1 A SWME20 DELEGATE NOTES_FINAL DRAFT

SWME19 Delegate Notes

SWME19 Overview slides

Session 1

1. Keith Hiscock  Capturing Casual Observations: The SWME Annual Report (2017)  SWME19

2. Richard White/Natasha Bradshaw  Events & Observations in 2018  SWME19

3. Clare Ostle  Climate Linked Atlantic Sector Science  SWME19

4. Andy Dinsdale  Transatlantic Plastic & Western Atlantic Rafters  SWME19

5. Doug Herdson  Trends in Fish Records  SWME19

6. Tom Horton  Thunnus UK: A baseline for Atlantic bluefin tuna off the UK  SWME19

7. Christopher Stokes  Coastal Flood Forecasting  SWME19

8. Nick Owen  Sediment Veneers  SWME19

8a. Nick Owen  Divers’ Crib Sheet to Sediment Veneers  SWME19

8b. Nick Owen  Divers’ Guide to Sediment Veneers  SWME19

9. Sarah Clark  Increase in crawfish & management solutions  SWME19

Session 2

1. Mark Grantham  Seabird Tracking and Trends  SWME19

2. Alex Banks  Isles of Scilly SPA extension  SWME19

3. Matthew Witt  Basking Sharks  SWME19

4. Niki Clear  Dolphin Strandings  SWME19

5. Katie Bellman  Human & Wildlife Activity Interactions – Cetaceans & Seals  SWME19

6. David Groves  Cornwall Coastal Otter Project  SWME19

7. Thomas Stamp  European Bass: movement within estuaries  SWME19

8. Chris Kerry  Survivorship in recreational shark angling  SWME19

Session 3

1. Tara Hooper  Natural Capital Approach for the Marine Environment  SWME19

2. Kaja Curry & Josh McCarty  Plymouth Sound: UK’s first National Marine Park!  SWME19

3. Mark Ward & Rebecca McDonald  Somerset’s Brilliant Coast Initiative  SWME19

4. Owen Exeter  An Ocean Health Index Assessment for South West England  SWME19

5. Adam Rees  Assessing the ecological effects of increasing potting density inside the Lyme Bay MPA  SWME19

6. John Hepburn  Ocean Literacy  SWME19

• SWME18 overview slides
• SWME18 Delegate Notes 13th April
• 1. Bob Earll Annual Report SWME18
• 2. Angus Atkinson From Climate to oceanography to plankton
• 3. Dan Lear From Regional to Global: how good data support good stewardship SWME18
• 4. Willie Wilson MARINe-DNA SWME18
• 5. Claire Wallerstein & Delia Webb Power of the network SWME18
• 6. Penny Lindeque Mermaids Tears & Witches Britches SWME18
• 7. Robyn Samuel Is sticky ecology protecting our sandy beaches SWME18
• 8. Sophy Allen Capturing seabird data in the South West SWME18
• 9. Matt Slater & Charlotte Bolton Seasearch – local to regional perspective SWME18
• 10. Sue Sayer Setting up, sustaining & securing a regional recording network SWME18    
• 11. John Hepburn Sail training – an opportunity to advance ocean literacy SWME18   
• 12. Simon Ingram & Rebecca Dudley England’s own resident bottlenose dolphin population SWME18  
• 13. Clare Embling Distribution of small cetaceans along the SW coast using passive acoustic & visual surveys SWME18
• 14. Olivia Langmead & Beth Siddons Recreational impacts in the Plymouth Sound & Estuaries EMS SWME18
• 15. Victoria Hobson Influx of Portuguese Man O War & By-the-Wind-Sailors into UK water 2003-2017 SWME18
• 16. Christopher Stokes Development of a real-time regional coastal flood warning system for SW England SWME18
• 17. Sarah Clark A Wrasse’s tale SWME18
• 18. Pete Davies Lasers and Labridae in Lyme Bay SWME 2018
• 19. Nova Mieszkowska Capturing the Coast SWME18
• 20. Penny Wilson Inspiring people to connect to our beautiful UK SEAS SWME18

•  SWME17 Delegate Notes 21st April
• 1. Bob Earll & NB Welcome Objectives SWME17
• 2. Keith Hiscock 2015 Annual Report SWME17
• 3. Jon Tinker Climate & Marine SWME17
• 4. Steve Widdicombe Western Channel Obs SWME17
• 5. Charlotte Bolton Seasearch SWME17
• 6. Jessica Mead Seagrass SWME17
• 7. Zara Botterell MECN SWME17
• 8. Duncan Jones Porpoises SWME17
• 9. Nick Tregenza Acoustic monitoring SWME17
• 10. Dan Jarvis BDMLR SWME17
• 11. Abby Crosby Strandings SWME17
• 12. Ruth Williams Bottle ND Consortium SWME17
• 13. Seal highlights 2016
• 14. Alex Banks seabird census SWME17
• 15. Matt Witt Eddystone project SWME17
• 16. Neal Gray Marine Planning SWME17
• 17. Nigel Phillips Somerset marine life SWME17
• 17A. Beccy Macdonald Somerset coast SWME17
• 18. Claire Wallerstein Plastics pollution SWME17
• 19. Chris & Annabelle Lowe Inspiring SWME17
• 19A. Sue Sayer Inspiring SWME17
• 20. Peter Miller Satellite-derived environmental drivers
• 21. Olivia Langmead Anchoring & Mooring in MPAs
• 22. Sheehan et al SWME17

SWME16 Delegate Notes 26th April 2016

1. Duncan & Hannah Jones Events & Observations in 2015

2. Keith Hiscock The Events of 2014 – SWME Annual Report

3. Angus Atkinson Update on SW Plankton & the Western Channel Observatory

4. Cathy Lucas The barrel jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo

5. Sophia Butler-Cowdry Fine scale insight into porpoise, basking shark and seabird distribution

6. John Hepburn Monitoring the development and success of Scyliorhinus stellaris egg cases in situ

7. Brendan Godley Marine Ecology & Conservation Network

8. Jeroen van der Kooij Integrated Pelagic Ecosystem survey

9. Tom Brereton Recent seabird and cetacean surveys in the English Channel, Bristol Channel & Celtic Sea

10. John Richardson & Cat Gordon Our current understanding of the ecology of blue & porbeagle sharks in the southwest

11. Chris Wood SEASEARCH – South-West diver record highlights 2015

12. Langmead, Rees & Foster Ecological coherence of the Celtic Seas MPA network

13. Earll, Hodgson & Sayer South coast Devon and Dorset seal network

14. Ingram, Jones, Sayer & Williams South-West bottlenose dolphin network

15. Langmead, Hooper & Beaumont Valuing Ecosystem Services in the Western Channel (Valmer)

16. Billy Heaney Cameras and seals – quantifying effects of human disturbance

17. Stephen Pikesley Analysis of a ‘citzen science’ database

18. Neal Gray Marine planning for the South West

19. Jim Portus Fisheries status in the south-west and impacts of the reformed CFP

20. Sarah Clark Chinese Whispers – Misconceptions and myths mask true progress in MPA & inshore fisheries management

21. Sayer & Williams Research to action … making a difference locally & globally – ghost gear in Cornwall

22. Cook, Witt & Pikesley The Falmouth Bay to St Austell Bay pSPA Biodiversity Atlas

23. Paul Naylor Inspiring images – Marine life in action – underwater observations & questions

24. SWME 2015 Collated Reports

• 1. Bob Earll & Duncan Jones SWME & the Events & Observations
• 2. Abigail McQuatters-Gollop Update on SW Plankton
• 3. Stephen Pikesley Jellyfish Records – Citizen Science
• 4. Peter Miller & Kylie Scales Ocean fronts metrics for understanding foraging locations of gannets and basking sharks
• 5. Russell Wynn Results of the multiple remote vehicle trial to measure multi-trophic level interactions
• 6. Alice Trevail The south west Fulmar project
• 7. Carolyn Waddell The Coastal Code – Practical guidance for south-west coastal species
• 8. Carlotta Molfese & Jason Hall-Spencer Overfishing and the replacement of demersal finfish by shellfish
• 9. Cat Gordon & John Richardson Skate populations in the south-west
• 10. Tom Horton The status of basking sharks in the south-west
• 11. Emma Sheehan Storm impacts on the seabed in protected and fished areas
• 12. Carolyn Waddell Intertidal discovery – results of the recent survey
• 13. Jones, Clear, Earll & Jenkins The ecology of porpoises in the south-west – what’s left to find out
• 14. Paul St Pierre The developing outcomes of rat eradication programmes on south-west Islands
• 15. Clare Embling Seals & Shipping Noise
• 16. Sue Sayer & Bex Allen From observations to action … using research data to inform global campaign
• 17. Sian Rees What is site integrity – Applying current ecological knowledge to evolving marine policy
• 18. Hannah Jones Inspiring images!
• 19. SWME15 Delegate Notes
• 20. Cruise Report SW Small Fish – PELTIC 14 CEND20_14 V02
• 21. SWME REPORT on 2014 (Autumn 2015)
• 22. Marine Strandings in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Exec summary
• 23. Seaquest Southwest Summary Report 2014 summary

2014 documents to go here…

2013 documents to go here…