Today I made a seminar for my latest GIS course (as a student) on terrain analyses. Thanks to Avakaza GIS technologies for the opportunity. Please check it out here:  

Today is the day – I am making a presentation asking the question How do Marine Heat Waves affect cold-water corals in the deep -sea? at the GeoHab habitat mapping conference in Arendal, Norway. And just now yesterday/today’s BBC news headlines show that ocean temperature has seen a record breaking year of heat every single day. My presentation and recent desktop study examines 28 years of data from the cold-water coral area(s) addressing this deep ocean knowledge gap. It highlights how important this issue is today and in future. More information can be found at the following links:

Today’s BBC article: https://lnkd.in/eWJppXV5

Seabed Habitats blog post:
https://lnkd.in/eET5zUhZ

Brand new Shiny App- where one can examine the key MHW events from 1993-2021 from the SEUS region: https://lnkd.in/eFruq7Z4

#MarineHeatWaves #ColdWaterCorals

This March, the Royal Society and the UK Hydrographic Office brought together many of the participants of the UK Centre for Seabed Mapping. As an Early Career Researcher, I had the opportunity to present a poster and make an oral presentation at the event. 

The Challenger Society for Marine Science -Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility (EDIA) Working Group have recently published an article in Oceanography, discussing numerous projects including FindAScienceBerth. Learn more at the link to the article in the Special Issue below:

https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2024.110

‘From Stem Cells to Stars: Poetry and Physics’ at Dublin Book Festival 2023

“जहाँ न पहुंचे रवि वहाँ पहुंचे कवि”- “jahaan na pahunche ravi vahaan pahunche kavi”- There’s a saying in Hindi: “Poets can reach where the Sun cannot reach”

The Institute of Physics Writer in Residence 2023, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan wrote three poems inspired by our conversation including “Release”- a poem about the emotions of a remotely operated vehicle- ROV!!!

More information and the pamphlet of poems entitled “Mapping the Depths of Us” at:

https://www.chandrika.ie/iop.html

The recording of this Dublin Book Festival event can be found below:

https://lnkd.in/ggaMNuRw

I just had the wonderful opportunity to participate in #OceanHackWeek 2023 working on a project on Benthic Habitat Mapping. This project built on my existing work on integrating sediment dynamics into habitat mapping approaches utilising national seabed mapping data from the Irish seabed mapping program INFOMAR. Existing workflow was heavily dependent on ArcGIS so the goal of this project was to transfer the workflow to open source tools in QGIS/JuypterLab and making the data suitable for machine learning libraries in Python.

Please view my presentation made about the project below: https://lnkd.in/enuzGE_r with the marine themed full song at the end made by our band The Confusion Dilemma available at: https://lnkd.in/eXKmEq-M