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Scottish Native Oyster Restoration – Naturally Talking


Most of us shall be accustomed to the idea of ‘rewilding’, however what about ‘seawilding’? On this episode of Naturally Talking, we’re joined by SBOHVM’s very personal Dr Anna McGregor to debate her very thrilling, essential and interdisciplinary Scottish native oyster (Ostrea edulis) restoration mission. She tells us about how Gaelic place names are getting used along with innovative environmental science to assist rescue Scotland’s marine biodiversity.

Scholar volunteers finishing biodiversity monitoring work for Wild Oyster Challenge in Largs marina.

Anna is a key member of the aquatic sciences instructing group right here within the division. She teaches on an enormous vary of marine and freshwater topics. She additionally supervises quite a few undergraduate and Masters pupil dissertations, in addition to finishing up her personal analysis. Anna’s analysis focuses on the use and understanding of sound in marine environments; for instance, understanding the sounds of marine mammals and impacts from anthropogenic sounds on quite a lot of species.

Technician Brendan Robertson amassing water samples for eDNA testing for presence of shellfish species in waters at Loch Melfort.
Interpretation board at Kilchoan Property, explaining the work they’ve completed to encourage native oyster restoration at Loch Melfort.
Organising the aerial survey gear to {photograph} the intertidal habitat the place excessive numbers of oysters are discovered.
An grownup native oyster (Ostrea edulis) housed on the Wild Oyster Challenge in Largs marina.

All photographs courtesy of Dr Anna McGregor

Put up: Graeme Cullen

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