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Research at the MBA
The current research programme reflects the wide-ranging commitment of the Association to the development of marine biology. This covers areas as diverse as cell and developmental biology, neurobiology, physiology and functional biology, reproductive biology, and ocean productivity and phytoplankton dynamics. A range of algal and invertebrate species are utilised to investigate fundamental biological problems. Long-term studies of the biology of the English Channel have been supported for more than seventy years and the Association has been instrumental in establishing The Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS) to continue the sequence of continuous plankton recorder surveys in the North Atlantic and North Sea.