June 16, 2025 Blog post by Anushka Rajagopalan I attended the Zoological Society of London’s second Seascape Symposium: Reconnecting the Seascape (in collaboration with the University of Portsmouth and University of Edinburgh, co-organised by our fellow Dr Philine Zu Ermgassen) in June 2025 in London, UK. This was an exciting opportunity to learn advancing science, policies, … Continue reading Saving our Seascapes
June 2, 2025 Blog post by Issy Key This internship was completed under the Professional Internship Placement scheme, within the E4 DTP at the University of Edinburgh, with funding from NERC. The partner organizations were Discovery Bay Marine Lab, University of the West Indies, and the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, who provided in … Continue reading Seagrass adventures: from Scotland to Jamaica
This novel work will feed into an important gap we have in our understanding on coralporosis – how will the framework collapse? The accelerated treatments with the wax covering will give us a realistic proxy for how reefs with different amounts of live coral will change, feeding into future risk assessments of habitat loss Dr … Continue reading Into the Deep: Experimenting on Cold-Water Corals
Text and photos by Dr Kristina Beck 07/04/2023 After several months of preparations, we were finally able to start our long-term cold-water coral experiment a month ago! Over the next year, we will investigate how cold-water corals cope with future environmental changes. In this experiment, we will study the combined effect of ocean acidification, warming, … Continue reading Investigating the future of cold-water corals
When marine animals, plants and algae pass through seawater, they leave a trail of environmental DNA (eDNA) such as fluid, scales, skin and other bits and pieces that slowly break down. Our project includes eDNA analysis of seawater samples from different locations and depths to generate a snapshot of life in the ocean. Rob Ogden … Continue reading Marine Forensics
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