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Social media and science combine to show how ship’s plastic cargo dispersed from Florida to Norway
A ship’s container lost overboard in the North Atlantic has resulted in printer cartridges washing up everywhere from the coast of Florida to northern Norway, researchers at the University of Plymouth found.
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Academic takes the lead in European plankton policy assessment
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/academic-takes-the-lead-in-european-plankton-policy-assessment
Dr Abigail McQuatters-Gollop, Lecturer in Marine Conservation at the University of Plymouth, has played a lead role in a seven-year project assessing the importance of plankton to the future biodiversity of the North East Atlantic
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Artificial intelligence and 3D printing allow embryo assessment technologies to be transferred from laboratory to field
Scientists from the University of Plymouth are advancing the development of new technology which could improve our ability to assess the impacts of climate change
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Study suggests LEGO bricks could survive in ocean for up to 1,300 years
A study led by the University of Plymouth examined the extent to which items of the ever-popular children’s toy were worn down in the marine environment
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Bone-eating worms ate marine reptile carcasses
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/bone-eating-worms-dined-on-marine-reptile-carcasses
Plymouth University news: A new report has revealed that a species of bone-eating marine worm called Osedax, believed to have co-evolved alongside whales, may actually have existed during the time of the dinosaurs - this impacting upon the fossil record
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Scientists earn awards for global impact of microplastics research
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/scientists-earn-awards-for-global-impact-of-microplastics-research
A team of researchers including Professor Richard Thompson OBE, of the University of Plymouth’s International Marine Litter Research Unit, has won the Societal Impact and overall prizes in the Natural Environment Research Council’s 2018 Impact Awards
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Coastal visitors urged to look for evidence of honeycomb worms
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/coastal-visitors-urged-to-look-for-evidence-of-honeycomb-worms
Seaside visitors are being urged to look out for evidence of a tiny marine creature this summer as part of a European research project led by Ifremer (the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) involving the University of Plymouth
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Sea snail shells dissolve in increasingly acidified oceans, study shows
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and the University of Plymouth, UK, assessed the impact of rising carbon dioxide levels on the large predatory “triton shell” gastropod (Charonia lampas)
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Plymouth scientist to chair national diving committee
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/plymouth-scientist-to-chair-national-diving-committee
Plymouth University news: Professor Jason Hall-Spencer is appointed Chairman of the National Facility for Scientific Diving Committee, the body responsible for reviewing diving research proposals submitted to the Natural Environment Research Council.
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Pioneering microplastics researcher receives the 2023 Blue Planet Prize
University of Plymouth news: Professor Richard Thompson OBE FRS, who led the first ever study highlighting the presence of microplastics in the ocean, has been presented with the 2023 Blue Planet Prize during a ceremony in Japan
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