Category: Marine Science
Sustainably managing the UK’s coasts and seas. Multi-million pound initiative advances sustainable management of UK marine resources. In the wake of COP26, the South West is to play a lead role in a major new ...
Aileen Kennedy – Cullen Scholar. The Marine Institute is highlighting the postgraduate students completing projects as part of the Cullen Scholarship Programme. The programme builds national marine research capacity and capability and equips graduates with ...
Irish move to gather more information of marine fish species. With World Fisheries Day (Nov 21st) having just passed, the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA), the Irish sea-fisheries regulator, is asking the public and particularly those in the fishing community to assist in efforts to gather more information around the species of fish ...
Ireland’s new marine research vessel makes its first splash. The hull of Ireland’s new state-of-the-art marine research vessel, RV Tom Crean, was launched at Astilleros Armon shipyard in Vigo, Spain. The launch of the hull ...
Significant carbon emissions offset by BIM’s new diving barge. Divers taking part in the Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) Commercial Scuba and Surface Supplied Diving Programmes are benefiting from the new diving barge two months on ...
Sustainable management of UK’s marine resources. A consortium of universities, industry, government and NGOs are joining forces for a major new initiative aimed at sustainably managing the UK’s coasts and seas. The Centre for Doctoral ...
PFA conducts genetic research on populations of pelagic fish. Strengthening the knowledge base on populations of pelagic fish like herring and horse mackerel is important to the management of stocks, says the Pelagic Freezer-trawler Association ...
Sinead Keaveney – Our People. In 2021, the Marine Institute is profiling our people, sharing their study and career paths, the work they do at the Marine Institute and the important contribution their work delivers. ...
European initiative to support blue economy. The European Investment Fund (EIF), Chr. Augustinus Fabrikker, Builders Initiative and Minderoo Foundation have approved commitments to become cornerstone investors in Ocean 14 Capital’s inaugural fund, the first large ...
Make or break for endangered Atlantic mako sharks. International tuna fishery managers resume negotiations that could result in overdue, historic protection. Conservationists are focused this week on the annual meeting of the International Commission for ...
#EUArcticForum: a call for action from the Arctic communities. On 10-11 November the European Commission organised the EU Arctic Forum and Indigenous Peoples Dialogue, with the support of the European External Action Service (EEAS). Over ...
Ocean progress within the COP process but in the face of greater loss – COP26 closing reaction – ocean NGOS. Reacting to the final outcome of the UNFCCC COP26 today, ocean groups from across the ...
Underwater cables stop crabs in their tracks. Brown crabs can’t resist the electromagnetic pull of underwater power cables and it’s changing their behaviour, marine scientists say. The team behind a new study says the power ...
Blue Blue Carbon International Policy Challenge for Scotland. The way in which marine and coastal habitats such as saltmarshes and seagrass store carbon is to be explored and tested through a new Scottish-led initiative to ...
Cefas science adviser appointed ICES vice-president. Following the ICES’ 109th Statutory Meeting of its Council in October, Defra’s Chief Fisheries Science Adviser Carl O’Brien’s nomination as 1st Vice-President of ICES, has been confirmed, with a majority of ...
Hazem Nagy – Our People. In 2021, the Marine Institute is profiling our people, sharing their study and career paths, the work they do at the Marine Institute and the important contribution their work delivers. ...
Update on ocean negotiations. More than 28 parties, and several blocks of parties, communicated support to the UK Presidency for an ocean outcome in the COP26 decision text. Yesterday the draft was released and includes ...
Message in a bottle – ocean plastic exacerbating climate change. Study tracking movement of plastic bottles in the ocean sheds light on the dangerous interaction between ocean plastic and climate change. On the penultimate day of ...
Transition to electric vehicles cannot come at expense of our ocean. As the focus at COP26 in Glasgow shifts to greening the world’s transportation systems, electric vehicles (EVs) are in the spotlight. However, it is ...
Ocean climate action needs to be counted now. During an event jointly organised by Our Fish and Open Seas, Save the Ocean to Save the Climate – Blue Carbon Breakfast Briefing, leading marine biologists, economists, NGOs and a ...
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