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A world leader in the field of marine research, Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) delivers impactful science in support of a sustainable ocean future.
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Delighted to announce that our Prof Penelope Lindeque and Dr Matt Cole have been once again named among the world’s most influential researchers!

Listed in @clarivate.com's #HighlyCited2025 with their internationally-recognised research on marine #microplastics.

#CitationsMatter
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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📢 TODAY at #COP30: join in-person or livestream online! In this session, scientists and experts will explore the status of the #ArcticOcean, and what we must do to protect it.
⏰ 5pm BRT (8pm UK time)
📍 Cryosphere Pavilion, Blue Zone
💻 Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FftZ...
November 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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We couldn't agree more with the words from Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres at #COP30 #Brazil 👏
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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#COP30: Starting shortly in the #OceanPavilion! Join us for '#BlueCarbon Collaboration: Sharing #Japan's #CoastalSolutions with #Asia and beyond (including #mCDR Pathways'.

📆November 11
⏰ 12pm - 1pm
🔗More information: oceanpavilion-cop.org/session/blue...

With PML's Prof Ana Queiros speaking.
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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#COP30: If you're not on the ground in #Belém, don't worry, you can stay on top of the news with the COP30 #VirtualOceanPavilion! This is a free to access online platform democratising access to the ocean in #ClimateNegotiations.

Register here: cop30oceanpavilion.vfairs.com/en/
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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A great week at PML hosting the kick-off meeting for #ValMAS - a £5.6M new project funded by #NERC & #InsiteNorthSea transforming how marine artificial structures (from #OilRigs to #OffshoreWind) are managed across their full lifecycle 🌊

Find out more🔗
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£5.6M project to guide UK’s offshore energy future launches in Plymouth
Scientists, political advisors and industry leaders from across the globe came together this week to mark the official launch of a multi-million pound research project, exploring ways to transform how
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November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Tomorrow is #NationalSTEMDay! 🌍✨ #DYK, PML scientists are part of a free online day of talks inspiring young people to explore how #STEM helps safeguard our planet.

🔬 Georgina Ramm – Protecting with Science
🧮 Dr Rebecca Millington – Protecting with Maths
🔗 pml.ac.uk/event/protec...

#WomenInSTEM
Protecting Our Planet Day (POP) 2025
Protecting Our Planet Day (POP) is the inspiring live-streamed event for schools brought to you by the UK Space Education Office (ESERO-UK) at STEM Learning and in collaboration with the European Spac
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November 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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The cryosphere is sending a clear message, and we are taking this message to #COP30.

PML's Professor Helen Findlay, who contributed to the report, will be speaking at #cryosphere events at the climate conference. Find out more: pml.ac.uk/event/pml-at...
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Melting ice, rising seas, collapsing ecosystems. The new @iccinet.bsky.social #StateOfTheCryosphereReport warns of “rapid, irreversible, and disastrous” impacts from accelerating #IceLoss – but states the worst impacts can still be avoided: pml.ac.uk/news/global-...
November 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Melting ice, rising seas, collapsing ecosystems. The new @iccinet.bsky.social #StateOfTheCryosphereReport warns of “rapid, irreversible, and disastrous” impacts from accelerating #IceLoss – but states the worst impacts can still be avoided: pml.ac.uk/news/global-...
November 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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📅 Date for the Diary: Dec 4th - PML's Prof Helen Findlay will be speaking on the topic of #OceanAlkalinityEnhancement alongside other leading scientists in this area of research. Register for the online webinar 🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-un...

#OAE #oceanbasedcarbonremoval #mCDR #oCDR
November 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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📩 The latest PML newsletter - 'A new era for marine science' - is out! You can read it in your browser here: bit.ly/47CwXdB

📬 Sign up for updates straight to your inbox here: pml.ac.uk/newsletter/
November 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Exciting news! 🌊The #COP30 #VirtualOceanPavilion – a free online platform connecting global audiences with UN ocean & climate discussions – has been endorsed as a UN Ocean Decade Activity 🌍💙

Find out more & register yourself: pml.ac.uk/news/cop30-v...

Thank you @unoceandecade.bsky.social 🌊
COP30 Virtual Ocean Pavilion endorsed by UN Ocean Decade
It has been announced that the COP30 Virtual Ocean Pavilion – a free online platform connecting global audiences with the United Nations ocean and climate discussions, and which opened yesterday (Mo
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November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Wonderful news!! Our #Plankton #Apprentice Bryony Squires has been announced as this year’s recipient of the #LadyHamlynAward for Apprentices by the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology (@imarest.bsky.social)🔗 pml.ac.uk/news/pmls-br...
Huge well done, Bryony👏
PML’s Bryony Squires named recipient of prestigious IMarEST Apprentice Award
PML’s Plankton Apprentice Bryony Squires has been announced as this year’s recipient of the Lady Hamlyn Award for Apprentices by the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology
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November 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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New publication in @microbiologysociety.org "Seaweed exposure modulates Escherichia coli plasmid conjugation rate."

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

#AMR #AntiMicrobialResistance #seaweed

Authors: David Sünderhauf, Macaulay Winter, Jasmine Ramshaw, Emily Stevenson and Michiel Vos.
October 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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🌊 Next Monday (3rd Nov), the #COP29 #VirtualOceanPavilion begins! A free online platform democratising access to #ClimateNegotiations. To kick off, Monday has three incredible webinars featuring global experts (inc. our Prof Matt Frost!). Register 🔗 cop30oceanpavilion.vfairs.com/en/agenda-page
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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As he settles into the role of Director of Science, Professor Tim Smyth shares how he plans to build on PML’s strong foundation of collaboration and solution-driven science to create real-world impact: pml.ac.uk/news/profess...
Professor Smyth’s vision for the future of the laboratory
As he settles into the role of Director of Science, Professor Tim Smyth shares how he plans to build on PML’s strong foundation of collaboration and solution-driven science to create real-world imp
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October 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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A new report reveals what’s needed to harness the power of autonomous technologies to understand and safeguard vital coastal environments 👇🏾

🔗 fmri.ac.uk/news/new-rep...

Report lead ➡️ Prof Matthew Palmer, NCCA Director @pml.ac.uk
Workshop partners ➡️ DEFRA, NPL, @noc.ac.uk, @scottishgov.bsky.social
Text on image card reads: Coastal Autonomy Workshop: Findings and Roadmap "This workshop was a vital step in building a Coastal Autonomy Community of Practice, bringing together experts from science, technology, government, and industry. It highlighted the UK's unique position to lead in applying autonomous technologies to tackle the complex and pressing challenges facing our coastal seas." Professor Matthew Palmer, NCCA Director, Plymouth Marine Laboratory.
October 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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🌊 #AIforGood: Tracking the ocean’s “forests”.

PML, IBM, STFC Hartree & @exeter.ac.uk have launched Granite-Geospatial-Ocean - an #AI model trained on 500K+ #satellite images to map #microalgae, #MarineProductivity & #OceanHealth.

🔗 pml.ac.uk/news/pml-col...
PML collaborates with IBM to launch new AI model to monitor ocean health
Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) is pleased to announce the release of an innovative AI ‘foundation model’ for observing Earth’s oceans, in collaboration with IBM Research, the Science and Techn
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October 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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This Thursday, join the launch event for the 'Handbook on Sustainable Ocean Plans: A Practitioner’s Guide'

🗓️ Thursday, 30 October 2025
🕦 4:00 to 5:00 PM (GMT)
📍 Online
🔗 Register here: www.wri.org/events/2025/...
October 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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#LightPollution isn’t just a problem for our skies - it’s affecting our seas too 🌊

PML scientists are at the 9th International Conference on Artificial Light at Night (#ALAN2025), sharing research on how artificial light threatens marine ecosystems 👇 pml.ac.uk/news/insight...
Insights into marine light pollution: PML scientists in Ireland for international ALAN summit
The event is the largest international scientific conference on the impacts of artificial light at night (ALAN).
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October 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Our future marine scientists? 🤩 Plymouth pupils from Hyde Park Primary School climbed aboard @bas.ac.uk's #SirDavidAttenborough during her stop in #Plymouth - swapping the classroom for the control room! 🚢

Huge thanks to PML’s Dr Gennadi Lessin for helping make it happen🌊
October 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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PML to co-lead £2m project using #AI to create the largest-ever study of vulnerable #DeepSea habitats 🪸

We're a recipient of @bezosearthfund.org's #AIForClimateandNature Grand Challenge! 🌍 The award supports using AI to protect #biodiversity & advance #ClimateSolutions: pml.ac.uk/news/pml-to-...
PML to co-lead £2m project using AI to create the largest-ever study of vulnerable deep-sea habitats
The award from Bezos Earth Fund supports innovative uses of artificial intelligence to protect biodiversity and advance climate solutions worldwide
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October 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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THE GREAT OCEAN DESTABILISERS: PML’s Prof Helen Findlay joins global experts exploring how multiple human-driven stressors - from increasing #OceanAcidification and #deoxygenation, to #pollution and #overfishing - combine to weaken ocean health.

Read here: backtoblueinitiative.com/the-great-oc...
The great ocean destabilisers
Over the past three years, Back to Blue has detailed the growing threat that ocean acidification (OA) poses to marine ecosystems. We have also described how OA contributes to the loss of marine biodiv...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear poses one of the most serious threats to marine life, says PML Marine Ecologist Dr Rachel Coppock in this @theguardian.com
#SeaScape article.

Read: theguardian.com/environment/...

#plastics #marinepollution #plasticpollution #Recycling #circulareconomy
‘When I pass piles of fishing nets, I see piles of money’: a one man recycling revolution on the Cornish coast
Determined to find a solution to the discarded plastic nets, Ian Falconer found a way to convert them into filament for 3D printing, for use in products from motorbikes to sunglasses
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October 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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An extremely special week in #Plymouth, welcoming the #RRSSirDavidAttenborough to #PlymouthSound before her Antarctic voyage 🐧

Huge thanks to @bas.ac.uk for showing our team aboard - and tomorrow, local schools will get the same inspiring experience. Find out more: pml.ac.uk/news/pml-wel...
October 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM