Marine

  • Swallows and Amazons

    8th August 2013 by

    During the early summer some enterprising swallows built a rather neat nest on top of the deck pump switch on the RV Temora. The vessel was in almost constant use for the Stonehaven monitoring sampling every week as well as assorted trawling and gear testing activities, but the birds did not seem to mind the noise or...

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  • President of Mozambique visits the Marine Laboratory

    26th July 2013 by

    Marine Scotland Science had a very important visitor at its Marine Laboratory in Aberdeen this morning. The President of Mozambique, HE Armando Emilio Guebuza, was given a tour round the state-of-the-art facilities by Marine Scotland’s Head of Science, Professor Colin Moffat. During the visit, the President explained more about the freshwater aquaculture industry and the deep water fisheries...

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  • Planning Scotland’s Seas

    25th July 2013 by

    Marine Scotland has launched a joint marine consultation today that will help decide how Scotland’s seas are managed in the future. The joint consultation includes: Scotland’s first National Marine Plan which will provide a single framework to manage all activity in Scottish waters. This will provide clarity to developers and decision makers on Scotland’s priorities for sustainable...

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  • Marine Scotland on show in Peterhead

    28th June 2013 by

    Marine Scotland have launched their first exhibition at the Arbuthnot Museum in Peterhead. The exhibition is packed with information about where Marine Scotland has come from and looks at the history of fisheries protection, marine and fisheries science and the role that Government has played in marine and fisheries over the years. It also looks at Marine Scotland’s priorities...

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  • Aberdeen Foam Event

    28th September 2012 by

    You may have noticed in the national press that a very unusual sea foam (or spume) event occurred this week in Aberdeen. This foam is a natural product and it is not considered a harmful event. In case you missed it, here is a news link to this extraordinary sight – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-19716141 Marine Scotland scientists...

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  • MSS Photograph to be Displayed in Great North Museum

    16th January 2012 by

    During 2012 the British Phycological Society, a society that promotes the study of phytoplankton and algae in UK waters, will celebrate its Golden Jubilee. One of the events planned to mark this occasion is an exhibition of short-listed photographs from the Hilda Canter-Lund photographic competition, which will take place in the Great North Museum in...

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  • One of the longest oceanographic time series in the world

    16th December 2011 by

    The Marine Scotland research vessel Scotia set sail on Sunday 11 December with 10 scientists on board. This cruise will add to time series of measurements from the deep and cold waters of the Faroe-Shetland Channel that were started by scientists more than 100 years ago. In 1895, Dr H. N. Dickson published the results of...

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  • The Big Bang

    18th March 2011 by

    Possibly not ‘The’ Big Bang, but that is what the event was called! Marine Scotland Science’s John Dunn recently went to London to the Excel centre in London’s Docklands as mentor for the lab’s Nuffield student of last year (Katie Forbes) at The Big Bang: UK Young Scientists and Engineers Fair (UK’s biggest single celebration of science...

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  • Marine Scotland Interactive on Twitter

    9th December 2010 by

    Now you can follow this blog and new data products from Marine Scotland Interactive (MSI) via twitter. Tweets will be automatically issued when there is a new blog post, and we will also notify followers when we make changes to the MSI web pages. Our twitter feed can be located at http://twitter.com/MSS_Interactive.

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  • Snow on the mountains in the hinterlands of Loch Ewe

    1st November 2010 by

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