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We’ve supported studies investigating sea-level measurement, water-quality assessment, light measurement, functional ecology, cell biology, animal genomics, paleoclimatology, ocean acidification, biogeochemistry, eco-physiology, habitat mapping and science-based maritime archaeology

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Our research has been conducted across the UK and Europe, in all the World’s oceans, and in temperate, tropical and polar conditions.

Research

Diving is providing the baseline data required for testing the effectiveness of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) as tools for monitoring and mapping the seabed in Marine Protected Areas.

Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS)

20/01/2021

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Samples collected using diving supported studies of the genetic diversity, phylogeography and morphology of Elphidiidae (Foraminifera) in the Northeast Atlantic.

University of Edinburgh, University of St Andrews and others

30/09/2016

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Comparison of established and photogrammetric techniques evaluated their respective accuracy and efficiency for estimating calcification rates and carbonate budgeting of coral reef systems.

University of Exeter

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Diving-based collections of long-lived bivalve molluscs have been used in a number of paleoclimatic studies that are reconstructing ocean variability over scales ranging from seasonal to multi-centennial.

Cardiff University, Bangor University, University of Exeter and Keele University

05/10/2017

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Diving supported accurate multi-scale coring, injection and extraction of samples used to determine the dynamics of pore water in subsurface sediments at the site of a controlled CO2 release experiment.

Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) and others

28/09/2014

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Photogrammetric techniques have been used to accurately estimate the levels of coral bleaching and coral mortality in the Chagos Archipelago.

UCL and Bangor University

16/09/2019

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A diving based study of UK kelp forests, undertaken over a latitudinal gradient, has shown that carbon assimilation and transfer through temperate marine ecosystems will be diminished under a warmer ocean climate.

MBA Plymouth and Aberystwyth University

03/06/2018