Plankton, fish, water, sand, sediment and bleach: 25 young people from Devon and Cornwall explore the marine system in a beautiful bay off Sark in the Channel Islands.
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I’ve got a great new ‘toy’ that gets me to explore the world below the sea surface without getting wet. Don’t get me wrong: I like water sports, including snorkelling, but this goes deeper: 150 metres!
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While working on tall ships as scientist, I am always intrigued by the roles of professional crew on board. Here is what I’ve learned about bosuns …
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In 1922, the British geologist R. L. Sherlock argued that humankind had a major impact on inanimate nature in his work “Man as a Geological Agent”. 101 years later, the Anthropocene Working Group proposed Crawford Lake in Canada as the official site for marking the beginning of a the Anthropocene, a new epoch on the geological time scale.
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Science communication can take many formats, from the diaries of explorers, meticulous records of experiments in the field and laboratory, the detailed and highly technical publications in scientific research journals and textbooks, to popular science books, magazines, documentaries and diverse media web content.
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Last year, Olivia Yorke-Dunne was our youngest ever Scientist in Residence on the sail training tall ship Pelican of London. This year, she’s been back.
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My first close encounter with pollution emanating from the abandoned mines in England’s Southwest occurred in the mid 1990s, when research for my undergraduate dissertation brought me to Restronguet Creek in the Fal Estuary. A former tin mine had come to fame for all the wrong reasons…
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We take young people to the beach to transform…
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There’s a difference between looking and seeing. One way of encouraging seeing is drawing.
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We’ve only had the ECO by Nortek Group on board Pelican of London for a couple of days and already it’s got sufficiently under our skin for a bad case of anthropomorphism to develop: we named it Bob.
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I am a fan of crowd-sourcing scientific data. I know it has its challenges, not least relating to quality control and assurance, but in my view that is balanced by the added value of engaging the public in the scientific process.
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Challenging Habitat 