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🟢 #RenewableEnergy research news 🟢Congratula

🟢 #RenewableEnergy research news 🟢Congratulations to our own Dr Emma Whettall who recently became the first Scottish student on The Bryden Centre renewable energy research programme to gain her PhD.

In doing so, she identified identified 33 sites along Scotland’s west coast – including 15 new locations – where small-scale tidal energy devices could be considered

Read the full story over at www.sams.ac.uk/news or the @ThinkUHI newsroom.

#SAMS @ThinkUHI #MarineScience #TidalEnergy #BrydenCentre #SustainableEnergy #GreenEnergy #WaveEnergy #Renewable

We're hiring! • #STEM Engagement Officer - We ha

We're hiring! • #STEM Engagement Officer - We have a fantastic job opportunity for an enthusiastic communicator to co-create workshops and resources on a range of topics associated with #algae for schools, STEM clubs and youth groups.

This is part of a project to support the growth of a #seaweed farming industry in the UK.

This post would suit a teacher, online course developer or STEM engagement officer but we also welcome applications from marine scientists, botanists or others with relevant knowledge and experience. Good knowledge about algae is desirable but not essential.

Link in stories to apply.

#MarineScience #Outreach #SciComms #ScienceCommunications

🐬 Funded PhD opportunity • Risso’s dolphins

🐬 Funded PhD opportunity • Risso’s dolphins generally occupy offshore habitats beyond the continental shelf, but they can also be found off the west coast of Scotland.

To learn more, we have a funded #PhD project available to understand why Risso’s dolphins occupy coastal waters and what they are doing.

The results of this inter-disciplinary research will allow regulators to better monitor Risso’s dolphins, within and outside the marine protected area they occupy, and ensure their long-term conservation in Scottish waters.

Deadline to submit application is 31st January 2022 at 12pm GMT.

To find out more or to apply, or to view our full list of PhD opportunities, see link in bio.

Photo: NOAA/NEFSC

#MarineScience #dolphins #RissoDolphin #MarineBiology #Scotland #MPA #MarineProtectedArea #MarineConservation #cetacean #cetaceans #cetaceanresearch

New year, new funded PhD opportunities! ⚠️ Fir

New year, new funded PhD opportunities! ⚠️ First one closes Wednesday for Spring 2022 start ⚠️

Lead: Keith Davidson - A 21st century data and machine learning approach to address the risk from harmful algal blooms.

The aim of the studentship is to achieve the 1st UK IFCB (pictured) installation producing high resolution phytoplankton data for the early warning of HABs and interpretation of influence of environmental drivers on HAB developments. Closing date 12th Jan. See link in bio for more info and for full list of PhD vacancies.
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#PhD #MarineScience #Algae #AlgalBlooms #MarineBiology #STEM @thinkuhi #ThinkUHI @shetlanduhi #MarineScotlandScience @edinburghuniversity #HABs #Phytoplankton

🎄 A very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Y

🎄 A very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year to all of our followers.

Thanks to everyone who has worked with us, supported us or visited us (when Covid allowed!) in 2021.

⬅️ SWIPE for original letter 🎄 • On this

⬅️ SWIPE for original letter 🎄 • On this day, 130 years ago, Captain Alexander Turbyne (1857-1905), the first man responsible for the day-to-day running of the Scottish Marine Station in Millport, SAMS’ research base between 1885-1969, received an unexpected and generous Christmas gift in 1891.
In a letter from British botanist and phycologist Mr Edward A Batters (1860-1907), which we recently discovered among old files, were some exciting findings of an algae examination and possibly an identification of a new species of its time.
Generously, Mr Batters also included a gift for Turbyne, enclosing a postal order for 10 shillings so he could buy some toys for his children at Christmas time. Turbyne at the time had three children, John, 4, Catherine, 3 and Euphemia, 10 months.
Fascinating that SAMS is still involved in seaweed research 130 years on and to still have such kind-hearted people working in marine science!

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The Laurels
Wormley
21st December 1891
Dear Mr Turbyne,
The boxes of algae which you sent to the British Museum have been handed to me to examine. The two stones from Minard Harbour have a species of sponge on them but no alga. The packing is composed of Ascophyllum nodosum and Enteromorpha compressa. The two which came this morning contain Delesseria sinuosa and Phyllopphora rubens and broken scraps of Desmarestia and Polysiphonia elongata. One of the alga we got off the ‘Law bury’ growing in the shells of the ‘spout fish’ and Mya truncata is a new genus altogether. I think I shall call it Conchocelis rosea. If you get any spout fish shells with red stains on them you might send them up with any unusual forms of the coral-like lobesiae. I enclose Postal Order for 10/- for you to get some toys for your children at Christmas time.

Yours very truly
Edward A Batters

#MarineScience #MarineBiology #Algae #Alga #ScienceHistory #STEM #ScienceStories #1800s #19thCentury #ScottishHistory #BritishMuseum @britishmuseum