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Urban Dialogues Network

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/urban-dialogues

Urban Dialogues extends the University of Plymouth's sustainability work and history of community engagement, embracing disparate disciplines to enable more joined-up thinking on pedagogy and community development.

Pairing old and new technologies could unlock advances in plankton science

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/pairing-old-and-new-technologies-could-unlock-advances-in-plankton-science

University of Plymouth news: New research led by the University highlights the benefits of existing long-term plankton monitoring programmes and emerging technologies in monitoring the health of our seas

Working to understand and protect endangered sea turtles

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/resm-marine-sciences/working-to-understand-and-protect-endangered-sea-turtles

Marine Sciences

Working to understand and protect endangered sea turtles. ResM student Naomi Westlake spends 12 weeks in Grenada researching endangered sea turtle species.

Particle characterisation

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/marine-physics-research-group/particle-characterisation

University of Plymouth research: Suspended in the waters of rivers, estuaries, coastal seas and the open oceans are tiny particles of sediment, small animals and tiny plants as well as a range of dead and decaying detritus.

Shelf-edge dynamics

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/marine-physics-research-group/shelf-edge-dynamics

Plymouth University research: Shelf seas are regions that lie between the deep ocean and land masses. They represent around nine per cent of the area covered by the global ocean but are disproportionately important to all life on Earth.

Submesoscales

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/marine-physics-research-group/submesoscales

Plymouth University research: Submesoscales are apparent as lateral density gradients and intense circulations throughout the upper ocean over horizontal scales of 1-10 km.

Opportunities

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/marine-physics-research-group/opportunities

Plymouth University: As academic staff, we always welcome enquiries from students interested in marine physics and who wish to be involved in fieldwork.

Song Collectors Pathway project

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/cornerstone-heritage/song-collectors-pathway-project

The collective is at the forefront of efforts to document signing practices in the UK and Ireland.

Breath test may lead to earlier diagnoses of Alzheimer’s disease

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/breath-test-may-lead-to-earlier-diagnoses-of-alzheimers-disease

Plymouth University news: Dementia research charity BRACE has funded research at Plymouth University which will investigate the effectiveness of a breath test as a means to diagnose Alzheimer's disease

INSPIRE

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/about-us/university-structure/faculties/health/inspire

Information about INSPIRE - for medical and dental students looking to gain experience and understanding of research careers.