Novel Passive Sampling Devices for the Monitoring of Priority Pollutants
This proposal involves the development of novel passive sampling devices for routine sampling of priority pollutant chemicals. The passive samplers are based on polymer designed to enrich or sample pesticides and hydrocarbons associated with the WFD Priority pollutant list.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Smart Catchment Demonstration: Long-term deployment of sensor monitroing system (DEPLOY)
This demonstration project represents an important collaboration between research centres, SME and local authorities to DEPLOY, maintain and evaluate a series of multi-sensor systems to assess the effects of long-term sensor deployment on water quality monitoring systems and sensor data.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Technology
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Novel Anti-fouling Stategies based on Materials Doped with Nanoparticles for use in New Monitoring Technologies
For further information on the NDP STRIVE Programme see the following link. www.epa.ie
Category / Sub Category: Marine Biodiscovery / Biotechnology
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Juvenile Fish Habitat Requirements in Changing Coastal Ecosystems
A model of juvenile flatfish habitat requirements will be developed using field surveys and controlled experiments.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Alien Invasive Species in Irish Water Bodies
This all-island consortium of experienced researchers from university, SME and government sectors will address the knowledge gap identified under the Water Framework Directive for an alien invasive species in Ireland's River Basin Districts, and produce a monitoring and reporting strategy.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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SADOSE
Sewage effluent in coastal wates used for oyster culture and water-contact recreation poses a risk to human health. The primary poathogen in outbreaks of gastroenteritis following consumption of raw oysters is the Norovirus or "winter vomiting bug".
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Nutrient and Ecosystem Dynamics in Irelands Only Marine Nature Reserve
Lough Hyne was designated as Europe’s first marine nature reserve in 1981. This project aims to address the nutrient and ecosystem dynamics within Ireland’s only statutory marine reserve with a view to the possible long-term effects of nutrient flux on the rich biodiversity within its depths and in surrounding coastal waters.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Anthropogenic Impacts on Marine Biodiversity
This project will quantify the effects of anthropogenically-increased nutrient loads on the biodiversity of coastal ecosystems and identify important mechanisms operating using well replicated experiments.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Air-Sea Exchange Processes (EASI-AQCIS)
Subject Area: Environment, Marine and Natural Resources
Category / Sub Category: Rapid Climate Change
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Assessing the Impact of Waste Water Treatment Plant Effluent on Norovirus Contamination in Shellfisheries
This study will compare Norovirus (NoV) survival during sewage treatment and in seawater alongside indicator organisms. The impact of sewage discharges on NoV contamination in shellfisheries will be assessed.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Assessment of Exposure to Metallic Nanoparticles on Marine and Freshwater Model Organisms at Cellular and Genetic Level
Bioaccumulation, bio-persistence, environmental fate and exposure effects remain to be evaluated. Here, the relationships between physico-chemical properties of metallic NPs and biological effects will be examined using two aquatic (one marine and one freshwater) model organisms
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Biodiversity and Ecological Requirements of Meiofauna and a Typology for Irish Transitional Waters
The focus of this project will be the taxonomic investigation of the biodiversity of the understudied meiofauna within the habitats of Ireland’s estuarine and coastal ecosystems.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Can Geoinforamtics be used to Predict the Coastal Response to 21st Century Climate Change
This PhD Scholarship is hosted at UCC Department of Geography. For further information on this research area please see http://www.ucc.ie/en/geography/research/cccs/ .
Category / Sub Category: Knowledge and Information Management
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SIMBIOSYS - Sectoral Impacts on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
This project will quantify impacts of key sectoral activities on genetic, species and landscape biodiversity and the ecosystem services they provide, including pollination, biological pest control, carbon sequestration and resistance to alien species invasion.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Marine Functional Foods Research Initiative
This project aims to address a major objective within the Seafood Processing Research Programme of the Industry Measure of Sea Change and will help to achieve the vision of the Marine Functional Foods Research Programme of the Discovery Measure.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Functional Foods
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Isolation and Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products from Marine Sources
PhD Scholarship funded by the Marine Institute and managed by IRCSET. The training of a PhD researcher in this field will begin to address the critical gap in expertise in Ireland in the field of natural products chemistry, and in particular in marine natural products chemistry.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Biodiscovery / Biotechnology
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Exploiting marine biodiversity to develop drugs for normalising neural communication in disease
PhD Scholarship funded by the Marine Institute and managed by IRCSET, this project will ensure that the graduate obtains first-rate training in a range of advanced cellular and molecular technologies relevant to the Biopharmaceutical Industry.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Biodiscovery / Biotechnology
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Anti-Inflammatory potential of Marine Extracts
PhD Scholarship funded by the Marine Institute and managed by IRCSET, this study will pinpoint the compounds in marine extracts exhibiting the greatest potential for attenuating inflammatory response and provide evidence of the mechanisms involved
Category / Sub Category: Marine Biodiscovery / Biotechnology
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MATSIS Project
MATSIS Project.
Methods of Assessment of the Trophic Status of the Irish Sea ( MATSIS ). INTERREG IIIa funded project with MI and University of Wales, Bangor (UWB).
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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STRAND 111
STRAND III.
This three-year collaborative project between the Marine Institute (MI) and the Radiation and Environmental Science Centre (RESC) of Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) commenced in June 2004.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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METRIC
METRIC Marine Ecological Tools for Reference, Intercalibration and Classification (Project 2005-S-MS-37.
The projects primary objective is to collect Benthos, Plants and Fish data (historical and new) from transitional and coastal waters and test the tools that have been put forward for determining the quality of water for the Water Framework Directive.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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AquaReg
AquaReg is a Regional Framework Operation funded under the INTERREG IIIC programme North Zone. It involves co-operation between the regions of Galicia in Spain, Border, Midland and Western (BMW) in Ireland, and Trøndelag in Norway.
Category / Sub Category: Aquaculture
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Long-Term Dynamics of Herring Populations
This project aims to describe long-term trends in the biological parameters of herring in the Celtic Sea and herring off the northwest coast of Ireland.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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The Life History, Ecology and Dynamics of the Black Scabbard
This project aims to increase our understanding of the Black Scabbard.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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Rebuilding Depleted Fish Stocks in the Waters Around Ireland
The project aims to develop constructive operational approaches to rebuliding depleted fish stocks in the waters around Ireland.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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EcoSystem Approach to Fisheries Management
The primary objective of this project is to develop and implement a strategy (following the development of the data repository) which will integrate and enable data interrogation across all data sources used by Marine Institute’s Fisheries Science Services Group.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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Modelling the Ecology, Population Dynamics, Assessment & Managment of Nephrops
This project aims to develop new tools to model Nephrops stock dynamics.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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Impact of Climate Change on Fish Stocks
This project aims to assess the impact of climate change on the dynamics of the NEA mackerel stock and cod stocks in waters around Ireland.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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Application of Signal Detection Methods to the Fisheries Management System
This project aims to explore the current application of signal detectin methods, relevant to fisheries management.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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Data Management for Marine Geological & Geophysical Datasets
This research project aims to produce a reference for the storage and management of geological / goephysical datasts in the Marine Institute, with the goal of making the data easily available for discovery, access and analysis by Marine Institute and external end users.
Category / Sub Category: Knowledge and Information Management
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Biological Effects for the Assessment of Pollution in Irish Waters
This project aims to develop the tools and capability for integrated chemical / biological effects testing and pilot these in an Irish context.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Marine Mammals & Megafauna in Irish Waters
This project will aim to strengthen research in the areas of marine mammal and megafauna distribution, behaviour and tropic interactions.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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EEL-PLAN
This project will support the compilation and analysis of historical eel data along with the river, lake and transitional water habitat based GIS information.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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Impacts of Increased Atmospheric CO2 on Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems
This project is intended to increase our understanding of the impact of increased levels of CO2 and to assist in clarifying future research priorities in the area.
Category / Sub Category: Rapid Climate Change
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Climate and Catchment Environment
This project will increase the utilisation of Marine Institute environmental, meteorological and aquatic data sets in making prediction of future changes in the aquatic environment.
Category / Sub Category: Rapid Climate Change
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Making the European Fisheries Ecosystem Operational
MEFEPO will focus on how best to make current institutional frameworks resonsive to an ecosystem appraoch to fisheries management and regional and pan-European levels.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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Deepfishman
DEEPFISHMAN will develop a range of strategy options for the management of exploitation of deep-water species in the NE Atlantic.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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Prevent-Escape
The Prevent Escape project will conduct and integrate biological and technological research on a pan-European scale to improve recommendations and guidelines for aquaculture technologies that reduce escape events.
Category / Sub Category: Aquaculture
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CORES
CORES will develop new concepts and components for power take-off, control, moorings, risers, data acquisition and instrumentation based on floating Oscillating Water Column systems.
Category / Sub Category: Renewable Ocean Energy
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EquiMAR
Equimar will deliver a suite of protocols for the equitable evaluation of marine energy converters (based on either tidal or wave energy.
Category / Sub Category: Rapid Climate Change
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CoralFISH
CoralFISH brings together a unique consortium who will collaborate to collect data from key European marine regions.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Environment
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SALSEA-Merge
SALSEA-Merge will investigate the reasons why Atlantic salmon are dying at sea and the resulting decline in the species.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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EELIAD
The EELIAD project will investigate the ecology and environmental dependencies of European eels during their spawning migration.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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MIDTAL
MIDTAL will support the common fisheries policy to aid the national monitoring agencies by providing new rapid tools for the identification of toxic algae and their toxins.
Category / Sub Category: Aquaculture
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PROPS
The PROPS project will work closely with Short Sea Promotion Centres (SPCs) to develop a workable and reliable methodology that will enhance their practical promotion activities.
Category / Sub Category: Shipping and Maritime Transport
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SKEMA
SKEMA aims to establish a Sustainable Knowledge Platform which will be used for the provision of key knowledge services for policy makers and for stakeholder groups.
Category / Sub Category: Shipping and Maritime Transport
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Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management
This awards aims to develop research capacity focused on the field of the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management. The research team will turn the available concepts and principles into pragmatic action plans that can be used for the sustainable management of fisheries in the waters around Ireland.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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Fish Population Genetics
This award aims to develop research capacity in the priority area of fish population genetics through the funding of a research team that will develop a suite of Genetic Stock Identification (GSI) tools to monitor and predict fish population changes resulting from climate change impacts.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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Marine Biodiscovery
This award aims to develop research capacity in the priority area of marine biodiscovery through the funding of a research team that will contribute to the development of a distributed national centre of excellence in Ireland in Marine Biodiscovery.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Biodiscovery / Biotechnology
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Marine Sensors & Communications
The National Centre for Sensor Research will focus on the development of bio-sensing platforms for targets like microbes, parasites, pathogens and toxins as at present, despite significant capabilities in related areas, there is no national research leader or team specialising in this difficult issue
Category / Sub Category: Marine Technology
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Marine Economic & Social Research
The overall aim of this award is to establish a world class unit, SEMRU for marine socio-economic research in Ireland around a research cluster in Galway led by ICERTS, NUI,Galway and linking with RERC, Teagasc, the Marine Insitute and other research institutions in Ireland.
Category / Sub Category: Policy, Socio-Economics and Legal
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Water-based Tourism and Leisure Product Audit 2006
A detailed audit was conducted to determine the strength of existing water-based tourism products throughout the country and to give guidance on the need for investment and / or improved management procedures.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Tourism and Leisure
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Azaspiracids
The project is expected to strengthen the competitive position of the Irish bivalve shellfish industry, based on world-class science and food safety. It will provide a scientific basis for rationalising the biotoxin monitoring and risk management systems used in Ireland and the EU
Category / Sub Category: Aquaculture
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Discard Mitigation Plans
This project will input to the consideration of appropriate discard management plans by provision of a structured evaluation framework.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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Marine Tourism Research Activities
In association with the development of Sea Change, A Marine Knowledge, Research & Innovation Strategy for Ireland 2007-2013, the Marine Institute was requested by the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources to advise on the development of marine and water-based tourism and leisure.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Tourism and Leisure
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SmartCoast
Research and Development of the Smart Water Quality Monitoring System is a 36 month project which will develop a novel water quality monitoring system by combining low-cost, low-power sensors with wireless communications.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Technology
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Miniatuised Multi-Channel Cytometry System
The objective of this project is to construct a laboratory-based demonstration/proof or principal cytometry unit showing the required sensitivity for a proposed autonomous system.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Technology
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Marine Monitoring System
The main objective of this project is to further develop the optical oxygen respirometry methodology by applying it to the area of environmental monitoring.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Technology
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Development of Viable Hatchery and Ongrowing Methodologies for Seaweed Species
This project aims to develop and trial industry-scale hatchery and ongrowing methodologies for identifed seaweed species.
Category / Sub Category: Seaweed
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SmartBay
SmartBay is a test and demonstration research infrastructure comprising a networked deployment of a suite of emerging new technologies. SmartBay forms the basis of a planned multiyear collaboration with the IBM centre of excellence for Water Management.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Technology
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Azipilot
This project aim is to promote a wider understanding across the industry, leading to harmonisation of practice and providing recommendations for both police making and the pilot training process and practice; specifically for ships that use azimuthing manoeuvring devices.
Category / Sub Category: Shipping and Maritime Transport
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Tacit Knowledge
The overall aim of this project will be to integrate the tacit knowledge in the fishing industry for use in the scientific assessment, advisory and fisheries management process.
Category / Sub Category: Fisheries
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Information Management & Archive Solutions
The aim of this project is to research the key issues pertaining to the development of an Irish Online Marine Archive.
Category / Sub Category: Knowledge and Information Management
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Acoustic Based Cetacean Detection
This project aims to develop the existing acoustic capabilities and resources to provide an acoustic detection system and provide location data on the species detected.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Technology
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Optimisation of Mooring Systems for Wave Energy Arrays
This project will involve acquiring new knowledge regarding the physical response mechanism of combined mooring and wave energy systems.
Category / Sub Category: Renewable Ocean Energy
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AquaPlan
This project will result in the publication of a series of protocols, leaflets and a risk assessment framework in order to increase the ability of the Irish finfish aquaculture industry and regulatory agencies to manage fish health issues in a pro-active manner.
Category / Sub Category: Aquaculture
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Cod Broodstock & Breeding Programme
This project is designed to provide the techical R&D component of a national initiative to develop cod farming in Ireland.
Category / Sub Category: Aquaculture
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Methodology for the Quantitative Assessment of Ireland's Inshore Kelp Resource
This project will provide a methodology for the quatntitative assessment of the inshore kelp resource in order to facilitate the development of appropriate management plans and sustainable harvesting practices.
Category / Sub Category: Seaweed
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Flavouring and Taste Components in Irish Seaweeds
This project aims to develop the capacity to assess and utilise the flavour components of edible Irish seaweeds.
Category / Sub Category: Marine Functional Foods
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Gill Pathologies
The project will provide information on the underlying causes of gill pathologies in salmon in Ireland. This will result in increased awareness at industry level and the adoption of suitable management and mitigation procedures on marine sites.
Category / Sub Category: Aquaculture
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