Posted May 21 2012
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
Posted May 18 2012
The Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX) is University College London’s centre for interdisciplinary research in the medical and life sciences. It brings together life and medical scientists with mathematicians, physical scientists, computer scientists and engineers to tackle the challenges arising from complexity in biology and medicine. The
Posted May 17 2012
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
Posted May 17 2012
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
Posted May 14 2012
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
Posted May 11 2012
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
Posted May 04 2012
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
Posted May 03 2012
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
Posted April 30 2012
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
Posted April 25 2012
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