Bryan Kennedy

#trout in a trickle

Colemans Shallows Lough Conn

@NeilReid81 @YvonneMcElarney @dannymoore_ni pretty much apparent anually in some turloughs & lakes, or at specific shorelines. But ad-hoc also and perhaps variability in all factors are important: lake level & rate of fall, temperature, irradiance, extent of spring algal bloom, nutrient level, rainfall extent etc.

@NeilReid81 @dannymoore_ni currently widespread in many productive - calcareous loughs, following spring periphyton blooms and high water levels receding and the shorelines re-emerging. Becomes less conspicuous after a few showers of rain.

In 2018 PMP was established due to concerns around land-use pressures on conservation of freshwater pearl mussel. The 5 year project ended Dec 2023. PMP have produced: Overview of the Pearl Mussel Project 2018-2023 detailing projects main results. Get it: pmproject.ie/resources/publ…

a plague of Roach & Microcystis in this lough as a consequence of phosphorus enrichment

@FreshwaterIzzy can be both - while iron seepages and ochre deposits are often natural, they can also be exacerbated by mining, drainage, and climate pressures etc.

Question from a citizen scientist: What’s this orange runoff? My initial thoughts are iron leaching. The area has known coal and iron deposits, which have been quarried for centuries. Question: If I’m right, is this leaching natural or anthropogenic (exacerbated by quarrying)?

Date for your Diary: Fri 19 April at 12 Noon, AFBI will be holding a Webinar - Lough Neagh: Past, Present and Future. What AFBI's long-term research tells us about changes in Lough Neagh in recent decades. Registration now open bit.ly/4aSjDlg #AFBIScience #AFBIResearch

Lough Corrib #trout

Did you know there are more than 100 different bee species in Ireland, but only one that makes honey? The Murmur of Bees/Crónán na mBeach is a new exhibition at the NMI – Country Life, Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co Mayo runs to summer 2025. #Entomology museum.ie/.../Exhibition…

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Back to back Six Nations Champions! 🏆 #TeamOfUs

A year ago today we launched #PlantAtlas2020: the most in-depth survey ever undertaken of the British & Irish flora. Website free to browse for info on 3,495 wild plant species: plantatlas2020.org Book published by @PrincetonNature Find out more: bsbi.org/plant-atlas-20…

Ingrid Jüttner of @AmgueddfaCymru, David Williams & Bart Van de Vijver working on the William Smith collection @NHM_London for the Diatom Flora of Britain and Ireland project, funded by the British Phycological Society @bps_algae naturalhistory.museumwales.ac.uk/diatoms/Home.p…

the horror

'In a country like Ireland we had a child die from a water-borne infection’ – 40% of private wells contaminated, scientists warn. "half the population of rural Ireland could be affected" “There is no State monitoring & little to no State regulation" independent.ie/farming/rural-…

@gerrymcveigh a fascinating lough & story - monitoring agencies have done an excellent job reporting scientifically on its trajectory of recovery from anthropogenic acidification impacts.

Blue Lough living up to its name with Slieve Lamagan and Slieve Donard behind #Mournes

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UPCOMING WEBINAR (tomorrow!) Tuesday February 13, 2024 10AM (mountain time, US and Canada) 12PM (eastern time, US and Canada) 18:00 Central European Time Rosalina Stancheva Christova, George Mason University Cocconeis and its mysteries Zoom link here: diatoms.org/news/diatom-we…

Did you attend yesterday's #entoLIVE webinar with Buglife Conservation Director @bugsymac1? 🧑‍🏫Craig was talking #leeches: life history & identification. 👀Catch up or watch again (watch time 00:57:48) 👇 youtu.be/QSOWIJ8eMaY?si… . . #BuglifeScotland #LearnLoveShare #Leech

@pbhbos absolutely and composted also in a suitable location taking account of invasives etc.

@encyonopsis @deirdredidit If you would harvest these balls, you would take a way nutrients, instead of them leaching back into the lake while breaking down.

terracing of lake balls (Aegagropila linnaei) left stranded on the windward shore as winter levels recede in Lough Cullin, Co. Mayo #algae

@deirdredidit 'too much of a good thing', indicative of enrichment, but some observations & metrics also point to improving quality in L. Cullin, although not there yet; check out data here catchments.ie wfdfish.ie

@encyonopsis Is this a good/ bad/ neither reflection of the health of the lake?