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Anita Gilles
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Marine mammal scientist, works at TiHo-ITAW (Buesum, Germany), coordinator of SCANS-IV; https://www.tiho-hannover.de/en/itaw/beschaeftigte/beschaeftigte-buesum/anita-gilles
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New @jappliedecology.bsky.social paper: SMRU researchers @mattidcarter.bsky.social & @djfrussell.bsky.social led a large collaborative team to map the distribution of grey and harbour seals at sea across the Northwest European Shelf 🦭 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
At‐sea distribution of seals on the Northwest European Shelf: Towards transboundary conservation and management
This study provides the first comprehensive, regionally scalable distribution estimates for pinnipeds across the NWES and its constituent countries. The modelling framework is adaptable to other cent....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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🚀 Just launched: SealMAP

A web application for exploring the latest seal distribution maps for Scotland that I’ve been working on for @seamammalresearch.bsky.social is now live!

🛠️ Built with shiny.posit.co
🌐 Try it here: arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/shiny/smru/s...

#WebDev #Launch #SMRU #Shiny
June 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
anitagilles.bsky.social
Hot off the press! 📣 🐳 🐬
Very pleased to announce publication of the 2nd major report from the SCANS-IV project, on predictive habitat-based models of cetacean density.

Please check out our project website for downloads:
www.tiho-hannover.de/en/clinics-i...
SCANS-IV survey
www.tiho-hannover.de
May 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Check out our new paper on how vessel noise is impacting harbour seal behaviour! #SATURNH2020 #ITAW #TIHO
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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New paper! catch up with our recent work on #harbourporpoise diet in the North Sea. hard part analysis, stable isotope analysis and metabarcoding applied on the same individuals.
meps-ir.bsky.social Marine Ecology Progress Series @meps-ir.bsky.social · Mar 6
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Multi-method approach for #HarbourPorpoise diet reveals long- and short-term dietary differences in individuals in the southern North Sea.
bit.ly/meps_755_115
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Photo of partially submerged harbour porpoise (centre) overlaid with a graphic. Along the top, diet gradient from short-term to long-term. Left, under short-term, stomach content analyses. Lower right, under long-term, metabarcoding. Upper right, beyond long-term, stable isotope analysis.
March 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
alerigolon.bsky.social Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · Feb 6
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
1. Climate change 2. Greenhouse gas emissions 3. Emissions 4. Racial equity 5. Gender identity 6. Diversity, equity and inclusion 7. Environmental justice 8. Justice40 initiative
February 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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SMRU researchers are appealing for the public to help us understand why UK Harbour seals are in steep decline news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/st-a...
January 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM