News tagged with: research
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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 ̽»¨ÊÓƵ, 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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Scientists start work on vaccine to prevent future coronavirus outbreaks
Scientists from the ̽»¨ÊÓƵ have started work on a coronavirus vaccine designed to prevent outbreaks similar to the current COVID-19 pandemic
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Study suggests LEGO bricks could survive in ocean for up to 1,300 years
A study led by the ̽»¨ÊÓƵ examined the extent to which items of the ever-popular children’s toy were worn down in the marine environment
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Industry involvement vital in creation of unique new Cyber-SHIP Lab
With funding from Research England, there are 18 commercial partners working alongside the ̽»¨ÊÓƵ to bring the Cyber-SHIP Lab project to fruition
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‘Fossil earthquakes’ offer new insight into seismic activity deep below earth’s surface
The research was led by the ̽»¨ÊÓƵ and University of Oslo, with scientists conducting geological observations of seismic structures in exhumed lower crustal rocks on the Lofoten Islands
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Documentary aims to reveal the human side of earthquake science
The 60-minute documentary Pseudotachylyte, by Associate Professor in Photography Heidi Morstang, focuses on a ̽»¨ÊÓƵ research project examining the mechanisms which cause earthquake cycles to begin up to 40km below the earth’s surface.
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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 ̽»¨ÊÓƵ compared four different items of polyester clothing and how many fibres were released when they were being worn and washed
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Supergen ORE launches programme to further offshore renewable research
The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub, led by the ̽»¨ÊÓƵ, has launched its second round of Flexible Funding to advance research into the opportunities and challenges of offshore wind, wave and tidal energy
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Tropical forests’ carbon sink is already rapidly weakening
A study involving the ̽»¨ÊÓƵ provides the first large-scale evidence that carbon uptake by the world’s tropical forests has already started a worrying downward trend
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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 ̽»¨ÊÓƵ and will be based at its Coxside Marine Station
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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 ̽»¨ÊÓƵ, have called on the Government to increase its ambition to save the oceans by overhauling its approach to marine conservation
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University research partner wins award for pioneering arts initiatives
̽»¨ÊÓƵ Music Zone, which has worked with the ̽»¨ÊÓƵ for many years, has won the 2020 Hearts for the Arts Award for Best Arts Initiative
