219 returned results for 'ICES'

  • £3m joint industry programme to accelerate the deployment of the UK offshore wind programme

    The Carbon Trust’s offshore wind accelerator (OWA) has been commissioned by the leading offshore wind developers in the UK, The Crown Estate, Marine Scotland and Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to form the Offshore Renewables Joint Industry Programme (ORJIP). The programme has been created to reduce the consenting risks for large-scale offshore wind…

    4th December 2013

  • Study on habitat modelling for harbour porpoises in the Moray Firth has been published

    MSS has recently deployed 30 CPoDs on the east coast of Scotland. The aim of this network is to allow us to monitor the bottlenose dolphin population during wind farm construction. Data from the same device have been used in a recently published study by Dr. Kate Brookes, to validate a habitat association model for…

    3rd December 2013

  • Marine Analytical Unit weekly updates

    The Marine Analytical Unit provides a weekly briefing to Ministers reporting on the latest management information about fish landings, fish prices, and uptake of effort and quota. The briefing also includes a short article’reporting on an issue of topical interest, for example new fisheries-related research. In the latest brief (November 13th), there is an guest article…

    26th November 2013

  • SEWeb goes interactive

    Scotland’s Environment website provides a one-stop-shop to help users find and access the extensive range of information and data that is currently spread across multiple organisations and many different web sites. This new web page encourages the user to Get Interactive with different environmental data sets through a range of viewing, analysis and visualisation tools,…

    5th November 2013

  • Shaping the future for the fishing industry

    The Fisheries Secretary Richard Lochhead outlined his vision for the future success of the fishing industry in his speech to the Scottish Fisherman’s Federation (SFF) on 2 October. Speaking at the SFF dinner annual dinner in Edinburgh, Mr Lochhead highlighted five key issues on the horizon which will shape the future direction of the industry….

    7th October 2013

  • £6m boost for Scottish fishing

    Fishermen will be offered help to deal with the current pressures facing the industry through an action plan unveiled today. Prawn and white fish fishermen in Scotland have faced tough conditions in recent years with high fuel prices, export markets under pressure and the EU’s Cod Recovery Plan (CRP) having a detrimental effect. The dramatic…

    25th July 2013

  • New phytoplankton and microbe report launched

    The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has launched its first phytoplankton and microbial plankton status report. This report presents data from sixty one sites and from seven geographic regions within the North Atlantic, Baltic and Mediterranean areas. It also includes forty standard areas from the continuous plankton recorder monitoring programme operated by…

    23rd October 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

  • Coastal Monitoring Represented at Local Festival

    MSS had a stall at a local maritime festival to promote awareness of the coastal monitoring work. To read an account of the day click on the below link (blue text). Maritime Rescue Institute, Harbour Festival, September 2010 by John Dunn As part of the Coastal Ecosystem monitoring programme at Marine Scotland Science (MSS) which runs…

    4th October 2010