Opening of unique research centre
CAPTION: One of the areas of research, the monitoring of wildlife populations.
CAPTION: One of the areas of research, the monitoring of wildlife populations.
PIC CAPTION: l-r Iain Smith, Professor Ian Boyd, Jim Wallace, Lucy Hunter, Dr Brian Lang at the University today.
ST ANDREWS EXPERTS JOIN FISHING INQUIRY
CAPTIONS: (L-R) Harbour Seal, Transient killer whale breaching CREDITS: Volker Deecke
The first students to complete a joint degree from the Universities of Dundee and St Andrews finish their postgraduate studies this month with some students securing PhD places to do some very fishy research.
£300,000 worth of works to improve the sea water quality at the University of St Andrews' Sea Mammal Research Unit are to commence next week (w/c 10 June 2002).
Seals are to be given mobile phone technology to "phone home" new insights into their whereabouts, feeding and behaviour.
PICTURE CAPTION: Coral Skeletons can be up to 100,000 years old.
Scotland's marine biologists have been awarded a share of a $5 million international grant to develop new instruments for collecting information about marine mammals and create digital databases on the diversity, distribution and abundance of marine life throughout the world.
A University of St Andrews fisheries ecologist is hoping to explain the hard science behind reports and legends of aquatic monsters at an exhibition next week.