Dr Luke Helmer

Extremely excited that the European Native #Oyster Habitat Restoration Handbook is being launched today at the #NORA3 online conference 😁 Feel very privileged to have been a part of an amazing editorial and wider team working on this! #OceanOptimism #oysterlove 🦪 #scicomm

New Paper!! Proud moment getting my first, first author paper out there, thanks to my amazing @UoPPlastics team, especially @NiemLaura @keiron_roberts @DrSFletcher @StevenKator & Serena. We did it! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🚨Apply for a #PhD 🧑🏾‍🎓Link upstream #WaterQuality with downstream #CoastalHabitat restoration -#Seagrass, #Oysters, #Saltmarsh & their #EcosystemServices through wholescape systems thinking across the land-sea interface. @PlymUni @CDT_SuMMeR Partnered with @TheCrownEstate

Research Fellow in Marine Restoration Ecology (Biodiversity, Carbon, and Nutrients) at University of Portsmouth jobs.ac.uk/job/CVV488/res…

Senior Research Associate in Marine Restoration Ecology (Fish Ecology and Habitat Interactions) at University of Portsmouth jobs.ac.uk/job/CVV541/sen…

2x Fantastic #Marine #Ecology #postdoc to research #connectivity and ecosystem services of temperate coastal habitats working @UoPScience on the #Solent #Seascape Project #Bluecarbon Jobs.ac.uk Research Fellow & Senior Res Associate bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan… Retweet🙏

A new partnership to restore life to the Solent’s seascape has been announced! Blue Marine and nine other organisations have secured a $5million grant from @EndangeredLands to reconnect some of the Solent’s most threatened and fragmented marine habitats. 👉bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

We're hiring! Blue Marine is looking for two new positions to help with our restoration projects in the Solent! 💻 Solent Seascape Project Coordinator 🦪 Solent Oyster Restoration Project Officer Find out more and apply today: bluemarinefoundation.com/contact/

We are bringing together world experts on #marine #coastal #habitat #connectivity and #ecology to bridge science to policy and practice for #seascape #restoration. Check out our programme: bit.ly/3Qa8DoG. Sign up #kelp #saltmarsh #seagrass #oysters. Please RT & share.

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More exciting #BRUV footage from @solentnative #NativeOyster reef. Just 10 minutes has #crabs, #scallops, and juvenile #bream, #bass and #cuttlefish! 🦪🦀🐠🐟🦑 @UoPMarineBiol

It’s oyster paper day... Today we see the release of more articles on genetics and genomics of the European native oyster... keep scrolling to find out more... 🦪🧬 @RossHouston @ChantelleHooper @manukg91 @NORA_Europe @roslininstitute

Exiting seeing shoals of juvenile bass 🐟, gobies 🐟 and crabs 🦀 at the river Hamble @solentnative restoration site 🦪🌊

Great week down at @portsmouthuni collecting samples at @solentnative! Haul included water & mud for #eDNA, plankton, crabs and oysters. Aim to see how the native oysters are doing, how these little ecosystem engineers are changing the biodiversity, and checking for disease. 1/2

NEW PAPER OUT 🥳🥳🥳 Great team effort! Open access: Genome-Wide Association and Genomic Prediction of Growth Traits in the European Flat Oyster (Ostrea edulis) frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

What better way to start the week then 800 plus elvers in our elver trap on the river #GreatOuse near Needingworth in #Cambridgeshire We also had a local photographer with us taking pictures of this iconic #Fenland species. @EelGroup @fenshour @Fen_SCENE @thefensmag

Cuttlefish blennies and huge crabs spotted in #BRUV footage from Langstone harbour @solentnative oyster reef monitoring!!🦑🦀🐟

Simple demonstration of seagrass drawing down carbon dioxide. Left- start at 393 ppm, slightly below the atmospheric mean. Right - after 5 min enclosure with transparent box - 241 ppm. Bare sediment control - no change in pCO2.

1st batch of roughly 50.000 native oysters seeds ready for transfer to experimental farming locations in Sardinia. We are all very proud of this first result! @NORA_Europe

#BRUV units ready to go out this afternoon and monitor #fish on the @solentnative #oyster reef 🤞🐟🦈

Excited to share that we got funding to restore a large area of seagrass near Adelaide! 🌊🐟🦈🦐 Seagrasses take up lots of #BlueCarbon - a nature based solution to climate change 🌱. They’re also very important marine habitats: bit.ly/3Ot6XGS #Restoration #ClimateAction