08 Jun 2021

The shock to UK marine science due to the Covid-19 pandemic has been stark, with significant disruption to sea-going research across all disciplines and sectors. Representatives of the marine science community, led by Cabot Institute researcher Kate Hendry and supported by the National Oceanographic Centre Association of Marine Science National Capability Beneficiaries, initiated a survey of the UK marine science community in […]

01 Jun 2021

In the advance of the June G7 meeting in Cornwall, the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO) convened a virtual workshop of international scientists to highlight the critical importance of the ocean and outline a plan of action to ensure a sustainable ocean future for nature and people. Ocean scientists from G7 countries, […]

28 Jul 2020

Science Plastic pollution is a pervasive and growing problem. To estimate the effectiveness of interventions to reduce plastic pollution, we modeled stocks and flows of municipal solid waste and four sources of microplastics through the global plastic system for five scenarios between 2016 and 2040. Implementing all feasible interventions reduced plastic pollution by 40% from […]

07 Jul 2020

ROAD MAP OVERVIEW “clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse oceans and seas” – The UK Marine Vision Background     The Marine Science Co-ordination Committee (MSCC) is a governmental committee that was created in 2008 to deliver the UK Marine Science Strategy. However, over the last 10 years there has been a shift in societal, political […]

05 May 2020

Abstract ‘Marine and coastal environments provide extensive and essential ecosystem services upon which much of humanity relies, yet the incorporation of human dimensions into marine and coastal policy and management has historically been lacking. As efforts to address the substantial and diverse challenges facing marine and coastal environments continue, recent years have seen a growing […]

09 Nov 2019

From Bill Turrell – Aberdeen    Advance Article – Marine Science and the Climate Emergency A paper that has been published on-line by the ICES Journal of Marine Science analyses how marine science can respond to the climate emergency: https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/advance-article/doi/10.1093/icesjms/fsz164/5569821 Abstract Inspired by the growing cries from young climate crisis activists, and noting that net-zero emission […]