SATELLITE APPLICATIONS CATAPULT
The Blue Economy is a key area for the Satellite Applications Catapult. The South Coast has four Satellite Centres of Excellence, which act as a catalyst to facilitate collaborations between marine industry, academia, regulators and government to broaden market opportunities.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH
Marine Station has research vessels, laboratories, aquaria and teaching rooms. Brixham Labs at Torbay is a superb laboratory complex. The Coastal, Ocean and Sediment Transport lab offers environmental modelling and engineering.
THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
Offers world-class aquarium facilities featuring 14 aquaria rooms housing 600 experimental tanks and seven preparative and analytical labs. A fully equipped research vessel includes survey equipment and a remotely operated vehicle.
MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Has earned an international reputation for excellence and innovation in research into all aspects of life in the sea, carried out by resident scientific staff and visiting research workers, including seven Nobel Laureates.
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PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY (PML)
With 10% of its scientists in the top 1% of environmental scientists worldwide, PML delivers globally-recognised science on interactions between the marine environment and society. The independent research centre partners with over 500 institutions from 60 countries.
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BLUE MARINE FOUNDATION (BLUE)
Funded by the Lloyds Register Foundation, BLUE, investigates how data can be used to support safety in inshore waters. BLUE gathers data in Lyme Bay, Dorset, where it has established the UK’s first fully documented fishery.
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Cefas
Cefas produces world class science for the marine and freshwater environment. At our Weymouth laboratory, Cefas collects, analyses and interprets data to provide evidence and advice on the aquatic environment, biodiversity and animal and human health to ensure safe and sustainable seafood and enable the UK’s blue economy.
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CONTINUOUS PLANKTON RECORDER (CPR) SURVEY
Part of the Marine Biological Association, CPR operate a global ocean instrumentation platform, surveying 20,000km of ocean per month. The CPR has collected biogeography and ecology of plankton data since 1931.
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