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Why can weever fish make beach visits a painful experience?

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/stings-in-the-sand-study-explores-why-weever-fish-can-make-beach-visits-a-painful-experience

Marine biologists and coastal scientists from the University of Plymouth are carrying out research into one of the more painful features of the South West’s beaches – weever fish.
Study the seas at Plymouth

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/institutes/marine-institute/our-research/oceans

Discover the wonders of the deep with our ocean and marine research at Plymouth. The oceans are as near as we come to another world. Explore them through the eyes of our academic experts and be inspired to study the seas with us
Scientists continue work to establish the fate and impact of tyre wear particles in the environment

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/scientists-continue-work-to-establish-the-fate-and-impact-of-tyre-wear-particles-in-the-environment

University of Plymouth news: The University has been studying the presence of tyre particles in the marine environment longer than any other organisation in the UK
Initiative increases awareness of the threats posed by light pollution to the global ocean

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/initiative-increases-awareness-of-the-threats-posed-by-light-pollution-to-the-global-ocean

University of Plymouth news: The Global Ocean Artificial Light at Night Network has been launched at the United Nations Ocean Decade Conference in Barcelona
Assessing tipping points in temperate coastal ecosystems: Integrating thermal landscapes, individual physiology, and community-level responses to heatwaves

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/postgraduate-research-studentships/assessing-tipping-points-in-temperate-coastal-ecosystems

Applications are invited for a 3.5 years PhD studentship: Assessing tipping points in temperate coastal ecosystems. The studentship will start on 1 October 2026.
Benefits and impacts of use of light in UK fisheries and their wider effect on the marine environment

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/postgraduate-research-studentships/benefits-and-impacts-of-use-of-light-in-uk-fisheries-and-their-wider-effect-on-the-marine-environment

Applications are invited for three 3.5 year PhD studentships: Benefits and impacts of use of light in UK fisheries and their wider effect on the marine environment. The studentships will start on 1 October 2026.
Plastic recycling results in rare metals being found in children’s toys and food packaging

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/plastic-recycling-results-in-rare-metals-being-found-in-childrens-toys-and-food-packaging

Some of the planet’s rarest metals – used in the manufacture of smartphones and other electrical equipment – are increasingly being found in everyday consumer plastics, according to new research by the University of Plymouth.
Coastal lights trick coral reefs into spawning earlier than they should

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/coastal-lights-trick-coral-reefs-into-spawning-earlier-than-they-should

University of Plymouth news: New research shows that corals exposed to artificial light at night are spawning one to three days outside of their optimum reproductive periods.
Clare Nasir: from mathematics to meteorology

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/pr-features/clare-nasir-from-mathematics-to-meteorology

“You are as good as your teachers, especially in those early years, and so when I came to Plymouth to study maths I pretty much ‘struck gold’.”
Evolution of life in the ocean changed 170 million years ago

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/evolution-of-life-in-the-ocean-changed-170-million-years-ago

Research led by academics from the University of Plymouth suggests the ocean as we understand it today was shaped by a global evolutionary regime shift around 170 million years ago.