Prof. Martin Solan
@profbenthos.bsky.social
A marine ecologist with interests in benthic biodiversity-environment interactions and the ecosystem consequences of altered biodiversity and environmental change.
Professor in Marine Ecology
University of Southampton, UK
Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Professor in Marine Ecology
University of Southampton, UK
Laval University, Quebec, Canada
*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/...
Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Explore our interactive portal: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
*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/...
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.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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
🎧 Listen now:
🔹 Podbean: buff.ly/CXH7A8f
🔹 Spotify: buff.ly/CPjQRQS
🔹 Applemusic: buff.ly/y5qIguF
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.
October 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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.
Finally somebody recognised what we do! 😂
October 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Finally somebody recognised what we do! 😂
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.
October 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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).
September 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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).
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.
September 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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.
September 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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
September 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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
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
@jagodbold.bsky.social
@ap3489.bsky.social
@omparrish.bsky.social
@cezzalew.bsky.social
@philarchambault.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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
@jagodbold.bsky.social
@ap3489.bsky.social
@omparrish.bsky.social
@cezzalew.bsky.social
@philarchambault.bsky.social
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
@cezzalew.bsky.social
@ap3489.bsky.social
@philarchambault.bsky.social
@benthicbecky.bsky.social
@omparrish.bsky.social
@jagodbold.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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
@cezzalew.bsky.social
@ap3489.bsky.social
@philarchambault.bsky.social
@benthicbecky.bsky.social
@omparrish.bsky.social
@jagodbold.bsky.social
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!
August 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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!
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.
August 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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.
August 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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, @[email protected], @omparrish.bsky.social, @cezzalew.bsky.social, @ap3489.bsky.social looking at benthic faunal contributions to carbon.
August 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Heading north to start a field campaign in Saguenay fjord in Quebec with @philarchambault.bsky.social, @[email protected], @omparrish.bsky.social, @cezzalew.bsky.social, @ap3489.bsky.social looking at benthic faunal contributions to carbon.
As someone who studies bioturbation, I like the sound of this town…
April 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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...
February 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
**WE ARE HIRING** Research fellow in seafloor imaging and data management - CLOSING DATE 17 February. Full details at: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
**PhD Fee waiver** Students from EU-Horizon countries no longer have to pay international fees @unisouthampton.bsky.social - equivalent to the difference between overseas and UK fees. If have benthic interests, let’s discuss. Eligibility info: Southampton.ac.uk/doctoral-college/eu-fee-waivers.page
December 18, 2024 at 5:03 PM
**PhD Fee waiver** Students from EU-Horizon countries no longer have to pay international fees @unisouthampton.bsky.social - equivalent to the difference between overseas and UK fees. If have benthic interests, let’s discuss. Eligibility info: Southampton.ac.uk/doctoral-college/eu-fee-waivers.page
Do you work on bioturbation? If yes, come join the conversation.
December 5, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Do you work on bioturbation? If yes, come join the conversation.
Just discovered Bluesky Roast, here’s what the algorithm says about me after my first week on BlueSky. I’ll take Benthic Crusader!! Get your roast summery here: blueskyroast.com
December 4, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Just discovered Bluesky Roast, here’s what the algorithm says about me after my first week on BlueSky. I’ll take Benthic Crusader!! Get your roast summery here: blueskyroast.com
Ever wondered whether marine protected areas substantially promote bioturbation, a process vital to the health of marine ecosystems? Find out in our recent paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social. View here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
December 4, 2024 at 1:46 AM
Ever wondered whether marine protected areas substantially promote bioturbation, a process vital to the health of marine ecosystems? Find out in our recent paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social. View here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
**NEW PAPER** Seeing #bioturbation in 3 dimensions - we combine 3D acoustics with a convolutional neural network to quantify species contributions to benthic ecosystems. Open access here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
December 4, 2024 at 1:24 AM
**NEW PAPER** Seeing #bioturbation in 3 dimensions - we combine 3D acoustics with a convolutional neural network to quantify species contributions to benthic ecosystems. Open access here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
**Fully funded PhDs** - places remain on our prestigious Black and Mixed Black Futures Scholarship Programme. If interested in benthic biodiversity and functioning, or if you are proficient in computer vision, let’s explore possibilities together. Details here: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
December 4, 2024 at 1:19 AM
**Fully funded PhDs** - places remain on our prestigious Black and Mixed Black Futures Scholarship Programme. If interested in benthic biodiversity and functioning, or if you are proficient in computer vision, let’s explore possibilities together. Details here: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
Bioturbation on the map - delighted to see a nice accessible summary of our work by @alisoncribb.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social, read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu.... We are working on a follow up, watch this space! In (A) bioturbation intensity, in (C) the mixed depth.
November 26, 2024 at 1:34 AM
Bioturbation on the map - delighted to see a nice accessible summary of our work by @alisoncribb.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social, read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu.... We are working on a follow up, watch this space! In (A) bioturbation intensity, in (C) the mixed depth.
**PhD opportunity** at the University of Southampton to better understand the impacts of multiple stressors on coastal habitat potential to provide long-term solutions to coastal protection and biodiversity. Collaboration with Natural England. Full details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 26, 2024 at 1:08 AM
**PhD opportunity** at the University of Southampton to better understand the impacts of multiple stressors on coastal habitat potential to provide long-term solutions to coastal protection and biodiversity. Collaboration with Natural England. Full details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...