A number of foreign marine scientific research programmes (FMSR) are undertaken in Irish waters each year.
If you're interested in participating in any of these surveys as the Irish observer onboard, please see details of our Foreign Vessel Observer Scheme to check that you qualify and if so, email rv [at] marine [dot] ie (Subject: Foreign Vessel Observer Scheme) (RV Ops) attaching a copy of your CV.
Summary details of the surveys are available in the table below which will be updated as the survey notifications are received.
FOREIGN MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH SURVEYS 2018
| COUNTRY | VESSEL NAME | LOCATION | CRUISE OBJECTIVES | FROM(DATE) | TO(DATE) | IRISH OBSERVER |
| UK | Cefas Endeavour | Celtic Sea, Bristol & English Channels | Groundfish survey using commercially based survey standardised otter trawl | 11/02/2018 | 12/03/2018 | N/a |
| UK | Scotia | North West Ireland & Scotland | Bottom Trawl Survey targeting juvenile Gadoid species | 16/02/218 | 06/03/2018 | Observer Selected |
| Netherlands | Tridens | Porcupine & North West Ireland | International Blue Whiting Survey | 12/03/2018 | 06/04/2018 | N/a |
| UK | Cefas Endeavour | Celtic Sea, Bristol & English Channels | Groundfish survey using 4m beam trawls - part of internationally coordinated WGBEAM survey | 15/03/2018 | 13/04/2018 | Observer Selected |
| Spain | Miguel Oliver | South & West of Ireland | Blue Whiting Acoustic Survey | 12/03/2018 | 23/03/2018 | Observer Selected |
| UK | Sparkling Sea | Irish Sea | Estimate the distribution, abundance and population structure of Cod, Haddock & Whiting | 20/03/2018 | 25/03/2018 | N/A |
| Norway | Kings Bay | West & North West Ireland | Blue Whiting Acoustic Survey | 23/03/2018 | 04/04/2018 | Observer Selected |
| Germany | Maria S Merian | Goban Spur | To obtain continuous time series of the variability of the North Atlantic Current | 09/04/2018 | 13/04/2018 | N/A |
| Netherlands | Pelagia | Whittard Canyon | The unknown role of Submarine Canyons - pathways or sinks for Organic Carbon | 10/05/2018 | 22/05/2018 | Observer Selected |
| Norway | Fiskebas | West of Ireland & Scotland | Tagging & Biological Sampling of Mackerel | 11/05/2018 | 08/06/2018 | Observer Selected |
| UK | James Cook | Atlantic | Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems Research at the PAP Sustained Observatory | 19/05/2018 | 12/06/2018 | N/A |
| UK | James Cook | Whittard Canyon | Habitat Mapping around Haig Fras and Whittard Canyon | 19/06/2018 | 07/07/2018 | Observer Selected |
| Germany | Heincke | Irish West Coast and Celtic Sea | AZAHAB Project | 17/07/2018 | 16/08/2018 | N/A |
| UK | MSR Endeavour | Irish & Celtic Seas | 4m Beam-trawl Groundfish survey | 26/09/2018 | 03/10/2018 | Berth available |
| Spain | Vizconde de Eza | Porcupine | Abundance Estimations & Distribution Patterns of Demersal-Benthic Species | 07/09/2018 | 11/10/2018 | Observer Selected |
| UK | Scotia | Rockall Bank | Bottom Trawl Survey Targeting Juvenile Gadoid Species | 20/09/2018 | 30/09/2018 | Berth available |
| France | Thalassa | Bay of Biscay & Celtic Sea | Evhoe 18 - French Bottom Trawl Surveys | 31/10/2018 | 15/11/2018 | Observer Selected |
| UK | Scotia | North West of Ireland & Scotland | Demersal Trawl survey | 14/11/2018 | 02/12/2018 | Berth TBC |
| Germany | Walther Herwig III | Irish & Celtic Seas | Investigations on fish diseases & biological effects of contaminants | 1/12/2018 | 20/12/2018 | Berth TBC |
Updated 02nd August 2018