Marine
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Meet Pablo Chevallard our Renewables and Energy Technical Officer
21st November 2018 by Marine Directorate Communications
Fresh from the recent Science in Government Conference we bring you a collection of posters created by our colleagues to tell us more about who they are and what they do. We hope you find them as interesting as we do. First up we have Pablo Chevallard who works in the Renewable Energies Group. Read...
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Researching Blue Carbon – meet Corallie Hunt
2nd November 2018 by Marine Scotland Communications
A new Scottish Government funded research programme into Blue Carbon began earlier this year as part of a commitment in the 2017-2018 Programme for Government. The current focus revolves around measuring the ability of various habitats to sequester carbon, understanding how it is stored for the long term, and building an evidence base on the...
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Celebrating Science and Year of the Young Person with Alistair McCartney
18th October 2018 by Marine Directorate Communications
2018 is both the Year of the Engineer and the Year of the Young Person – and this blog is about one of our many colleagues who are inspiring the next generation with their Outreach work. This month we read about Alistair McCartney who is a Laboratory Manager in our Freshwater Fisheries Laboratory in Pitlochry....
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Celebrating Science and Year of the Young Person with Eric Dalgarno
20th September 2018 by Marine Directorate Communications
As we mentioned in one of our earlier blogs, 2018 is both the Year of the Engineer and the Year of the Young Person – and this blog is about one of our many colleagues who are inspiring the next generation with their Outreach work. This is Eric, one of our Marine Environmental Chemists in...
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Supporting science at school with a Royal Society Partnership Grant
10th September 2018 by Marine Scotland Communications
Our Freshwater Fisheries Laboratory in Pitlochry and Breadalbane Academy in Aberfeldy are celebrating after receiving a Royal Society Partnership Grant, allowing them to work together on a project to explore the effects of hydro dams on river temperatures in the school’s local catchment, the River Tay. Royal Society Partnership Grants support schools to enable students...
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Amazing Footage at Half-landing for Survey 1218S
7th September 2018 by Marine Directorate Communications
It’s Monday the 3rd of September and since the last blog post the team here have been squirreling away, successfully collecting video data from all of the planned stations at Rosemary Bank Seamount and are starting to collect still photos and video from Wyville Thomson Ridge. The weather has delayed us a little on this...
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Reality TV at its Best
6th September 2018 by Marine Directorate Communications
Survey: 1318A MRV Alba na Mara Duration: 25th August – 10th September 2018 MRV Alba na Mara left Fraserburgh on Sunday the 26th of August, a day later than planned due to poor weather, to begin survey 1318A – the ‘Annual Nephrops Underwater TV (UWTV) Survey’. The areas to be covered are Moray Firth and...
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Come on in; our Doors are (nearly) Open!
31st August 2018 by Marine Directorate Communications
We are very proud (and quite excited) to announce that the Marine Laboratory will be participating in Doors Open Day (again) this year. Joining countless other hidden gems in Aberdeen City we will be open from 10 am to 4 pm on Saturday 8 September which also corresponds with the first day of the Aberdeen...
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Celebrating Science and Year of the Young Person – Carl Jones
23rd August 2018 by Marine Directorate Communications
The year 2018 is both the Year of the Engineer and the Year of the Young Person – and this blog is about one of our many colleagues who are inspiring the next generation with their Outreach work. Meet Carl Jones – British Seas Fisheries Officer based in our Peterhead office. When not dressing up as...
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Celebrating the Year of the Engineer with a father and son – Danny Copland
7th August 2018 by Marine Scotland Communications
Last month, as part of our celebrations of the Year of the Engineer as well as the Year of Young People, we introduced you to one half of our father and son Engineering team – dad Phil Copland. This month, as promised, son Danny Copland gets his own back! Who are you and what do you do? My name is...
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