Marine
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Use of new technologies to better understand changes in oxygen levels in the North Sea
8th June 2021 by MS Communications
The Scotland’s Marine Assessment 2020 portal provides a range of information on the health of our seas and how to determine the state of marine ecosystems. One example is the NERC-funded (Natural Environment Research Council) AlterEco project, which is an alternative framework to assess marine ecosystem functioning in shelf seas.
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Water Sampling for Long-Term Monitoring – An Update 09/10/18
16th October 2018 by Marine Directorate Communications
Scotia left harbour at 09:00 on Friday 5 October. Our first objective was to deploy the Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) profiler at 18 stations along a line at 57° N going west from the Scottish East Coast to 2°E. Along with salinity (conductivity) and temperature, we measured dissolved oxygen, turbidity and fluorescence. We also…