PML scientists have featured in a short documentary by RAZOR Science show: ‘What have #plankton ever done for us?’. Thank you to Claire Widdicombe, Dr Matt Cole, Dr James Clark, Dr Peter Miller & Prof Angus Atkinson for taking the time to speak to the crew! Watch:🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFnz...

WATCH: PML on ITV tonight at 7pm (UK time)! Dr James Clark (@drjimclark.bsky.social) and Dr Saskia Rühl were among the PML experts interviewed by Martin Stew / ITV News about our #AI capabilities, including the APICS project which uses #MachineLearning to identify #plankton species.

New Publication Alert – The Western Channel Observatory Automated Plankton Imaging and Classification System! See doi.org/10.5670/ocea.... @plymouthmarine.bsky.social

In addition to studying ocean transport, particle tracking models can be used for fun! Animation made using the model PyLag (github.com/pmlmodelling...), which I coded while at @plymouthmarine.bsky.social, and surface ocean currents from CMEMS (Product: GLOBAL_REANALYSIS_PHY_001_031). Enjoy!

We have a #PhD available on using he latest advances in #AI research to figure out where to place environmental sensors! With @exeter.ac.uk and @plymouthmarine.bsky.social. The supervisors are @davidjohnwalker.bsky.social, Jacqueline Christmas and myself. Please see: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

AquaPLAN launches the first interactive map of European marine & freshwater habitats affected by both #LightPollution & #NoisePollution. Led by PML, the Visualisation Portal is the first step to manage the combined impacts of light & noise pollution on #AquaticBiodiversity: pml.ac.uk/news/first-m...

The project is delivered in collaboration with marine research institutes from across the EU and US. Below is a sample of the type of data you would be working with. This was collected using one of the plankton cameras at @plymouthmarine.bsky.social.

If you have expertise in #ML and an interest in the marine environment, please look at this opportunity with the awesome Nicolas Pugeault: jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS129/r...

You will be working on the NERC Science
funded DEAL project (pml.ac.uk/projects/dea...).

Heart-warming
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PML welcomes Ministerial calls at #COP29 for urgent action on the accelerating issue of #cryosphere loss: pml.ac.uk/news/pml-wel...

A reminder that we are currently advertising 3 #PhD studentships that will involve working with the new
NERC Sciences #APICS sensor. The deadline for applying is in early January - see the project descriptions. If you are interested please get in touch!

Project 3 “New approaches to image dynamic sinking behaviour in marine phytoplankton.” This is another MRP project, which is led by Dr Glen Wheeler from the MBA, with Alex Nimmo Smith from UoP and me from PML. See: www.marineresearchplymouth.ac.uk/image-dynami....

Project 2 “Use of AI and computer vision to develop next generation marine biological observing capability.” This is a MRP project led by Kerry Howell from UoP, with myself from PML and Dr Pierre Hélaouët from the MBA. See: www.marineresearchplymouth.ac.uk/ai-phd.

Project 1 “Microscopic ocean life viewed through a new lens.” This is a GW4+ DTP project led by me at Plymouth Marine Laboratory; with Sareh Rowlands from @uniofexeter.bsky.social; and Sophie Pitois and Rob Blackwell from Cefas. See: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin....

We are advertising 3 #PhD Studentships where the successful applicants will become some of the first people in the world to work with data from the new NERC Science APICS sensor (see www.pml.ac.uk/science/proj...). More details on the individual projects can be found below.