🇦🇺🇳🇴🏴 beer drinking quantitative marine predator ecologist. Likes cold places and working with smart people. ONLY smart people.
Tromsø, Norway
Joined July 2017
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Andy Lowther retweeted
Antártica📍🇦🇶 Para hablar de su labor en terreno monitoreando y tomando muestras en colonias de pingüino ❄️el Dr. Andrew Lowther del Instituto Polar Noruego presenta sobre su trabajo junto a la Dra. Fabiola León @MilenioBASE en isla Petermann
There are days when you need #Antarctica to just step up to the plate.
New Years Eve on Petermann Island, it delivered. Nothing like fresh snow, whale blow and fresh coffee to start the last day of the year.
Andy Lowther retweeted
Ukrainian scientists from the Vernadsky Research Base in Antarctica just released incredible underwater footage — filmed by a penguin.
Using a GPS tracker and a tiny camera safely attached to its back, they captured how these subantarctic penguins dive, hunt krill, release air from under their feathers for hydrodynamic gliding, and flap their wings underwater like birds in flight.
The video is totally real, with no speed-up. It also shows how penguins preen mid-swim — a behavior vital for insulation and speed.
This research, in partnership with Norway’s Polar Institute, helps validate GPS data and supports efforts to protect Antarctic marine ecosystems. 🐧🌊
📹 Ukraine's National Antarctic Scientific Center
Andy Lowther retweeted
🚨 new paper🚨 led by Stefan Schoombie using deep-learning to quantify krill 🦐 consumption in chinstrap penguins 🐧 from video, acceleration and depth data. Invaluable data and insights for ecosystem-based management policies! royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
Andy Lowther retweeted
📢Job alert! I'm looking for a POSTDOC IN ANIMAL (FISH) ECOPHYSIOLOGY to join my research group at DTU Aqua (@DTUtweet) in Denmark. Focus is on understanding variation in how steeply metabolic rate changes (scales) with body size. PLEASE REPOST! More info: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/…
Me in bed this morning: «What the hell is that crunching sound just outside my window ??»
Source of crunching sound: «Dont mind us, just doing our thing»
Momma-moose and her mooselet making use of my back yard.
Morning from Tromsø. Balmy -21C in mid «Autumn», 27 degrees warmer in the water though :) Maverick found it a shock….
Andy Lowther retweeted
Hot off the press! We have just advertised a permanent full-time position on the AIMS Website: aims.gov.au/about/careers-ai… if you have experience and passion in threatened marine megafauna ecology and want to work with a committed, dynamic and fun team then check it out!
Thansk Hobart, been a blast. New Chair, many/few/some/more-than-not-a-lot of old and new problems. Men vi kjøre foran with #CCAMLR work in harmony next July. See y’all then 😊
Andy Lowther retweeted
The Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean: Summary for Policymakers is out now
The assessment provides a timely update of scientific finding on the changes in the ecosystems of the Southern Ocean. #MEASO
Download it here:
zenodo.org/records/8359585
Andy Lowther retweeted
What is #CCAMLR, #ATCM, #ACAP ?? 🤷♀️
Need a beginners guide to the #AntarcticTreaty?? 🇦🇶
Me too! That's why we've put together a practical introduction to the #Antarctic science-policy interface!
Check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/S09541020230…
@Ant_Sci_Ltd @BAS_News @Seal_Botherer
Andy Lowther retweeted
Very excited to announce a new funded #PhD opportunity at @GeosciencesEd @EdinburghUni with @ocean_voices! Applications invited now for student-led proposals around #OceanGovernance, challenges & solutions. Domestic and international candidates welcome! ed.ac.uk/geosciences/study/d…
Planes, planes……always with the planes. Next stop the Independent Nation of #WesternAustralia then onwards into the ”real” Australia, out to Hobart and……#CCAMLR. See y’all there. Wonder whats gonna go down this year ?
