Marine
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Meet our scientists – Berit Rabe
19th December 2017 by Marine Scotland Communications
Who are you and what do you do? I am Berit Rabe and I am an inshore physical oceanographer in the oceanography group within the Environment Monitoring and Assessment programme at Marine Scotland Science. I mostly work on a multi-disciplinary project related to sea lice and wild fish interactions using oceanographic field data and hydrodynamic...
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Joint Warrior Training Activity: 30th September – 12th October 2017
27th September 2017 by Marine Scotland Communications
Exercise JOINT WARRIOR 172 (JW172) will take place between 30 September and 12 October 2017, delivered by the Joint Tactical Exercise Planning Staff (JTEPS) from Faslane. It is a programme of exercises conducted across the UK by land forces, warships, submarines and aircraft from 14 Nations. The majority of the maritime and air activity will be focussed...
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Exercise SAXON WARRIOR 17: 1 and 10 August 2017
19th July 2017 by Marine Scotland Communications
Exercise SAXON WARRIOR 17 (SW17) will take place between 1 and 10 August 2017, delivered by the Joint Tactical Exercise Planning Staff (JTEPS) from Faslane. The coordination of the administration and safety will be arranged in a similar way to a JOINT WARRIOR exercise. SW17 is a programme of exercises conducted across the UK by...
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Scotland exceeds 2020 climate targets
14th June 2016 by Marine Scotland Communications
Scotland has exceeded the level of our 2020 target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 42% six years early, Climate Change Secretary Roseanna Cunningham confirmed today. The latest climate change statistics show Scotland’s emissions, for reporting against targets, have fallen by 12.5% year on year to 41.9 million tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) in 2014....
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Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
9th July 2014 by Marine Directorate Communications
Anti-depressants disrupt fish’s brains Drugs designed to ease the symptoms of mental health problems such as depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress can have major disruptive effects on aquatic animals’ brains, say scientists. A suite of new research, published in a special issue of the journal Aquatic Toxicology, points to mounting evidence that they...
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Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
8th July 2014 by Marine Directorate Communications
Ministerial Group For Sustainable Aquaculture – Science and Research Strategy Aquaculture currently supplies more than 50% of global demand for fish and shellfish for human consumption. As the industry continues to grow Scotland is ideally placed to exploit this burgeoning market, but what are the barriers to Scottish expansion of this industry and how can...
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Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
4th July 2014 by Marine Directorate Communications
Marine Scotland launches new Youtube channel Marine Scotland has launched a new Youtube channel, featuring videos about its work and of general marine and fisheries interest. View MS YouTube Brought to you by Plymouth Marine Laboratory (www.pml.ac.uk) on behalf of the UK Marine Science Coordination Committee. For more information about the Marine Science Co-ordination Committee,...
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Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
24th June 2014 by Marine Directorate Communications
The following four individuals have been appointed as Non-Executive Members of the Marine Science Co-ordination Committee (MSCC), they will take up their appointments on 1 July 2014: Professor Mike Elliott: Director of the Institute of Estuarine & Coastal Studies and Professor of Estuarine and Coastal Sciences at the University of Hull, UK. Dr Mark James:...
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Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
24th June 2014 by Marine Directorate Communications
MSCC News: 24 June 2014 Environmental change is transforming many parts of the north-east Atlantic seabed, and according to a newly-published paper this will almost certainly get worse in the coming decades. For the first time, the paper’s authors have brought together research from many different areas to give a systematic idea of how a...
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Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
17th June 2014 by Marine Directorate Communications
MSCC News: 17 June 2014 Natural England has commissioned new research which will be used to set the standard for assessing the potential impacts of marine operations on mobile marine species. Read the article Brought to you by Plymouth Marine Laboratory (www.pml.ac.uk) on behalf of the UK Marine Science Coordination Committee. For more information about...
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