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  • Personal chair for SAMS Director
  • Seamounts expedition in Indian Ocean: 7 Nov - 21 Dec
  • RNLI lifeboatman becomes SAMS student of the year
  • Mariana Trench Discovery
  • Forming a new University
  • SAMS undergraduate is UHI student of the year 2011
  • Climate shifts could leave some species homeless, new research shows
  • New project to investigate Arctic plankton dynamics
  • Data from dog sleds
  • UHI awards professorships to two SMI scientists
  • Does Eco-labelling work?
  • Celebrating 200 years of iodine research and its many applications
  • Student entrepreneurs win national competition
  • 19 Dec 2011 information evening about Ardmucknish Bay carbon storage research
  • Work starts on European Marine Science Park
  • The consequences of marine renewable energy
  • ASSEMBLE call - gain access to SAMS infrastructure
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