The EMSEA (www.emsea.eu) conference is a unique opportunity for educators, policy makers and scientists to join together in developing Ocean Literacy throughout Europe, to share best practice in marine education and increase the network of marine educators across Europe. The ‘Early Bird’ rate ends on 28th June 2013! The conference will be a mix of
MBA researchers help show that a remarkable genomic diversity enables an important marine alga to thrive in very different marine habitats. Coccolithophores are abundant bloom-forming phytoplankton which play are important role in the global carbon cycle due to their ability to produce calcium carbonate plates, known as coccoliths. The first haptophyte reference genome from the
The Marine Biological Association’s Herbarium has one of the UK’s most comprehensive collections of seaweed samples. The catalogue of this unique resource will be digitised and some specimens photographed thanks to funding from the Vodafone Foundation “World of Difference” programme. Kim Stevens will be working on this project, and will be adding information and photographs in due course. Read Kim’s blog. Further
Have you ever wanted to draw, sketch and paint some of the sea’s smallest animals and plants? Come along to our practical art workshop and experience the world of marine plankton. Tuesday 2nd July 2013 At the Resource Centre, the Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB
UK and international experts are at the MBA today as we host a three-day NERC funded UK Ocean Acidification macroalgal workshop. Look out for tweets through until Thursday, from @MarClim_MBA @NERCscience @thembauk
Dr David Dixon will be presenting the Wharf Teatime Talk in Tavistock ‘What is happening to Devon’s bees?‘ on Monday 10 June at 2.00 pm. Dr Dixon is a natural history consultant for BBC Spotlight, Inside Out, Autumn Watch and The One Show. He also writes for BBC Wildlife magazine See also work by the MBA
Hosted by the MBA and SAHFOS Cutting across disciplines to predict ecosystem change in space and time Mary S. Wisz, Ph.D. Senior Scientist – Spatial Ecology Group, Arctic Research Centre, Dept. of Biosciences, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, P.O. Box 358, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark Talk begins: 11:30 am, Monday 20th May 2013 Tea and biscuits beforehand in
Three talks were held last Thursday, 9th May in the MBA’s Resource Centre as part of “The Laboratory on the Hoe” project and Plymouth History Festival. An audience of over forty learnt about the history of the Citadel Hill Laboratory and some of the research currently being conducted by the MBA and SAHFOS. A big
I am working with Prof. Richard Thompson at Plymouth University on a 3 year European wide research project “MARLISCO” (Marine Litter in Europe Seas: Social Awareness and Co-Responsibility) – http://www.marlisco.eu/ The aim of this project is to raise societal awareness of the problem of marine litter, the sources, impacts, and solutions, in order to
Saturday 27th April 2013 – 12.00- 4.30pm The Marine Biological Association would like to invite fellow MBA members to join us to survey intertidal crabs at Wembury Point, Devon. We will meet in the National Trust car park at Wembury Point (Not the Wembury Marine Centre Car park) at 11.00, directions here: http://goo.gl/maps/wGWuI . Some members