Ruth Thurstan
@ruththurstan.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Marine and Historical Ecology at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter | Chair of Oceans Past Initiative | #marine | #conservation | #sustainability | #fisheries | #shiftingbaselines | #history | #ExeterMarine
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Our latest newsletter is here 🐟
This month we're celebrating two decades of OPI, with special features & reflections from Prof. Cristina Brito and Prof. Daniel Pauly, plus lots more!
Keep up to date with current research in the field by joining our mailing list 👉 [email protected].
This month we're celebrating two decades of OPI, with special features & reflections from Prof. Cristina Brito and Prof. Daniel Pauly, plus lots more!
Keep up to date with current research in the field by joining our mailing list 👉 [email protected].
October 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Our latest newsletter is here 🐟
This month we're celebrating two decades of OPI, with special features & reflections from Prof. Cristina Brito and Prof. Daniel Pauly, plus lots more!
Keep up to date with current research in the field by joining our mailing list 👉 [email protected].
This month we're celebrating two decades of OPI, with special features & reflections from Prof. Cristina Brito and Prof. Daniel Pauly, plus lots more!
Keep up to date with current research in the field by joining our mailing list 👉 [email protected].
Call for Oceans Past XI abstracts is OPEN, come join us in Canada next June! Funding available on a competitive basis for early career researchers @icesmarine.bsky.social @oceanspast.bsky.social
Dear OPI community! We’re thrilled to announce that the Call for Abstracts and ECR Funding Award submissions are now open for the OPI XI Conference, hosted by the University of Victoria on beautiful Vancouver Island, Canada 🇨🇦, 15–19 June 2026!
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#marineecology #conference
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#marineecology #conference
Oceans Past XI: Abstract and Funding Award Submission
The Oceans Past Initiative connects scholars and practitioners interested in documenting and understanding changes in marine systems and human-ocean interactions in past decades, centuries and millenn...
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October 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Call for Oceans Past XI abstracts is OPEN, come join us in Canada next June! Funding available on a competitive basis for early career researchers @icesmarine.bsky.social @oceanspast.bsky.social
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First time I see the concept of shifting #baselines in a natural history #museum! Effective exhibit in the Naturhistorisk museum at the University of #Oslo.
August 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
First time I see the concept of shifting #baselines in a natural history #museum! Effective exhibit in the Naturhistorisk museum at the University of #Oslo.
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Just out! 10-yr labour of love exploring how Plymouth’s coastline transformed over centuries by land reclamation & how changes are often forgotten.
Shout out to incredible crack team: historians, geologists, remote sensors, archaeologists, artists, ecologists🧠🌍🎨 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Shout out to incredible crack team: historians, geologists, remote sensors, archaeologists, artists, ecologists🧠🌍🎨 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
July 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Just out! 10-yr labour of love exploring how Plymouth’s coastline transformed over centuries by land reclamation & how changes are often forgotten.
Shout out to incredible crack team: historians, geologists, remote sensors, archaeologists, artists, ecologists🧠🌍🎨 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Shout out to incredible crack team: historians, geologists, remote sensors, archaeologists, artists, ecologists🧠🌍🎨 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
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Atlantic Bluefin tuna are back in UK waters, but we still don’t exactly know what they are eating.
Support crucial marine research to help uncover the secrets of their diet and secure their future.
To find out more: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/atlantic-b...
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Support crucial marine research to help uncover the secrets of their diet and secure their future.
To find out more: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/atlantic-b...
🦑🧪🌍🐟🎣🦤🌊
July 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Atlantic Bluefin tuna are back in UK waters, but we still don’t exactly know what they are eating.
Support crucial marine research to help uncover the secrets of their diet and secure their future.
To find out more: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/atlantic-b...
🦑🧪🌍🐟🎣🦤🌊
Support crucial marine research to help uncover the secrets of their diet and secure their future.
To find out more: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/atlantic-b...
🦑🧪🌍🐟🎣🦤🌊
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We are pleased to invite you to the Oceans Past XI Conference!
Taking place between 15-19 June 2026 at the University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada (www.uvic.ca)
Abstract submissions open early Autumn 2025; stay tuned for updates!
More info: oceanspast.org/conferences/...
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Taking place between 15-19 June 2026 at the University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada (www.uvic.ca)
Abstract submissions open early Autumn 2025; stay tuned for updates!
More info: oceanspast.org/conferences/...
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July 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
We are pleased to invite you to the Oceans Past XI Conference!
Taking place between 15-19 June 2026 at the University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada (www.uvic.ca)
Abstract submissions open early Autumn 2025; stay tuned for updates!
More info: oceanspast.org/conferences/...
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Taking place between 15-19 June 2026 at the University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada (www.uvic.ca)
Abstract submissions open early Autumn 2025; stay tuned for updates!
More info: oceanspast.org/conferences/...
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🐚 Out today “Shifting Seas – Understanding Deep-Time Human Impacts on Marine Ecosystems.” 🌊
A theme issue asking how, when, and where humans have impacted oceans over millennia.
🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0026
🧶 below on how it came to life!...
A theme issue asking how, when, and where humans have impacted oceans over millennia.
🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0026
🧶 below on how it came to life!...
Shifting seas: understanding deep-time human impacts on marine ecosystems | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Humans have interacted with, and impacted, marine ecosystems for millennia. During this time, the oceans have experienced ecosystem degradation through harvesting, habitat change, pollution, the introduction of invasive species and climate change. Despite ...
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July 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🐚 Out today “Shifting Seas – Understanding Deep-Time Human Impacts on Marine Ecosystems.” 🌊
A theme issue asking how, when, and where humans have impacted oceans over millennia.
🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0026
🧶 below on how it came to life!...
A theme issue asking how, when, and where humans have impacted oceans over millennia.
🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0026
🧶 below on how it came to life!...
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The importance of #History in understanding the marine environment and environmental change theconversation.com/what-a-19th-... #heritage #marine #fishing #ecosystems #conservation @ruththurstan.bsky.social
What a 19th-century atlas teaches me about marine ecosystems
Historical maps and records from across Europe show just how much oyster beds and other marine habitats have changed over the centuries.
theconversation.com
June 30, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The importance of #History in understanding the marine environment and environmental change theconversation.com/what-a-19th-... #heritage #marine #fishing #ecosystems #conservation @ruththurstan.bsky.social
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Nice article on marine historical ecology by @ruththurstan.bsky.social
Nice article on marine historical ecology by @ruththurstan.bsky.social
What a 19th-century atlas teaches me about marine ecosystems
Historical maps and records from across Europe show just how much oyster beds and other marine habitats have changed over the centuries.
theconversation.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
theconversation.com/what-a-19th-...
Nice article on marine historical ecology by @ruththurstan.bsky.social
Nice article on marine historical ecology by @ruththurstan.bsky.social
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New #OA paper on SEASCAPE CONNECTIVITY: Evidence, knowledge gaps and implications for temperate coastal ecosystem restoration practice and policy. Check it out! nature.com/articles/s44...
June 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
New #OA paper on SEASCAPE CONNECTIVITY: Evidence, knowledge gaps and implications for temperate coastal ecosystem restoration practice and policy. Check it out! nature.com/articles/s44...
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My co-chair François Houllier and I are delighted with this resounding success, after 2 years of preparation and many hurdles to overcome.
The recommendations will be presented to Heads of State and Governments tomorrow, the day before #UNOC starts.
#OOSC #ScienceForTheOcean
The recommendations will be presented to Heads of State and Governments tomorrow, the day before #UNOC starts.
#OOSC #ScienceForTheOcean
June 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
My co-chair François Houllier and I are delighted with this resounding success, after 2 years of preparation and many hurdles to overcome.
The recommendations will be presented to Heads of State and Governments tomorrow, the day before #UNOC starts.
#OOSC #ScienceForTheOcean
The recommendations will be presented to Heads of State and Governments tomorrow, the day before #UNOC starts.
#OOSC #ScienceForTheOcean
Happy World #Ocean Day all! After spending an inspiring week at the One Ocean Congress in Nice, I am remembering one of my favourite ocean encounters, which occurred in my home waters of the U.K., in #Cornwall. Showing that British seas host big critters too! #OOSC #shark @exetermarine.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Happy World #Ocean Day all! After spending an inspiring week at the One Ocean Congress in Nice, I am remembering one of my favourite ocean encounters, which occurred in my home waters of the U.K., in #Cornwall. Showing that British seas host big critters too! #OOSC #shark @exetermarine.bsky.social
Fantastic talk by @ciaranmc.bsky.social on the big stage at #OOSC! Showcasing his ongoing Convex Seascape Survey research mapping historical trawling expansion and associated seabed disturbance @exetermarine.bsky.social @profcallum.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Fantastic talk by @ciaranmc.bsky.social on the big stage at #OOSC! Showcasing his ongoing Convex Seascape Survey research mapping historical trawling expansion and associated seabed disturbance @exetermarine.bsky.social @profcallum.bsky.social
Fantastic to see work from the Convex Seascape Survey team presented at the UN One Ocean Science Congress #OOSC by @profcallum.bsky.social! Great progress being made in our understanding of continental shelf blue carbon stores @exetermarine.bsky.social @bluemarinef.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Fantastic to see work from the Convex Seascape Survey team presented at the UN One Ocean Science Congress #OOSC by @profcallum.bsky.social! Great progress being made in our understanding of continental shelf blue carbon stores @exetermarine.bsky.social @bluemarinef.bsky.social
Made it to beautiful Nice for the #UN One #Ocean Science Congress. I’ll be at the poster session over the next three evenings so please come have a chat! You can find me at Poster 310 #historicalecology #oyster #seabed #convex @profcallum.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Made it to beautiful Nice for the #UN One #Ocean Science Congress. I’ll be at the poster session over the next three evenings so please come have a chat! You can find me at Poster 310 #historicalecology #oyster #seabed #convex @profcallum.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social
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New paper out this week 📣
Authors detail 120 years of the UK's reach for seafood, revealing a rapid growth of dependence on global fisheries. By the 21st century, imports tripled 20th-century levels, with seafood travelling over 30% farther. 🐟
🔗 Link to read: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Authors detail 120 years of the UK's reach for seafood, revealing a rapid growth of dependence on global fisheries. By the 21st century, imports tripled 20th-century levels, with seafood travelling over 30% farther. 🐟
🔗 Link to read: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
April 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
New paper out this week 📣
Authors detail 120 years of the UK's reach for seafood, revealing a rapid growth of dependence on global fisheries. By the 21st century, imports tripled 20th-century levels, with seafood travelling over 30% farther. 🐟
🔗 Link to read: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Authors detail 120 years of the UK's reach for seafood, revealing a rapid growth of dependence on global fisheries. By the 21st century, imports tripled 20th-century levels, with seafood travelling over 30% farther. 🐟
🔗 Link to read: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Multiple PhD opportunities available jointly with @exeter.ac.uk and University of Queensland (QUEX Institute) - For more details and how to apply see tinyurl.com/bwzntmfr. Deadline 15 May
QUEX PhD Scholarship
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April 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Multiple PhD opportunities available jointly with @exeter.ac.uk and University of Queensland (QUEX Institute) - For more details and how to apply see tinyurl.com/bwzntmfr. Deadline 15 May
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New international PhD scholarship jointly at universities of Queensland and Exeter (UK) on coral reef MPAs. Natural and social science.
Feel free to reach out. tinyurl.com/bwzntmfr
Feel free to reach out. tinyurl.com/bwzntmfr
April 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
New international PhD scholarship jointly at universities of Queensland and Exeter (UK) on coral reef MPAs. Natural and social science.
Feel free to reach out. tinyurl.com/bwzntmfr
Feel free to reach out. tinyurl.com/bwzntmfr
The @exeter.ac.uk #Cornwall campus is looking beautiful this #spring! Lovely to see a few of my colleagues @uniexecec.bsky.social who were also out and about appreciating the sunshine and spring blooms 😁
March 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The @exeter.ac.uk #Cornwall campus is looking beautiful this #spring! Lovely to see a few of my colleagues @uniexecec.bsky.social who were also out and about appreciating the sunshine and spring blooms 😁
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Interested in Marine Megafauna, Fishers ecological knowledge or Data Deficient IUCN red list species?
Please check out this piece documenting the exploitation history of the largest reef fish in the eastern Pacific Ocean (Pacific Goliath Groupers) in Panama
doi.org/10.1002/aqc....
Please check out this piece documenting the exploitation history of the largest reef fish in the eastern Pacific Ocean (Pacific Goliath Groupers) in Panama
doi.org/10.1002/aqc....
December 13, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Interested in Marine Megafauna, Fishers ecological knowledge or Data Deficient IUCN red list species?
Please check out this piece documenting the exploitation history of the largest reef fish in the eastern Pacific Ocean (Pacific Goliath Groupers) in Panama
doi.org/10.1002/aqc....
Please check out this piece documenting the exploitation history of the largest reef fish in the eastern Pacific Ocean (Pacific Goliath Groupers) in Panama
doi.org/10.1002/aqc....
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Artists use @exeter.ac.uk SEACHANGE project’s environmental DNA data to create speculative sculptures of new species, and new historical data provides valuable information on lost European flat oyster ecosystems! 🐚🐟
Read the full news article - cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4...
🦑🌐🧪🌍🦤🌊
Read the full news article - cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4...
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February 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Artists use @exeter.ac.uk SEACHANGE project’s environmental DNA data to create speculative sculptures of new species, and new historical data provides valuable information on lost European flat oyster ecosystems! 🐚🐟
Read the full news article - cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4...
🦑🌐🧪🌍🦤🌊
Read the full news article - cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4...
🦑🌐🧪🌍🦤🌊
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
We are so proud to have many incredible women working across disciplines as part of Exeter Marine. 🩵
🦑🦤🌎🌐🧪🤿🌊
#WomeninSTEM #PhDSky #AcademicSky
We are so proud to have many incredible women working across disciplines as part of Exeter Marine. 🩵
🦑🦤🌎🌐🧪🤿🌊
#WomeninSTEM #PhDSky #AcademicSky
February 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
We are so proud to have many incredible women working across disciplines as part of Exeter Marine. 🩵
🦑🦤🌎🌐🧪🤿🌊
#WomeninSTEM #PhDSky #AcademicSky
We are so proud to have many incredible women working across disciplines as part of Exeter Marine. 🩵
🦑🦤🌎🌐🧪🤿🌊
#WomeninSTEM #PhDSky #AcademicSky
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You asked, we listened.
UK-based early/mid level marine roles, hand-picked for our community.
Screenshot your favourite or save this post for later!
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UK-based early/mid level marine roles, hand-picked for our community.
Screenshot your favourite or save this post for later!
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February 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
You asked, we listened.
UK-based early/mid level marine roles, hand-picked for our community.
Screenshot your favourite or save this post for later!
🦑🌊🌐🌍🐟🦤
UK-based early/mid level marine roles, hand-picked for our community.
Screenshot your favourite or save this post for later!
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Our recent work to uncover the former extent of Europe's forgotten oyster reefs is covered in @uk.theconversation.com today!
theconversation.com/oysters-once...
Gathering historical evidence is key to raising ambitions to restore our seas and recover vital habitats @exetermarine.bsky.social
theconversation.com/oysters-once...
Gathering historical evidence is key to raising ambitions to restore our seas and recover vital habitats @exetermarine.bsky.social
Oysters once crowded Europe’s coast – here’s how we discovered these long-forgotten reefs
Historical records describe a very different seafloor to the ones we see today.
theconversation.com
January 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Our recent work to uncover the former extent of Europe's forgotten oyster reefs is covered in @uk.theconversation.com today!
theconversation.com/oysters-once...
Gathering historical evidence is key to raising ambitions to restore our seas and recover vital habitats @exetermarine.bsky.social
theconversation.com/oysters-once...
Gathering historical evidence is key to raising ambitions to restore our seas and recover vital habitats @exetermarine.bsky.social