Aditya and Lindsey recently returned from a successful 3.5 weeks on the Discovery for the SeaSTORE project, looking at the impacts of bottom trawling on seabed carbon storage in the Irish Sea.SeaSTORE is a 3-year (2025-2028) project led by the University of Bangor examining how bottom trawling impacts on the release of carbon from the […]
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Glasgow 2026 – Ocean Sciences Meeting & BIO-Carbon Data Workshop
At the end of February we, with 6000 other ocean scientists, headed across to Glasgow for the biennial American Geophysical Union, The Oceanography Society & Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Ocean Sciences Meeting. OceanCANDY was joined by a large contignent from The Lyell Centre and wider Heriot-Watt. This was the first time […]
New Publication: Updated global compilation of coccolithophore calcification measurements from unperturbed water samples including ancillary data [dataset].
Nichole Marsh has updated the global coccolithophore calcification rate measurement database. This was published on the PANGAEA data publisher for earth and environmental science in December 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.987673). This database includes in-situ experimental data from 47 expeditions, spanning 35 years. There are over 3000 calcium carbonate and primary production rate data and nearly 18,000 ancillary […]
New Paper: High nitrogen fixation and Braarudosphaera presence in the North Sea
OceanCANDY members Ben Fisher and Lewis Wrightson (visiting scholar) co-authored a recent paper in Limnology & Oceanography. In work jointly led by Kendra Turk-Kubo, Claire Mahaffey and Jo Hopkins, they report on nitrogen fixation rates in the North Sea and the presence of the nitrogen fixing Braarudosphaera /UCYN-A. Nitrogen fixation has typically been considered unique […]
DYNAMITE Workshop in Montpellier
Last week (9th – 13th March) Ben G. was invited back to CESAB (Montpellier, France) for the DYNAMITE (DYNAMics of the production and export of aragonITE shells). DYNAMITE is creating a global database of field oceanic aragonite shell data to increase the accessibility of aragonite-producer research and understand their impact on carbon production and export […]
2025 Round Up
It’s been a busy year!We had a research cruise across the Sub-Tropical Atlantic (👋 JC275), we have attended conferences in workshops across the UK & Europe, and we have had lots of visting researchers join us ( 👋 Miriam Seifert, Sixolile Mazwane, PhD, Arianwen Herbert, Florine Hudelle, Lewis Wrightson). Lots of water has been filtered, […]
Tiny Architects, Titanic Climate Impact: Scientists Call for October 10 to Become International Coccolithophore Day
Microscopic plankton that regulate Earth’s climate and sustain ocean ecosystems take centre stage in a new awareness campaign. Oct 10, 2025 – Smaller than a speck of dust and shaped like tiny discs, coccolithophores are microscopic ocean organisms with a big climate job. They draw carbon out of seawater, help produce oxygen, and their calcite […]
Advances in Coccolithophore Research Meeting in Plymouth
At the beginning of September Sarah, Nichole, Ben, Aditya and Alex headed down to the Marine Biological Association (MBA) in Plymouth for the Advances in Coccolithophore Research meeting. Did you know there’s a direct train from Edinburgh to Plymouth? It only takes 8hrs 43 mins, if you are lucky! But what a great time to […]
🌟 Another Award Winning Poster by an Ocean Candy PhD Student 🌟
Massive congratulations to Benjamin Gustafson on best poster at the joint MASTS Scotland Marine Biogeochemistry Forum and Challenger Society for Marine Science AMBIO Meeting in Edinburgh last week. Over the last couple months Ben has been taking a course from Visualise Your Science learning how to put together a poster using both how to use […]
Alex and Ben F have arrived in Rio de Janeiro for JC275!
As part of the NERC CarTRidge project Alex and Ben F are getting ready to set sail aboard the RRS James Cook from Rio to Walvis Bay. The James Cook will be their home for the next 47 days as they investigate growth, productivity, nutrient cycling and community response of deep photic communities to nutrient […]