Convex Seascape Survey

🚨 Today's the day! 🚨 This afternoon we'll be at Blue Earth Summit asking a big question: What if we've been underestimating human impacts on the sea for centuries? 🌊🤔 We'll be sharing our research into the hidden history of trawling, what seabed recovery looks like and why a healthy seabed can benefit both ocean health and slowing climate change. If you're planning on coming, please do say hello! Our team would love to chat to you. Details below: 📍 Woolwich Works, London, Courtyard Stage 📅 Today  🕔 3:35pm Rachel Delhaise Tara Williams Jade Rolph Gail Fordham Tom Roland Ruth H Thurstan Callum Roberts #BlueEarthSummit #OceanScience #MarineScience #OceanResearch #BlueCarbon

Such is the world that we live in that a social media manager is now rating the work of our scientists... 👀 Show some love in the comments for the perseverance of Dr. Ben Harris, showing that fieldwork rarely goes perfectly to plan! 🚢🔬💙 Footage credit: Ben Sarten #MarineScience #OceanScience #Fieldwork #OceanHumour #BlueCarbon

When you picture the ocean, you probably imagine whales, sharks or dolphins. But some of the ocean's most fascinating creatures live on the seabed. From featherlike sea pens to complex basket stars, the seafloor is packed with life and its health plays a crucial role in regulating climate change. 🌊🪸 Find out more about the ocean’s remarkable diversity on the Convex Seascape Survey website. #OceanScience #MarineLife #SeaCreatures #MarineResearch #Biodiversity

How far back do human impacts on the seabed go? 🌊⏳ Spoiler alert: much further than most of us realise. Next week at Blue Earth Summit we'll be sharing our research that reveals how humans have been altering the seabed for centuries through trawling and dredging, why we've only recently started to recognise the scale of those changes, and what this means for protecting our oceans in the future. 🌍🔬 We’d love to see you there! Details below: 📍 Woolwich Works, London 📅 14 October 🕔 4:50pm #BlueEarthSummit #OceanScience #MarineScience #OceanResearch #BlueCarbon

🎨🌊 How do you turn science into art? Our resident artist Naomi Hart (@naomih.art) transformed mud from our seabed samples into paint. To reveal the natural pigments hidden within, the mud was heated to extreme temperatures, burning away the organic material and leaving behind rich colours sourced directly from the seafloor. Stay to the end to see her remarkable creations, capturing the hustle bustle of life at sea carrying out fieldwork! 📸 credits to our wonderful scientist come photographer/videographer Dr. Adam Porter (@ap3489) #MarineScience #OceanScience #ScienceArt #ArtAndScience #OceanConservation

As we head into a busy final stretch of 2026, there's a real sense of coming together across the Convex Seascape Survey. 🙌    Several papers are now nearing publication, teams are returning from fieldwork, and we've been sharing our work at events including New York Climate Week, with Blue Earth Summit and COP31 still to come. 🌍    This month also brought updates from Arctic Alaska, where researchers have been collecting new samples in challenging conditions. ❄️    Perhaps most excitingly, as our scientists focus on completion of their research, we're seeing a bigger picture emerge of how our science can best support a climate resilient ocean. 🌊    To read the full newsletter, click below!    #OceanScience #MarineScience #OceanResearch #BlueCarbon #ScienceResearch

Earlier this month, researchers from the Convex Seascape Survey touched down in Exeter to share progress updates. 🌎🔬🌊 With over 25 different strands of research discussed, topics ranged from how centuries of disturbance may have shaped today's seabed, to the role of animals and microbes in carbon cycling, to the vulnerability of different carbon stores across seabeds around the world. We even heard exciting updates on analysis and results from fieldwork carried out in Antarctica, Australia, South Africa and more. As we enter the final phase of the project and with new papers nearing publication, we're homing in on how our science can make the biggest difference for ocean conservation and management long term. Swipe through to explore some of the big discussion points from the week 👉 Photo credit: Tom Roland Rachel Delhaise Ashley Stockwell Jade Rolph Gail Fordham Charles Clover Callum Roberts Chloe Severn Ceri Lewis Dr Adam Porter Ruth H Thurstan Paul Halloran Rod Wilson Richard Tennant Benjamin Harris Mara Fischer Tara Williams Annabel Kemp Chris Kerry Md. Riyad Hossain Bhuiyan Jennifer Watts Torsa Sengupta Ciaran McLaverty STEPHEN GUNDU.PhD Daniel Wilson Sanjit Debnath Carlos Duarte Chuancheng Fu #MarineScience #OceanScience #BlueCarbon #OceanConservation #MarineResearch

Spilling the tea of the latest ocean office shenanigans. #ScienceHumour #OceanHumour #Relatable #OfficeHumour #ScienceLife

Explaining our science in under 30 seconds: can it be done? ⏱🌊🔬 Watch to find out! #MarineScience #OceanScience #BlueCarbon #ClimateScience #OceanResearch