Marine
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Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions – the ocean’s problem
22nd July 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
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...
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MASTS Deep Sea Collaboration Project (Survey 0915S) – update 21 July 2015
21st July 2015 by Marine Scotland Communications
Our update of the Deep Sea survey continues….. Day 2 Steaming west, passed the Butt of Lewis, the Flannen Isles, St Kilda, off the continental slope and into the Rockall Trough. The winds are easing and the sea state is improving all the time. Between construction of the multicore and final preparation of the lander,a sperm whale...
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Biologist’s update from Shieldaig: June 2015
21st July 2015 by Marine Scotland Communications
Welcome back to Shieldaig, where spring has sprung and we are surrounded by new life. The run of sea trout smolts is now at an end and we have escorted nearly 650 fish on their way to the sea. A number of these have already returned to the river and some were found to have...
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ICES publishes advice on fishing opportunities in 2016
20th July 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
Last week, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) issued advice on fishing opportunities in 2016 for southern horse mackerel, anchovy, and sardine stocks in the Northeast Atlantic. ICES has now issued advice for more than 150 stocks this year. Together with this advice release, ICES has published a supplementary document that...
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MASTS Deep Sea Collaboration Project (Survey 0915S) – update 17 July 2015
17th July 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
Scotia left Aberdeen harbour this morning after two days of hectic mobilisation. On Tuesday morning Scotia’s deck resembled some kind of sub-sea jumble sale, but the scientists and Scotia’s crew worked hard to gradually transform it into what now looks more like a marine science expo. The most spectacular is a seabed lander that Oceanlab...
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MRV Scotia: Survey 0915S Programme: MASTS Deep Sea Collaboration Project
16th July 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
Duration: 16-27 July 2015 Gear: VMUX towed video chariot with HD camera system and integrated CTD 2 X Agassiz trawl 2 X epibenthic sledge (supplied by SAMS) 2 X megacorer (one supplied by UoA) 1 X Van-veen grab 1 X mini gravity corer (supplied by BGS) 1 X lander with video cameras (supplied by UoA)...
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Historical footage of the Marine Laboratory in Aberdeen
15th July 2015 by Marine Scotland Communications
Did you know that marine and fisheries science has been happening in Aberdeen since the late 1800s? And fisheries protection has been happening since the late 1700s? As part of a historical exhibition about Marine Scotland in Peterhead two years ago, we created a brochure that tells you all about where Marine Scotland came from – but if you want...
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Marine Scotland welcomes European Marine Biological Resource Centre to Edinburgh
14th July 2015 by Marine Scotland Communications
Marine Scotland hosted the latest meeting of the European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC) Implementation Board at its offices in Edinburgh on 13th July. EMBRC, based in Paris, is the latest European Resource Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) being developed and EMBRC will support both fundamental and applied research based on marine bioresources and marine ecosystems. In particular,...
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New collaborative deep sea survey: Hatton-Rockall Basin
13th July 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
In the last year, a new initiative has made Marine Scotland Science’s research vessels, the MRVs Scotia and Alba na Mara, available for use by the MASTS community for specific research projects. This month, the first of these projects becomes operational. A partnership between Marine Scotland Science (MSS), SAMS, Aberdeen University and British Geological Survey has been created as part of...
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MRV Alba na Mara: survey 1015A programme
9th July 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
Duration: 03-19 July 2015 Gear: Surface and subsurface PAM moorings Objectives: To retrieve and re-deploy a series of moorings comprising either dhan buoys (nine surface marked moorings) or acoustic release systems (21 subsurface moorings) and the acoustic recording devices attached to them (30 C-POD and ten SM2M) as part of the East Coast Marine Mammal...
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