collage of slides of the events, with logos of BioEcoOcean and BioBoost+, with photos of the events (including group photo)
@bioboostplus.bsky.social and @bioecoocean.bsky.social also joined the Marine SABRES event in Pisa last week
#MarineSABRES #BioEcoOcean #BioBoostPlus #HorizonEU #HorizonEurope #Biodiversa #OceanScience #MarineBiodiversity #MarineBiodiversity #OceanObservation #StakeholderEngagement
🧵2/4
Underwater install shots 📷: preparing the system and mounting the camera housing + survey frame so the imagery is standardised and comparable through time—key for long-term monitoring and automated analysis.
#UnderwaterImaging #OceanMonitoring #BioBoostPlus
Deployed ✅ Our partners from University of the Aegean reef station is live: a Raspberry Pi camera/computing system + solar buoy sending reef images continuously. Built on a small budget to make monitoring more affordable—now we’re testing real-world durability + uptime.
#MarineScience #Bioboostplus
Divers in action for BioBoost+: collecting samples + standardised seafloor images with survey frames to train/validate #AI tools for marine biodiversity monitoring.
📷 Credit: Guy Raanan @rilovlab.bsky.social @iolr-il.bsky.social
#RilovLab #BioBoostPlus #MarineScience #UnderwaterImaging
📸 The NIOZ underwater lab in action — seen here at low tide.
Used to test how different restoration strategies affect benthic biodiversity, it’s fully submerged at high tide, allowing natural water exchange & selective colonisation .
@niozsearesearch.bsky.social
#BioBoostPlus #MarineMonitoring
🦞 A lobster encounter in Lake Grevelingen!
While surveying benthic biodiversity for #BioBoostPlus WP2, @NIOZ_Netherlands researchers caught this Homarus gammarus on ROV.
Restoration work meets AI + imaging.
🎥 Credit: Zhiyuan Zhao
@niozsearesearch.bsky.social
#MarineScience #ROV #Biodiversity
🎥 Here’s ZooImage in action: segmenting and measuring zooplankton from scanned samples — part of a 40+ year time series from Norwegian fjords.
@ribas-deulofeu.bsky.social visited @azti.bsky.social to help build AI tools for faster biodiversity monitoring.
#BioBoostPlus #AI4Oceans #Zooplankton
From sieving and sub-sampling to scanning and segmentation — here’s the full lab setup in action at AZTI. 🧪
Cross-border collaboration like this pushes marine science forward.
#MarineScience #ArcticEcosystems #BioBoostPlus #OceanMonitoring
🟡 Using RoboFlow to ID key species like Axinella cannabina (crucial to Mediterranean benthic ecosystems) from ROV footage in Torre Guaceto (Italy).
Tech meets conservation under the sea!
🎥 Marine Ecology Lab, Univ. of Naples Federico II
#ROV #AI4Oceans #MarineScience #BioBoostPlus #Sponges
Talk on "Early detection of marine invasive alien species and monitoring methods" by Stelios Katsanevakis @skatsanevakis
Benthic species workshop: "elaboration of shared training-sets, labelling tool and supervised classification methods" by Igor Granado & Mihailo Azhar
Many excellent talks & discussions today at #AZTI #2025summerschool on "“Artificial intelligence and citizen science in monitoring and assessing biodiversity and invasive species at sea”. Looking forward tomorrow's program as well. @guardias.bsky.social #bioboostplus #obamanext #GES4SEAS
As we dive into the new year, BioBoost+ dreams of thriving oceans and innovative solutions. Together, let’s unlock the potential of AI and digital imagery to protect marine biodiversity. Here's to a future where science drives action for our planet!
#BioBoostPlus #HappyNewYear #MarineEcology
