Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue TD with the latest Ireland’s Ocean Economy Report, a partnership with the Marine Institute and the University of Galway’s Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit (SEMRU).
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Ireland’s Ocean Economy Report Published

The latest update on the performance of Ireland’s Ocean Economy.

The Marine Institute have endorsed the Mission Ocean Charter. Photo with Kestutis Sadauskas, Deputy Director-General, DG Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, European Commission and Mission Manager, Fiona Grant, Marine Institute and John Bell, Director of Healthy Planet, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission and Deputy Mission Manager.
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Cork hosts the launch of a major initiative to protect and restore ocean and inland waters in the Atlantic and Arctic by 2030

Mission to Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030

Marine Institute Chairman Dr. John Killeen, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue TD, and Dr Paul Connolly, CEO Marine Institute at the Marine Institute in Rinville, Oranmore, Co. Galway.
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Minister McConalogue receives Marine Institute’s Fish Stock Book 2022

The Stock Book 2022

Arrival of the RV Tom Crean to Galway in July 2022. Photo Jason Clarke.
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Showcasing the RV Tom Crean at Galway Science and Technology Festival

Sunday, 13th November 2022

Pupils of Scoil Cholmchille primary school in Malin, Co Donegal have been presented with the inaugural national prize for the Marine Institute’s Explorers Ocean Champions Award by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue TD
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Minister McConalogue presents the Marine Institute’s Explorers national Ocean Champions Award to Scoil Cholmchille primary school.

Explorers Education

President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins and President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on a visit to the newly commissioned research vessel RV Tom Crean berthed in Dublin’s docklands.
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The Presidents of Ireland and Portugal visit Ireland’s new state of the art research vessel RV Tom Crean in Dublin

The newly commissioned research vessel RV Tom Crean.

Granddaughter of Tom Crean, Aileen Crean O’Brien, smashes the bottle to officially launch Ireland’s new marine research vessel, the RV Tom Crean at Dingle Harbour with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie Mc Conalogue & Minister for Education Norma Foley. Picture credit to Andrew Downes, XPOSURE
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Ireland’s New Research Vessel RV Tom Crean Commissioned Today in Dingle

Thursday, 6th October 2022

Alan Haynie (General Secretary of ICES), Ciaran Kelly (Director of Fisheries, Marine Institute), Bill Karp (President of ICES), and Paul Connolly, CEO of Marine Institute at the ICES Annual Science Conference 2022 in the Aviva Stadium, Dublin. Picture Jason Clarke
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Ireland hosting a major marine conference this week

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) ‘Annual Science Conference’(ASC)

The Marine Institute Newport research station in the Burrishoole catchment in Co. Mayo
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Marine Institute awarded research grant to study evolutionary potential of Atlantic Salmon

SFI-IRC Pathway programme

High tide at White Rock, Killiney, Co. Dublin
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Marine Institute publishes report on Irish Participation in EU Marine Projects

New Connections IV, A Review of Irish Participation in EU Marine Research Projects 2014–2020

25 primary school teachers took to the beach at Fenit seashore to learn about bringing the ocean to the classroom, as well as learn about marine biodiversity, environmental care and climate change, with the Marine Institute's Explorers Education outreach team Natasha Howard and Anna Kellagher at Sea Synergy, Waterville. The course is supported by the Education Centre Tralee, Co Kerry.
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100 Primary school teachers learn about the ocean with the Marine Institute’s Explorers Education Programme

Teacher's training course

RV Tom Crean entering the Port of Galway. Image Cr Andrew Downes, XPOSURE
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New Irish Research Vessel Tom Crean Arrives in Galway

RV Tom Crean

Dr Niall McDonough, Director of Policy, Innovation and Research Services, Marine Institute
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Launch of Our Shared Ocean

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McConalogue launches new public online Aquaculture Information Management System - AQUAMIS
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McConalogue launches new public online Aquaculture Information Management System - AQUAMIS

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Marine Institute enters MoU with Instituto Portugues do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA)
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Marine Institute enters MoU with Instituto Portugues do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA)

The MoU will enhance cooperation in the Atlantic Ocean area between the two organisations, particularly in relation…

Tom Crean
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Oceans of Learning celebrates the future of marine research with the RV Tom Crean

RV Tom Crean

IMDO Report
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Marine Institute welcomes The Irish Maritime Transport Economist report, published by the IMDO

Volume 19, Ireland's maritime freight industry

RV Celtic Voyager and RV Celtic Explorer _Photographer Andrew Downes
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Oceans of Learning celebrates Irish Marine Research Vessels, the Celtic Voyager and Celtic Explorer

Oceans of Learning, a collaboration between the Marine Institute and Government departments and organisations across…

IMG_0445_Kilglass National School recieves European Blue Schools Award in Ireland_Photo Cushla web
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Galway School receives the European Blue Schools Award – Find the Blue Challenge

Kilglass National School (NS), Ahascragh, Co Galway

Oceans of Learning
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Oceans of Learning Celebrates Ireland’s Marine Research Vessels and Ocean Explorers

Oceans of Learning 2022

Oceans of Learning
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Oceans of Learning Celebrates Irish Research Vessels and Ocean Explorers

Oceans of Learning 2022

Smartbay
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The Marine Institute and BlueWise Marine Presents: The SmartBay Observatory Family Fun Day

Saturday, 21st May

​​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
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Explorers Education Programme Teacher Training Courses available in five counties this Summer

4th - 8th July

Marine Institute on board for Ireland’s National Workplace Wellbeing Day 2022
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Marine Institute on board for Ireland’s National Workplace Wellbeing Day 2022

Friday, 29th April

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
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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
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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.

An Argo Float being deployed. Photo credit Tomas Szumski, Marine Institute
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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
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Investing in Blue Carbon

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

Women in Science
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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.
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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…

Ocean champions project and awards. Photo Andrew Downes, XPOSURE.
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Explorers Ocean Champions Project launch to celebrate International Education Day

Explorers We Are Ocean Champions School Project

Bursary Scholarship Programme
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Applications open for the Marine Institute’s Bursary Programme

Bursary Programme 2022