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Since 2010 he has been professor of Marine Biology at the University of Plymouth. [8] Since 2018 he has also been director of the Marine Institute, part of the School of Biological and Marine Sciences at the University. [8] He also leads the University's International Marine Litter Research Unit. [9] [10]
The Plymouth Marine Laboratory was founded in 1988, mainly due to the recommendations of a House of Lords report. It was formed by drawing some elements of the Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association (MBA) with the NERC Institute for Marine Environmental Research (IMER).
William Leadbetter Calderwood FRSE (1865–1950) was a Scottish marine biologist. He served as Director of the Marine Biological Association Laboratory in Plymouth. He was the author of several authoritative works on marine biology. He was a specialist on the life and biology of the salmon. He was also a talented artist. [1]
The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (MBA) is a learned society with a scientific laboratory that undertakes research in marine biology. [1] The organisation was founded in 1884 and has been based in Plymouth since the Citadel Hill Laboratory was opened on 30 June 1888.
He gained a PhD in animal behaviour in 1994 under the supervision of Quentin Bone FRS at the Marine Biological Association.Between 1994 and 1995 Sims did postdoctoral research on physiology of fish behaviour with Paul L.R. Andrews and J. Z. Young FRS after which he was lecturer in marine biology at the University of Plymouth.
The university was originally founded as the Plymouth School of Navigation in 1862, [1] [2] before becoming a university college in 1920 and a polytechnic institute in 1970, [1] with its constituent bodies being Plymouth Polytechnic, Rolle College in Exmouth, the Exeter College of Art and Design (which were, before April 1989, run by Devon County Council) and Seale-Hayne College (which before ...
Cyber-SHIP Lab, situated at the University of Plymouth, [1] [2] is a research facility dedicated to researching and address cybersecurity threats in the maritime industry. [3] Professor Kevin Jones is the Executive Dean for Science and Engineering and Principal Investigator at the lab.
From the 1940s Parke led the development of the Plymouth Culture Collection of marine algae and first published the Check-List of Marine Algae in 1953. [5] [6] After the war Parke returned to her work on minute plankton and published seminal papers on flagellate systematics, many in collaboration with Professor Irene Manton of the University of ...