Marine
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PhD Opportunities available
2nd July 2014 by Marine Scotland Communications
Marine Scotland Science is supporting a PhD opportunity at UHI SAMS and Marine Scotland Science, funded through the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS) on the subject of “Impact of basin-scale forcing on the circulation in the Faroe Shetland Channel”: Read more : Impacts of basin-scale forcing on the circulation of the Faroe...
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Marine Analytical Unit monthly update – 25 June 2014
25th June 2014 by Marine Scotland Communications
This week’s update from the Marine Analytical Unit has been published, featuring an article on Seafish data, which shows a decline in Demersal profits in 2012. Read the full update Related Links All previous Marine Analytical Unit updates
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Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
24th June 2014 by Marine Directorate Communications
The following four individuals have been appointed as Non-Executive Members of the Marine Science Co-ordination Committee (MSCC), they will take up their appointments on 1 July 2014: Professor Mike Elliott: Director of the Institute of Estuarine & Coastal Studies and Professor of Estuarine and Coastal Sciences at the University of Hull, UK. Dr Mark James:...
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Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
24th June 2014 by Marine Directorate Communications
MSCC News: 24 June 2014 Environmental change is transforming many parts of the north-east Atlantic seabed, and according to a newly-published paper this will almost certainly get worse in the coming decades. For the first time, the paper’s authors have brought together research from many different areas to give a systematic idea of how a...
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Wild Dolphins Exhibition in Aberdeen
24th June 2014 by Marine Scotland Communications
Scientists from Marine Scotland have been involved with the new Wild Dolphins Exhibition that opened in Aberdeen yesterday. The exhibition, part of the Greyhope Bay Project, involves 50 giant dolphin sculptures that have individually designed and painted by local artists, dotted around the city. Visit the Greyhope Bay Project facebook page
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Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre launched
24th June 2014 by Marine Scotland Communications
Over £11m public funding matched by industry. A new innovation centre for aquaculture will help create jobs and support the growth, sustainability and profitability of the industry in Scotland. The Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) will bring together industry and research to provide innovative solutions with the aim of growing the already substantial contribution aquaculture...
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MRV Alba na Mara; Survey 1014A – Update
20th June 2014 by Marine Directorate Communications
The East Coast Scallop Survey is going well so far as the weather has been very good and is allowing us to make excellent progress through the stations. As I write this over 38 hauls have been completed with all scallops measured, aged and damage indexed. We got this large lobster in the bycatch and...
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MRV Alba na Mara; Survey 1014A – East Coast Scallop Survey 2014
19th June 2014 by Marine Directorate Communications
The East Coast Scallop Survey for 2014 is well underway, having set sail on the 6th of June. Overview of survey: Scallop dredge hauls will be made at sites used on previous surveys and other known commercial grounds as shown below. Hauls will be of 30 minutes duration. From each haul, all of the scallops...
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MRV Scotia; Survey 0714S – Nephrops Television Survey Update
17th June 2014 by Marine Directorate Communications
It’s been over a week since we left Aberdeen on a grey, foggy day. Normally, at this time of year, these conditions would not be warmly welcomed. However a) we sailed from Aberdeen so didn’t expect much better, and b) these features meant there would be very little wind, which is ideal for the annual...
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Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
17th June 2014 by Marine Directorate Communications
MSCC News: 17 June 2014 Natural England has commissioned new research which will be used to set the standard for assessing the potential impacts of marine operations on mobile marine species. Read the article Brought to you by Plymouth Marine Laboratory (www.pml.ac.uk) on behalf of the UK Marine Science Coordination Committee. For more information about...
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