MASTS 10th Annual Science Meeting 2020
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Plenary Speakers
Founder & Director of Planeta Oceano, Peru. Kerstin is speaking 8th Oct 17:15 UK time
Chief Scientific Advisor, DEFRA, UK. Gideon is speaking 8th Oct 10:00 UK time.
Exhibitors
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People Ocean Planet
Elevating impact from marine science by driving change
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MASTS Marine Climate Change Forum
A place for climate change related research within MASTS
MEDIN - Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
MEDIN and marine data sharing
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Aquatec Group
Subsea measurement, monitoring and communication.
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Fidra
Working to reduce plastic waste and chemical pollution
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RS Aqua
Enabling aquatic science for a safe & sustainable future
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Waves Group
Offshore Energy and Marine Consultants
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CessCon Decom Ltd
Oil & gas decommissioning lifecycle service provider
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InvestFife
Fife is one of Scotland’s leading manufacturing regions for with particular strengths in Decommissioning and SubSea Engineering.
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POSTER
Petra Harsanyi – The effects of Electromagnetic Fields on microbial surface colonization and biofilm development
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Natalie Isaksson – Assessing the effects of tidal stream marine renewable energy on seabirds: A conceptual framework
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Euan Mackenzie - Remote sensing of Loch Carron’s protected Limaria hians beds to monitor and map the recovery of damaged areas
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Jiawei Pan –The bi-gradational contourite sequence and climatic signals: a geostatistical assessment
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Alienor Hammer – The role of Scottish Salmon aquaculture in climate change
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Bernadette Butfield – Marine renewable energy developments, friend or foe to sharks in Scottish waters?
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Melissa Costagliola-Ray - Investigating the use of multiple survey techniques as an integrated approach to seabird monitoring
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Heather Runnacles Goodridge – Bringing decades of environmental monitoring and research to a wider audience: innovative public engagement strategies
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Naha Miqad Alotaibi – LINKING PLANT DEMOGRAPHY, ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS AND POPULATION GENETICS ACROSS SPACE AND TIME
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Steven Benjamins & Texa Sim - Marine mammals that fly: Observations of bats in coastal habitats of western Scotland
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Rajashree Naik – Pre and Post COVID-19 Lockdown effect on saltpan encroachment of a Ramsar Site: Sambhar Salt Lake, India
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Erica Chapman – Temporal and spatial variability in native European oyster (Ostrea edulis) larvae: are ‘key patterns’ transferable for restoration projects?
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Dr Georgina Robinson - Harnessing Reactive Nitrogen (Nr) in Integrated Food Production, Bioremediation and Energy Generation Systems
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Charlotte Miskin-Hymas - MEDIN and marine data sharing
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Poster
Terence Dawson - Climate impacts on the coral reefs of the Pitcairn Islands Marine Reserve in 2016
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James Chapman - Habitat to population level impact assessment for top predator-marine renewable interactions
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Blair Easton – Population dynamics, catch composition and CPUE of the edible crab, Cancer pagurus, and European lobster, Homarus gammarus, in a Voluntary Marine Reserve
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Gracie Wilson - Potential impact of combined climate driven stressors on UK dominant intertidal macroalgae.
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Corallie Hunt – Can Multibeam Backscatter Spatially Predict Organic Carbon on a Regional Scale?
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Ieuan Jones - Spatio-temporal trends in the different components of demersal fish biodiversity in the North Sea
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Texa Sim- Acoustic localisation reveals fine-scale movements of harbour porpoises around salmon farms in Scotland
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Hanna Ewen – Exploring options for further inclusion of blue carbon in climate change policy within the framework of the IPCC
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Fengjia Liu-Detection of DNA damage in sea urchin coelomocytes with fast micromethod
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Poster
Constance Schéré – To what extent are marine protected areas in the Irish Sea equitably governed and managed? A case study approach
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Jack Sheehy - A multivariate approach to determining factors of natural and artificial reef assemblages: Implications for biodiversity and marine renewable energy
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Poster
James Kairo - From Science to Policy: Mainstreaming mangrove ecosystem into national development and climate change agenda in Kenya
Recorded Session
MASTS General Science Session 1
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Governing Scottish Seas
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MASTS General Science Session 2
Recorded Session
Multiple Marine Stressors
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Coastal ecosystem-based solutions : Climate-change adaptation
Recorded Session
Marine Climate Change
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Technologies and Methodologies
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MASTS General Science Session 3
Recorded Session
Structures in the Marine Environment
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MASTS General Science Session 4
Recorded Session
Aquaculture 2
Recorded Sessions
MASTS General Science Session 5
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Aquaculture 1