Paul Stainer

Written 31 posts

Workshop on Physical Damage Indicator development for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive.

16th June 2014

Marine Biological Association, Plymouth 26-27 February 2014 Participants AFBI, MBA, Heriott-Watt University, Bioconstruct, University of Liverpool, JNCC, DEFRA, Natural England, BGS, BRGM, SEPA, CEFAS, MSS, Plymouth University, BFN, SNH, Natural Resources Wales, IECS, Museum National D’Histoire Naturelle, Cornwall IFCA, and DOENI were all represented. Aims:  Mike Robertson attended a workshop intended to further develop a…

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Bird collisions with wind turbines

26th March 2014

Collisions of birds with turbine blades is one of the big issues in environmental impact assessment of offshore wind farms. MS helped to establish a one year project at UHI Thurso on uncertainty in the models used to assess collision risk. Dr Liz Masden has a MREKE Fellowship to do the work. There have been…

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MMO Meeting on Core Fishing Grounds, London 24th February

14th March 2014

  Marine Scotland staff from Planning & Policy and Science divisions have attended a scoping meeting on the opportunities and challenges to using a ‘core fishing grounds’ approach in marine spatial planning organised by the Marine Management Organisation on the 24th of February. A range of fishing industry and governmental representatives across the UK have…

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FLOWW Best Practice Guidance for Offshore Renewables Developments

19th February 2014

The Fishing Liaison with Offshore Wind and Wet Renewables Group (FLOWW) was set up in 2002 to foster good relations between the fishing and offshore renewable energy sectors and to encourage co-existence between both industries. FLOWW’s objectives are to enable and facilitate discussion, discuss on matters arising from the interaction of the fishing and offshore…

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Sea Trout Swimming Depth Contract

19th February 2014

© aboutscotland.com Swimming depth of fish is an important element in determining the potential for interaction of fish with various aspects of marine renewables developments, for example the risk of collision with tidal turbines. However,  although sea trout support important fisheries and may occur in many marine renewables development areas, there is limited information available…

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Coastal Futures 2014

19th February 2014

Mike Robertson attended the annual Coastal Futures meeting in London on the 22nd and 23rd January 2014 at SOAS, University of London. MSS was also represented by Clare Greathead and Francis Neat who additionally gave a talk on the ecology of Rockall. This conference sets out to bring together different sectors from within the UK…

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Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewable devices Conference, Stornoway – April 2014

30th January 2014

“Following the Call for Abstracts on 13th January, the Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewables devices (EIMR) conference, a Marine Scotland Partnership Event within Homecoming Scotland 2014, will take place in Stornoway in the last week of April. The main conference is on the Wednesday and Thursday and will include mix of papers on interactions with…

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Community Renewable Energy Schemes in Scotland

19th December 2013

University of Aberdeen’s School of Social Sciences organised an event on “Community Renewable Energy Schemes” on Wednesday 20th of November. The seminar looked into factors that affect the success of community renewable energy schemes. To highlight the importance of the event, it worth mentioning that the Scottish Government has a target of 500MW community renewable…

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PhD Announcement

19th December 2013

A 3yr PhD studentship (fully funded for UK/EU students) is available at the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU), University of St Andrews, to work on a collaborative project with Marine Scotland Science (MSS) looking at marine mammal habitat use along the east coast of Scotland using passive acoustic monitoring. The student will use data collected…

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Satellite Tagging

19th December 2013

In early summer 2013 a team from MSS Freshwater Laboratory set off for the north coast to fit the first satellite tags ever deployed on maiden salmon in Europe. To ensure protection of this iconic species Scottish Government urgently needs information about the degree of spatial overlap between salmon and potential MRE developments. No-one knows…

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