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How design can be used in science communication

Posted by: Georgia Bayliss-Brown, Posted on: 2 June 2014 - Categories: Field Research, Monitoring, Technology
Cefas infographic about species in the sea

My role is to identify, understand and bring together all research that is going on in the UK (and often beyond) about climate change and how it impacts upon the marine environment; and then communicate these findings to decision-makers, policy …

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Cefas reduce fish for testing by 50% using sticklebacks

Posted by: Ioanna Katsiadaki, Posted on: 19 May 2014 - Categories: Animal Health

An endocrine disruptor is a term given to chemicals that, when absorbed into the body, either mimic or block hormones. Some chemicals that are released into the environment can have this harmful effect, particularly on the sexual development of humans …

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Citizen science – coming to your computer soon...

Posted by: Kieran Hyder, Posted on: 9 May 2014 - Categories: Field Research, Monitoring
Divers in the sea collecting data

We are sitting in a lecture theatre and the speaker is going through the normal set of slides – all seems normal until she says “open up your Twitter accounts and provide some live feedback”.

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How bad is marine litter?

Posted by: Thomas Maes, Posted on: 28 April 2014 - Categories: Field Research, Pollution
Thomas Maes preparing to deploy a litter collecting net

I’m Thomas Maes, a Cefas marine biologist with nearly 10 years’ experience of coastal and ocean monitoring. I manage Cefas’ Clean Seas Environmental Monitoring Programme and provide advice to the UK government on issues related to human impacts on the …

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Why we should all care about sea angling

Posted by: Kieran Hyder, Posted on: 17 April 2014 - Categories: Field Research, Monitoring
People fishing by the sea

Sea angling is big business in England according to our latest survey of recreational sea angling in England.

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The threat of migrating marine vibrios

Posted by: Craig Baker-Austin, Posted on: 8 April 2014 - Categories: Animal Health, Monitoring
Craig Baker-Austin working in a laboratory

There were two separate shellfish-associated outbreaks of illness in humans during the summer of 2012. One was in New York and the other Pontevedra, northwest Spain.

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A warm and watery welcome

Posted by: David Smith, Posted on: 1 April 2014 - Categories: Policy
Scientists deploying SMART buoy

Oceans cover almost three-quarters of the Earth’s surface, and hold over 90% of the planet’s water.

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Back on track ... well almost

Posted by: David Smith, Posted on: 6 November 2013 - Categories: Field Research
Satellite Image of Weather

That was an interesting 48 hours, I have never seen rain like it, at times is if we were under a water fall!

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One eye on the weather

Posted by: Brett Lyons, Posted on: 25 October 2013 - Categories: Field Research, Monitoring
Stormy waves at sea

So one day on the game is a foot, the game being to guess what the weather may do and attempt to stay one step ahead of it, but more...

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Where does the time go?

Posted by: David Smith, Posted on: 24 October 2013 - Categories: Field Research, Monitoring
Steve Retires

I really have no idea where the time has gone, it only seems like we have been at sea a couple of days but we are now over half way through the survey.

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