Scottish Association for Marine Science

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Scottish Association for Marine Science

• Based at the Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory near
  Oban, Scotland
• Established in 1884
• Committed to promoting, delivering and supporting
  high-quality independent research and education
  in marine science
• Collaborative centre of the UK Natural
  Environment Research Council (NERC)
• Hosts
• National Facility for Scientific Diving
• Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa
• Academic partner in UHI Millennium Institute
• Research activities encompass the entire breadth
  of marine science
• Focus on multidisciplinary research questions
  from Scottish coastal waters to the Arctic Ocean
• Core science programme investigating past and
  present changes in Northern Seas

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In Situ Monitoring

• GreenICE/DAMOCLES buoy systems
• Extended battery life
• Multi-sensor
• Meteorology
• Tiltmeters
• Two-way Iridium communications

• Moorings and landers
• Oceanographic moorings in Kongsfjorden and
  Storfjorden, Svalbard (MariClim)
• Seabed observing systems
• Landers
• HOMER
• SIMOP

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In Situ Monitoring

• Latest buoy systems
• Cryosat Cal/Val
• 7 deployed in Nares Strait in May 2006

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In Situ Monitoring

• Fieldwork (cruises/ice camps)
• Royal Navy ICEX
• Autosub Under Ice
• GreenICE
• Cryosat
• Northern Seas
• DAMOCLES

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Modelling

• Fjords
• Greenland Sea salt flux model

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Earth Observation

• Project work
• EuroClim
• IRIS
• Cryosat Cal/Val
• Other work
• Commercial work for
• UK Hydrographic Office
• Royal Navy

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Collaborative Partners

• NERC
• Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
• Plymouth Marine Laboratory
• National Oceanography Centre
• University of Cambridge DAMTP
• Edinburgh Earth Observatory (University of
  Edinburgh)
• EC
• Project partners

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Future Arctic Work

• IPY
• Oceans 2025
• Q from UK GOOS Action GroupHow best can the UK
  support Arctic GOOS?