2020

Introduction to the MBA Arctic Diary - Meet Birthe & Kim Tweet #MBAArcticDiary In July 2021, the Marine Biological Association's Dr Birthe Zaencker and Dr Kimberley Bird will be travelling to the Arctic on board the ice breaker 'Oden ' to study...

Anne Warner Fellowship Supports Research into the Evolution of Early Branching Metazoans In October 2018, a new Research Fellow Dr Vengamanaidu (Venky) Modepalli arrived at the Marine Biological Association (MBA) with a goal to understand the...

rs2979_rs1997_rs1950_website_banner_hoe-lpr.jpg Marine Research Plymouth cements city’s reputation as the UK’s go-to location for marine science Today, the city of Plymouth has seen its position as an international centre of excellence for marine...

Scotland’s latest Marine Assessment reveals significant changes are taking place at the heart of the marine food web, with potential for impacts on the wider pelagic environment. For the first time, a team of researchers has published an assessment...

Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey goes the distance to win a Guinness World Record Seventeen times to the moon and back – we’ve set the record for the greatest distance sampled by a marine survey! Established by Sir Alistair Hardy in 1931, the...

We are pleased to announce applications are now open to take part in this year's Zooplankton Ring Test Zooplankton are included in the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) as an indicator group; however, until recently, there were few other...

The Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey has been running for nearly 90 years, but scientists hope this new project will help shed light on the significant decline in population numbers of endangered North Atlantic right whales. This autumn...

In November 2019, I started working as a science communication volunteer here at the MBA and as my time is now coming to an end I am sitting at my desk taking a moment to reflect on everything I have done during this period. After four years of...

JMBA The first issue of the Journal of The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom ( JMBA ), Vol. I, no.1 (1887) was edited by E. Ray Lankester, the first President of the MBA, it contained a list of governors, founders...

The next call of the ASSEMBLE Plus Transnational Access programme closes on 9 th February 2020. ASSEMBLE Plus (Association of European Marine Biological Laboratories Expanded) supports researchers (from industry and academia) by providing access to...