Scientists Discover Pristine #Deep-Sea #CoralReefs in the #Galápagos #MarineReserve

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b__GAs3MvPs

RT @diegoanazco1
Una #TortugaMarina enredada con un cabo a un recipiente plástico es capta muerta en la playa #CerroBrujo en la isla #SanCristobal #Galapagos.

Una imagen más que evidencia el impacto de la #ContaminacionPlastica en la vida marina.

📷: Withman Cox, guía naturalista

The Galapagos archipelago is located 1000 km off the coast of Ecuador 🇪🇨

Charles Darwin landed on the islands in 1835. The diversity of species he found on the islands inspired his theory of evolution

⬇️#Copernicus #Sentinel3🇪🇺🛰️ image of #Galapagos on 12 March

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1635201570660040704

A photo blog of monarchs and milkweed on the Galápagos Islands!

https://agrawal.eeb.cornell.edu/2023/01/19/monarch-butterflies-on-the-galapagos-islands/

#plants #butterflies #Galápagos #monarch

"The researcher of the Department of Botany and Plant Physiology of the University of Malaga María Altamirano is a member of the scientific team that collaborates in the Seamounts Project, a project led by the Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) that has discovered an extensive kelp forest on the summit of a seamount, at depths of ~ 50 m, in the south of the Galapagos Islands".

#kelpforests #Galapagos
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/976793

Galapagos, 2012. Three flamingos preening in the water.

#Galapagos #Flamingos

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/52818

#Postdoc in #Terrestrial (#Island) #ecology

effect of disturbances on island multilayer network structure:
Postdoc 1- #Seychelles archipelago
Postdoc 2 - #Galapagos
Postdoc 3 - #Balearic and #Canary Islands.

3 years, extendable.

These positions are part of the ERC Advanced Grant IslandLife “Determinants of island ecological complexity in the context of global change” led by Anna Traveset

@jobsecoevo

RT @Pcasbri@twitter.com

La tercera de este ciclo y la primera del 2023 - Conferencias para #futurXsbiologXs en la Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida y Tecnologías @UleamEcuador@twitter.com, hoy con el Dr @enzomrr1990@twitter.com sobre ecología y comportamiento de cucuves 🦉 #Galápagos #Ecuador #mockingbird
@F_NavarreteMier@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Pcasbri/status/1610270630615699456

RT @diegoanazco1@twitter.com

Empresarios quieren construir mega complejo turístico en zona de alto valor ambiental en #PuntaCarola isla #SanCristóbal

Las autoridades de #Galapagos se pronunciaron en contra, pero insisten por vías legales #SOSPlayaCarola #SOSGalapagos

Los hechos 👉 https://n9.cl/v9352

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/diegoanazco1/status/1599576578568032256

RT @BugSalome
#PhycologyFriday Meet the largest seaweed found in the #Galapagos. >40 m deep these beatuful kelps are from the Eisenia genus, species TBD.
"Started from the bottom, now we're here!" 🎵
lyrics thats speak both the kelp & I 👩🏿‍🔬
#BlackInMarine #phdlife
@DarwinFound

RT @RoliRoberts
Back-to-back talks at #ConsGenPop22 about using genomics to inform reintroductions - Mirte Bosse on Asian #elephants held in #EAZA zoos, and Rachel Gray on using hybrid #Galapagos #tortoises to reinstate an extinct population on Isla Floreana

Once upon a time, the research submarine #ALVIN observed (and photographed!) a colossal #Grimpoteuthis #Octopus in the #Galapagos — reportedly it measured 4 meters (~13’) in length! If true, this would be the largest octopus ever*. Alas, we know little of the unpublished encounter and perhaps there was a mistake (e.g. the length could have been the arm-span)… I’m still holding on to a sliver of hope!

* #Haliphron_atlanticus may reach 3.5m and isn’t as compact.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012751412350022X?via%3Dihub

We were so lucky to see this sea turtle returning to the sea after depositing her eggs. #Galapagos

As part of my Galapagos posts, I am sharing pictures of two of my favorites. Sally lightfoot crabs are everywhere, but they are so charming. This picture doesn’t do their color justice. The marine iguanas were equally fascinating. The only species of swimming iguanas, they spend much of their day in dogpiles, absorbing heat from the sun and sneezing salt, before diving back into the cold water to feed. Love them! #Galapagos

I’m a few days late, so I thought I’d share one of my most thrilling memories from the Galapagos. #Galapagos - note: I tried to upload the video. It did not work.

@WinnipegLaur Hi! Make sure you put that #Galapagos trip back on your schedule. It's amazing! I just went 6 months ago for the first time. California is nice this time of year, the weather is more perfect than normal in #SoCal.

Vue aux #galapagos 🤩
#plongée #sealion #otarie #viesauvage #blog #equateur #ecologie

#Museum30 - Day 3. 'Fragment'
Most of Charles #Darwin's #herbarium collections are in Cambridge, but also the #NHMLondon has some material. Most, however, are just small pieces that we received via the herbarium collection of John Miers in 1879.
This one is a fragment of the type material of Cissampelos testudinum, which Miers described from the #Galapagos Islands. Miers kept some pieces for himself, while the actual holotype is in the Kew herbarium.