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Free Ocean Facts and Lesson Plans for Primary School children
The Marine Institute’s Explorers Education Programme’s outreach team are sharing their favourite marine facts and lesson plans about the ocean, for teachers, parents and primary school children to use while they are doing their school work from home as part of its...
Trawl through BIM guide on solutions to reduce unwanted catches
by Dr Ronan Cosgrove, Fisheries Conservation Manager, BIM BIM recently produced an updated guide on technical solutions to reduce unwanted catches. Developed in collaboration with the Irish Fishing Industry, the document summarises the results of gear trials and...
Noise hampers crab camouflage and defensive responses
Colour-changing crabs struggle to camouflage themselves when exposed to noise from ships, new research shows. Today the marine environment is experiencing unprecedented levels of human-made (anthropogenic) noise, which scientists have shown impacts on organisms in a...
A new Network for Arctic Researchers in Ireland
The Marine Institute in collaboration with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade launched the Network of Arctic Researchers in Ireland (NARI) on Friday 28th, February 2020. NARI aims to create, maintain and develop an informal all-island network of Arctic...
Explorers Education Programme is loving the ocean on Valentine’s Day
Global Action Plan Ireland and the Irish National Sailing & Powerboat club, share their love for the ocean on Valentine’s Day with local primary schools in Ballymun and Dun Laoghaire, Dublin as part of the Marine Institute’s Explorers Education pilot outreach...
Spanish shipyard to build Ireland’s new marine research vessel
The Marine Institute announced yesterday (December 18) that a contract has been signed between the Marine Institute and Spanish shipyard Astilleros Armon Vigo S.A. for the construction of Ireland’s new state-of-the-art marine research vessel, following the completion...
Minister receives 2019 Marine Institute Annual Stock Book
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, T.D., last week received the 2019 Marine Institute Annual Stock Book. The Stock Book, which is one of the principal annual publications of the Institute, provides scientific advice on commercially...
Applying common language of Natural Capital for Marine Sector
Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), Ireland’s seafood development agency and the Irish Forum on Natural Capital co-hosted a breakfast seminar Exploring Natural Capital Solutions for the Marine Environment today (Wednesday, 13th of November) in the Royal College of Physicians...
INFOMAR seminar to focus on role of seabed mapping in coastal communities
Seafloor, Shipwrecks and Science at the annual INFOMAR seminar in Dingle, 16 and 17 October. The annual INFOMAR Seminar is a celebration of the year’s work by Ireland’s national seabed mapping programme. INFOMAR is funded by the Department of Communications, Climate...
The Deeper These Octopuses Live, The Wartier Their Skin
Professor Louise Allcock, Head of Zoology at NUI Galway is a co-author of a new study that found octopuses from deeper in the ocean had warty skin compared to their shallower smooth-skinned counterparts, with DNA sequences revealing they were the same species despite...
Minister Creed announces new CEO for the Marine Institute
Michael Creed TD, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine has today announced the appointment of Dr Paul Connolly, as the Chief Executive Officer of the Marine Institute, Ireland’s state agency for marine research, technology development and innovation. The...
Rare Slippers becoming not so rare
With recorded catches from Cork to Galway, and now berried females we could see a lot more Slipper Lobsters in the future, reports Kevin Flannery. Since 2007, rare Slipper Lobsters Scyllarus artctus (L.) have been finding their way into the pots of fishermen along the...
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