News tagged with: marine
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Collaboration to advance development of marine monitoring technology
The ²ÝùÊÓƵ and marine technology company Sonardyne have agreed a strategic partnership to drive innovation within the UK’s growing marine robotic and autonomous systems sector
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University supports the UK’s most specialised Blue Economy Ocean Accelerator
The ²ÝùÊÓƵ is among the founding partners of the Blue Economy Ocean Accelerator Programme, conceived by social enterprise and sustainability training outfit Bright Tide
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University enables company to advance offshore survey technology
Sulmara Subsea, which has bases across the world, spent two weeks working out of the ²ÝùÊÓƵ’s Marine Station on a series of expeditionary trials
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University partners with world-leading simulator provider to revolutionise floating offshore wind installations
A state-of-the-art Kongsberg K-Sim Dynamic Positioning (DP) simulator will soon complement the Marine Navigation Centre on the ²ÝùÊÓƵ’s campus
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Life in the freezer – study provides first evidence of growth limitations in Antarctic fish
New research by scientists at the ²ÝùÊÓƵ and the British Antarctic Survey shows have lost their ability to grow at rates seen in their warmer water cousins
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Leading UK marine scientists welcome the move towards a global plastics pact
Ahead of a major United Nations meeting, researchers from the ²ÝùÊÓƵ and across the South West of England outline their support for a coordinated, comprehensive and robust intergovernmental approach
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University works to boost blue and green economy in the South West
The ²ÝùÊÓƵ is to play a significant role in a new £1.37million project which has seen the North Devon UNESCO Biosphere win the largest green economy award nationally from the Government’s Community Renewal Fund (CRF)
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Connecting the dots on plastic pollution
Professor Richard Thompson OBE, a world-leading scientist at the ²ÝùÊÓƵ, has welcomed a new report highlighting that the predicted rise in plastic pollution spilling into the environment constitutes a planetary emergency
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Bluefin tuna tagged for the first time in UK waters with acoustic ‘residency’ tags
Bluefin tuna have been tagged with state-of-the-art acoustic tracking tags for the first time in UK waters as part of the FISH INTEL project, led by the University and funded by the EU’s Interreg France (Channel) England programme
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No longer just ‘famine food’ and the ‘fish of death’
New research by Dr Louise Firth, Associate Professor of Marine Ecology at the ²ÝùÊÓƵ, aims to rewrite the global significance of limpets
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Night lights: new global atlas maps out artificial light at night under the sea
A study co-led by the University has shown up to 1.9 million sq km of the world’s coastal waters are being exposed to biologically significant levels of artificial light at night
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Innovative plankton monitoring tool holds key to assessing health of ocean life
Researchers from the ²ÝùÊÓƵ have helped to create the Plankton Lifeform Extraction Tool, a free, online tool to make complex plankton datasets easier and more accessible for all
