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The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) is Scotland's premier independent marine science organisation generating new knowledge for the benefit of the marine environment and society since 1884.
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Research Cruise to the Celtic Sea (July 2008)

The end of the cold war: understanding the tide of change on the rocky shore

Note on biogeochemical modelling of arctic and sub-arctic coastal seas published

Nature paper on new CCAP type culture

'Ecosystem Modelling' summer school at SAMS

Potential of Marine Biomass for Anaerobic Biogas Production - report released

New funding for EuroCoML Project hosted at SAMS

INCOFISH project hailed as 'star project' by EU

Modelling wave effects on rocky shore communities

HAB workshop report published

CCAP at SAMS Host Algal Meetings

Detecting parasites in brown seaweeds

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