When it comes to understanding what makes the ocean ‘tick’, plankton is the most important starting point. The entire marine food web is built upon microscopic algae and other organisms that use photosynthesis to draw energy from sunlight and build cells from carbon dioxide. Like plants on land, these organisms are consumed by grazers, who…
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Students from Lipson Co-operative Academy have joined the sail training tall ship Pelican of London for the fifth annual Plymouth Ocean Science Voyage. They just about made up their bunk beds, completed initial training and had dinner, and we’re already deploying scientific equipment over night… Our young trainees are interested in the adventure of going…
eDNA Revolution
From Pacific deep sea trenches to the Cornish Coast, eDNA revolutionises our understanding of marine life. This new technology, which enables to identify what organisms exist in an area of the ocean by extracting traces of DNA from the water, comes just in time… …because we are changing the marine environment before we know it.…
