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Pobie Bank Reef Blog #1
Published date 2020-08-21This summer JNCC and Marine Scotland Science will be undertaking a survey of Pobie Bank Reef Special Area of Conservation, a Marine Protected Area (MPA) off the East coast of Shetland. Pobie Bank Ree...
How do we incentivise more investment in green infrastructure to reduce flood risk?
Published date 2024-10-23Accelerating green finance needs clear focus on who the investors are and the drivers for that investment. In today’s blog we discuss how addressing flood risk should be a key area but it’s not clear ...
Monitoring peatland using Earth observation data
Published date 2021-03-16Monitoring of peatland condition has traditionally relied on ground-based surveys; however, some of our recent work suggests that Earth observation may provide a cost-effective dynamic method for larg...
Wormy reflections - Blog #5
Published date 2019-09-09Earlier this summer, we were delighted to announce the discovery of a new species of polychaete worm. As our previous blog posts have been describing, we are currently back at West Shetland Shelf Mari...
New year, new Environmental Improvement Plan
Published date 2023-02-17In our latest blog post, Lucy Lush, our England Science and Evidence Liaison Officer, talks about the new Environmental Improvement Plan and her role within JNCC. The race to restore nature and revers...
Find out about the latest updates to the Global Environmental Impacts of Consumption (GEIC) indicator
Published date 2023-11-22Our latest blog post is from Nicki du Plessis, Maddie Harris, and Ellie Wood, from our Ecosystems Analysis Team. In this post, they provide an overview of the noteworthy improvements to the Global Env...
Wyville Thomson Ridge Survey WTR0924S (Blog #4): The survey concludes
Published date 2024-10-11Our latest blog post is the final update from our offshore survey team on their recent survey to Wyville Thomson Ridge (WTR) Marine Protected Area (MPA) (Survey 0924S). JNCC and the Marine Directorate...
The sponges of Faroe-Shetland Sponge Belt MPA
Published date 2021-08-27Most people associate sponges with a nice bubble bath. Chances are, however, that the sponge you have sitting in your bathroom has little in common with the sponges that we are seeing at the bottom of...
Happy St David's Day 2022 from our Wales Liaison Officer
Published date 2022-03-01Today is St David’s Day. As St David is the patron saint of Wales, what better way to mark it than with a blog post from our new Wales Liaison Officer. I joined JNCC in late January as the Wales Liais...
Dolphin Head and North East of Farnes Deep Offshore Survey (Blog #1): Setting sail on our first HPMA offshore survey
Published date 2023-09-15Our latest blog post is from our offshore survey team, who are embarking on a survey with the Marine Institute of Ireland to two recently designated Highly Protected Marine Areas (HMPAs) – Dolphin Hea...