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Staff spotlight: Georgina Ramm – Deputy Skipper
10 February 2023
To mark “International Day of Women and Girls in Science‘, we wanted to share the story of our “Deputy Skipper’ Georgina Ramm, who has joined ...
Using community knowledge and citizen science to help tackle climate-sensitive, water-associated infectious disease
06 February 2023
New project aims to map cholera in India by collecting sanitation and disease data through a publicly accessible smartphone app.
PML scientist joins RRS Sir David Attenborough for polar science trials in Antarctica
04 February 2023
The trials are a critical milestone in the commissioning of the ship
Uniting on ocean acidification: a radical new approach to monitoring OA impacts at global scale
03 February 2023
A new framework supports the vision for a step change in the global monitoring of OA impacts on marine life
Returning from sampling station L4
Undermeasured compound could help resilience against climate change in key coastal waters
02 February 2023
New study helps improve understanding of the interplay between species domination, competitive advantage and changing environmental factors relevant t...
Polar waters. Willian Justen de Vasconcellos | Unsplash
Emissions of unexpected gases from marine life affect the air and climate over the poles
01 February 2023
A new study reveals that trace atmospheric gases thought to be pollutants are also produced by marine plankton and emitted by the ocean, with potentia...
Staff Spotlight: Dr Lee de Mora - Marine Ecosystem Modeller
31 January 2023
Dr Lee de Mora sits within our Marine Systems Modelling group, which develops and applies state-of-the-art computational models to promote sustainable...
Green light for project to enhance understanding of climate change &human impacts on coastal ocean
30 January 2023
The “FOCUS’ project is one of six given the go-ahead as part of a £39m funding announcement from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Francesco Ungaro | Unsplash
New study investigates seaweed detritus as a Blue Carbon 'blind spot'
27 January 2023
Pioneering techniques helps reveal how link between seaweed habitats and the seafloor may affect the global carbon cycling.
Algal Bloom contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019)
New approach to satellite data analysis reveals unexpected patterns in biological production
18 January 2023
The pioneering statistical method compensates more accurately for gaps in chlorophyll and sea surface temperature data.
Annie Spratt | Unsplash
Scientists stress the need to drastically reduce CO emissions by 2030 to avoid crossing irreversible thresholds for frozen Earth
09 January 2023
“Only by halving emissions by 2030, in line with the Paris Agreement’s science-based 1.5°C limit, can we minimise the risks of crossing irreversi...