The Atlantic Area Conference - 'The
Marine Economy’ - a key component
of the EU Integrated Strategy for
the Atlantic Area' - hosted by
the Border, Midland and Western Regional
Assembly - will yake place on 7th
February 2012 at the Grand Hotel,
Malahide, Co Dublin.
Coastal erosion is threatening the
extensive sand dune system in the
Co Sligo seaside resort of Strandhill,
where the golf course is also now
at risk, according to local people.
The Marine Institute’s Open Access
Repository library, which holds over
650 publications online, has had over
6,000 visits from more than 46 countries
since its recent launch last year.
The EU is "closely following" efforts
to remove more than 2300 tonnes of
diesel from the wreckage of the Costa
Concordia cruise ship, Transport Commissioner
Siim Kallas has said.
Tidal current technology developer
Marine Current Turbines (MCT) has
released an independent report demonstrating
that its flagship SeaGen generator,
located in Northern Ireland's Strangford
Lough, has had no major impact on
marine life.
Students from across Ireland found
out that Geology 'Rocks' at the Geological
Survey of Ireland’s fully interactive
'Geological Sciences' stand at the
recent BT Young Scientist and Technology
Exhibition.
University College Cork (UCC) scientists
have produced the first detailed charts
of part of Ireland’s offshore bedrock
geology, using a new method of mapping.
Horizon 2020, the European Commission's
proposal for a new €80 billion programme
to run from 2014 to 2020 was launched
by Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner
for Research, Innovation and Science
on 30th Novemb2011.
Minister of Agriculture, Food and
Marine Mr. Simon Coveney, TD has been
presented with the most recent version
of the Marine Institute’s annual Stock
Book.
The Socio-Economic Marine Research
Unit (SEMRU) launched its Ireland’s
Ocean Economy Report at the 3rd Annual
Beaufort Marine Socio-Economic Symposium
in the National University of Ireland,
Galway on Friday 11th November.
Exciting new developments in Ireland’s
capacity to uncover its past and explore
its future economic potential were
revealed at a seminar on underwater
mapping at the Marine Institute in
Galway.
The Minister for Agriculture, Food
and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD has
launched a national consultation on
the impact of the EU Commission’s
proposals for CFP reform.
A range of possible solutions to
reduce the problem of discarding by
the Irish fishing fleet is outlined
in The Marine Institute and BIM Atlas
of Demersal Discarding - Scientific
Observations and Potential Solutions
- which also contains a detailed compendium
of discards by the fleet on a stock
by stock basis.
Climate change is subtly altering
average yearly and seasonal temperatures
on land and water and looks set to
have a significant impact on Northern
Ireland’s coastal ecology, according
to Dr David Schoeman, a University
of Ulster marine scientist and co-author
of an important international study
into ocean warming.
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