by Andy | Apr 8, 2012 | Conferences, Marine ecology
Well, Amsterdam is certainly a unique city and was the recent host of the International Deep-sea Coral Symposium 2012. This was the 5th conference and the 3rd that I’ve been to since I started working on cold-water corals. Whilst not as distant as Florida (3rd...
by Andy | Mar 1, 2012 | Marine ecology, Publications
Spatial and tidal variation in food supply to shallow cold-water coral reefs of the Mingulay Reef complex (Outer Hebrides, Scotland) Gerard Duineveld, Rachel Jeffreys, Marc Lavaleye, Andrew Davies, Magda Bergman, Thalia Watmough, Rob Witbaard The RV Pelagia The...
by Andy | Dec 15, 2011 | Marine ecology
EDIT: WELCOME TO CRAIG ROBERTSON! Who is the new PhD student in our group! The functioning of canyons on the US East Coast. 3 year PhD studentship at the School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University with Dr Andrew J Davies. Project description: This is an exciting...
by Andy | Nov 24, 2011 | Marine ecology, Publications
Furu Mienis, Gerard Duineveld, Andy Davies, Steve Ross, Harvey Seim, John Bane, Tjeerd van Weering Near-bed hydrodynamic conditions were recorded for almost one year in the Viosca Knoll area (lease block 826), one of the most well-developed cold-water coral habitats...
by Andy | Jul 9, 2011 | General ecology, Marine ecology
Well, it has been a long and hard road, but after an intensive week of practice and hours of fiddling with MK-Tools and my transmitter settings, it looks like I have started to get the hang of flying the Hexa. This is all thanks to a couple of settings that I managed...
by Andy | Jul 5, 2011 | General ecology, Marine ecology
Well, I’ve been flying the HexaXL for a few weeks with very basic manoeuvres. This week I finally added my compact camera to the camera gimbal to collect some video footage. It is certainly much more challenging than I would have ever expected. Much more...