Marine
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Marine Analytical Unit weekly update – 26 February 2014
27th February 2014 by Marine Scotland Communications
This week’s update from the Marine Analytical Unit has been published, featuring a guest article reporting on the ‘Spatial management of discards – lessons from the Kattegat’. Read the full update Related Links All previous Marine Analytical Unit updates
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Marine Science Co-ordination Committee vacancies
25th February 2014 by Marine Scotland Communications
The Marine Science Co-ordination Committee is seeking up to three independent non-executive members to contribute to effective delivery of the UK Marine Science Strategy. The non-executive members are to be appointed to the MSCC on the basis of their personal expertise to provide independent input into the work of the Committee. They will have a...
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FLOWW Best Practice Guidance for Offshore Renewables Developments
19th February 2014 by Paul Stainer
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 by Paul Stainer
© 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 by Paul Stainer
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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Marine Analytical Unit weekly update – 12 February 2014
13th February 2014 by Marine Scotland Communications
This week’s update from the Marine Analytical Unit has been published, featuring a guest article reporting on ‘Public Perception of the Marine Environment’ Read the full update Related Links All previous Marine Analytical Unit updates
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Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewable devices Conference, Stornoway – April 2014
30th January 2014 by Paul Stainer
“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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Marine Atlas wins in New York
21st January 2014 by Marine Scotland Communications
The e-book version of Scotland’s Marine Atlas, created on behalf of Marine Scotland by APS Group Scotland, has won an award at the prestigious Digital Book Awards in New York. At a ceremony hosted by LeVar Burton, actor and co-founder of Reading Rainbow (an educational app for children), the Atlas beat the competition to win the category of...
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Integrated coastal-zone risk management – ICES Cooperative Research Report
16th January 2014 by Andronikos Kafas
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea science plan has emphasised the importance of coastal zone management and marine planning. In recognition of this, a Theme Session was held at the Annual Science Conference in Nantes in 2010. Papers from that Session have been combined into Cooperative Research Report number 320, edited by...
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Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewables: call for abstracts
13th January 2014 by Marine Scotland Communications
Following the success of the inaugural international EIMR conference in 2012 (Orkney, Scotland), the University of the Highlands and Islands and partners are delighted to announce the second environmental interactions of marine renewables (EIMR2014) conference to be held in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis between 28 April and to 2 May 2014. This meeting will serve...
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