News tagged with: marine
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Student to swap labs for life on the ocean waves to gain greater understanding of microplastic pollution
Â鶹´«Ã½ news: Imogen Napper, a PhD researcher at the Â鶹´«Ã½, is one of 24 women signed up to participate in eXXpedition North Pacific 2018, which will start in Hawaii on June 23 and finish in Seattle around five weeks later
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University scientists contribute to government’s Future of the Sea report
Professor Richard Thompson and Professor Tom Hutchinson, from the Â鶹´«Ã½, contributed to the Foresight Future of the Sea report, published by the Government Office for Science
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Decreased oxygen levels could present hidden threat to marine species, study suggests
Scientists from the Â鶹´«Ã½ have shown that creatures which develop in hypoxic (low oxygen) conditions in the marine environment could experience previously unseen hindered development, and become compromised as adults.
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Government funding boost to British marine research
Environment Minister Therese Coffey announces funding of £150,000 for the Â鶹´«Ã½, Â鶹´«Ã½ Marine Laboratory (PML) and the University of St Andrews to further understand ‘natural capital’
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Marine policy expert addresses Parliamentary meeting on post-BREXIT fishing landscape
University marine policy expert Dr Abigal McQuatters-Gollop addresses a Parliamentary briefing on the opportunities and challenges of UK fishing in a post-Brexit world
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Enhanced education could help turn the tide on marine litter
Research by the Â鶹´«Ã½, the Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development and the Coastal and Marine Union explored how education can influence teachers and students understanding of marine litter
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Graduate works with BBC on Animals with Cameras series
Marcus Shirley, who graduated from the BA (Hons) Photography programme at the Â鶹´«Ã½ in 2009, has worked with the BBC to create an array of lightweight underwater cameras used in its recent Animals with Cameras series
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University research informs the government’s ambitious plan for conservation
University research at the Marine Protected Area of Lyme Bay has helped to inform Defra's new 25-year conservation plan
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South West Blue Communities experts head to Asia
Academics, including those from the School of Psychology, attended the Blue Communities launch event in Malaysia
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New research reveals England’s only resident bottlenose dolphins
Rebecca Dudley, an MRes student at the Â鶹´«Ã½, has been working with the Cornwall Wildlife Trust and analysing sightings and photographs of dolphins in the South West
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Climate change scientist to receive funding from President of France
Â鶹´«Ã½ academic Professor Camille Parmesan has been selected by the President of France Emmanuel Macron to receive funding as part of his "Make Our Planet Great Again" programme.
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Plastic pollution and the planet
Richard Thompson, Head of the International Marine Litter Research Unit at the Â鶹´«Ã½, writes about the threat posed by plastic pollution to our environment and how Blue Planet II has helped to raise public awareness of the problem
