Alistair Hobday
@AlistairHobday
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Research scientist @CSIROnews and @CMS_UTas, working on sustainable fisheries, #climateadaptation, and marine conservation
Hobart, Tasmania
Joined January 2017
The unprecedented 2015/16 Tasman Sea marine heatwave
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Nature Communications - The Tasman Sea experienced an unprecedented marine heatwave in 2015/16, with important ecological impacts. Oliveret al. link this event to warm, southwards flowing waters...
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RT @IMASUTAS: Researchers have found compelling evidence that intense summer marine heatwaves play a significant role in the decline of vit….
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RT @DanSmale1: Our new study published today in @NatureComms examined links between marine heatwaves (MHWs) and the health of foundation sp….
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RT @marineheatwaves: The State of the Global Climate report for 2023 is now out ( which shows that the global ocean….
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RT @DanSmale1: So much heat kicking about the mid/northeast Atlantic Ocean already, with large marine heatwave developing along W Africa an….
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RT @IMECaN4: Call for abstracts for IMBeR IMBIZO7.1) Science-based adaptive mngmt and policy responses to eutrophication. 2) A framework fo….
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At the base of foodwebs, #MHW conditions modulate seasonal patterns of microbial diversity and support novel assemblage compositions.
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Communications Biology - Long-term monitoring revealed that a prolonged marine heatwave drove a profound transition in pelagic microbial assemblages, altering seasonal patterns of diversity and...
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RT @IMASUTAS: 25 red handfish have arrived at IMAS Taroona in a rescue effort to get them out of hot water this summer🌅Scientists raised th….
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We need to learn faster - rapid scientific response to environmental shocks (including extreme environmental events). Led by Simon Collngs, @DrJessMT, @i_vanputten #csiro,#MHWs
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Insurance maintains the capital reserves that blue-food actors hold by reducing income volatility. This should help cope with future shocks. James Watson, @LRichLitt @ConsLevin Claire Spillman, #MHWs
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Abstract. For the Blue Foods economy—those sectors that gain value from the biological productivity of the oceans such as fisheries and aquaculture—climate
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Taming wild northern rivers could harm marine fisheries and threaten endangered sawfish
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Any plan to dam or extract water from some of Australia’s last wild rivers must carefully consider the consequences. Prawn, mud crab and barramundi fisheries could suffer in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
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The collapse of the eastern Bering Sea snow crab population appears to be one of the largest reported losses of motile marine macrofauna to marine heatwaves
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A marine heatwave precipitated the collapse of the eastern Bering Sea snow crab population.
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RT @marineheatwaves: New paper by group member (@AlistairHobday) plus other collaborators identifies 4 types of MHWs based on their vertica….
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If you read one paper this month - make it this one! Why we need weather forecast analogues for marine ecosystems
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Abstract. Marine ecosystems face many consequential pressures. Yet, we lack an integrative and predictive capacity to understand how marine ecosystems will
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Do opposites attract? What’s the kittiwake story?.
A really lovely new piece of science from my friend & colleague Finn - incompatible personalities increase risk of breeding failure in kittiwakes, leading them to divorce! 😢💔.
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Judith Brett: “I don’t want to live in dread of a dystopian future, or consumed with anger at go-slow governments, or in a state of depressed apathy because of my powerlessness, so I go about my generally enjoyable life accompanied by the drone of doom in the pit of my stomach.”.
Excellent essay by @judithbrett3. Too hard basket: why climate change is defeating our political system
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Tony Flaherty with success stories of coastal adaptation - co benefits for shorebirds and blue carbon #climateadapt2023
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Follow along at #climateadapt2023.
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