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  • Scientists take ‘blue-action’ to help society cope with the impacts of dramatic Arctic climate changes

    While the Arctic faces rapid warming and less sea ice currently covers the Arctic Ocean than ever before at this time of the year, an international partnership launches a major project to improve our detailed understanding of the processes and impacts of this changing climate and to construct better long-term forecast systems for the increasingly…

    6th December 2016

  • MRV Scotia: Survey 1416S Programme

    Duration: 27 September – 9 October 2016 Gear Sea-Bird CTDs, ADCPs and current meter instrumentation, water filtering equipment, freezer, mooring equipment, recovery trawl. Objectives Test the CTD in the Buchan Deep off Peterhead. Perform hydrographic sampling along the JONSIS long term monitoring section in the northern North Sea. Perform hydrographic sampling along the long term…

    29th September 2016

  • MRV Scotia: Survey 1316S Programme

    Duration: 10-23 September 2016 Gear:  2 x Jackson BT 184 bottom trawl and wires;  2 x 16“ rock-hopper ground gear; 2 x ground-gear bag nets (centre section only); 2 pairs Morgere ovalfoil 1700 Kg trawl doors; 2 x Agassiz benthic sampling trawl; Scanmar trawl sensors, bottom contact sensor and depth/temperature logger (high pressure DST); VMUX towed video…

    22nd September 2016

  • The Bee’s knees

    Congratulations to Marine Scotland scientist Dr Bee Berx (pictured right) on receiving a Challenger Fellowship award! Started in 2000, the Fellowships are awarded to early career-stage marine scientists who are members of the Challenger Society, for their achievements and promise in a branch of marine sciences: marine biology, marine chemistry, marine geology and marine physics. Asked…

    13th September 2016

  • MRV Scotia: Survey 0116S Programme

    Duration: 5 – 20 January 2016 Fishing gear: BT 101 with tickler chains; flats and rockhopper ground gear; Sediment Sampling: Day grab and sieves; Litter sampling: Catamaran neuston trawl; Plankton net; Water sampling: Aquatracka fluorometer, Seabird 19 and sled. Objectives: To undertake water, sediment and biological sampling for the Clean Seas Environmental Monitoring Programme (CSEMP);…

    7th January 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

  • MRV Scotia: Survey 1315S Programme

    Gear: Sea-Bird CTDs, ADCPs and current meter instrumentation, water filtering equipment (x2), centrifuge equipment (HWU), bacteria sampling equipment (HWU), sediment sampling equipment (UoA), mooring equipment, recovery trawl, drifters, sediment grabs (Van Veen / Day) and sediment corers (MSS / UoA). Objectives: Test the CTD in the Buchan Deep off Peterhead. Collect water samples for salinity…

    17th September 2015

  • MRV Scotia: Survey 0515S Programme

    Duration: 25 April – 8 May 2015 Gear: Sea-Bird CTDs, ADCPs and current meter instrumentation, temperature mini-loggers, water filtering equipment, fridge and freezer (UoA’s), centrifuge equipment (HWU), bacteria sampling equipment (HWU), sediment sampling equipment (UoA), mooring equipment, recovery trawl, glider, sediment grabs (Hammon and Day), and sediment corers (MSS and UoA). Objectives: Test the CTD…

    1st May 2015

  • MRV Scotia: Survey 1914S – Cruise Programme

    Duration: 7 – 22 December 2014 Loading: Aberdeen, 4 December 2014 Unloading: Aberdeen, 22 December 2014 Fishing Gear: Sea-Bird CTD/Carousel, sledge with OPC and CTD, day grab, Hammon grab Objectives  Perform routine hydrographic sampling at stations along the long term monitoring JONSIS section in the northern North Sea. Perform routine hydrographic sampling at stations along the…

    17th November 2014

  • Award for the best undergraduate dissertation in marine science

    At the Challenger Society for Marine Science’s Biennial Conference, a student co-supervised by Dr Bee Berx from the Oceanography Group at Marine Scotland Science (MSS) was awarded a prestigious award for the best undergraduate dissertation in marine science.  Christine McKenna, studying for a BSc in Geography & Mathematics at the University of St Andrews, used…

    18th September 2014