Working with experts from the Natural History Museum, the MBA Data Team has produced rules for the NBN Record Cleaner software to help validate and verify records of crabs around the UK. The rules for around 70 true crab species include the expected distribution and difficulty of identification for those species featured in the 1986
The Marine Biological Association Postgraduate Conference is an annual scientific gathering of postgraduate students doing research in marine biology and related fields. The event serves as an invaluable opportunity to present your research to other fellow students and marine biologists in a friendly environment. The 9th MBA Postgraduate Conference will be proudly hosted for the first
Citadel Hill welcomes delegates for the EURO-BASIN General Meeting, 22-24 May. EURO-BASIN is the European branch of the International BASIN Program (Basin-scale Analysis, Synthesis & INtegration) focussing on climate and human forcing, ecosystem impact and consequences for living resources management in the North Atlantic. The meeting will be using the Citadel Hill Common Room. www.euro-basin.eu
A workshop on citizen science and the needs of the statutory organisations was held in February at the Linnean Society in London. The report of the workshop is available to download. UK-EOF_report_final Executive summary Large amounts of marine life data are gathered by volunteers in the UK each year. At the same time, current, accurate
Official announcement of the GACS Website On behalf of the Acting-Director of the Sir Alister Hardy for Ocean Science (SAHFOS) and the Board of Governance of the Global Alliance of CPR Surveys (GACS), I would like to advise the official launch of the new GACS website at www.globalcpr.org. Details of what GACS is and what
The Marine Biological Association’s SHARC group would like to invite fellow MBA members to join them in a Shore Thing Timed Species Search at Salcombe, South Devon on Saturday 5th May 2012. For anyone not familiar with the Shore Thing project, it is a national project involving schools and volunteer groups in collecting data on
The Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) will launch its latest special topic report card on 8th May 2012 at the World Fisheries Congress (WFC) in Edinburgh. This card is focused on how climate change is affecting fish and shellfish in our seas, and what the social and economic consequences could be. The launch will
Part 1 of a unique new guide to the Marine zooplankton of southern Britain is available to download from the National Marine Biological Library. This series of three illustrated guides (of which this is Part 1) collates taxonomic identification information for the zooplankton groups that have been recorded from sampling off Plymouth since 1888. They
Marine Management Organisation Do you want to help secure a sustainable future for the seas around England? Two exciting opportunities exist for the right calibre of people to play a significant role in the development and implementation of marine planning in England. The role of the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is to make a significant
Big surprises greeted scientists who studied the colonisation of HMS Scylla – an old Royal Navy frigate which was scuttled off the coast of Cornwall – according to Dr Keith Hiscock, associate fellow at the Marine Biological Association. Follow the link to an article on the BBC website about the colonisation of artificial structures. To