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Tracking devices aim to monitor fish movements off the UK coastline
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/tracking-devices-aim-to-monitor-fish-movements-off-the-uk-coastline
Scientists from the University of Plymouth worked with the Isles of Scilly Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority to deploy monitoring devices that will help them paint a comprehensive picture of the movements of an endangered marine species.
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Student to swap labs for life on the ocean waves to gain greater understanding of microplastic pollution
University of Plymouth news: Imogen Napper, a PhD researcher at the University of Plymouth, is one of 24 women signed up to participate in eXXpedition North Pacific 2018, which will start in Hawaii on June 23 and finish in Seattle around five weeks later
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Fisherman scraping the bottom of the barrel in the English Channel
Plymouth University news: Decades of overfishing in the English Channel has resulted in the removal of many top predators from the sea and left fishermen ‘scraping the barrel’.
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Leading scientists express concern over micro plastics in the ocean
Plymouth University news: Microplastics are becoming an increased concern because of their widespread presence in the oceans and the potential physical risks they pose to organisms.
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Researcher helps highlight the importance of UK’s maerl beds
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/researcher-helps-highlight-the-importance-of-uks-maerl-beds
University of Plymouth news: Professor Jason Hall-Spencer has been studying the features for several decades and is a member of the steering group for the newly formed UK Maerl Forum.
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University influences new measure seeking to protect marine mammal habitats
University of Plymouth news: Research carried out by the University of Plymouth and its partners has proved critical to the western English Channel being identified as an Important Marine Mammal Area (IMMA).
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Researcher makes key contribution to David Attenborough’s film about the ocean
University of Plymouth news: Dr Bryce Stewart helped with filming scenes and advised on the script for Ocean with David Attenborough, a film that premiered in early May
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Are great white sharks warming to UK waters?
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/discover/are-great-white-sharks-warming-to-uk-waters
Are great white sharks warming to UK waters? With climate change warming seas, experts predict we could see these endangered ocean predators closer to our shores.
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University listed among the world’s best for engineering research and impact
The University of Plymouth is eighth in the world, and the top UK university, for Marine and Ocean Engineering in the ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2019.
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No longer just ‘famine food’ and the ‘fish of death’
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/no-longer-just-famine-food-and-the-fish-of-death
New research by Dr Louise Firth, Associate Professor of Marine Ecology at the University of Plymouth, aims to rewrite the global significance of limpets
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