News tagged with: marine
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Film crews capture first evidence of leopard seals sharing food
James Robbins, a Visiting Research Fellow at the ²ÝùÊÓƵ, has led a new study which showed up to 36 seals feeding at the same king penguin colony in South Georgia
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Supergen ORE Hub awards £1million to advance research in offshore renewable energy sector
The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy Hub, led by the ²ÝùÊÓƵ, has awarded almost £1million to UK universities to support ambitious research projects investigating all aspects of offshore renewable energy
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Scientific experts call for eight urgent measures to preserve life-supporting ocean function amid fears that changes could be ‘irreversible’
The University's marine science expertise is featured in a new report by the International Programme on the State of the Ocean.
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Limits on pot fishing can result in win-win for fishermen and marine wildlife
A report by the ²ÝùÊÓƵ, funded by Defra and the Blue Marine Foundation, has found that in areas of low potting intensity the industry was operating in a way that had little impact on seabed species or economically-important shellfish
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University listed among the world’s best for engineering research and impact
The ²ÝùÊÓƵ is eighth in the world, and the top UK university, for Marine and Ocean Engineering in the ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2019.
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Project aims to preserve the unique seas around the Isles of Scilly
The ²ÝùÊÓƵ's Marine Conservation Research Group is working on a new project to preserve the seas around the Isles of Scilly in a way that supports wildlife and the local economy
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Evolution of life in the ocean changed 170 million years ago
Research led by academics from the ²ÝùÊÓƵ suggests the ocean as we understand it today was shaped by a global evolutionary regime shift around 170 million years ago.
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Using art to foster our love of the coastline
Rosie Sherwood, artist in residence at the ²ÝùÊÓƵ’s Marine Institute, launches her new exhibition An Ever Moving Now at the Marine Station
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Research aims to enhance understanding of changes in polar sea ice
Professor Simon Belt from the ²ÝùÊÓƵ is jointly coordinating a study to develop the first ever proxy for reconstructing past changes to transmitted light through sea ice
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Unlocking the stories of coastal communities living under the threat of extreme storms
Waves is a sound installation developed by artistic director Kay Michael, of the international theatre company Empty Deck, and Gerd Masselink, Professor of Coastal Geomorphology at the ²ÝùÊÓƵ
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![Professor John Spicer collecting intertidal amphipods from South Cove (photo credit: Simon Morley)]()
The complex fate of Antarctic species in the face of a changing climate
Scientists from the the ²ÝùÊÓƵ and the British Antarctic Survey present support for the theory that marine invertebrates with larger body size are generally more sensitive to reductions in oxygen
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Pioneering partnership names its first Ocean Giants Scholars
Thanks to a pioneering partnership between the ²ÝùÊÓƵ and the Ocean Giants Trust, a series of scholarships have been awarded to marine biology and conservation undergraduates
