Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS)
@samsocean.bsky.social
An ocean research charity and partner of the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI). Delivering #research, #education and #consultancy in #marinescience to benefit our ocean.
SAMS and @thinkuhi.bsky.social Prof. Michael Burrows is included on the global list of Highly Cited Researchers for the 6th consecutive year.🏆🌊🧪
The @clarivateag.bsky.social list considers papers ranking in the top 1% by citations for field & publication year over the past decade.
#HighlyCited2025
The @clarivateag.bsky.social list considers papers ranking in the top 1% by citations for field & publication year over the past decade.
#HighlyCited2025
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
SAMS and @thinkuhi.bsky.social Prof. Michael Burrows is included on the global list of Highly Cited Researchers for the 6th consecutive year.🏆🌊🧪
The @clarivateag.bsky.social list considers papers ranking in the top 1% by citations for field & publication year over the past decade.
#HighlyCited2025
The @clarivateag.bsky.social list considers papers ranking in the top 1% by citations for field & publication year over the past decade.
#HighlyCited2025
Fully funded MRes opportunity!
"Determining the origins and ages of plastic arriving on Scotland's shoreline"
www.sams.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Application deadline: 12th November
This one year, fully funded MRes studentship begins on 2nd February 2026.🌊🧪
"Determining the origins and ages of plastic arriving on Scotland's shoreline"
www.sams.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Application deadline: 12th November
This one year, fully funded MRes studentship begins on 2nd February 2026.🌊🧪
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Fully funded MRes opportunity!
"Determining the origins and ages of plastic arriving on Scotland's shoreline"
www.sams.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Application deadline: 12th November
This one year, fully funded MRes studentship begins on 2nd February 2026.🌊🧪
"Determining the origins and ages of plastic arriving on Scotland's shoreline"
www.sams.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Application deadline: 12th November
This one year, fully funded MRes studentship begins on 2nd February 2026.🌊🧪
📣 #PhD opportunities
As part of the NERC E5 Doctoral Training Partnership through The University of Edinburgh, SAMS has submitted three options for PhD studentships. 🧪🌊
Is your dream PhD here?
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As part of the NERC E5 Doctoral Training Partnership through The University of Edinburgh, SAMS has submitted three options for PhD studentships. 🧪🌊
Is your dream PhD here?
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
📣 #PhD opportunities
As part of the NERC E5 Doctoral Training Partnership through The University of Edinburgh, SAMS has submitted three options for PhD studentships. 🧪🌊
Is your dream PhD here?
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
As part of the NERC E5 Doctoral Training Partnership through The University of Edinburgh, SAMS has submitted three options for PhD studentships. 🧪🌊
Is your dream PhD here?
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
Congratulations, Dr Sands! 🎉🍾🎊
Huge congratulations to SAMS @thinkuhi.bsky.social and @bas.ac.uk (BAS) PhD student Chester Sands who today successfully defended his viva.
Chester, a father of three, works at BAS as a molecular ecologist and completed his PhD while working in this role.
Huge congratulations to SAMS @thinkuhi.bsky.social and @bas.ac.uk (BAS) PhD student Chester Sands who today successfully defended his viva.
Chester, a father of three, works at BAS as a molecular ecologist and completed his PhD while working in this role.
October 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Congratulations, Dr Sands! 🎉🍾🎊
Huge congratulations to SAMS @thinkuhi.bsky.social and @bas.ac.uk (BAS) PhD student Chester Sands who today successfully defended his viva.
Chester, a father of three, works at BAS as a molecular ecologist and completed his PhD while working in this role.
Huge congratulations to SAMS @thinkuhi.bsky.social and @bas.ac.uk (BAS) PhD student Chester Sands who today successfully defended his viva.
Chester, a father of three, works at BAS as a molecular ecologist and completed his PhD while working in this role.
Bluesky - can you help us?
Drones & Droids is an innovative STEM strategy game created by scientists at SAMS.
We've only 5 days to raise the money needed to bring this project to life. If we don’t reach 100%, we lose match funding.
✅ Back the campaign: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/drones-and-droids
Drones & Droids is an innovative STEM strategy game created by scientists at SAMS.
We've only 5 days to raise the money needed to bring this project to life. If we don’t reach 100%, we lose match funding.
✅ Back the campaign: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/drones-and-droids
October 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Bluesky - can you help us?
Drones & Droids is an innovative STEM strategy game created by scientists at SAMS.
We've only 5 days to raise the money needed to bring this project to life. If we don’t reach 100%, we lose match funding.
✅ Back the campaign: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/drones-and-droids
Drones & Droids is an innovative STEM strategy game created by scientists at SAMS.
We've only 5 days to raise the money needed to bring this project to life. If we don’t reach 100%, we lose match funding.
✅ Back the campaign: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/drones-and-droids
Congratulations, Dr Francis! 🎉 🧑🔬 🌊 🥂
Huge congratulations to SAMS and University of Edinburgh PhD student Adam Francis who yesterday successfully defended his viva: The role of new nitrogen inputs and recycling on nutrient dynamics in the Mediterranean and Atlantic.
Huge congratulations to SAMS and University of Edinburgh PhD student Adam Francis who yesterday successfully defended his viva: The role of new nitrogen inputs and recycling on nutrient dynamics in the Mediterranean and Atlantic.
October 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Congratulations, Dr Francis! 🎉 🧑🔬 🌊 🥂
Huge congratulations to SAMS and University of Edinburgh PhD student Adam Francis who yesterday successfully defended his viva: The role of new nitrogen inputs and recycling on nutrient dynamics in the Mediterranean and Atlantic.
Huge congratulations to SAMS and University of Edinburgh PhD student Adam Francis who yesterday successfully defended his viva: The role of new nitrogen inputs and recycling on nutrient dynamics in the Mediterranean and Atlantic.
Fully-funded MRes opportunity!
"Determining the origins and ages of plastic arriving on Scotland's shoreline"
www.sams.ac.uk/study/postgr...
App deadline: 31st October
This one-year project aims to understand marine litter conditions in a pre-determined location on the west coast of Scotland.
"Determining the origins and ages of plastic arriving on Scotland's shoreline"
www.sams.ac.uk/study/postgr...
App deadline: 31st October
This one-year project aims to understand marine litter conditions in a pre-determined location on the west coast of Scotland.
October 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Fully-funded MRes opportunity!
"Determining the origins and ages of plastic arriving on Scotland's shoreline"
www.sams.ac.uk/study/postgr...
App deadline: 31st October
This one-year project aims to understand marine litter conditions in a pre-determined location on the west coast of Scotland.
"Determining the origins and ages of plastic arriving on Scotland's shoreline"
www.sams.ac.uk/study/postgr...
App deadline: 31st October
This one-year project aims to understand marine litter conditions in a pre-determined location on the west coast of Scotland.
Only 14 days left to bring Drones and Droids to life!
Drones and Droids is a strategic card game with a difference, fusing robotics, science, and imagination.
We’re crowdfunding to get a small production run off the ground - and we’re almost there.
👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/drones-and-droids🌊
Drones and Droids is a strategic card game with a difference, fusing robotics, science, and imagination.
We’re crowdfunding to get a small production run off the ground - and we’re almost there.
👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/drones-and-droids🌊
October 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Only 14 days left to bring Drones and Droids to life!
Drones and Droids is a strategic card game with a difference, fusing robotics, science, and imagination.
We’re crowdfunding to get a small production run off the ground - and we’re almost there.
👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/drones-and-droids🌊
Drones and Droids is a strategic card game with a difference, fusing robotics, science, and imagination.
We’re crowdfunding to get a small production run off the ground - and we’re almost there.
👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/drones-and-droids🌊
Our online EIT Food Algal Biotechnology course is back 4-5 November 2025 📆. apply.eitfood.eu/en_GB/course...
This professional development programme provides an introduction to developments in industry.
📆 Deadline: 29 October 2025
🗺 Place: Online
💶 Course fee: € 99 (incl. VAT)
🧪🌊
This professional development programme provides an introduction to developments in industry.
📆 Deadline: 29 October 2025
🗺 Place: Online
💶 Course fee: € 99 (incl. VAT)
🧪🌊
October 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Our online EIT Food Algal Biotechnology course is back 4-5 November 2025 📆. apply.eitfood.eu/en_GB/course...
This professional development programme provides an introduction to developments in industry.
📆 Deadline: 29 October 2025
🗺 Place: Online
💶 Course fee: € 99 (incl. VAT)
🧪🌊
This professional development programme provides an introduction to developments in industry.
📆 Deadline: 29 October 2025
🗺 Place: Online
💶 Course fee: € 99 (incl. VAT)
🧪🌊
🎧New podcast episode!
"A new wave of ocean exploration"
Real-life Octonauts Drs Neil Fraser & Lewis Drysdale explain how new technology is a game changer in the quest for 🌊 data.
👂https://www.buzzsprout.com/1080152/episodes/17448270 or on your preferred streaming platform.🧪
@fmri-nerc.bsky.social
"A new wave of ocean exploration"
Real-life Octonauts Drs Neil Fraser & Lewis Drysdale explain how new technology is a game changer in the quest for 🌊 data.
👂https://www.buzzsprout.com/1080152/episodes/17448270 or on your preferred streaming platform.🧪
@fmri-nerc.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🎧New podcast episode!
"A new wave of ocean exploration"
Real-life Octonauts Drs Neil Fraser & Lewis Drysdale explain how new technology is a game changer in the quest for 🌊 data.
👂https://www.buzzsprout.com/1080152/episodes/17448270 or on your preferred streaming platform.🧪
@fmri-nerc.bsky.social
"A new wave of ocean exploration"
Real-life Octonauts Drs Neil Fraser & Lewis Drysdale explain how new technology is a game changer in the quest for 🌊 data.
👂https://www.buzzsprout.com/1080152/episodes/17448270 or on your preferred streaming platform.🧪
@fmri-nerc.bsky.social
Our marine robotics team have been out beyond the #Hebridean islands to deploy a glider in the north-east Atlantic over the coming months.
Gliders are able to gather data in hard-to-reach parts of the ocean, filling gaps in our understanding of large-scale currents.🌊
The dolphins were a bonus!🐬
Gliders are able to gather data in hard-to-reach parts of the ocean, filling gaps in our understanding of large-scale currents.🌊
The dolphins were a bonus!🐬
May 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Our marine robotics team have been out beyond the #Hebridean islands to deploy a glider in the north-east Atlantic over the coming months.
Gliders are able to gather data in hard-to-reach parts of the ocean, filling gaps in our understanding of large-scale currents.🌊
The dolphins were a bonus!🐬
Gliders are able to gather data in hard-to-reach parts of the ocean, filling gaps in our understanding of large-scale currents.🌊
The dolphins were a bonus!🐬
Funded #PhD opportunities🧪🌊
Looking for a PhD? We currently have three funded opportunities to work with us here at SAMS.
To find out more, see: www.sams.ac.uk/study/postgr...
#MarineScience #FindAPhD #ThinkUHI
Looking for a PhD? We currently have three funded opportunities to work with us here at SAMS.
To find out more, see: www.sams.ac.uk/study/postgr...
#MarineScience #FindAPhD #ThinkUHI
April 29, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Funded #PhD opportunities🧪🌊
Looking for a PhD? We currently have three funded opportunities to work with us here at SAMS.
To find out more, see: www.sams.ac.uk/study/postgr...
#MarineScience #FindAPhD #ThinkUHI
Looking for a PhD? We currently have three funded opportunities to work with us here at SAMS.
To find out more, see: www.sams.ac.uk/study/postgr...
#MarineScience #FindAPhD #ThinkUHI
🎧NEW PODCAST EPISODE
Drowning in plastic pollution 🧪🌊
www.buzzsprout.com/1080152/epis...
SAMS scientists Prof. Bhavani Narayanaswamy and Dr Geslaine Lemos Concalves explain the extent of plastic pollution in our ocean and what we can do to mitigate some of the worst impacts.
#MarineScience
Drowning in plastic pollution 🧪🌊
www.buzzsprout.com/1080152/epis...
SAMS scientists Prof. Bhavani Narayanaswamy and Dr Geslaine Lemos Concalves explain the extent of plastic pollution in our ocean and what we can do to mitigate some of the worst impacts.
#MarineScience
April 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🎧NEW PODCAST EPISODE
Drowning in plastic pollution 🧪🌊
www.buzzsprout.com/1080152/epis...
SAMS scientists Prof. Bhavani Narayanaswamy and Dr Geslaine Lemos Concalves explain the extent of plastic pollution in our ocean and what we can do to mitigate some of the worst impacts.
#MarineScience
Drowning in plastic pollution 🧪🌊
www.buzzsprout.com/1080152/epis...
SAMS scientists Prof. Bhavani Narayanaswamy and Dr Geslaine Lemos Concalves explain the extent of plastic pollution in our ocean and what we can do to mitigate some of the worst impacts.
#MarineScience
Fully-funded #PhD opportunity!🌊🧪
"Exploring benthic biogeochemical cycling in the abyssal Clarion-Clipperton Zone, Pacific Ocean"
Want to help answer one of the biggest questions in #deepsea science?
Apply by 30th April, or find out more 👇
www.sams.ac.uk/study/postgr...
@mastscot.bsky.social
"Exploring benthic biogeochemical cycling in the abyssal Clarion-Clipperton Zone, Pacific Ocean"
Want to help answer one of the biggest questions in #deepsea science?
Apply by 30th April, or find out more 👇
www.sams.ac.uk/study/postgr...
@mastscot.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Fully-funded #PhD opportunity!🌊🧪
"Exploring benthic biogeochemical cycling in the abyssal Clarion-Clipperton Zone, Pacific Ocean"
Want to help answer one of the biggest questions in #deepsea science?
Apply by 30th April, or find out more 👇
www.sams.ac.uk/study/postgr...
@mastscot.bsky.social
"Exploring benthic biogeochemical cycling in the abyssal Clarion-Clipperton Zone, Pacific Ocean"
Want to help answer one of the biggest questions in #deepsea science?
Apply by 30th April, or find out more 👇
www.sams.ac.uk/study/postgr...
@mastscot.bsky.social
📢 Fully-funded #PhD opportunity!
Join the team investigating 'Dark Oxygen' production in the deep sea!🌊
👨🎓 3.5-year PhD funded by The Nippon Foundation
🚢 Join research cruises in the Pacific Ocean
🧪 Sample and study polymetallic nodules
Apply, or find out more 👇
www.sams.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Join the team investigating 'Dark Oxygen' production in the deep sea!🌊
👨🎓 3.5-year PhD funded by The Nippon Foundation
🚢 Join research cruises in the Pacific Ocean
🧪 Sample and study polymetallic nodules
Apply, or find out more 👇
www.sams.ac.uk/study/postgr...
March 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
📢 Fully-funded #PhD opportunity!
Join the team investigating 'Dark Oxygen' production in the deep sea!🌊
👨🎓 3.5-year PhD funded by The Nippon Foundation
🚢 Join research cruises in the Pacific Ocean
🧪 Sample and study polymetallic nodules
Apply, or find out more 👇
www.sams.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Join the team investigating 'Dark Oxygen' production in the deep sea!🌊
👨🎓 3.5-year PhD funded by The Nippon Foundation
🚢 Join research cruises in the Pacific Ocean
🧪 Sample and study polymetallic nodules
Apply, or find out more 👇
www.sams.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Prof. Adam Hughes of SAMS was a plenary speaker yesterday at the @royalsociety.org for #SeafoodInnovation2025.
The professor of Innovation in the Blue Economy spoke on novel tech and innovation in #aquaculture.
@cefasgovuk.bsky.social 🌊
The professor of Innovation in the Blue Economy spoke on novel tech and innovation in #aquaculture.
@cefasgovuk.bsky.social 🌊
February 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Prof. Adam Hughes of SAMS was a plenary speaker yesterday at the @royalsociety.org for #SeafoodInnovation2025.
The professor of Innovation in the Blue Economy spoke on novel tech and innovation in #aquaculture.
@cefasgovuk.bsky.social 🌊
The professor of Innovation in the Blue Economy spoke on novel tech and innovation in #aquaculture.
@cefasgovuk.bsky.social 🌊
Prof. Andrew Sweetman has delivered a keynote address at the @euromarine.bsky.social conference in Chioggia, Italy.
Prof. Sweetman presented his discovery of oxygen production in the deep sea.🌊🧪
To learn more, listen to the latest SAMS Ocean Explorer podcast🎧: www.buzzsprout.com/1080152/epis...
Prof. Sweetman presented his discovery of oxygen production in the deep sea.🌊🧪
To learn more, listen to the latest SAMS Ocean Explorer podcast🎧: www.buzzsprout.com/1080152/epis...
February 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Prof. Andrew Sweetman has delivered a keynote address at the @euromarine.bsky.social conference in Chioggia, Italy.
Prof. Sweetman presented his discovery of oxygen production in the deep sea.🌊🧪
To learn more, listen to the latest SAMS Ocean Explorer podcast🎧: www.buzzsprout.com/1080152/epis...
Prof. Sweetman presented his discovery of oxygen production in the deep sea.🌊🧪
To learn more, listen to the latest SAMS Ocean Explorer podcast🎧: www.buzzsprout.com/1080152/epis...
🎧 NEW #PODCAST EPISODE 🌊🧪
Dark Oxygen: a deep sea discovery
www.buzzsprout.com/1080152/epis...
The SAMS Ocean Explorer podcast welcomes Prof. Andrew Sweetman and his former PhD student Daniëlle de Jonge.
Search 'SAMS Ocean Explorer' on your streaming service, or download via the link above.
Dark Oxygen: a deep sea discovery
www.buzzsprout.com/1080152/epis...
The SAMS Ocean Explorer podcast welcomes Prof. Andrew Sweetman and his former PhD student Daniëlle de Jonge.
Search 'SAMS Ocean Explorer' on your streaming service, or download via the link above.
February 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🎧 NEW #PODCAST EPISODE 🌊🧪
Dark Oxygen: a deep sea discovery
www.buzzsprout.com/1080152/epis...
The SAMS Ocean Explorer podcast welcomes Prof. Andrew Sweetman and his former PhD student Daniëlle de Jonge.
Search 'SAMS Ocean Explorer' on your streaming service, or download via the link above.
Dark Oxygen: a deep sea discovery
www.buzzsprout.com/1080152/epis...
The SAMS Ocean Explorer podcast welcomes Prof. Andrew Sweetman and his former PhD student Daniëlle de Jonge.
Search 'SAMS Ocean Explorer' on your streaming service, or download via the link above.
Do you work in #food systems or #aquaculture?
Join us at the Algal #Biotechnology course at @fraunhoferigb.bsky.social in Stuttgart!
📑 2 days of hands-on training on cultivation, biotechnology and large-scale productions.
📅 2 & 3 April
Applications open!
👉: learning.eitfood.eu/courses/alga...
Join us at the Algal #Biotechnology course at @fraunhoferigb.bsky.social in Stuttgart!
📑 2 days of hands-on training on cultivation, biotechnology and large-scale productions.
📅 2 & 3 April
Applications open!
👉: learning.eitfood.eu/courses/alga...
February 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Do you work in #food systems or #aquaculture?
Join us at the Algal #Biotechnology course at @fraunhoferigb.bsky.social in Stuttgart!
📑 2 days of hands-on training on cultivation, biotechnology and large-scale productions.
📅 2 & 3 April
Applications open!
👉: learning.eitfood.eu/courses/alga...
Join us at the Algal #Biotechnology course at @fraunhoferigb.bsky.social in Stuttgart!
📑 2 days of hands-on training on cultivation, biotechnology and large-scale productions.
📅 2 & 3 April
Applications open!
👉: learning.eitfood.eu/courses/alga...
Congratulations, Dr de Jonge! 🎉🎉🎉👩🔬
Congratulations to SAMS and @thinkuhi.bsky.social PhD student Daniëlle de Jonge who has successfully defended her viva (with no corrections!).
Daniëlle is pictured with supervisor Prof Andrew Sweetman and examiner @michaeltburrows.bsky.social
#DeepSea #PhDlife
Congratulations to SAMS and @thinkuhi.bsky.social PhD student Daniëlle de Jonge who has successfully defended her viva (with no corrections!).
Daniëlle is pictured with supervisor Prof Andrew Sweetman and examiner @michaeltburrows.bsky.social
#DeepSea #PhDlife
January 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Congratulations, Dr de Jonge! 🎉🎉🎉👩🔬
Congratulations to SAMS and @thinkuhi.bsky.social PhD student Daniëlle de Jonge who has successfully defended her viva (with no corrections!).
Daniëlle is pictured with supervisor Prof Andrew Sweetman and examiner @michaeltburrows.bsky.social
#DeepSea #PhDlife
Congratulations to SAMS and @thinkuhi.bsky.social PhD student Daniëlle de Jonge who has successfully defended her viva (with no corrections!).
Daniëlle is pictured with supervisor Prof Andrew Sweetman and examiner @michaeltburrows.bsky.social
#DeepSea #PhDlife