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Marine Ecology and Society

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Marine Ecology and Society

Understanding how marine ecosystems respond to environmental change and human pressures. Integrating ecological, social, psychological, and economic perspectives, to uncover the drivers of resilience, sensitivity, and adaptation, and to inform policies that support sustainable and equitable use of o...

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  Deep Vision: AI-enabled Mapping of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems in the Atlantic

  Co-led by Plymouth Marine Laboratory and the University of Plymouth, this project uses artificial intelligence and high-resolution seabed data to map vulnerable marine ecosystems across the Atlantic Basin. The resulting evidence supports the design of legal protections for deep-sea biodiversity, inc...
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  DEcentrAlised Learning for automated image analysis and biodiversity monitoring (DEAL)

  DEAL will create an application that allows owners of biological image data to participate in decentralised, collaborative networks, where they can leverage the data and expertise of all participants to obtain better, higher efficacy classification results for their data.
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  Carbon sequestration in BLUe EcoSystems (C-BLUES)

  The C-BLUES project aims to significantly advance knowledge and understanding of blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs) – seagrasses, tidal marshes, mangroves and macroalgae – to reduce scientific uncertainty, improve reporting of blue carbon, and promote the role of blue carbon in delivering cli...
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  TYRE-LOSS: Lost at Sea – where are all the tyre particles?

  Tyre particles are increasingly recognised as a potentially major source of microplastic pollution, yet limited data exists on their accumulation and risks in the marine environments. The TYRE-LOSS project is tackling this critical knowledge gap.
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  Future States of the global Coastal ocean: Understanding for Solutions (FOCUS)

  The Future states Of the global Coastal ocean: Understanding for Solutions (FOCUS) project is working to understand how climate change and human activities are impacting coastal seas worldwide.
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  BIO-PLASTIC-RISK: Biodegradable Bioplastics – Assessing Environmental Risk

  Biodegradable bioplastics (BBPs) offer promising solutions to the global plastic pollution challenge. However, our understanding of their fate in the natural environment and potential environmental effects is limited. The Bio-Risk Plastic Project brings together experts from various fields to compre...

08 June 2026

Can Marine Protected Areas withstand climate change?

As the world marks World Ocean Day 2026 under the theme ‘Strong Marine Protected Areas for Our Blue Planet’, PML’s Dr Liz Talbot explains exactly how we can strengthen marine protection and conservation in a changing climate. 

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  Coastal light pollution: taking research on artificial light at night to Chile – and its vast coastline 

  PML’s Dr Keila Guillen Oñate has recently returned from Chile, where she shared

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  MEDIA: Uncertainty about weakening Atlantic currents isn’t a reason to wait – it’s a reason to act

  PML’s Professor Helen Findlay has written for Mongabay.com about the growing concerns surro...

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  MEDIA: Tuna has overtaken cod as the UK’s top‑selling seafood – here’s why

  PML’s Professor Angus Atkinson MBE writes for

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  PML hosts the South West Marine Ecosystems Annual Conference

  This years’ conference, titled ‘Past & Future Change’, brought together marine researchers, conservationists, regulators and citizen scientists to share knowledge, strengthen collaborations and inform future monitoring and management of the South West marine environment.