Sponsors
As the UK’s oldest oceanographic organisation, SAMS is working to provide the knowledge, education and engagement to secure healthy and sustainable oceans. Based in Oban on the west coast of Scotland, SAMS delivers multidisciplinary research in marine science, trains 200 undergraduate and postgraduate students in marine science, and applies its knowledge to solve global, national and local challenges our oceans and ocean users face.
Institutional members
Finance, IECS Ltd, United Kingdom
AQUA, INRAE EABX, France
INRAE EABX is an aquatic ecology Research Unit that carries out work on characterising and understanding the responses of inland aquatic biodiversity (rivers, lakes and estuaries) to global changes across various biological, spatial and temporal scales. EABX is based at two sites in Gironde, FRANCE, including an experimental station for studying aquatic systems in a controlled environment. The Unit comprises around 40 permanent researchers, engineers and technicians, and also hosts PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, interns and other staff under contract.
The Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) is Germany's research institute for the study of tropical marine ecosystems and their services to human societies. The mission of ZMT is ensuring the protection and sustainable use of tropical coastal ecosystems through research, capacity development and consulting activities in close cooperation with international and national partners.
Amgueddfa Cymru has the largest and most comprehensive collection of Welsh geology, zoology and botany specimens in the world. These provide a unique record of the natural history of Wales charting evolutionary and environmental change over 700 million years. Our scientists undertake internationally-recognised research which is disseminated via a range of media including peer-reviewed papers, online identification guides and databases and social media.