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PML team celebrates win at Blue-Cloud Hackathon 2025!

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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 5d

They’ve only gone & done it! 🎉 PML team 'Kraken the Code' has been named one of the 3 winners of the Blue-Cloud 2026 #Hackathon, winning €25k. Their project 'OctoPulse' forecasts future #Octopus booms to support fishers by helping them anticipate changes to their catches: pml.ac.uk/news/pml-tea...

We’re delighted to announce that, yesterday, a multidisciplinary team of researchers from Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) were selected as one of three winning teams of the Blue-Cloud Hackathon 202

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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 5d

His study shows that gaining deeper understanding of the drivers behind public attitudes to renewable energy is the key to minimising opposition to deployment. Read the full story on our website: pml.ac.uk/news/communi...

Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 5d

The #NewStudy, led by PML's Andrew Edwards-Jones, has explored how residents of coastal communities perceive #TidalEnergy, and what values shape their acceptance of new developments.

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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 5d

The #BristolChannel has a long history of proposed tidal projects, but the development of such projects can be tricky if there is public opposition. A new study has sought deeper understanding of the drivers behind public attitudes to renewable energy.

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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 5d

What makes the #BristolChannel so powerful? We explain.

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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 5d

#DidYouKnow: the #BristolChannel in the #UK has extraordinary potential for renewable energy - it is the second-largest #TidalRange on Earth!

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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 5d

🌊⚡Did you know #TidalEnergy could power up to 11% of the #UK’s #electricity demand? Follow the thread 🧵👇

Communities hold the key to tidal energy projects, new study finds

Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 5d

🌊⚡Did you know #TidalEnergy could power up to 11% of the UK’s electricity demand?

A new study from the lab shows that gaining deeper understanding of the drivers behind public attitudes to #RenewableEnergy is the key to minimising opposition to deployment: pml.ac.uk/news/communi...

A new study shows that gaining deeper understanding of the drivers behind public attitudes to renewable energy is the key to minimising opposition to deployment.

Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 7d

Your anonymous participation will help strengthen knowledge, guide decision-making, and shape future opportunities in #BlueCarbonFinance across Europe.

#BlueFinance #NatureFinance #PrivateFinance

Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 7d

Do you work in private #finance for #BlueCarbon #conservation or #restoration in Europe? Could you spare just 1 minute of your time to share your views to help us better understand the finance and investment of #BlueCarbonEcosystems? You can take part here: plymouthlab.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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University of Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Institute @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social · 8d

Congratulations to Emily Stevenson for successfully defending her PhD thesis entitled “Microplastics as vectors of antimicrobial resistance in aquatic systems.” Her supervisors: Prof Angus Buckling and Dr Aimee Murray (@exeter.ac.uk) and Prof Penelope Lindeque and Dr Matthew Cole (@pml.ac.uk).

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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 8d

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From butterflies to seagrass… discover the biodiversity indicators guiding the future of sustainable development

Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 9d

A GUARDEN project report has mapped 154 #BiodiversityIndicators - tailored to four sites in conflict between nature #conservation & human #development - to help value and protect the intrinsic value of #biodiversity & guide #SustainableDevelopment in harmony with nature:
pml.ac.uk/news/from-bu...

A project report maps 150+ biodiversity indicators tailored to four case study sites to help value and protect the intrinsic value of biodiversity, and guide sustainable development in harmony with na

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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 12d

👋 PML is delighted to welcome Mr Bonchan Gu, Director at Korea’s Ministry of Oceans & Fisheries, as a visiting researcher under the Korean Gov Fellowship Program. Mr Gu will spend 12 months at PML focusing on coastal adaptation & resilient infrastructure 🌊

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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 12d

If you're not a #teacher, but know one, we'd appreciate your help sharing with your contacts 🌊

#TeachersOfBlueSky #OceanLiteracy

Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 12d

We want to hear from UK #PrimarySchoolTeachers about how the #Ocean is taught in the #classroom 🐠 Your voice can shape how future generations engage with #MarineScience. Survey takes just 10 mins 👉 plymouthlab.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#PrimaryEducation #STEMeducation #Teachers #Teaching

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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 15d

🛰️ Help shape the future of #satellite #OceanColour data!

The Ocean Colour #ClimateChange Initiative (OC-CCI) and PHYTO-CCI projects, supported by @esa.int, are inviting users to complete a short survey to refine datasets.

🕐 30–60 mins
📅 Open until 30 Sept
👉 Take part: tinyurl.com/phyto-cci

Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 15d

PROTECTION FOR THE HIGH SEAS MOVES ONE STEP CLOSER 🌊 PML has welcomed the ratification of the UN Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (#BBNJ) Agreement. Read more: pml.ac.uk/news/protect...

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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 16d

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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 17d

LAST CHANCE to fill out our #octopus surveys! Fishermen & divers of the UK, have your say if you haven't already, surveys close at midnight tonight, Sunday 21st September! @thembauk.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @pml.ac.uk @plymuni.bsky.social Please share 🐙

Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 24d

Fishermen & divers of the UK we need YOU! Our #octopus bloom surveys have been extended to Sept 21st. If you haven't already done so, please fill out the fishermen's survey survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90884550/... or divers survey survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90886025/... Thank you! Please share widely! 🐙

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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 18d

🎉 Huge congratulations to Clare Lewis, PhD researcher at PML & the University of Reading (@uniofreading.bsky.social), who has passed her PhD viva!

Clare self-funded her part-time PhD on #Meteotsunami over 6 years – an incredible achievement. 👏 Well done, Clare! 🌊 #PhD #WomenInSTEM

Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 18d

That's wonderful - thank you so much Charlie! The more data and insight from locals the better, fingers crossed 🤞 Thank you again, and have a great weekend!

Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 18d

Thanks as ever Bryce such a pleasure. Fingers crossed for plenty of data from the surveys. Have a great weekend!