Celebrating Europe Day 2019

Europe Day takes place on 9th May every year with a variety of activities and events celebrating peace and unity in Europe. The date marks the anniversary of the historical ‘Schuman declaration‘ in Paris in 1950 when the then French foreign minister Robert Schuman set out his idea for a new form of political cooperation… Continue Reading

BlueFish present at #EGU19

Dr Sophie Wilmes presented her BlueFish work to a packed room in the Shelf Sea session at #EGU19 – How influential is the Celtic Sea Front for genetic variability in marine species with a pelagic larval phase Continue Reading

Project Meeting – Aberystwyth

The Bluefish project management team and researchers got together to discuss progress to date. Huge thanks to our project partners and hosts at Aberystwyth for the two day meeting. Significant collaboration between all six partners and more planned. Continue Reading

Super Science Sunday

#supersciencesunday brought many visitors to the National Waterfront museum on March 10th when the doors were opened to the public for an interactive science day. The BlueFish team from Swansea were on hand to showcase their research with the general public. A day of hands on family learning kept our team busy. Continue Reading

Climate change and marine conservation

The 2015 MCCIP Report Card on marine biodiversity legislation showed that climate change is likely to have significant impacts on the UK’s marine protected areas and their features but identified a lack of advice on how protected features should be managed to build resilience to climate change. MCCIP has therefore worked with some of the… Continue Reading

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