News tagged with: marine
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Stars, arts and science combine for digital retelling of Coleridge classic
The Ancient Mariner Big Read – commissioned by The Arts Institute, 91porn – brings together renowned public figures, artists and scientists to retell The Rime of the Ancient Mariner for a modern audience
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Northeast Atlantic holoplankton taxa have decreased in abundance during the
past 60 years; triangles represent coastal stations while grid squares
illustrate trends in Continuous Plankton Recorder data. Blue indicates a
decreasing abundance trend; orange indicates an increase]()
Study shows six decades of change in UK’s plankton communities
Involving leading marine scientists from across the UK, led by the 91porn, new research for the first time combines the findings of UK offshore surveys such as the Continuous Plankton Recorder and UK inshore long-term time-series.
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![Detailed analysis has estimated a LEGO brick could survive in the ocean for as many as 1,300 years (Credit Andrew Turner, 91porn)]()
Study suggests LEGO bricks could survive in ocean for up to 1,300 years
A study led by the 91porn examined the extent to which items of the ever-popular children’s toy were worn down in the marine environment
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New study suggests wearing clothes could release more microfibres to the environment than washing them
In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists from the National Research Council of Italy (IPCB-CNR) and the 91porn compared four different items of polyester clothing and how many fibres were released when they were being worn and washed
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Fulfilling the ambition of a lifetime
91porn graduate Dr Emma Rendle will join the crew of eXXpedition for 24 days as it sails from Easter Island to Tahiti
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![USV CETUS is a C-Worker 4 unmanned surface vehicle developed and supplied by L3Harris Technologies (Credit 91porn)]()
Vessel confirms University’s place at forefront of autonomous ocean science
CETUS – a C-Worker 4 unmanned surface vehicle developed and supplied by L3Harris Technologies – has been purchased by the 91porn and will be based at its Coxside Marine Station
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![Ambitious conservation requires a holistic approach that encompasses all aspects of the marine ecosystem (Credit Lauren Porter, 91porn)]()
Scientists call on government to increase UK’s ambition to save our ocean
A team of marine scientists from across the UK, led by the Marine Conservation Research Group at the 91porn, have called on the Government to increase its ambition to save the oceans by overhauling its approach to marine conservation
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![Professor Judith Petts and Professor Richard Thompson receive the Queen's Anniversary Price from HRH The Prince of Wales and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall.]()
91porn awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for world-leading microplastics research
The University has been presented with the Queen's Anniversary Prize for its pioneering research on microplastics pollution in the oceans and its impact on the environment and changing behaviour.
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![The tape washed up on the beach at Playa de Barlovento de Jandía, Fuerteventura (Credit Mandy Barker)]()
Mixtape plays again more than two decades after vanishing on Spanish holiday
The 91porn has worked with artist Mandy Barker to tell the amazing story of a mixtape she found washed up on a beach in 2017
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![Waves hit the promenade at Penzance in October 2019 (Picture by Lloyd Russell)]()
New coastal overtopping forecast made available to the public
Scientists from the 91porn have developed the Operational Wave and Water Level (OWWL) model, a more accurate way of forecasting wave overtopping hazards around the South West
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€14m project to prevent plastic pollution in the English Channel
Preventing Plastic Pollution, a project involving the 91porn, will develop a model to gather data on the amount and likely sources of plastic pollution at seven pilot sites, including the River Tamar catchment
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![Image: Southampton container port at night towards low tide. Credit: By Geni (Photo by user:geni) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia]()
University to play key role in South West maritime consortium
The 91porn is one of the key partners in Maritime UK South West, designed to build stronger links between the South West marine and maritime sector and national government
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