{"id":5076,"date":"2016-06-17T11:45:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T10:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/?p=5076"},"modified":"2019-04-04T10:47:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T09:47:21","slug":"its-time-to-celebrate-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/2016\/06\/17\/its-time-to-celebrate-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to Celebrate the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldoceansday.org\/\">World Ocean\u2019s Day<\/a>! A day recognized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabledevelopment.un.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Nations<\/a> as a\u00a0global day of ocean celebration and collaboration for a better future. This year, individuals and organizations across the planet are celebrating under the theme \u201cHealthy Oceans, Healthy Planet\u201d and are promoting prevention of plastic ocean pollution with an array of events and opportunities for everyone to get involved with; such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldoceansday.org\/selfie-for-the-sea\">Selfie for the Sea<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldoceansday.org\/better-bag-challange\">The Better Bag Challenge<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldoceansday.org\/wave-for-change\">Wave for Change<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/06\/Hirta-on-the-deep-blue-sea.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5217 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/06\/Hirta-on-the-deep-blue-sea-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Hirta on the deep blue sea. Crown copyright.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/life-sciences\/aquatic-sciences\/research-selection-world-oceans-day-2016\">selection of research studies<\/a> within\u00a0this year\u2019s theme of \u201cHealthy Oceans, Healthy Planet\u201d has been made available, with free to access on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/\">ScienceDirect<\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">,<\/span> and one of our colleagues at Marine Scotland, Meadhbh Moriarty, was lucky enough to have her paper (which looks at litter occurrence, composition, distribution and source and describes work Meadhbh carried out while at the Marine Institute, Galway) selected: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0025326X15302241\">Spatial and temporal analysis of litter in the Celtic Sea from Groundfish Survey data: Lessons for monitoring<\/a> \u2013 well done Meadhbh, what a fantastic achievement!<\/p>\n<p>Further information on marine litter, oceanography and marine ecosystems can be found below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.scot\/Topics\/marine\/Publications\/TopicSheets\">Full List of Marine Scotland Topic Sheets<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is World Ocean\u2019s Day! A day recognized by the United Nations as a\u00a0global day of ocean celebration and collaboration for a better future. This year, individuals and organizations across the planet are celebrating under the theme \u201cHealthy Oceans, Healthy Planet\u201d and are promoting prevention of plastic ocean pollution with an array of events and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,15,8,9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-msc","category-general","category-mss","category-marine-litter","category-marine-news-from-other-organisations","category-oceanography"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>It\u2019s time to Celebrate the Sea - Marine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/2016\/06\/17\/its-time-to-celebrate-the-sea\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It\u2019s time to Celebrate the Sea - Marine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today is World Ocean\u2019s Day! 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