Back on dry land... Briefly!

So that's me back on dry land now for a couple of days, before I head off to Sweden on Friday for another 4 weeks of field work at Tjarno in the Kosterhavet National Park. I'm pretty excited about this trip and I'm hoping that we're going to get to see some pretty cool things while we're there. The main aims of this piece of work are to examine how different survey methods can be used to detect and identify fish in both shallow and deep (~150m) waters. While this is normally pretty shallow for 'deep-sea' animals, because of some unusual ocean currents, the Kosterfjord where we're working contains a layer of deep oceanic water which allows deep-sea animals to occur in much shallower water than they would usually be found in which is great for us for this study. I will keep you updated as we go, but we should be getting some good underwater images of the deep-sea while we're there!

Also, as you may have noticed, I've made a bit of a change to the news pages so it reads more like a blog. This means I can no longer have a summary of the news post on the homepage though, so you'll need to click on the headline to see the news. But if you're reading this, you probably worked that out already!