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St Ives bay
Pioneering Ocean Carbon Removal technique proves successful in pilot study
01 July 2024
The trial off St Ives Bay in Cornwall involved adding magnesium hydroxide to wastewater.
PML in the media: BBC Rare Earth - ‘Can an oil rig be a nature reserve?’
28 June 2024
PML’s Professor Matt Frost featured on BBC Rare Earth today (28th June) discussing the problem faced by governments across the world… with around ...
L4 autonomous buoy deployment - image credit: Jani Pewter
L4 Autonomous Buoy back on station
21 June 2024
Following the planned major overhaul and sensor upgrades, the L4 Autonomous Buoy has now been deployed back on station at the L4 sampling site, 4 naut...
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico by Kris Krug CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
WATCH: Latest video on detecting oil spills using state-of-the-art satellite technology
19 June 2024
New video summarises research at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) that is helping to detect oil spills across the global ocean using satellite technol...
Staff spotlight: Lee Merchant - Head of Estates and Facilities
16 June 2024
Who manages the day-to-day running of our four-storey laboratory; brimming with an assortment of experiments and research spanning seven science depar...
Image courtesy of the NERC funded Deep links project 2016
Funding secured for automated image-analysis biodiversity monitoring project
13 June 2024
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has announced funding for a new project proposed by our Dr James Clark and collaborators, to develop s...
New study shows plastic and non-stick cookware is likely adding thousands of microplastics into the human diet
11 June 2024
A new collaborative study from scientists at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, SALT Lofoten and the Norwegian Institu...
Major boost for oceanic research as Challenger 150 joins forces with Seabed 2030
07 June 2024
Coinciding with World Oceans Day (8th June 2024), two major international marine initiatives have announced the signing of a landmark agreement to wor...
Angus Atkinson
PML’s Professor Angus Atkinson awarded MBE in the King's Birthday Honours
06 June 2024
Professor Atkinson has been recognised for his services to Polar Marine Research and Conservation, at the same time his father Anthony Atkinson was al...
PML celebrating the United Nations World Oceans Day
05 June 2024
World Oceans Day (WOD) is celebrated annually on 8th June across the globe, fostering public interest in the crucial role the ocean plays in all of ou...
Increased ocean observations urgently needed, according to UN State of the Ocean Report 2024   
03 June 2024
PML’s Professor Steve Widdicombe was among the authors
Climate change exacerbated June 2023 marine heatwave
31 May 2024
New research has shown that while high-pressure weather conditions were the main driver behind the elevated temperatures, warming due to climate chang...
WATCH: summary findings of the Decommissioning - Relative Effects of Alternative Management Strategies (DREAMS) project
23 May 2024
This week the DREAMS team presented their findings from their 3 year study into the different strategies for decommissioning structures in the North S...
PML wins ‘Planet Saver’ award 
23 May 2024
The award was presented at the 2024 Devon &Plymouth Chamber Awards ceremony, “celebrating Devon’s brightest businesses’.
Coral reef in Malindi
Accelerating global biodiversity efforts: key themes from the recent UN advisory meeting in Kenya
22 May 2024
PML’s Professor Matt Frost reflects on the 26th SBSTTA meeting
Seaweed forests are an overlooked component of oceanic carbon storage
22 May 2024
A groundbreaking study by an international team of researchers, including scientists from Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), has revealed seaweed fores...
Above: Black triggerfish swimming around Boatswain Bird Island near Ascension Island. The seas around the remote Ascension Island
The sonification of marine heatwaves
18 May 2024
“Sonification’ is a term to describe the musical representation of data, and here, we share a sonification using projected model data of the futur...
Above: Dr Frances Hopkins in the Falklands pictured alongside a large group of Gentoo penguins. Like other penguin species
Staff Spotlight: Dr Frances Hopkins - Marine biogeochemist
13 May 2024
Meet Dr Frances Hopkins – or more affectionately known at the laboratory here as Frankie – a Marine Biogeochemist in our “Marine Biogeochemistry...
MEDIA: “Suffocating seas...” Prof Ana Queirós on marine heatwaves and ‘seabed hypoxia’
11 May 2024
PML’s Marine and Climate Change Ecologist Prof Ana Queirós was interviewed by the BBC for their article, “Hurricanes, heatwaves and rising se...

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