Waterways Collective

The Waterways Collective is a group of artists and scientists who came together in 2024 to see where we’d get following wild salmon journeys into the Scottish landscape, out across the Atlantic, and up and down food chains. Info on our past events and projects is at waterwayscollective.org.

“to see sandeel the way kittiwakes do”

Kittiwakes and many other UK seabirds have declined rapidly over several decades, alongside declines in the energy available in the ocean food chain that supports them. Agnes Olin’s PhD project (2018-2020) focused on sandeels as a link in this chain, looking upward to their spatial association with trends in kittiwake numbers, and downward to changes … Read more