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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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Posted on October 17, 2023 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt

biodiversity, education, learning, nature, ocean, pollution, sail training, sailing, Science

biodiversity, crustacean, dissertation, Environment, Fal Estuary, Falmouth, field work, fish, index, learning, metal, metal mining, mollusk, Ocean Science, pollution, research, Restronguet, sail training, Seas Your Future, seaweed, species identification, St Mawes, study, teaching, Wheal Jane

We take young people to the beach to transform…

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Posted on September 28, 2023 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt

biodiversity, conservation, education, learning, nature, ocean, personal development, pollution, resilience, sail training, Science, Sustainability

Seas Your Future

There’s a difference between looking and seeing. One way of encouraging seeing is drawing.

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Posted on September 5, 2023 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt

education, learning, nature, ocean, sail training, Science

algae, art, copepods, ecology, marine, observation, phytoplankton, Plankton, Seas Your Future, seeing, zooplankton

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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Posted on September 2, 2023 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt

education, engineering, ocean, sail training, Science, technology, Uncategorized

current, data, Doppler, Nortek ECO, ocean, oceanography, Pelican of London, Seas Your Future, velocity

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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Posted on July 26, 2023 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt

Arctic, biodiversity, climate change, conservation, education, learning, nature, ocean, pollution, sail training, Science, technology

Citizen Science, kayaking, open data, outreach, paddle boarding, sail training, Seas Your Future, Smartfin, STEM, surfing

Sharks, rays and skates are fascinating creatures and we are losing them at alarming rates!

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Posted on June 23, 2023 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt

biodiversity, conservation, education, learning, nature, ocean, pollution, sail training, Science

Environment, Pelican of London, Seas Your Future, shark, Shark Trust

I recently travelled in the Caribbean for Seas Your Future and here is my attempt to figure out my additional carbon footprint of this trip.

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Posted on January 31, 2023 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt

Carbon Offset, climate change, learning, personal development, sail training, sailing, Science, Sustainability

aviation, carbon dioxide equivalent, climate change, cruise ship, Earthly, Environment, footprint, Ocean Science, peat forest, Pelican of London, pollution, Seas Your Future, seaweed farming, travel, yachting

I’m in the Caribbean!

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Posted on January 28, 2023 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt

education, nature, personal development, sail training, sailing, Science, Sustainability

abundance, canal, Caribbean, collaboration, Costa Rica, ecology, ecosystem, education, elephant grass, invasive species, marina, marine, monkeys, Panama, Pelican of London, Seas Your Future, STEM, terrestrial

The 65th meeting of the Marine Measurement Forum (MMF65) was hosted by Aquatec on the 30th November 2022. It’s a good space for exchanging news on research, ideas and developments across the marine measurement and ocean technology – a space where collaboration and competition coexists.

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Posted on December 1, 2022 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt

personal development, sail training, Science, technology

aquatec, careers, Environment, industry, marine, measurement, MMF65, ocean, Ocean Science, Pelican of London, Seas Your Future, sensors

We are celebrating the 250th birthday of Luke Howard, the man who named the clouds. Besides studying languages, pharmacy and natural sciences, he was an ‘amateur’ meteorologist. The Royal Meteorological Society is marking his contribution to the field with an article in their journal Weather and holds many of his watercolour studies of clouds, which are presented and discussed in more detail in the Science Museum Group Journal.

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Posted on November 28, 2022 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt

education, learning, nature, sail training, sailing, Science

Citizen Science, climate change, clouds, Environment, GLOBE, NASA, Observer, Ocean Science, Pelican of London, sailing, Seas Your Future, weather

Olivia rises to a challenge: this summer, she was the youngest ever Scientist in Residence for Project Ocean Awareness on board tall ship Pelican of London.

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Posted on October 27, 2022 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt

conservation, education, learning, nature, personal development, pollution, resilience, sail training, sailing, Science

Microplastics, Ocean Awareness, Ocean Science, Pelican of London, Scientist in Residence, Seas Your Future

Leanne Hughes is a chartered geologist at the British Geological Survey and loves outreach. I saw her in action at the Bristol Harbour Festival this year, where she engaged kids in sediment stability experiments…doesn’t sound like fun to you? Well, Leanne made it fun!

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Posted on October 22, 2022 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt

education, learning, nature, pollution, sail training, Science

British Geological Survey, geology, Irish Sea, Microplastics, pollution, seabed, Seas Your Future, sediment

Restronguet Creek Revisited

Sustainability – Education – Conservation

The Art of Observation

‘Bob’ by Nortek Group

Low-cost High-tech Science

Sharks!

The (Hidden) Cost of Travel

Nice work if you can get it!

Marine Measurement Forum

Head in the Clouds!

Olivia Yorke-Dunne – Youngest Scientist in Residence

Leanne Hughes – Professional Scientist in Residence

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