Marine
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News from our Scotia crew
18th June 2021 by Marine Directorate Communications
Colleagues onboard our marine research vessel (MRV) Scotia are nearing the end of their latest survey trip but have made good progress collecting information on the abundance and distribution of Nephrops norvegicus, commonly known as langoustine or Dublin bay prawns.
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Marine Mammals – updated demographics – how do we measure that?
6th August 2020 by Marine Directorate Communications
Understanding the impacts of human activities, and preventing harm to habitats and species, is one of the biggest challenges to marine industries. The Scottish Government’s Scottish Marine Research Energy Programme (ScotMER) has published three new studies to assist when assessing the impact of offshore renewable developments on marine mammals. These new reports pull together key…
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Exploring the Effects of Climate Change on Marine Food Webs
29th October 2019 by Marine Directorate Communications
Three researchers (T. Regnier, F. M. Gibb and P. J. Wright) from Marine Scotland Science (MSS) have had their paper entitled “Understanding temperature effects on recruitment in the context of trophic mismatch” published in the journal Scientific Reports. The paper looks to address the impacts of climate change in Scotland’s marine environment and fish stocks….
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Meet Pablo Chevallard our Renewables and Energy Technical Officer
21st November 2018 by Marine Directorate Communications
Fresh from the recent Science in Government Conference we bring you a collection of posters created by our colleagues to tell us more about who they are and what they do. We hope you find them as interesting as we do. First up we have Pablo Chevallard who works in the Renewable Energies Group. Read…
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Location, Location, Location
13th August 2018 by Marine Directorate Communications
Survey: 1218A MRV Alba na Mara Duration: 13-22 August 2018 Gear: Subsurface Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) Moorings Objectives: To retrieve and deploy a series of acoustic release systems (19 subsurface moorings) with attached acoustic recording devices (19 C-POD, 6 SM2M and 1 sound recorder) as part of the east coast marine mammal monitoring programme and…
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First UK Assessment of Underwater Noise Published by UK Research Partnership
10th November 2016 by Marine Directorate Communications
The Centre for the Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) has teamed up with Marine Scotland Science and the University of Exeter to analyse underwater noise data from subsea sound recorders located around the UK coast. The results of the Defra-funded study have now been published in an article titled Underwater noise levels in UK…
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