Marine Scotland Science (MSS) undertakes a wide range of monitoring covering many aspects of the Scottish marine ecosystem.
Monitoring is undertaken in Scottish Inshore Waters, using networks of volunteers and automatic recording equipment, as well as in Scottish Offshore Waters, using the MSS research vessels MRV Alba na Mara and MRV Scotia.
Marine Scotland Science also participates national monitoring programmes, such as:
This group provides published data from monitoring these activities. For many activities, there are national or international standards for how the monitoring is undertaken.
This is a moderately exposed site on the south-west coast of Shetland. The temperature logger is suspended under a floating pontoon at Scalloway Boat Club. Surface nutrient, salinity and phytoplankton samples are collected by staff from North...
Samples are collected offshore from Stonehaven using Marine Scotland Science's catamaran, the Temora. The Stonehaven site has many student projects and supplementary projects carried out parallel to the regular monitoring due to its short...
The 2016 assessment of the UK's Clean Seas Environment Monitoring Programme described the status and trends of contaminant concentrations and biological effects measurements in biota and sediment at monitoring stations in waters around the UK....
This data set of CTD and/or STD profiles at stations on the Faroe-Cape Wrath (FCW) hydrographic section has been collected on cruises under many different projects and programmes undertaken by Marine Scotland, the Faroe Marine Research Institute...
This data set of CTD and/or STD profiles at stations on the Nolso-Flugga (NOL) hydrographic section has been collected on cruises under many different projects and programmes undertaken by Marine Scotland and the Faroe Marine Research Institute...
This data set of CTD and/or STD profiles at stations on the Joint North Sea Information System (JONSIS) hydrographic section has been collected on cruises under many different projects and programmes undertaken by Marine Scotland since 1981....
This data set of CTD and/or STD profiles at stations on the Fair Isle-Munken (FIM) hydrographic section has been collected on cruises under many different projects and programmes undertaken by Marine Scotland, the Faroe Marine Research Institute...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 9 No 1 Report describing the action taken by Marine Scotland after the grounding of the Transocean Winner semi-submersible rig on 27 July 2017 at 0652 local time at 58º 18.51’N 006º 46.2’W near Dalmore on...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 8 No 24 A small number of phytoplankton species have the ability to produce algal toxins which can accumulate in filter feeding bivalves such as oysters, scallops and mussels. The bioaccumulation of...
ECOMMAS is a long-term, on-going study into how underwater noise generated by offshore industry impacts the distribution of dolphins and porpoises in the Scottish North Sea. Acoustic recorders (C-PODs and SM2Ms) are deployed at 30 sites across 10...