Queen's University Belfast Pelagic Ecology Lab. Reader (Assoc. Prof) in Marine Biology. From jellyfish to sea turtles, sharks & ocean sunfish 🌍 🦈🛰🚢
Joined August 2018
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Jon Houghton retweeted
23 Sep 2025
Making a splash! 🌊QUB is ranked #1 in the UK and 14th globally for UN SDG 14: Life Below Water by @timeshighered — recognising the contribution of our staff, students & partners to marine sustainability 🐟🐢
#ImpactRankings #SDG14
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Jon Houghton retweeted
15 Jul 2024
Our new paper in Animal Biotelemetry shows acoustic telemetry's role in monitoring basking sharks, revealing cross-border connectivity, annual site fidelity, hotspots, and potential grouped movements @SEUPB @SeaMonitor1 @QUBelfast @EdinburghNapier shorturl.at/EvBCs
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15 Jan 2024
🚨New Publication in Marine Pollution Bulletin on sea turtles & underwater noise conducted under natural conditions in the Galápagos. Sea turtles increase their vigilance in the presence of vessel noise but do not undertake evasive behaviours. 🏝️🛥️🔊doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.…
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15 Jan 2024
Study led by Macarena Parra Díaz @Gal_SeaTurtles from @DarwinFound with @HansjoergKunc & @PelagicLabQUB from @QUBbioscience / @QueensMarineLab. Many thanks to the Galápagos National Park Directorate & Customized Animal Tracking Solutions for their invaluable support 📰👩💻👨🔧🏝️🛥️🔊
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Jon Houghton retweeted
2 Oct 2023
New Paper available through @ESR_IR. By combining ultrasound images with hormone analysis, we were able to investigate the reproductive traits of the #flapperskate (D. intermedius). This approach suggests females lay pairs of eggs over winter. bit.ly/3F0BCIz
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Jon Houghton retweeted
5 Aug 2023
What an amazing Open Day! Thanks to each person who took the time to come and visit us - we counted over 400 visits!!
We had waves, experiments, marine, freshwater and terrestrial animals, sea shanties & seaweed!
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Jon Houghton retweeted
26 Jul 2023
Basking sharks were considered to be ectothermic, we show they have regionally endothermic traits. This changes our understanding of the physiology of this species and might help improve distribution and population forecasting in future. bit.ly/esr_51_227
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Jon Houghton retweeted
20 Jul 2023
Basking sharks are what now?! New paper led by @haleydolton where we document regional endothermy in our favourite giant filter feeding sharky 🔥. Interesting implications for evolution and ecological advantages of regional endothermy; we thought it was only seen in apex 🦈&🐟1/3
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Jon Houghton retweeted
20 Jul 2023
Check out our new basking shark regional endothermy study over on the @newscientist! 🔥🦈 newscientist.com/article/238…
@nicklpayne @yodacomplex @PelagicLabQUB @strandings_man @TheSimsLab @Perkins16Matt @IrishResearch @TheFSBI @tcddublin @scienceirel
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Jon Houghton retweeted
21 Jul 2023
Hot shark summer! 🦈🔥Check out our video explaining the results from our new paper here:
youtu.be/uREQYNGQI6U
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Jon Houghton retweeted
27 Jun 2023
Its all about networking. Opportunity for emerging marine scientists and researchers to meet the community and make contacts. Let your students/postgrads know @MfrcATU @blueoceanpulse @uccBEES @EOS_NUIG @DrJoseMFarinas @NashRoisin @DrShmoo @PelagicLabQUB
26 Jun 2023
Register today and join us in celebrating 10 years of the #GalwayStatement
Click on the link below
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Jon Houghton retweeted
17 Jun 2023
One of the most severe marine heatwaves on Earth has developed off the coast of Ireland and the UK, with water temperatures as high as 4-5°C above normal.
NOAA's Marine Heatwave Watch has categorized this event as a Category 4 (extreme) marine heatwave.
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Jon Houghton retweeted
18 Apr 2023
A pair of otters observed mating right on our doorstep this last week. #strangfordlough is the gift that keeps on giving. 🐾🐚 #qml #europeanotter
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Jon Houghton retweeted
30 May 2023
SMART RV Bursaries! smartseaschool.com/call-open… Mentorship, skills & community. Next up Celtic Sea Herring & Groundfish surveys. @blueoceanpulse @MfrcATU @uccBEES @EOS_NUIG @PelagicLabQUB @RyanInstitute @marinescigalway @MarineInst @NashRoisin @AntoGrehan2 @UlsterUniGES RT Please!
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