Aquatic ecologist @JamesHuttonInst | Dee Catchment Partnership manager @deecatchment #RestorationEcology #ScienceCommuniation

Joined January 2013
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The #EasterBeltie pollinator gateway is off to a flying start! 🐝 🕷️ 🐛 🪲 🐜 🦋
Making a buzz! 400 native wildflower plugs planted today at #easterbeltie, with a few 1000 more in the next few weeks before it gets too ☀️ plus thorny shrubs and fruit trees to follow. 🙏 John Malster (Curam Fyvie) @NEScotlandLBAP @Aberdeenshire @habitat_people Phoebe Pattullo
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Utterly blown away that our film with @ScotlandTBP ‘The Beltie Burn: A River Restored’ youtu.be/tWCQVU4_UvQ?si=qclC… has 75,632 👀, 2.5k 👍 and 101 😀comments. Thank you viewers, commenters and likers - means a lot! #riverrestoration #naturecomeback
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Kicking off today! Citizen scientists on #riverdee are trained, kitted out and ready to sample. Thanks to #buglifescotland @BeckL76388162 for fantastic training & support. To @Aberdeenshire for funding the kit. And most of all, to all the volunteers collecting invaluable data 🙏
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What makes a great @Riverflies site? Learning from the best today @BeckL76388162 @Buzz_dont_tweet
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Thank you @NatureofScot award-winning @UryRiverPark for an inspiring day. Integrating wild nature, on a floodplain, in a town, with lots of visitors is no mean feat and you’re pulling it off brilliantly. Definitely a USP for @invbizco
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Susan Cooksley retweeted
Can we restore the vital interactions between river species for the survival of our declining wild salmon? Watch 'The Role of Wildlife' from the Creating #Riverwoods series: youtu.be/JK-55MMPojg @ScotWildlife @BuglifeScotland
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Thank you @DrUisge for the opportunity to talk to the @EdinburghNapier ‘management of aquatic protected areas’ Masters students about our river restoration research yesterday. Was it only last week we were sampling in the sun with @GBEcoScience?
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‘Canada's Wild Forests’ with award-winning Canadian conservation photographer @photogGarth was absolutely worth the four hour round trip in sub-zero fog. Thanks @ScotlandTBP @CNPnature for putting on another fantastic @boatofgarten talk. Check out garthlenz.com
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Who wouldn’t love to find trails that are ‘beaver-belly shaped’?
If you read one thing on twitter today, make it this. Brilliant. relay.nationalgeographic.com…
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A big shout out to team #DeeWatch including Deeside’s rangers @MarLodgeNTS @nature_scot @Aberdeenshire @SNHnortheast @AberdeenCC plus @NEScotlandLBAP @JamesHuttonInst @RiverDeeTeam all expertly pulled together by @SallyWallis79 - thanks all!
Today we launched #DeeWatch - a monthly nature diary from the Dee catchment. It’s packed with information on what’s been spotted and what to look out for, and gives lots of expert tips for watching wildlife on #Deeside deepartnership.org Photo: Darren Dawson
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Hadn’t heard of but now keen to read new graphic novel from @bryan_talbot & @EyeDotter tackling ‘the here and now of the environmental degradation that threatens us all ... pollution, climate change, moorland mismanagement..’. Out tomorrow @penguinrandom
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Why & how we wrote the #CEN #FreshwaterPearlMussel Monitoring Standard. 6 years, 5 workshops, 11 countries, 40 experts and a lot of coffee! Read the full story in August's #AQC: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #Margaritifera #FPM @Standards4EU @nature_scot @freshwaterbio @wileyecology
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Susan Cooksley retweeted
Significant £££ for two exemplary projects. Our @SGRESAS research is integral and will 1) determine environmental effects & 2) establish new monitoring techniques for #RiverRestoration. With @SusanLCooksley @JamesHuttonInst & @drjdodd @EdinburghNapier hutton.ac.uk/news/funding-bo…

Our latest #RiverRestoration projects are in today’s @pressjournal. With support from @nature_scot’s Biodiversity Challenge Fund @DeeCatchment will remeander 2km of river & create extensive wetlands, while @RiverDeeTeam will plant 10,000 trees #NatureNow pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/new…
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Susan Cooksley retweeted
Sometimes charismatic animals return of their own accord. Cranes returned to breed in NE Scotland a few years ago for the first time in 400 years & seem to be doing well; a regular, stunning & very welcome bird at some sites now. More please! #ThinkLikeAMountain
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Looking forward to this!
Lovely programme showing the #Cairngorms this Sunday, September 29, at 8:30pm on BBC4 called #Upstream. It is #beautiful, #enchanting and will give you a different perspective as the camera travels up the #Dee to its source. Words in programme by @RobGMacfarlane. Can’t wait!
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How will nutrient additions affect inverts in Dee headwaters? Lots to debate - one way to find out. Delighted to be joined by @markhamblin from @ScotlandTBP to document this @RiverDeeTeam restoration trial with @JamesHuttonInst @EdinburghNapier @drjdodd deepartnership.org/news/17-j…
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A packed house at the @ScotlandTBP #bigpictureconference
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Filled with enthusiasm to be heading south to the sold out @ScotlandTBP #rewilding conference. A misty day in Perth but there’s a blue sky coming...
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Looking forward to working with the new coordinator for this highly engaged and hugely successful partnership nesbiodiversity.org.uk
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We are looking for a local #Biodiversity Co-ordinator, based in #Aberdeen. Help develop the work of the North East Scotland Biodiversity partnership. Fixed term contract with deadline of 2 June. bit.ly/2VPTYYA Funded in partnership with @JamesHuttonInst
Watching @BBCCountryfile and planning my @Love_plants #nectarinspector survey but results will be poor on the new lawn - lots of work needed to introduce nutrient tolerant wildflowers plantlife.org.uk/everyflower… #everyflowercounts #NoMowMay