Marine
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Marine Scotland staff clean-up: 5th May
6th May 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
Not letting a bank holiday stop him our chief litter picker, Danny Pendrey, enlisted the help of his family yesterday to collect some litter on the beach next to the lighthouse. As part of the regular ongoing clean up, colleagues will be going out this Thursday (7th May) to carry on the good work. For...
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Casting the Net via the Marine Collaboration Research Forum (MarCRF)
5th May 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
On Friday 24th April, MarCRF held a networking event – “Casting the Net”- to bring together marine related researchers from around Aberdeen, including from Marine Scotland Science, the University of Aberdeen, and other universities, research institutes and businesses in the area. All participants provided profile slides which were on display throughout the event, ranging from very informative...
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SEWeb Hackathon – 30th & 31st May
28th April 2015 by Marine Scotland Communications
Scotland’s Environment Web wants to help people discover and understand more about the environment. Environmental data is really important – to provide context to reports on the state and quality of the environment, to improve our understanding of the challenges and opportunities our environment faces, and encourage communities, school children and individuals to investigate their...
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RSPB Scotland’s Dolphinwatch is back!
23rd April 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
Marine Scotland Scientists have long had a keen interest in dolphins, including being involved in the recent Greyhope Bay Project in Aberdeen. Keeping the dolphin theme going, this weekend sees the launch of Dolphinwatch 2015. People heading down to the Torry Battery in Aberdeen will hopefully be able to see one of the UK’s most impressive wildlife...
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Tracking across the Atlantic
20th April 2015 by Marine Scotland Communications
Last year, Marine Scotland Science collaborated with Jim Manning at the NOAA North East Fisheries Science Centre, USA to obtain some low cost trackers for ocean drifters that they released. Using the same tracking technology, an education outreach project in the USA has launched a number of unmanned sailboats, one of which is currently heading towards...
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Joint Warrior Training Activity: 11th to 24th April 2015
2nd April 2015 by Marine Scotland Communications
Exercise Joint Warrior 151 will take place between 11 and 24 April 2015, delivered by the Joint Tactical Exercise Planning Staff from Faslane (JTEPS). It is a programme of exercises conducted by land forces, warships, submarines and aircraft across the UK. The majority of the exercise is focussed in the airspace, offshore and coastal waters...
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Marine & Fisheries News from other Organisations
27th March 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
A new paper featuring contributions from Plymouth Marine Laboratory Director of Science Professor Manuel Barange outlines why fish deserve more attention in food policies in our quest to meet the nutritional needs of a growing global population. Fish already make a major contribution to the human food supply, providing more than 4.5 billion consumers with...
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Go4SET Regional Finals – An Assessor’s Experience
26th March 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
By John Dunn On the 11th of February I acted as an assessor in the regional finals of the Go4SET competition at Elphinstone Hall, King’s College, Aberdeen University. Teams from all over Grampian had been working away for ten weeks on a series of projects, and our role as assessors was to choose a suitable...
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ICES recommends increased consideration of ecosystem functioning in its review of the MSFD
20th March 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has reviewed three descriptors of Good Environmental Status (GES) of the European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). The review suggests revisions to the criteria of the descriptors, highlighting the need for the MSFD to consider how humans impact the functioning of the ecosystem. It...
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Life’s a (clean) beach!
19th March 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has launched the results of their Great British Beach Clean, which took place from 19th – 22nd September 2014. A record number of more than 5,300 volunteers took part, across more than 300 events nationally and the results can be downloaded from the MCS website. If you would like to take...
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