LEC Reefs

@lec-reefs

Research group @ Lancaster Environment Centre, UK. We study coral reefs, fisheries, aquatic foods, environmental justice, animal behaviour, ecology, and climate change. 🐠 🐟 🎣 🪸

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LEC Reefs@lec-reefs· 17d

Some of our PhD REEFs researchers had an exciting week at #ISBE2026 presenting their PhD work for the first time🎉 Stella & @mollylouisefowkes.bsky.social shared insights on eel movement and sociality 🐍 Victoria explored the global biogeography of reef fish behaviour 🐠 Congratulations Team!🌊

LEC Reefs@lec-reefs· 18d

A busy week for LECREEFS at #ICRS2026🪸 A plenary from @christinahicks.bsky.social & talks from @cherfychow.bsky.social @lisagoberdhan.bsky.social @lljeannot.bsky.social Khatija & @nickajgraham.bsky.social about diversity patterns, cryptofauna distributions & pelagic subsidies to coral reefs 🪸🐠

LEC Reefs@lec-reefs· Jun 18

@christinahicks.bsky.social, @anastasiasmith.bsky.social, @fmc1.bsky.social and Omokotu attended the 11th Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa! 🪸 Ana spoke about Kenyan reef fishery governance 🐟 Christina delivered a wonderful keynote speech & moderated several sessions representing @oceana.bsky.social

LEC Reefs@lec-reefs· Jun 17

Seattle updates! @lljeannot.bsky.social attended a cryptobenthic fish taxonomy workshop at the University of Washington, led by Luke Tornabene, @chrisgoatley.bsky.social, Diego Vaz & @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social, to learn about delineation, descriptions, phylogenetics, CT scanning & more📊🐠👩

LEC Reefs@lec-reefs· May 9

@james-robinson.bsky.social & @bwoodhead.bsky.social at the PICES SPF Symposium!🐟 Beth spoke on distal drivers of SPF fishing pressure🎣 James ran a workshop on nutrition in SPF value chains & presented @crisruanocha.bsky.social work on fishmeal factory impacts on fish consumption in West Africa🐟

LEC Reefs@lec-reefs· Apr 20

Last week our fantastic PhD student @nyxonrf.bsky.social attended the @thembauk.bsky.social Postgraduate Conference in Newcastle! Nyxon presented her first thesis poster, highlighting data from Kew Herbarium @rbgkew.bsky.social on the photosynthetic diversity of seagrass Well Done Nyxon! 🐠🐚🌊

LEC Reefs@lec-reefs· Mar 31

Last week some of our PhDs attended Envision's student conference in Windermere Khatija Alliji, @bwoodhead.bsky.social, @anastasiasmith.bsky.social & @nadia-hamilton.bsky.social spoke on topics from coral reefs to pelagic systems 🎣🪸 AND alumni @markh22.bsky.social joined a panel on post-PhD life 🎓

LEC Reefs@lec-reefs· Mar 8

This international women’s day we celebrate the inspiring women that are part of, and work alongside our group. The UN’s theme for #IWD is “Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls”- learn more here: www.unwomen.org/en/get-invol... 👩🏽‍🔬👩🏻‍🎓👩🏾‍🏫👩🏼‍💻

LEC Reefs@lec-reefs· Feb 25

🎙️ The fabulous @mollylouisefowkes.bsky.social was recently invited to talk on the Impact Storytelling Podcast about her research exploring the hidden social lives of the endangered European eel! 📊 👩‍💻🛥️ Listen now on YouTube & Spotify: tinyurl.com/Eelpodcast 🎧

LEC Reefs@lec-reefs· Jun 13

We've had a blast at the Indo-Pacific Fish Conference in Taipei. Thanks to the organisers for a fantastic week! 🐟🐠🦈 Ft. talks from @cbenkwitt.bsky.social @lljeannot.bsky.social @ruchakarkarey.bsky.social @james-robinson.bsky.social

LEC Reefs@lec-reefs· Jan 24

Huge congratulations to James Boon for passing his viva today with flying colours! James' thesis is titled 'The role of refuges in coral reef ecosystems and biological invasions'. You can read one of his chapters here: doi.org/10.1111/geb...., with more to come soon! @jamesboon.bsky.social 🪸🤖🐟👁️

Photograph of Sally Keith and James Boon celebrating passing his viva with prosecco and a toy robot

LEC Reefs@lec-reefs· Nov 30

We're at #RCUK2024! Ft. @ruchakarkarey.bsky.social plenary on spawning grouper @netlab.bsky.social on reef shark residency in El Nino @lljeannot.bsky.social seabird nutrients and cryptobenthic fish Visiting researchers Anish Paul on fish predation, Jane Sudrajat & Maserati on coral restoration

LEC Reefs@lec-reefs· Nov 30

The amazing @ruchakarkarey.bsky.social presents her work on squaretail grouper in Lakshadweep archipelago. 🐟First recorded aggregation in India 🐟Highest densities in the world 🐟 Emerging fisheries & fish trade 🐟 80% population decline 🐟 Less aggression, more fear #RCUK2024

LEC Reefs@lec-reefs· May 2

#NewPaper led by masters graduate Sam Healing: doi.org/10.3389/fmar... Sam & the team (@cbenkwitt.bsky.social , @ruthedunn.bsky.social, @nickajgraham.bsky.social) showed that seabird-vectored nutrients are integrated into temperate rocky shores, such as those surrounding the Farne Islands, UK 🐦💩🌱

Image shows the journal title 'Frontiers in Marine Science' as well as the paper title 'Seabird-vectored pelagic nutrients integrated into temperate intertidal rocky shores', the author list (Sam Healing, Casey Benkwitt, Ruth Dunn and Nick Graham), a figure showing elevated nitrogen isotopes in organisms from islands with high seabird densities in comparison to low seabird density mainland sites, a photo of Sam Healing on a rocky shore, and some text that reads 'Terrestrial and intertidal organisms around the Farne Islands (where there are high seabird densities) had enriched nitrogen isotope values'

LEC Reefs@lec-reefs· Dec 11

Another year, another amazing #RCUK2033! Huge thanks to the Reef Conservation UK committee, and the team at Newcastle University for hosting - we had a blast.

Photo of the LEC REEFs team, some sporting Christmas jumpers, in front of a RCUK conference slide.

LEC Reefs@lec-reefs· Dec 7

Seabirds help corals grow twice as fast, recovering coral populations following an extreme marine heatwave. Check out our new paper in Science Advances here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...