Our Seaweed Academy has partnered with @wwf.org.uk and the Michael Uren Foundation to offer scholarships for UK residents to attend our Seaweed Nursery Course this August here at SAMS in Oban.
Applications close 5pm, 8 May 2026.
👉 tinyurl.com/SeaweedAcade...
Dark Oxygen? What is it and why is it important? Join us on Thursday 21 May 2026 from 13:00-14:00 CEST to find out! Our May #ThirdThursdayScience session will discuss dark oxygen with speaker Andrew Sweetman from @samsocean.bsky.social. More and register here: www.marineboard.eu/events/dark-...
We recently developed a successful tank-based method for growing the highly-valued red seaweed Palmaria palmata.
Learn more about the discovery in Dr Puja Kumari's interview on Food Ingredients First.
🎥www.foodingredientsfirst.com/video/red-seaweed-food-f...
Congratulations to SAMS PhD student Hayley Swanlund on her first first-author paper about how #seaweed farming can enhance ecosystem services.
The global review of 134 studies shows seaweed aquaculture can help improve water quality and offer habitat for marine life.
doi.org/10.1080/2330...
CCAP will be at the Edinburgh Science Festival 2026 - if you are visiting come and say hello!
We will be in Dynamic Earth on 16 & 17 April 10-4, with an ioLight microscope and a bioreactor, plus several of our algae strains.
@samsocean.bsky.social
#edinburgh #marinescience #STEM #pondlife #algae
Two international conferences will create a keynote talk with a difference by simultaneously involving speakers on either side of the Atlantic🌊.
Find out which event the Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewables Conference (EIMR2026) in Oban is pairing with.
www.sams.ac.uk/news/sams-ne...
Fantastic insights from Janice. It was a pleasure to have her on the podcast. Thanks for sharing! 🎧♥️
🎧 What’s next for ocean science amid funding cuts and growing demand for research?
Hear Janice Lachance, CEO of AGU, discuss the state of ocean science in a special episode of the @samsocean.bsky.social podcast, recorded at #OSM26.
Listen to the full episode : buff.ly/6Wsn6bl
Two common dolphins leaping at sea
An offshore wind turbine at dusk
Interested in marine mammals, or renewable energy. Might you even have an interest in both..?! 🧐
The Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewables conference #EIMR2026 in Oban next month combines marine renewable energy and environmental science.
➡️https://eimr2026.com
🎧NEW PODCAST EPISODE!
Ocean carbon storage: how much is too much?
www.buzzsprout.com/1080152/epis...
Download from the link above, or search 'SAMS Ocean Explorer' on your preferred streaming platform.
A beautifully shot episode of BBC Countryfile aired yesterday featuring our flapper skate research and the glorious surroundings of Oban and Lorn.🌊
📺www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002rx34...
The red seaweed Palmaria palmata - aka dulse - is highly valued.
There's just one thing...it's tricky to grow.
SAMS researchers believe they have developed a successful tank-based method for growing the seaweed, observing a weekly doubling in biomass.🧪
www.sams.ac.uk/news/sams-ne...
A glass sphere rests on a reflective wet beach at sunset
@epocproject.bsky.social are bringing ocean science to the science centre on Sat 21 Feb ahead of #OSM2026
🌊 Ocean visualisation @noc.ac.uk
🤖 Robot gliders @samsocean.bsky.social
🔬 Sediment cores @ucl.ac.uk
💦 How The Ocean Shapes Our World in IMAX @helenczerski.bsky.social
Thinking about attending this year's Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewables (EIMR) Conference in Oban? 🐳🌊🧪
Well, the draft conference programme is now available to view at eimr2026.com. Please don't forget to register if you plan on coming!
We look forward to seeing you all at #EIMR2026!
We're bringing ocean science to @glasgowscience.bsky.social on Sat 21 Feb ahead of #OSM2026
🌊 Ocean visualisation @noc.ac.uk
🤖 Robot gliders @samsocean.bsky.social
🔬 Sediment cores @ucl.ac.uk
@helenczerski.bsky.social ocean tech debate
glasgowsciencecentre.org/whats-on/eyes-on-the-ocean
Postgraduate student projects that will investigate coastal creatures through to the deep Pacific Ocean are underway this week as a new cohort arrived at SAMS, a partner of @thinkuhi.bsky.social
The students are pictured with Prof. Bhavani Narayanaswamy, Head of SAMS Graduate School.
Today, we welcome aboard subsea engineers Aquatitans, the latest company to join our Ocean Changemakers initiative.
Ocean Changemakers supports SAMS to maintain long-term research programmes and respond quickly to emerging environmental challenges.
Read more: www.sams.ac.uk/news/sams-ne...
Two world-first seabed landers that can withstand extreme pressure will help answer one of the ocean’s deepest mysteries – where does Dark Oxygen come from?
The SAMS-led research, funded by The Nippon Foundation, includes Northwestern University & Boston University.
www.sams.ac.uk/news/sams-ne...
📣KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr Simon Waldman is Assistant Professor at the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society at @heriotwattuni.bsky.social, Scotland.
📣KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr Joop Coolen is Researcher in Benthic Ecology at @w-u-r.bsky.social, Netherlands.
📣KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr Anna Redden is Professor in Marine Biology and Ecology at Acadia University, Canada.
⌛🐥 Last chance for early bird tickets to our Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewables (EIMR) conference in Oban this April.🌊
A limited number of these are still available until tomorrow afternoon.
See eimr2026.com to buy tickets and for more info. 🐳
Keynote speakers you ask..? See the 🧵
SAMS #vacancies
Associate Director of Finance
www.sams.ac.uk/vacancies/as...
If you've got an eye for numbers and would like to play your part in ensuring a healthy ocean for thriving people, we want to hear from you.
"Twinkle, twinkle, wandering star"
As we approach the festive holiday break, we would like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas.
Our Christmas card star is made up of different diatoms, small algal cells of exceptional beauty that drift, or wander, in the ocean as part of the plankton.
Marine robotics will aid restoration efforts on Scottish loch - @SAMSocean.bsky.social
Restoration efforts on a Scottish loch have been boosted by experimental techniques using sea-going robotics that can identify the most suitable reintroduction sites.
c-js.co.uk/4iYMoCe
It that a coral, or an upside-down squid..?
New suspected species, coined the ‘muddy squid’, displays ‘unusual’ burrowing behaviour observed for the first time in the deep sea.
Read more: www.sams.ac.uk/news/sams-ne...
@thinkuhi.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk
We're prizewinners! 🏆
A fantastic result at last night's Scottish Renewables Scottish Green Energy Awards as we picked up the Judges Award for our work on marine growth assessments of offshore structures.
Thank you to #SGEA25 organisers and sponsors.
Read more: www.sams.ac.uk/news/sams-ne...
A new transatlantic connection has been established between SAMS in Oban, a partner of @thinkuhi.bsky.social, and the Oceanography Department at @dalhousieu.bsky.social in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Find out more👇
www.sams.ac.uk/news/sams-ne...
Former SAMS Director Prof. Graham Shimmield was born on this day in 1958.
Graham was at the helm of SAMS from 1995 - 2008 and later led the Bigelow Laboratory in Maine until his death on Christmas Eve in 2016.
He is remembered as an accomplished marine scientist and a visionary leader.
@sophiefresson.bsky.social can we please join the UK Ocean News feed?
