Challenging Habitat
Hydroid colonies on kelp fronds

Funky Creatures

When I discovered that a one-inch-square piece of kelp frond is a microcosm of creatures, (once more) the enormity of the ocean and what we don’t yet know about it, dawned on me.

Female Whale Shark, Seychelles. (c) . Oliver Roux 2003. Reproduced under CC license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/

Atlantic Mantas, Rays & Sharks

The International Commission for the Conservation for Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) will meet in Cyprus next week. If you want to know why that’s important for sharks, mantas and rays read on…

Students in the laboratory of Kadoorie Research Centre, University of Hong Kong. (c) C Braungardt

Skills Shortage?

If these are words that chime with you, read on…

Killiney Beach

Sunny Days in Ireland

Once more, I joined the sail training tall ship Pelican of London for STEM at SEA education voyages with Sail Training Ireland youngsters on board. We have a little more time than usual in Dublin and we make… Read More

Aqqa Rosing-Asvid - Visit Greenland, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

STEAM Education Link XI

Now here is a thought: Fishy breath, trampling and carnage are good things (in the right context).

A giant deep-sea isopod, Bathynomus giganteus, with an antipatharian whip coral, Stichopathes sp., in the foreground, seen during the Gulf of Mexico 2017 expedition. While the isopod imaged here was spotted during exploration of a site dubbed “Okeanos Ridge,” Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Gulf of Mexico 2017. "Giant Isopod" by NOAA Ocean Exploration & Research is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

STEAM Education Link VIII

The National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK, has a great outreach programme that includes a series of podcasts called Into the Blue.

Key ring featuring stainless steel tag reading "We are one crew. This is our watch." and sling made from inshore lifeboat material cut-off.

This is Our Watch

A couple of days ago I had the privilege to be hosted by the RNLI in Newlyn, Cornwall, for a visit at the new and the old Penlee Lifeboat stations. We were shown around their Severn Class all… Read More