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MASTS 10th Annual Science Meeting 2020

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Plenary Speakers

Matt Dawkins

Senior R&D Engineer, Kitware, USA. Matt speaking on 6th Oct at 17:00 UK time

Peter Macreadie

Deakin University, Australia. Peter is speaking on 7th Oct at 09:50 UK time

Kerstin Forsberg

Founder & Director of Planeta Oceano, Peru. Kerstin is speaking 8th Oct 17:15 UK time

Gideon Henderson

Chief Scientific Advisor, DEFRA, UK. Gideon is speaking 8th Oct 10:00 UK time.

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Hosted by MASTS

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The Marine Alliance For Science and Technology For Scotland (MASTS)

Exhibitors

People Ocean Planet

Elevating impact from marine science by driving change

MASTS Marine Climate Change Forum

A place for climate change related research within MASTS

MEDIN - Marine Environmental Data and Information Network

MEDIN and marine data sharing

Aquatec Group

Subsea measurement, monitoring and communication.

Fidra

Working to reduce plastic waste and chemical pollution

RS Aqua

Enabling aquatic science for a safe & sustainable future

Waves Group

Offshore Energy and Marine Consultants

CessCon Decom Ltd

Oil & gas decommissioning lifecycle service provider

InvestFife

Fife is one of Scotland’s leading manufacturing regions for with particular strengths in Decommissioning and SubSea Engineering.

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Petra Harsanyi – The effects of Electromagnetic Fields on microbial surface colonization and biofilm development

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Natalie Isaksson – Assessing the effects of tidal stream marine renewable energy on seabirds: A conceptual framework

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Euan Mackenzie - Remote sensing of Loch Carron’s protected Limaria hians beds to monitor and map the recovery of damaged areas

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Jiawei Pan –The bi-gradational contourite sequence and climatic signals: a geostatistical assessment

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Alienor Hammer – The role of Scottish Salmon aquaculture in climate change

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Bernadette Butfield – Marine renewable energy developments, friend or foe to sharks in Scottish waters?

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Melissa Costagliola-Ray - Investigating the use of multiple survey techniques as an integrated approach to seabird monitoring

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Heather Runnacles Goodridge – Bringing decades of environmental monitoring and research to a wider audience: innovative public engagement strategies

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Naha Miqad Alotaibi – LINKING PLANT DEMOGRAPHY, ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS AND POPULATION GENETICS ACROSS SPACE AND TIME

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Steven Benjamins & Texa Sim - Marine mammals that fly: Observations of bats in coastal habitats of western Scotland

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Rajashree Naik – Pre and Post COVID-19 Lockdown effect on saltpan encroachment of a Ramsar Site: Sambhar Salt Lake, India

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Erica Chapman – Temporal and spatial variability in native European oyster (Ostrea edulis) larvae: are ‘key patterns’ transferable for restoration projects?

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Dr Georgina Robinson - Harnessing Reactive Nitrogen (Nr) in Integrated Food Production, Bioremediation and Energy Generation Systems

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Charlotte Miskin-Hymas - MEDIN and marine data sharing

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Terence Dawson - Climate impacts on the coral reefs of the Pitcairn Islands Marine Reserve in 2016

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James Chapman - Habitat to population level impact assessment for top predator-marine renewable interactions

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Blair Easton – Population dynamics, catch composition and CPUE of the edible crab, Cancer pagurus, and European lobster, Homarus gammarus, in a Voluntary Marine Reserve

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Gracie Wilson - Potential impact of combined climate driven stressors on UK dominant intertidal macroalgae.

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Corallie Hunt – Can Multibeam Backscatter Spatially Predict Organic Carbon on a Regional Scale?

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Ieuan Jones - Spatio-temporal trends in the different components of demersal fish biodiversity in the North Sea

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Texa Sim- Acoustic localisation reveals fine-scale movements of harbour porpoises around salmon farms in Scotland

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Hanna Ewen – Exploring options for further inclusion of blue carbon in climate change policy within the framework of the IPCC

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Fengjia Liu-Detection of DNA damage in sea urchin coelomocytes with fast micromethod

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Constance Schéré – To what extent are marine protected areas in the Irish Sea equitably governed and managed? A case study approach

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Jack Sheehy - A multivariate approach to determining factors of natural and artificial reef assemblages: Implications for biodiversity and marine renewable energy

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James Kairo - From Science to Policy: Mainstreaming mangrove ecosystem into national development and climate change agenda in Kenya

Recorded Session

MASTS General Science Session 1

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Governing Scottish Seas

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MASTS General Science Session 2

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Multiple Marine Stressors

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Coastal ecosystem-based solutions : Climate-change adaptation

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Marine Climate Change

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Technologies and Methodologies

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MASTS General Science Session 3

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Structures in the Marine Environment

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MASTS General Science Session 4

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Aquaculture 2

Recorded Sessions

MASTS General Science Session 5

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Aquaculture 1