SMMI experts to tackle maritime decarbonisation
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Researchers at the University of Southampton will work on four winning projects from the Department for Transport’s Clean Maritime Demonstrator Competition announced by Secretary of State for Transport Rt. Hon Grant Shapps. This competition is investing £20 million in projects across the UK, to address the urgent need to decarbonise the global maritime network.
In partnership with maritime organisations, academics from the University’s Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute (SMMI) bid for funding through the competition and were successful on three projects. Professor Damon Teagle, Director of the SMMI, said: “The SMMI network enabled us to put together on very short notice, strong teams for these projects combining colleagues from Maritime Engineering – Profs Stephen Turnock and Dominic Hudson, and Energy Technologies – Prof Andy Cruden, Dr Dinesh Koralage and Dr Richard Wills, as well as colleagues from the Wolfson Unit. These multidisciplinary teams supporting their industry partners are essential for tackling the gnarly maritime decarbonisation challenge. Read more here.
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SMMI joins over 300 international exhibitors at Ocean Business 2021
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The Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute (SMMI) represented the University of Southampton at Ocean Business 2021 from 12-14 October. The SMMI stand created a strong presence amongst the industry manufacturers and service providers represented at the exhibition. With approximately 5,000 visitors to the show, SMMI maintained contact with existing collaborators and made many new connections, whilst promoting the University’s capabilities and showcasing the opportunities in marine and maritime research, innovation, enterprise and education. The stand had a rota of SMMI member volunteers with representation across most faculties. They all played a key role in helping to promote SMMI and the University to the stand visitors. Read more here. |
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Dr Rosalind Coggon Awarded 2021 Asahiko Taira International Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize
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Royal Society University Research Fellow, Dr Rosalind Coggon, within the University’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and SMMI member, has been awarded the prestigious international prize in recognition for her outstanding transdisciplinary research accomplishment in ocean drilling from the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Dr Coggon is the seventh recipient of this prize since its inception in 2015 and only the second woman to have received it. The Asahiko Taira International Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize is given annually in recognition of outstanding contributions to scientific ocean drilling to an honouree within 15 years of receiving their PhD. Read more here.
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SMMI Deputy Director Susan Gourvenec discusses her research and policy impact in new video
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As part of the Public Policy|Southampton's (PPS) new policy video series 'My policy journey, so far' watch SMMI Deputy Director, Susan Gourvenec, discuss her research and policy impact related activities below.
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"Exploring Our Ocean" MOOC runs again for the 19th time
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The “Exploring Our Ocean” free public online course (MOOC) is running again; over the next four weeks, a team of PhD researchers from OES will be answering questions and sharing their work as the course takes people through how we explore the deep, how ocean circulation and seawater chemistry sustain life on Earth, what lives in the ocean, and how we're all involved in its future. Several colleagues from OES have contributed to the content of the online programme, and this is the 19th time that the MOOC has been run since 2014, during which nearly 60,000 people from 180+ countries have enrolled for it. The MOOC has also been useful in helping to convert applicants offered places on the MB and OC degree programmes into “acceptances”, as it showcases some of our research-led teaching. Register for the MOOC here.
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Putting children at the heart of climate policy
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Prof Craig Hutton
One billion children are at ‘extremely high risk’ from the impacts of climate change, according to a Southampton-led consortium of researchers who conducted the analysis for a key UNICEF report that will be presented at the UN Climate Change Conference, COP26. Entitled The Climate Crisis Is a Child Rights Crisis: Introducing the Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI), the report presents the first comprehensive worldwide analysis of climate risk to children. SMMI member, Craig Hutton, Professor of Sustainability Science, who led and conceptualised the risk mapping approach said “Globally there are about a billion children who are exposed to multiple hazards, who would be counted as experiencing ‘extreme’ hazards. This figure took even UNICEF by surprise,” Read more here.
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Seasonal variability in lakes’ environmental processes reveal susceptibility to climate change
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The LéXPLORE platform. Credit: Camille Minaudo
A new study has shown how climate change could impact the ecosystems of the planet’s largest lakes by revealing varying levels at which their water layers are mixed together through the seasons. As the climates warm, changes to the this process in the winter months could affect oxygen levels and other vital natural environmental systems. For this new study, an international study team used the 100-square-metre research platform LéXPLORE, floating in Lake Geneva, to continuously measure wind speed, lake current velocities and temperature, in the interior of the water body and near the sediment, for an entire seasonal cycle. The study was led by Dr Bieito Fernández Castro, a research fellow at the University of Southampton who began the study whilst working at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Read more here.
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Consultation on UK Marine Strategy Part Three - DEADLINE 29 NOVEMBER 2021
The UK Marine Strategy Regulations 2010 require the UK to take the necessary measures to achieve or maintain Good Environmental Status (GES) through the development of a UK Marine Strategy. This consultation sets out our proposals for updating the UK Marine Strategy Part Three, published in 2015. It shows the programme of measures the UK intends to use to achieve or maintain GES for UK seas over the next 6 years. More information here. If this is of interest to you, please contact Wassim Dbouk.
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NOTE: CALLS COMING SOON AND WITH NO DEADLINE, TOWARDS THE END OF THIS SECTION.
EPSRC Launches Call to Support Zero Carbon Hydrogen Research - DEADLINE 2 NOVEMBER 2021
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has launched a call on the theme of hydrogen research. The call will support research into zero emission hydrogen production and integration. Further details here.
R&D Award in Accidental Marine Pollution - DEADLINE 30 NOVEMBER 2021
The Institute of Tanker Owners Pollution Federation (ITOPF) is a non-profit organisation that is recognised globally as a source of objective technical expertise in the area of accidental spills of oil, chemicals, and other cargoes and substances in the marine environment. ITOPF is maintained by the world’s shipowners and their insurers to promote effective spill response. The ITOPF R&D Award provides financial support to encourage and facilitate organisations worldwide to develop ideas that can potentially provide solutions to some of the challenges faced by the spill response community. Further details here.
Marine Stewardship Council Science and Research Fund - DEADLINE 6 DECEMBER 2021
The MSC Science and Research Fund (SRF) (part of the Ocean Stewardship Fund) provides support for research projects that aim to help fisheries overcome the barriers they face in achieving and maintaining MSC certification and projects that focus on key research priority areas as directed by the MSC. Further details here.
British Academy/Wolfson Foundation Launch Research Professorships - DEADLINE 8 DECEMBER 2021
These awards are designed primarily for established UK based scholars who already have a significant track record of publication of works of distinction in their field, and who have a major programme of research which would benefit from the uninterrupted concentration offered by the award of the Research Professorships. Applicants should be intending to pursue original, independent research in any field of study within the humanities or social sciences. Further details here.
Royal Academy of Engineering Policy Fellowships - DEADLINE 12 DECEMBER 2022
The Policy Fellowships programme is an inspiring professional development programme that supports better evidence-based policymaking. It advances policymaking and policy through engineering perspectives and systems approaches. Twice a year the Academy will select exceptional policymakers to become Policy Fellows. We welcome applications from civil and public servants who have a variety of insights, expertise and backgrounds from across the policy community. Further details here.
NERC UK-IODP geophysical site survey call – DEADLINE 14 DECEMBER 2021
Apply for funding for a site survey investigation. The data from your investigation will help the scientific community develop future ocean drilling expeditions. Your site survey investigation can be either: i) ship-borne, gathering new data or ii) virtual, using existing data. Further details here.
UK Seafood Innovation Fund - Applications Invited for Third Call - DEADLINE 7 JANUARY 2022
The UK Seafood Innovation Fund supports the UK's fishing, aquaculture and seafood industries to deliver cutting-edge technology and innovation. The aim is to prompt a step change in the productivity and sustainability of UK seafood into the future. The programme is administered by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Further details here.
Horizon Europe European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants - DEADLINE 13 JANUARY 2022
The submission system has now opened for the 2022 round of ERC Starting Grants. The awards are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal. Further details here.
NERC Standard and New Investigator Grants - DEADLINE 18 JANUARY 2022
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) runs the NERC Standard and New Investigator Grants to enable researchers to carry out world-class research projects in any area of environmental science that is predominantly within the NERC remit. NERC seeks to support pure, applied, technology-led or policy-driven research but still address (or provide the means to address) clearly defined scientific questions. Multidisciplinary research and collaborations with other UK organisations are encouraged. International and non-academic collaborators can be involved as project partners. Further details here.
NO DEADLINE CALLS:
Innovate UK - Fisheries and Seafood Scheme - NO DEADLINE
This supports projects based in England that secure sustainable growth across the catching, processing and aquaculture sectors and that protect and enhance the marine environment. Further details here.
EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship - NO DEADLINE
Apply for a fellowship focusing on either: Energy or Mathematical Sciences. You must have either a PhD or at least four years’ experience in a relevant field by the start of your fellowship. An eligible UK research organisation must host and support you during your fellowship. Your fellowship can be up to three years long. This is prorated for part-time fellows, at a minimum of 50% FTE. The project can use one or a combination of discovery science, innovation, instrumentation and technique development or software engineering. Further details here.
NERC - International ocean discovery programme – workshop funding support scheme - NO DEADLINE
This supports UK scientists in the organisation of, or participation in, IODP-related workshops, sandpits, training, outreach or other events. Eligible workshops must make use of IODP samples, data or results, or involve planning for the collection of such materials. Further details here.
NERC-NSF joint funding - NO DEADLINE
This enables UK and US environmental scientists to collaborate on discovery science projects and tackle global environmental challenges. Proposals must be an integrated UK-US effort to address a research topic of interest to both NERC and a relevant NSF division that would benefit from a collaborative approach. Further details here.
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9 November 2021 - Mental Health in Maritime Suicide Prevention: What does resilience mean?
To be held via zoom. Register here.
9-11 November 2021 - Marine Autonomy Technology Showcase (MATS) - Southampton
During MATS 2021, our aim is to explore the information needs of users of Marine Autonomous Systems (MAS), review the current technologies available to enable the data gathering for MAS users and explore the methods of taking that data and making it exploitable information for the user need. Presentations may focus on work undertaken or planned to be undertaken in the 12 months since MATS 2020, be a forward look along your organisation's technology roadmap or include information on novel ways of maintaining operations throughout the global challenges of Covid in 2020 /2021. Read more here.
19 January 2022 - Maritime UK - Build Back Better - People
Information to follow.
22-24 February 2022 - Subsea Expo - Aberdeen
Subsea Expo will celebrate its 16th anniversary next year and already has over 40% of the exhibition space booked. The theme for the event will still be Oceans of Opportunity – harnessing the Blue Economy, and will explore how the UK’s underwater engineering industry can capitalise on the global blue economy, estimated to be worth $3 trillion by 2030. Read more here.
15-17 March 2022 - Oceanology International - Excel, London
This event brings together 500+ exhibitors in the only event that links the three key players in the industry: businesses, academics and government. Visit us in 2022 for innovative live on-water demonstrations and interactive seminars looking into the future of our industry. With over 8,000 attendees targeted for 2022, it is a must-attend event for those involved in exploring, monitoring, developing or protecting the world’s oceans, from seabed to surface and beyond. Read more here.
10-11 May 2022 - Lloyd's Register Foundation - Safer World Conference 2022
Bringing together thought leaders from research, business, government, and other sectors to discuss the biggest safety challenges facing the world and develop new approaches to create a safer world. This year, the conference will cover a wide range of topics including safer oceans, the role of safety in accelerating progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals, well-being in the workplace, understanding risk, and resilience. Read more here.
26-30 September 2022 - Sea Tech Week® 2022: Maritime transport - Brest, France
Sea Tech Week® is a week-long international event focusing on marine science and technology. It brings together every two years more than 1,000 leading international experts in various marine-related disciplines to the city of Brest, France. Sea Tech Week® includes a scientific and technology conference, a professional exhibition, B2B meetings and social events. Read more here.
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