Category Archives: Marine Conservation
UK House of Lords: Regional cooperation key to managing North Sea marine environment
The UK House of Lords has declared the North Sea marine environment under ‘severe pressure’ from human activity and blue growth development. The North Sea urgently requires conservation measures to reduce biodiversity loss from these pressures and protect North Sea … Continue reading
The end of the line for bluefin?
As a vegetarian, I am obsessed interested in the conflict between eating something because it tastes good and knowing that animals suffer due to to cruel farming practices, species are harvested by environmentally devastating means, or a food species is … Continue reading
Posted in Fisheries, Marine Conservation, Policy, Uncategorized
Tagged conservation, Fisheries, japan, Marine Conservation, marine policy, policy, policy makers, tuna
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Preparing for my next sci-pol Asian adventure!
Next Friday, Oct 17, I depart for a three week science-policy trip to Asia. Like my Japan trip in May, I’ve been planning this adventure for months. It started when I was invited by Sanae Chiba (JAMSTEC) and David Checkley … Continue reading
Posted in Knowledge Exchange, Marine Conservation, Plankton, Policy
Tagged CPR, marine policy, PICES, Plankton, policy, policy makers
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Science-policy at Challenger 2014
So have we all recovered from Challenger 2014? For those of you who didn’t attend, the 16th biannual Challenger Conference for Marine Science was held in Plymouth last week. It was a fantastic week full of research talks, posters, stimulating … Continue reading
Challenger’s Phil Trans special issue and #Challenger2014!
The Challenger Society for Marine Science’s special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society has been published! The special issue is entitled A Prospectus For UK Marine Sustained Observations and consists of papers arising from Challenger’s 2013 meeting of … Continue reading
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) in my ‘hood
I grew up in northeast Ohio, not far from Lake Erie. For you Europeans, that’s one of the Great Lakes which separate the USA from Canada. For this reason – well, and the fact that I’m a planktonophile – I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in HABs, Marine Conservation, Plankton, Policy
Tagged HABs, marine policy, Plankton, policy
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Tuna, plankton and plum wine – exploring science-policy in Japan
One of my interests is to improve and expand the use of CPR data in marine policy, not only in the UK, but globally. There is one country in particular where I’ve really wanted to learn more about the science-policy … Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity, Fisheries, Knowledge Exchange, Marine Conservation, Plankton, Policy
Tagged biodiversity, conservation, CPR, japan, knowledge exchange, Marine Conservation, marine policy, Plankton, policy, policy makers, tuna
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Knowledge exchange: Turning science into policy
Welcome to Plankton and Policy’s blog – although I’ve written guest posts elsewhere, this is the first post I’ve ever written for my own blog. It’s hard to know where to start, but I think a good place would be … Continue reading
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