Marine Institute

News & Events Archive 2022

SMARTBAY Obsesrvatory family day
Press Releases :
May 16, 2022
The Marine Institute and BlueWise Marie Presents: The SmartBay Observatory Family Fun Day

Saturday, 21st May

Film crew on the foredeck of the RV Celtic Voyager with the Bull lighthouse in the background. Photo Oisin McManus.
Events :
May 12, 2022
Great Lighthouses of Ireland

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SMARTBAY Observatory family fun day
Events :
May 12, 2022
SmartBay Observatory Family Fun Day

Saturday 21st May 2022

The Explorers Team look forward to joining teachers on the seashore for this year’s CPD summer training courses in five counties this year, teaching how to bring the seashore to the classroom. Photo: Cushla Dromgool-Regan
Press Releases :
May 5, 2022
Explorers Education Programme Teacher Training Courses available in five counties this Summer

4th - 8th July

The Marine Institute's Explorers team around the country are planning a Kraken Family Day on the beach for European Maritime Day on the 21st May. Photo: Cushla Dromgool-Regan, Camden Education
Press Releases :
May 3, 2022
The Explorers Kraken Family Day celebrates European Maritime Day-Save the Date

Saturday 21st May at 12pm

EXPLORERS KRAKEN FAMILY DAY advert
News & Events :
May 3, 2022
Explorers Kraken Family Day celebrating European Maritime Day

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Marine Institute on board for Ireland’s National Workplace Wellbeing Day 2022
Press Releases :
April 29, 2022
Marine Institute on board for Ireland’s National Workplace Wellbeing Day 2022

Friday, 29th April

Exploring Our Marine with the Marine Institute - Creatures of the Deep
News :
April 27, 2022
Exploring Our Marine with the Marine Institute - Creatures of the Deep

Creatures of the Deep

Exploring Our Marine with the Marine Institute - Argo Floats
News :
March 31, 2022
Exploring Our Marine with the Marine Institute - Argo Floats

Argo Floats

Exploring Our Marine with the Marine Institute - Lehanagh Pool
News :
March 22, 2022
Exploring Our Marine with the Marine Institute - Lehanagh Pool

Lehanagh Pool

The Explorers Education programme outreach team are delighted to be working with over twenty primary schools in 14 coastal counties around Ireland, where they will all be completing Healthy Ocean projects within their local communities, so as to be in with a chance to win the first Marine Institute Explorers Ocean Champion Award for schools. Photo: Aengus McMahon Photography
Press Releases :
March 10, 2022
Over Twenty Primary Schools selected to complete Explorers Healthy Ocean projects for Ocean Champion Awards

This Award is part of the Explorers School Project.

Joe Silke, director of Marine Environment and Food Safety Services, Marine Institute Chairman Dr John Killeen, Martin Heydon T.D., Minister of State with responsibility for Research and Development, Farm Safety, and New Market Development, Dr Ciaran Kelly, Director of Fisheries, Ecosystems and Advisory Services and Dr Niall McDonough, Director of Policy, Innovation and Research Support. Photo Andrew Downes / XPOSURE
Press Releases :
March 7, 2022
Research highlighted in visit of Minister Heydon to the Marine Institute

Minister Heydon was provided with an overview of four significant research projects funded by DAFM.

Dr. Paul Connolly, Marine Institute CEO. Photo credit Andrew Downes, XPOSURE.
News :
March 4, 2022
2022 - Exciting Year Ahead

2022 - Exciting Year Ahead

Explorers Engineers Week Teachers Workshop
News & Events :
March 3, 2022
Explorers Engineers Week Teachers Workshop

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Explorers Fact vs. Fiction Student Webinar
News & Events :
March 3, 2022
Explorers Fact vs. Fiction Student Webinar: Exploring how Marine Life, Design and Shape the World around Us

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An Argo Float being deployed. Photo credit Tomas Szumski, Marine Institute
Press Releases :
February 28, 2022
Celebrate Engineers Week with Galway Atlantaquaria and the Marine Institute

An ocean journey with the Argo float ‘The Argo Adventure’

Dr Grace Cott and Dr Mark Coughlan, University College Dublin
Press Releases :
February 24, 2022
Investing in Blue Carbon

Two major research projects funded to study how coastal and marine habitats can reduce climate change

Women in Science
Press Releases :
February 11, 2022
Marine Institute celebrates Women in Science

Marine Institute celebrates Women in Science

Bluefin Tuna, Donegal Bay. Photo courtesy of David Morrissey and Inland Fisheries Ireland.
Press Releases :
February 4, 2022
Scientific ‘catch-tag-release’ survey programme opens for charter skippers

Over 1,100 Atlantic bluefin tuna, the ‘giant of the sea’, have been successfully tagged and released under ‘citizen scientist’ partnership

Ocean champions project and awards. Photo Andrew Downes, XPOSURE.
Press Releases :
February 1, 2022
Explorers Ocean Champions Project launch to celebrate International Education Day

Explorers We Are Ocean Champions School Project

Bursary Scholarship Programme
Press Releases :
January 28, 2022
Applications open for the Marine Institute’s Bursary Programme

Bursary Programme 2022

Exploring Our Marine with the Marine Institute - Marine Careers
News :
January 27, 2022
Exploring Our Marine with the Marine Institute - Marine Careers

Marine Careers

Where's the catch? The fishery surveys keeping our seas sustainable
News :
January 26, 2022
Marine Institute Fisheries Research featured on Euronews

Europe's leading international news channel.

Eoin Warner on the RV Celtic Voyager
News & Events :
January 12, 2022
Marine Institute welcomes two new TG4 programmes on the coast of Ireland

The Marine Institute welcomes two new programmes on TG4 this week, which explore the wildlife of our Celtic coasts and the life and communities on the west coast of Ireland. Iontais na bhFarraigí Ceilteachaand ...