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For Universities, Researchers, Interns, Schools, Divers, Volunteers & Conservationists

On this page Open Ocean Science Centres simply aim to demonstrate the range of research and field study opportunities that are available, it is not an extensive list of projects as it would constantly need updating and become unmanageable.

Lucy took up a six month placement with Open Ocean Field Station in 2016. During her time at Open Ocean she completed an amazing amount of conservation work with the assistance from the volunteers and staff at Roots Red Sea. In addition to her paper on Microplastics on the sea bed, she was endlessly battling with debris from land and sea, collecting, sorting and collating data for her own and other projects.

Are Microplastics more Prevalent in Seabed Sediment at Shallower Depths in the Red Sea?

Lucy Deans

BSc (Hons) Animal Conservation Science

Department of Science, Natural Resources and Outdoor Studies

University of Cumbria

May 2018

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In 2019, the Open Ocean Field Station in El Quseir provided Eduardo the perfect Red Sea location for his continued, National Geographic funded research on cephalopod behaviour, cognition, and neuroscience. His team spent 10 weeks on location recording the incredible behavioral repertoire, camouflage capabilities and complex cognition.

Octopuses punch fishes during collaborative interspecific hunting

events.

Citation: Sampaio, E., M. C., Seco, R., Rosa, and S., Gingins.2021. Octopuses punch fishes during collaborative interspecific hunting events. Ecology 102(3):e03266. 10.1002/ecy.3266

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University of Glasgow expedition reports

Example Publications from the University of Glasgow McInnes, M. G., Burns, N. M. , Hopkins, C. R. , Henderson, G. P., McNeill, D. C. and Bailey, D. M. (2020) A new model study species: high accuracy of discrimination between individual freckled hawkfish (Paracirrhites forsteri) using natural markings. Journal of Fish Biology, 96(3), pp. 831-834. Nadler, L. E., McNeill, D. C., Alwany, M. A. and Bailey, D. M. (2014) Effect of habitat characteristics on the distribution and abundance of damselfish within a Red Sea reef. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 97(11), pp. 1265-1277. Advani, S., Rix, L. N., Aherne, D. M., Alwany, M. A. and Bailey, D. M. (2015) Distance from a fishing community explains fish abundance in a no-take zone with weak compliance. PLoS ONE, 10(5), e0126098. Click on the Mortar & Book emblems to view the publications and reports .

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