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Fauna from the canyons
Published date 2017-06-16Over the last week we’ve been exploring the deeper areas of the Canyons from around 1000m to ~1700m. It’s been a really varied landscape from rippled sand with gravel patches and the odd boulder, to a...
Offshore Survey due to commence in the Irish Sea
Published date 2016-10-26On 30th October 2016, JNCC and Cefas will embark on a survey of Pisces Reef Complex candidate Special Area of Conservation/Site of Community Importance (cSAC/SCI) in the Irish Sea (see map below), abo...
Arriving at West Shetland Shelf - Blog #2 (1219S)
Published date 2019-08-29The JNCC survey scientists, along with Fiona Ware from National Museum of Scotland and scientists from Marine Scotland Science (MSS), departed from Aberdeen on Monday morning. Flat calm seas allowed u...
Benefits of working at JNCC
Published date 2019-06-04Leave entitlement JNCC annual leave allowance is 25 days per annum. After five years’ service, leave entitlement increases to 30 days per annum. In addition to annual leave, JNCC offers 12 public and ...
RRS James Cook returns from successful collaborative voyage
Published date 2018-07-31On Friday 6 July, the RRS James Cook sailed into Southampton following a successful three-week expedition to the Celtic Shelf and Bay of Biscay, west of Cornwall. The voyage delivered a unique combina...
‘Beyond the Coast’ conference celebrates 10 years of offshore MPAs
Published date 2019-07-02‘Beyond the Coast’ conference celebrates 10 years of offshore MPAs Marking the 10-year anniversary of the first offshore marine protected areas in the UK, JNCC hosted Beyond the Coast – a conference r...
Elinor Grant - Science 1
Published date 2023-04-20This review was initiated to address the need to understand the role of below-ground biodiversity in agricultural systems. It complements the recent review by Hole et al. (2005) that highlighted that ...
Habitat Extent
Published date 2019-05-23JNCC works extensively on methods and techniques to support activities involved with assessing habitat extent throughout the UK and Overseas Territories. We work to develop and provide tools and analy...
Investigating the species of the deep... Blog #4
Published date 2018-09-03We have begun our depth stratified trawl transect that will take us from the warm NE Atlantic waters of the Rockall Basin, up and over the Wyville Thomson Ridge SAC and then down into the Arctic-influ...
Leah Science 1
Published date 2022-03-182022-03-18T00:00:00