Hosted at PML
PML works closely with partners to actively promote
innovation and collaboration in the field of marine research.
The Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) is a multidisciplinary
programme which undertakes biological, chemical and physical
oceanographic research during an annual voyage between the UK and
destinations in the South Atlantic - previously the Falkland
Islands, South Africa and Chile, a distance of up to 13,500km. This
transect crosses a range of ecosystems from sub-polar to tropical
and from euphotic shelf seas and upwelling systems to oligotrophic
mid-ocean gyres.
The programme was established in 1995 and since then has
included 20 research cruises involving over 180 scientists
from 11 countries. AMT has proved to be a long-term
multidisciplinary ocean observation programme, which is a platform
for national and international scientific collaboration, a training
arena for the next generation of oceanographers and an ideal
facility for validation of novel technology.
i-GPeninsula is a Department
for Business, Innovation & Skills Public Sector Research
Exploitation (PSRE) funded project for realising the economic
potential of environmental science and technologies.
It is based at PML and administered by PML Applications Ltd, the
project is funded by the
Public Sector Research Exploitation (PSRE) is part of the BIS
"knowledge transfer from the research base"
initiative. Together with the Higher Education Innovation Fund
(HEIF), the PSRE fund aims to "promote the transfer of
knowledge generated and held in public sector research
establishments to the wider economy and to enhance economic
growth".
The i-GPeninsula Project was first established in
September 2006 following a successful bid for funding under the
third PSRE funding round. This 'Capacity Building' phase,
during which areas of science within PML and its project partners
were identified as having potential for being profitable products
and services, was completed in March 2009. PML made a further
successful bid under the fourth round of PSRE funding and so a new
project commenced on 1 April 2009 to primarily focus on proving the
concept of those commercial opportunities previously identified and
to build on the achievements to date.
The i-GPeninsula PSRE fourth round Project will run for
two years and it aims to:
- Continue to identify knowledge assets within PML and project
partners with increased focus on the development of innovation and
entrepreneurship
- Continue of capacity building within PML and the Project
Partners
- Align commercial opportunities with emerging market potential
through market analysis and horizon scanning
- Forge closer relationships with commercial partners leading to
future commercial income through investment, joint ventures and
licensing agreements.
- Achieve investment into commercial projects
NEODAAS is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council
(NERC) to support UK research scientists with remote sensing
data and information. NEODAAS has the capability to
automatically receive, archive, process and map global data from
multiple polar-orbiting sensors in near-real time, allowing the
support of global studies. NEODAAS also receive and process
data from multiple geostationary satellites.
This service is hosted at 2 sites: data processing is provided
by the Remote Sensing Group at the PML and data reception and
acquisition is provided by the Dundee Satellite Receiving Station
at the University of Dundee (UoD).
PML is a member and hosts the Secretariat of POGO, which is a
forum created by directors and leaders of major oceanographic
institutions around the world to promote global oceanography,
particularly the implementation of an international and integrated
global ocean observing system.
POGO includes institutions performing ocean observations as well
as representatives of existing international and regional
programmes and organizations. POGO is a partnership of institutions
involved in oceanographic observations, scientific research,
operational services, education and training.
As the scale of these activities becomes global, there is an
increasing value in coordination among the institutions involved.
Through joint planning and exchange of information, the community
can make better use of the limited resources available. POGO does
not set scientific goals, but focuses attention on implementation
issues such as technical compatibility among observing networks,
shared use of infrastructure and on public outreach and capacity
building.
Primer-E is a spin-out company from PML, which markets PRIMER
(Plymouth Routines In Multivariate Ecological Research) software
and focuses on the development of further published methodology in
the areas of environmental/ecological statistics and biodiversity,
which will feed into future versions of the PRIMER software.
PRIMER 6 consists of a wide range of univariate, graphical and
multivariate routines for analysing the species/samples abundance
(or biomass) matrices that arise in biological monitoring of
environmental impact and more fundamental studies in community
ecology, together with associated physico-chemical data.
VECTORS
Vectors is a multidisciplinary EU FP7 funded project that aims
to improve our understanding of how environmental and man made
factors are impacting marine ecosystems now, and how they will do
so in the future. The project will also examine how these changes
will affect the range of goods and services provided by the oceans,
the ensuing socio-economic impacts and some of the measures that
could be developed to mitigate or adapt to these changes.
The 4 year project will be hosted at PML and
involves 37 partners from 15 European countries.