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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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