News tagged with: marine-policy
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Academic shares expertise on the unusual jellyfish visiting UK waters
Â鶹´«Ã½ news: Dr Abigail McQuatters-Gollop was interviewed by the BBC and other national and regional media about a boom in unusual jellyfish spotted in UK waters.
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Researchers help to highlight the true scale of UK’s nature loss
Â鶹´«Ã½ news: Researchers from the University have played an important part in developing the State of Nature 2023 report, which provides a detailed picture of how nature is faring across our towns, cities, the countryside and seas
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Six decades of decline sparks call to protect the foundation of the marine food web
Â鶹´«Ã½ news: Scientists from the Â鶹´«Ã½, working with partners across the UK and Europe, have published a new assessment of plankton abundance in the North East Atlantic
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Northeast Atlantic holoplankton taxa have decreased in abundance during the
past 60 years; triangles represent coastal stations while grid squares
illustrate trends in Continuous Plankton Recorder data. Blue indicates a
decreasing abundance trend; orange indicates an increase]()
Study shows six decades of change in UK’s plankton communities
Involving leading marine scientists from across the UK, led by the Â鶹´«Ã½, new research for the first time combines the findings of UK offshore surveys such as the Continuous Plankton Recorder and UK inshore long-term time-series.
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Â鶹´«Ã½ scientists highlight effects of climate change on UK’s plankton
Marine scientists from the Â鶹´«Ã½ have worked on a major study highlighting the effects of climate change on the plankton populations in UK seas
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University researchers contribute to RSPB’s State of Nature 2019 report
Dr Abigail McQuatters-Gollop and Dr Jacob Bedford, from the Â鶹´«Ã½, were invited to co-author the marine chapter of the RSPB’s State of Nature 2019 report, which also cites research from across the School of Biological and Marine Sciences
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Marine expert invited to join new Defra science advisory group
Â鶹´«Ã½ news: Dr Abigail McQuatters-Gollop has been appointed to a new panel that will help inform Defra policy.
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University leads first UK-wide assessment of changes in plankton community
Scientists led by the Â鶹´«Ã½ have completed the first ever assessment of how plankton communities are changing in coastal waters and shelf seas around the UK
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The challenges of managing and researching the marine environment post-Brexit
Dr Abigail McQuatters-Gollop writes about the challenges of managing and research the marine environment post-Brexit.
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Marine policy expert invited to share expertise with government
Dr Abigail McQuatters-Gollop is invited to speak with government staff at a special event arranged by the Natural Environment Research Council
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Academic takes the lead in European plankton policy assessment
Dr Abigail McQuatters-Gollop, Lecturer in Marine Conservation at the Â鶹´«Ã½, has played a lead role in a seven-year project assessing the importance of plankton to the future biodiversity of the North East Atlantic
