish.bsky.social @jagodbold.bsky.social

Grabbing muddy bottoms in Saguenay Fjord 🌊 We haul mud from 250 m down, in each a world of hidden life. In the lab we learn how they keep the seabed healthy 💙 @exetermarine.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social @benthicbecky.bsky.social @profbenthos.bsky.social @cezzalew.bsky.social @ulaval.ca

Check out our research as featured on Canadian national news channel CTV at 15:56 mins… m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z4g...

Introducing Yorkshire pudding with cauliflower cheese and mashed potatoes to our colleagues from @ulaval.ca to keep us going through our fieldwork on Saguenay fjord!

The #ConvexSeascapeSurvey is in Canada! A collaboration between @ulaval.ca @exetermarine.bsky.social and @unisouthampton.bsky.social is investigating the role of animals that live in mud on the #seafloor in helping bury #BlueCarbon and keep our #climate healthy.

Thanks to the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (uqac.ca) for allowing us to set up our field ready mesocosm facility as part of our international collaboration between @ulaval.ca, @uniSouthampton.bsky.social and @exetermarine.bsky.social to work on the benthic communities of Saguenay fjord.

Great team at Fjord Marine made sampling Saguenay Fjord in Quebec possible - two experiments running in the lab. Working with colleagues from the University of Laval and @exetermarine.bsky.social to investigate how benthic communities modify carbon.

Heading north to start a field campaign in Saguenay fjord in Quebec with @philarchambault.bsky.social, @benthicbecky@bsky.social, @omparrish.bsky.social, @cezzalew.bsky.social, @ap3489.bsky.social looking at benthic faunal contributions to carbon.

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As someone who studies bioturbation, I like the sound of this town…

**WE ARE HIRING** Research fellow in seafloor imaging and data management - CLOSING DATE 17 February. Full details at: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

***New Paper*** We find that failure to embrace sources of inherent temporal and spatial dynamics in key trait-process-function relationships leads to less robust estimates of the ecological consequences of change. Read our findings here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...