On the occasion of the fith NORA conference in Middelburg in the beginning of November, Raquel Yotti, General Secretary of Research & Innovation of the Ministry of Science of Spain, submitted a video message to the NORA community. Spain currently …
15 days ago, we started into NORA 5 with the opening talks and the speed poster session. We heard 8 brilliant short pitch presentations and were invited to discuss more than 30 posters in the evening of the first conference …
From 6 to 8 november, a great number of NORA enthusiasts, from 13 different countries, met in Middelburg, The Netherlands. The NORA community appeared to be extremely motivated to meet in-person after two online conferences. Participants represented nature conservation organisations, …
So far, we received more than 170 registrations for NORA 5 from 13 countries of Europe and the United States. Registration is now closed, due to logistic reasons. Those who missed the deadline, please get in touch with the NORA …
Registration for NORA 5, 6th – 8th November 2023, is open. As already announced, there will be an excursion to the shellfish centers nearby in the afternoon of the 8th November. Places are limited to 75 participants (“first come, first served”). …
The next NORA Outreach group meeting will take place on Thursday March 23rd at 16 pm CET/15 pm GMT online. This time, Andy Hunt from the Britisch Sub-Aqua Club will provide insight into the citizen science project “Operation Oyster“. This project is supporting seabed restoration …
The Native Oyster Restoration Alliance, the European network for the restoration of the native oyster Ostrea edulis, announces its 5th conference. NORA 5 Conference 6 – 8 November 2023Middelburg, The Netherlands We are very glad that NORA 5 will take place as …
The meeting of the NORA Monitoring Working Group is foreseen for January, the 19th, 11.30-1pm (GMT). The currently developed Monitoring Working Group Strategy will be discussed amongst the members of the group. In addition, the meeting should be a kick-off for …
We are happy to announce the next online meeting of the NORA Outreach Group taking place online on April 19th at 11 am CET. This time, Dominic McAfee will present insights into the outreach work of the oyster research projects from Southern …
Ocean Decade Laboratories A Healthy and Resilient Ocean If you missed the workshop, you can see the recorded version here: https://youtu.be/UQhJOEAPssU 10th of March, 2–4pm CET The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development gains momentum. From 9–11 March 2022, the …
The next online meeting of the NORA Outreach Working Group will take place on February 15th at 10am CET/9am GMT. Celine Gamble will present the education programme developed within the Wild Oyster Project. The ZSL and BLUE education teams created …
The first meeting of the NORA Outreach Group Meeting in 2022 will be fully interactive for all participants: Let’s play how to restore oysters using an online tool! The meeting will take place on Tuesday, January 18th, at 10 am CET/ …
The NORA site selection working group has been working with University of Edinburgh Master’s student, Anna Hughes, for over a year to develop a comprehensive Site Selection Checklist for European native oyster restoration. Thanks to the collaboration and expert contributions of …
The supply of native European oysters continues to be a bottleneck in expanding and scaling up restoration efforts. The NORA production working group have had a series of informative and open discussions to identify issues relating to the production and …
The product of more than two years work, collating the efforts of more than forty scientists and restoration practitioners across Europe, the latest restoration guidelines to be jointly produced by NORA and the Native Oyster Network – UK and Ireland …
The NORA 4 “Reconnecting across Europe” Conference will support live close captioning to ensure that the exciting programme is accessible to all. Feedback from the NORA 3 conference was that closed captioning was well used and helped improve access to the conference. Many …
The NORA Production Working Group are holding an informal meeting for O. edulis seed growers and those who would like to be informed about the production. The meeting will provide a platform for exchanging information about the available products (e.g. qualitatively: spat-on-shell, …
The NORA Outreach Group is back from summer break and happy to announce the next meeting on Tuesday, 21st of September, 3 pm CEST/2 pm BST online. Lilly Allen from the University of Edinburgh will be presenting her Edinburgh based …
The third NORA Outreach group meeting of this year will take place online on Tuesday June 22th at 10 am CET/ 9 am GMT. In this meeting, Homère Alves Monteiro from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) will present material developed …
NORA and the Native Oyster Network- UK and Ireland have been partnering to develop a Guidelines for monitoring native oyster restoration projects in Europe. Universal and consistent monitoring of restoration efforts across Europe would yield a suite of benefits. As …
The NORA Monitoring Working Group has been working with the Native Oyster Network UK and Ireland to develop guidelines for monitoring European native oyster restoration projects. With common metrics, it is hoped that lessons can be more effectively learned across …
The NORA Outreach group is happy to announce the second meeting of 2021 on Tuesday April 20th at 10 am CET / 9 am GMT online. The topic of this meeting will be the development of education materials for schools, using the …
NORA was delighted to welcome 65 experts and interested participants to the online NORA Genetics Workshop on 25th February 2021. The workshop was chaired by Pierre Boudry of Ifremer and an overview of current and planned research on Ostrea edulis of relevance to …
The 20th International Conference on Shellfish Restoration (ICSR), will be taking place 27th – 30th April 2021 in beautiful Nelson Bay, New South Wales, Australia. With shellfish restoration efforts and research growing globally each year, this conference will provide an exciting opportunity to …
The NORA Advisory Board and the NORA 4 Organising Committee recognise the value in, and demand for, an in-person conference to facilitate learning and the exchange of ideas, as well as network building within the NORA community. For this reason, we …
NORA Advisory Board Member and NORA 3 keynote speaker Pierre Boudry is organizing a pan-European workshop on native oyster genetics in the context of native oyster restoration. The workshop will take place online on Thursday 25th February from 9.30-13.00 CET (8.30-12.00 …
As the NORA 3 Online conference approaches, we are delighted to share with you the conference programme, as well as the conference abstract booklet for perusal in advance of and during the conference. The conference programme offers a host of …
The NORA 3 Online organising committee are delighted to announce the conference Keynote Speakers: Pierre Boudry, Anne Birch and Laura Geselbracht. Pierre Boudry is Head of the Research Unit Functional Physiology of Marine Organisms at the French Research Institute for …
The conference will be organised as a webinar / video assembly on two half-day sessions on the 4th and 5th of November. We are now delighted to announce the draft programme, to provide you with a taster of what is to come. …
The 3rd NORA Conference is going ahead 4th and 5th November 2020 – now online meeting! NORA 4 Conference foreseen as in-person meeting for spring / early summer 2021 in the Netherlands. The NORA 3 Organising Committee and NORA Advisory Board have reached …
Announcing a Session titled Shellfish Restoration and Conservation at the upcoming Aquaculture Europe 2020 in Cork, Ireland (Sept 29th – Oct 2nd). Abstracts due via www.aquaeas.eu, and the submission deadline is June 1st, 2020. “Shellfish (oysters, clams, mussels) have seen a decline in population numbers providing incentive …
We invite you to join NORA for the first face-to-face meeting of the NORA Production Working Group, which will take place at the Aquaculture Europe meeting in Cork from 29th September to 2nd October 2020. Places are limited and registration is essential. Please contact the …
NORA is delighted to announce the newly formed NORA Outreach Group. The group, chaired by Corina Peter at AWI, is starting a regular (bimonthly) webinar to exchange ongoing outreach experiences and lessons learned. We aim to share experiences and, where appropriate, …
The Dutch partners and NORA Secretariat are glad to announce that “NORA Moving Forward” will take place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands from 3 to 5 November 2020. The conference will include plenary sessions, speed presentations, working group meetings and PhD sessions. And excursion to Yerseke, the Dutch centre for …
Workshop report NORA and UK-Ireland Native Oyster Network co-hosted a workshop on Biosecurity in Oyster Restoration at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh in January 2020. The aims of the workshop was to discuss and agree recommended biosecurity protocols relating to oyster restoration …
Workshop report The UK-Ireland Native Oyster Network (UK-Ireland NON) hosted a workshop in December 2019 at the University of Portsmouth, bringing NORA and UK-Ireland NON network members together to discuss and compile metrics and methods for monitoring native oyster habitat …
The 20th International Conference on Shellfish Restoration (ICSR) will be held from 17-20 March 2020 in beautiful Nelson Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Call for Abstracts to be presented at the 2020 International Conference on Shellfish Restoration closes 5pm Australian ESDT Friday …
Great events cast their shadows before and so does NORA 3 – the preparation of our Conference in 2020 has already started! It will take place in the Netherlands in November 2020. The Dutch partners are highly involved in arranging the venue / location and …
The aim of the workshop is to agree and draft Europe-wide recommendations for biosecurity in European native oyster restoration. NORA is pleased to announce a European Native Oyster Biosecurity Workshop to be co-hosted with The Native Oyster Network- UK & Ireland (NON) at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh …
This question is the focal point of an Ostrea spp. session to be held on Monday 11th March 2019 at AQUACULTURE 2019 in New Orleans, USA. Speakers will be sharing their experiences and research in Ostrea spp. restoration both within Europe and Worldwide, with the hope to open up some discussion …
