97 returned results for 'scotia sampling'

  • Surveying the German High Seas fleet in Scapa Flow

    Duration: 23 – 31 July 2017 Sampling Gear Swathe multibeam echosounder system TV drop frame with armoured cable Scout System RoxAnn system Seatronics ROV Project Summary This project is a multidisciplinary collaborative project to undertake remote sensing and diver surveys of the High Seas Fleet and the War Graves HMS Hampshire, HMS Vanguard and HMS…

    27th July 2017

  • New data portal on deep-water Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems in the North Atlantic released

    Knowing where the various deepwater habitats and species exist is important for conservation and management. Over the last 5 years, Marine Scotland scientist Dr Francis Neat has been working with the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) – a global organisation that develops science and advice to support the sustainable use of…

    23rd February 2016

  • Message in a bottle

    While digging through the archives of footage we have in Marine Scotland, we came across this footage of drift bottles being thrown in to the sea, to try and help track the current. While we still sample in the Faroe Shetland channel, technology has moved on, as you’ll see from our Tracking the Ocean story from…

    26th October 2015

  • MASTS Deep Sea Collaboration Project (Survey 0915S) – update 24 July 2015

    The latest update of the MRV Scotia Survey 0915S… Day 4. After yesterday’s tantalising glimpses of what might have been the cold seep, Jim Drewery, leads the watch in which we begin to deploy the more conventional seabed sampling gear. The first samples suggest we are indeed in the right area. Graham Oliver who did…

    24th July 2015

  • Supporting the Scottish Marine Protected Area (MPA) project

    This week the Scottish MPA project reached a significant milestone this week with the designation of 30 protected sites throughout Scottish waters. This network is the result of work involving many agencies and organisations. Marine Scotland Science (MSS) has been working hard conducting research, monitoring surveys and providing advice to help support this work. MSS…

    24th July 2014

  • Home for Christmas

    The scientists and crew of Scotia worked hard in difficult conditions to complete the last monitoring survey of the year before returning to port on 23 December, just in time for Christmas. Marine Scotland would like to thank all of the crew and scientists on board for their hard work and dedication to make the trip…

    6th January 2012

  • One of the longest oceanographic time series in the world

    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…

    16th December 2011