Marine
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Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions – the ocean’s problem
22nd July 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
We’ve all seen the banner headlines about CO2 concentrations increasing in the atmosphere, but did you know this increase is also impacting our seas and its inhabitants too? There is a natural exchange of CO2 between the surface layers of the ocean and the atmosphere. The chemistry of seawater is complex, an imbalance as a result of...
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MASTS Deep Sea Collaboration Project (Survey 0915S) – update 17 July 2015
17th July 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
Scotia left Aberdeen harbour this morning after two days of hectic mobilisation. On Tuesday morning Scotia’s deck resembled some kind of sub-sea jumble sale, but the scientists and Scotia’s crew worked hard to gradually transform it into what now looks more like a marine science expo. The most spectacular is a seabed lander that Oceanlab...
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MRV Scotia: Survey 0915S Programme: MASTS Deep Sea Collaboration Project
16th July 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
Duration: 16-27 July 2015 Gear: VMUX towed video chariot with HD camera system and integrated CTD 2 X Agassiz trawl 2 X epibenthic sledge (supplied by SAMS) 2 X megacorer (one supplied by UoA) 1 X Van-veen grab 1 X mini gravity corer (supplied by BGS) 1 X lander with video cameras (supplied by UoA)...
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Historical footage of the Marine Laboratory in Aberdeen
15th July 2015 by Marine Scotland Communications
Did you know that marine and fisheries science has been happening in Aberdeen since the late 1800s? And fisheries protection has been happening since the late 1700s? As part of a historical exhibition about Marine Scotland in Peterhead two years ago, we created a brochure that tells you all about where Marine Scotland came from – but if you want...
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Marine Scotland welcomes European Marine Biological Resource Centre to Edinburgh
14th July 2015 by Marine Scotland Communications
Marine Scotland hosted the latest meeting of the European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC) Implementation Board at its offices in Edinburgh on 13th July. EMBRC, based in Paris, is the latest European Resource Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) being developed and EMBRC will support both fundamental and applied research based on marine bioresources and marine ecosystems. In particular,...
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MRV Alba na Mara: survey 1015A programme
9th July 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
Duration: 03-19 July 2015 Gear: Surface and subsurface PAM moorings Objectives: To retrieve and re-deploy a series of moorings comprising either dhan buoys (nine surface marked moorings) or acoustic release systems (21 subsurface moorings) and the acoustic recording devices attached to them (30 C-POD and ten SM2M) as part of the East Coast Marine Mammal...
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MRV Alba na Mara: survey 0515A programme
7th July 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
Duration: 18-25 April 2015 Gear: Surface and subsurface PAM moorings Objectives: To deploy a series of moorings comprising either dhan buoys (maximum of ten surface) or acoustic release systems (minimum of 20 subsurface) and recording devices (30 CPOD and ten SM2M) as part of the east coast marine mammal monitoring programme (see Table 1 and...
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Marine Scotland staff clean-up: 1st July
6th July 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
Last week, colleagues cleaned-up the embankment area and the roadside from the foot of St Fittick’s Road to the Torry Battery car park and then the shore and shore-path from the sandy beach adjacent to the lighthouse (Area 7) back to the “show-beach”(Areas 6 through to 3). They collected: Total effort collecting – 90 minutes Number...
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MRV Scotia: survey 0715S update
3rd July 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
The MRV Scotia sailed east from Aberdeen on the 3rd June to begin the Annual Nephrops TV Survey. Work commenced at the Fladen grounds, however after only completing half the planned stations the weather turned poor and the outlook even worse so the vessel made its way for the Minches. In considerably better conditions, stations...
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MRV Scotia: Survey 0715S Programme
2nd July 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
Nephrops Survey Duration: 3-22 June 2015 Gear: 2 x ScotiaBT175 80mm prawn trawls 2 x Day grabs and 1 x sieving table Towed UWTV sledge 2 x 600m umbilical towing cables and associated TV equipment (including back up). Objectives: To obtain estimates of the abundance and distribution of Nephrops burrow complexes at Fladen, in the...
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