Written by Martine Røysted Solås // 15 February 2023
In July 2022, three of the HypOnFjordFish group members (PI Anne Gro Vea Salvanes and PhD students Francesco Saltalamacchia and Martine Røysted Solås) traveled to Nottingham in England to attend the FSBI (Fisheries Society of the British Isles) Symposium 2022. All three of us were going to give a 12-15 minute oral presentation of our work, and with our time slots following each other chronologically, it became a 45 min overview of HypOnFjordFish research.
Why do scientists attend conferences?
Conferences are good arenas for scientists to communicate their work (whether it being preliminary or finished) to other scientists within or outside their research discipline. It gives us the opportunity to showcase what we work on, but also see what others are doing. We can share knowledge, experience and partake in scientific discussions with people that are not in our departments. Many great collaborations have come to be thanks to this kind of conferences!
Photo: FSBI & NTU Media Team.
Anne Gro gave a nice introduction and overview of the HypOnFjordFish project. Following her, Martine presented some of her preliminary findings on the vertical distribution of mesopelagic scattering layers in Masfjorden and Fensfjorden after the reoxygenation of Masfjorden. And lastly, Francesco presented the audience with our preliminary findings on growth and life history of the mesoepelagic fish, Benthosema glaciale, in the same fjords.
During the conference, we heard excellent key note talks within varying topics such as environmental change effects on fish behavior and sex determination, coral reef soundscapes and the importance of research integrity.
This conference and its theme was an good opportunity to meet and talk to other scientists that work with different aspects of fish biology in a changing world. We listened to research about adaptations to habitats, physiological, behavioral and ecological responses to climate change and tools we can use to study these questions.
We thank the organizers of this year’s symposium for a week filled with interesting science and great people.
You can read more about the conference here: FSBI 2022 Annual Symposium Fish in a Dynamic World
