To kick-start Heritage Week in West Cork last month,
UCC scientists from the Department of Zoology, Ecology
and Plant Science (ZEPS) put on a demonstration of Marine
Life from the Lough Hyne Marine Reserve near Skibbereen.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a leading
Irish marine biologist have both challenged the findings
of a report by a US/Swedish scientific team which claims
that excessive pollution has created 20 'dead zones'
around the Irish coastline, according to a report in
The Irish Times.
The Marine Institute (Foras na Mara) has
welcomed the European Commission’s European Strategy
for Marine and Maritime Research: A coherent European
Research Area framework in support of a sustainable
use of oceans and seas.
Research and Innovation hold the key to reconciling
sometimes competing goals of sustainable economic growth
and environmental preservation in sea-based activities.
Ocean 'dead zones' are growing - and industrial
power plants, car drivers and agriculture are all to
blame, claim scientists who are now calling for stronger
controls on emissions of nitrogen into the atmosphere.
Irish scientists are coordinating a major seabed
drilling expedition funded through the European Science
Foundation (ESF) to collect 70m long continuous records
through cold-water coral reefs offshore Ireland.
The world's leading plant-sourced supplier of calcium
has defended itself against an industry source's accusation
that it has over-harvested its Irish seaweed supply
and will soon be forced to source exclusively from its
new Icelandic base.
A series of yellow floating buoys - the first elements
of a revolutionary new environmental monitoring system
called SmartBay - were installed last week
(Monday 14th July) in Galway Bay by the Marine Institute.
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