60 returned results for 'stonehaven'

  • MRV Scotia Survey 1516S Programme

    Duration: 14 October – 3 November 2016 Fishing gear: Day grabs; TV drop frame with lasers (including rectangular footprint); armoured cable; Swathe multibeam echosounder system; RoxAnn system; Scout System; and smolt trawl. Objectives: To undertake bathymetric and ground-truthing survey work in connection with offshore oil and gas pipelines associated with the Brent facilities. To undertake…

    18th November 2016

  • The Skye’s the limit

    In October last year, we featured a blog by the now retired Marine Scotland scientist, John Dunn, about the success of Nuffield student and Albyn School pupil, Skye Arnott, from Aberdeen. At the Nuffield celebration event in Surgeon’s Hall in Edinburgh, Skye was awarded a Crest Gold award for her project “Can we predict jellyfish blooms?” and she…

    10th May 2016

  • Nuffield success for Skye

    On Friday the 4th of September I had the privilege of supporting our Nuffield student for this year, Skye Arnott from Albyn School in Aberdeen, at the celebration event in Surgeon’s Hall in Edinburgh. Skye completed an excellent and extremely topical project called “Can we predict jellyfish blooms?” by analysing all the available data and a significant number of…

    1st October 2015

  • ICES Science Fund success for MSS researcher

    In our blog in May, we featured an article about the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) announcing seven awards for its 2015 ICES Science Fund Call. Pablo Leon Diaz of the Phytoplankton Ecology Group in Marine Scotland Science was one of the winners with his proposal in collaboration with the University of…

    22nd July 2015

  • Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions – the ocean’s problem

    We’ve all seen the banner headlines about CO2 concentrations increasing in the atmosphere, but did you know this increase is also impacting our seas and its inhabitants too? There is a natural exchange of CO2 between the surface layers of the ocean and the atmosphere. The chemistry of seawater is complex, an imbalance as a result of…

    22nd July 2015

  • Taking the message about marine litter back to school

    In Marine Scotland, we have a bunch of very active and knowledgeable colleagues who are STEM Ambassadors who spend lots of time educating and working with your people, whether at schools or universities. In March, one on the members of our Fish Health Inspectorate attended an Eco-day at the Mill O’Forest primary school in Stonehaven, where…

    22nd June 2015

  • Swallows and Amazons

    During the early summer some enterprising swallows built a rather neat nest on top of the deck pump switch on the RV Temora. The vessel was in almost constant use for the Stonehaven monitoring sampling every week as well as assorted trawling and gear testing activities, but the birds did not seem to mind the noise or…

    8th August 2013

  • M.R.V. Temora skipper Raymond Cargill retires

    For the last ten years, sampling for the Marine Scotland Science (MSS) Coastal Ecosystem Monitoring Programme at Stonehaven has been undertaken by scientists on board the catamaran Temora. Raymond Cargill, skipper of the Temora, will be retiring at Christmas. Raymond’s local knowledge, dedication and skill will be sorely missed by MSS, as will his readiness…

    17th December 2012

  • Monitoring Marine Zooplankton

     What are marine zooplankton? Zooplankton are very small animals that live in the sea. They are not strong enough to swim against tides and currents and so drift along in the water. There are tens of thousands of species of zooplankton and they range in size from being smaller than a grain of rice up…

    4th April 2012

  • Big Bang prize for student work

    Mairi Bell of Hazlehead Academy wowed the judges at The Big Bang National Science & Engineering Fair in Birmingham last week with her project on diagnosing embryo abnormalities in Zooplankton, which form important components of marine food webs and changes in their abundance can assess the health of the marine ecosystem.

    21st March 2012