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Accessibility Statement
Published date 2019-05-23We are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability. We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of ...
European Shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis)
Published date 2019-04-17The following has been adapted from original text by Sarah Wanless and Mike P. Harris in Seabird Populations of Britain and Ireland (with permission from A&C Black, London). The European shag is...
All eyes on a new worm species
Published date 2019-07-03There’s a worm at the bottom of the sea – and it’s been discovered off the Scottish coast by a team of scientists from the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), Marine Scotland Science (MSS) and...
Improving species representation in natural capital tools
Published date 2019-07-18Improving species representation in natural capital tools There is an increasing understanding that environmental decision-making needs to take account of natural capital considerations and make asses...
Training - Poppy Cooney 21/09 - Science 2
Published date 2022-09-21Organic farming practices have recently been shown to benefit a wide range of above-ground taxa through increases in abundance and/or species richness. In relation to policy development, there is a pa...
MPA Network - 2018 Report to Scottish Parliament
Published date 2019-07-04Six years on – Scotland’s Marine Protected Areas NetworkJNCC is delighted to have partnered with Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) and others to input into the Marine Protected Area (MPA) progress repor...
Senior Leadership
Published date 2019-05-23Marcus Yeo - Chief Executive The main responsibilities of this post are to: Manage JNCC on a day to day basis and oversee the delivery of its work. Acts as Accounting Officer for JNCC, with respons...
How to design a seabed habitat monitoring programme
Published date 2019-07-26How to design a seabed habitat monitoring programme Environmental monitoring programmes produce evidence against which to evaluate the cause and direction of change in the environment. They must be we...
Professor Marian Scott
Published date 2019-06-05Role: Independent member Date appointed: December 2017 Marian is Professor of Environmental Statistics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Glasgow; an elected member of th...
A Day in the Life of a Marine Scientist
Published date 2017-11-02I’m Tammy Noble-James, Marine Protected Areas Monitoring Officer at JNCC, and I’ve been aboard the Scotia since we began our survey of North-East Faroe Shetland Channel NCMPA and Wyville Thomson Ridge...