Madeleine Abbott

There is at least one sunflower sea star in California! Watch the video to see it causing an 'urchin stampede'! it also looks like it has an urchin or two in it's stomach - see the lumps!? This is such a big deal! #helpthekelp #sunflowerseastar @Conserve_CA @oregonkelp

Our amazing @PiscoScience field team has surveyed ochre stars at 5 Oregon sites this week, and I’m happy to say there are about a ‘metric butt ton’ (official SI unit) out there! We’re on the road to a robust recovery from sea star wasting! @mad_abbott @BrennaRothman @meggafauna

Here, #intern Miranda Andersen illustrates one of @SERCinvasions' creative hacks. When preserving marine organisms on settlement plates in the field, they wrap them in pantyhose & soak them in ethanol. Pantyhose are ideal wrappers: Ethanol can get in, but critters can’t get out.

@therainbowbee @RobertCMahon You could try uline, I’ve had some luck there for specific/weird jar sizes

Kea is a wonderful artist and a wonderful human! She was one of the students in the Bamfield bus accident and is now having a hard time tidepooling & exploring because of lasting impacts. Help her get an all-terrain wheelchair so she can go find (& illustrate!) more nudis! 💙

.@sandraemry has been studying the impact of heat waves on rockweed. On June 28, her thermal-imaging camera showed the temperature nearing 125°. Over the course of a four-day heat wave, dense beds of rockweed died. “The stench was awful." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… @ZoologyUBC

More thoughts on the how the #HeatWave2021 influenced marine life in the Salish Sea from my conversation on the BBC open.spotify.com/episode/6SA10v…

“Walking out on the shore, the first thing that I noticed was the smell,” said @ZoologyUBC marine biologist Chris Harley on studying the die-offs in the tidal zone of B.C. beaches following a record-breaking heat wave. #ExtremeHeat nationalobserver.com/2021/07/08/new…

Still processing my first run in with the police... I've been doing a lot of cicada interviews & with national news outlets contacting me, I thought I should have some live ones onhand. So I was delighted when my cousin called panicking about the "swarm" on the side of her home.

@franzanth METHODS Identifications were purely vibe-based, but [technology] was used to support vibe accuracy.

Pertusaria pertusa looking just like the Kodama from Princess Mononoke; both the lichen and the spirits are signs of a healthy forest.

Shifting back to #GrumpyCrab theme for #Crustmas day 18: the rough shellback crab, Hypochoncha parasitica. I guess this would be my expression too if I had to lug a mollusc shell Atlas-like with me everywhere. Seriously, tho, these crabs are adorable. #25DaysofCrustmas #1001jars

Here's that parasitic crustacean again with another photo showing it inside a dissected sea-star host. Image from here: zenodo.org/record/3751654…

Groundbreaking study from @OregonState, @Conserve_CA, @HakaiInstitute and over 66 partner institutions finds the sunflower sea star to be Critically Endangered by the @IUCNREDList

I like a bryozoan with a short zooid and a loooöng peduncle

@AndersenFields @sea_en_emily @theRedShrimp @TrematodeSquad Thank you both!! And yes loving all the parasite representation at #WSN2020

@theRedShrimp Yes!! (Although it’s likely an undescribed one) Btw- Loved your WSN talk! Really cool findings and beautiful artwork!

An isopod parasitizing a rhizocephalan that is parastizing a hermit crab. An example of hyperparasitism!

Happy #SeaSlugDay! I will never get over the fact that these cute floppy hooded nudibranchs smell exactly like watermelon jolly ranchers.