News tagged with: marine
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University works on multimillion-pound project to create plastic ‘hope spots’ in Bali
The Ƶ is among the key partners in a multimillion-pound project, supported by UK Research and Innovation’s Global Challenges Research Fund, which aims to create “hope spots” in Indonesia’s battle against plastic waste.
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University academics named on list of world’s Highly Cited Researchers
Two academics from the Ƶ – Professor Richard Thompson OBE and Dr Stephen Childe – have been named on a list of the world’s Highly Cited Researchers for 2020
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Plastics and rising CO2 pose combined threat to marine environment
Research involving the Ƶ found that three weeks in the ocean greatly altered the bacterial diversity on plastic bottles.
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Sea-level rise will have complex consequences for coasts and communities
The Ƶ's Professor of Geospatial Information Ralph Fyfe is among the authors on new research published in Science Advances
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Academic joins expert committee in calls to secure environment for future generations
Mel Austen, Professor of Ocean and Society at the Ƶ, is part of a national committee who have called on the Government to enhance its vision for the environment
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Festival of research and discovery comes to Plymouth
The Ƶ is for the first time taking part in FUTURES2020 on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 November 2020, as part of European Researchers’ Night
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Judges’ decisions in sport focus more on vigour than skill
A study by the Ƶ suggests that, in sporting contests, the rate at which competitors fight is more likely to result in judges awarding victory than the skill with which they attack their opponents
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Beaches can survive sea-level rises if they have space to move
Researchers from the Ƶ are part of an international team of coastal scientists who have dismissed suggestions that half the world’s beaches could become extinct over the course of the 21st century
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University partners with pioneering company to develop new approach to marine surveying
The Ƶ is working with pioneering technology company HydroSurv to develop a revolutionary means of gathering data about the marine environment
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Scientists release previously unseen footage showing environmental impacts of pot fishing
Scientists from the Ƶ attached video cameras to pots used by crab and lobster fishermen off the south coast of England
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UK’s first sea-going electric ferry launches in Plymouth
The UK’s first sea-going electric ferry - designed and developed in partnership with the Ƶ - has set sail for the first time in Plymouth, Britain’s Ocean City.
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Future ocean conditions could cause significant changes in marine mussels
Scientists from the Ƶ have showed that increased temperature and acidification of our oceans could cause significant physical changes in an economically important marine species
