SAMS Strategy 2025-2030
SAMS Strategy 2025-2030

World-leading science for a healthy ocean and thriving people.
Drones and Droids: a strategy game with robots!
Drones and Droids: a strategy game with robots!

A thrilling collaborative strategy game about flying, roving and diving scientific robots. Click to learn about our Crowdfunder.

EIT Food course INSPIRE Restorative Aquaculture
EIT Food course INSPIRE Restorative Aquaculture

Interested in setting up a business in the Seaweed, Microalgae and the Aquaculture sector? 13 Oct to 11 Nov 2025 in Oban.

Latest news

The 2025 intake of the Applied Marine Science MSci at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), a partner of UHI, pictured with academic staff from SAMS, Ian Eisner of UHI Futures and Dr Jacqueline Nairn, University of St Andrews, who was on the course’s external review panel.

Mon, Oct 6, '25

New marine science course to bolster the blue economy

Student intake for inaugural cohort exceeds expectation

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Prof. Juliet Brodie meets with seaweed farmers in Malaysia

Wed, Oct 1, '25

Mission to save seaweed stocks from the impacts of climate change

Project aims to improve livelihoods for seaweed farming communities in Southeast Asia

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Prof. Adam Hughes will give his inaugural professorial lecture on 1st October

Thu, Sep 18, '25

SAMS 'blue economy' scientist awarded UHI professorship

Prof. Adam Hughes will give his inaugural professorial lecture next month

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SAMS staff test out the new Drones and Droids game

Wed, Sep 10, '25

Crowdfunder aims to give gamers real-world science mission

Drones and Droids set fundraising target

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Latest papers

Reproductive gene expression in female broodstock European flat oyster, Ostrea edulis, under ambient and constant temperature and photoperiod regimes
Authors:

Cowan ME, Jimenez-Fernandez E, Malla A, Hughes AD

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 310
09, 25, 2025
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Optimizing nursery conditions of the commercial kelp Alaria esculenta
Authors:

Veenhof RJ, Grisenthwaite R, Mair A, Mitchell E, Stanley MS, Kumari P

Journal of Applied Phycology
09, 27, 2025
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Relative enrichment of ammonium and its impacts on open-ocean phytoplankton community composition under a high-emissions scenario
Authors:

Buchanan PJ, Pierella Karlusich JJ, Tuerena RE, Shafiee R, Woodward MS, Bowler C, Tagliabue A

Biogeosciences 22 (18)
09, 23, 2025
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Expanding Monitoring Capacity for Potential Invasive Species in Arctic Canada With Environmental DNA Metabarcoding.
Authors:

Boyse E, Clark MS, Carr IM, Cook AJ, Archambault P, Holloway JE, Luo Z, Milton M, Roy M,  Dawson J,  Peck VL

Global Change Biology 31(9)
09, 8, 2025
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