On Saturday the 27 May, Living Seas trainees Patrick and Emma were up bright and early to hit the road. We were headed for Ballycastle to set up our Living Seas stall for the Rathlin Maritime…

On 11 April, five minutes before “kick-off” on a chilly, blustery Tuesday morning, Dave and the Living Seas trainees Emma, Claire and Patrick sat in the truck wondering if anyone would show up for…

Living Seas Trainees, Emma and Patrick, along with Dave and Shona, went down to Bangor Marina recently to learn all about Black Guillemots and how to survey and monitor them.

Now that Santa has come and gone, Christmas dinner is a distant memory, and the New Year is no longer quite so new, it’s back to work for the Living Seas Trainees! From 10 - 12 January we…

Following on from James’ adventure on the AFBI Nephrops survey, on 29 August I joined the scientists and crew of the RV Corystes for ten days of the herring stock assessment in the Irish Sea.

On 10 September I headed to Cushendall, Co. Antrim to meet up once again with Dermot Hughes of Forage Ireland for a coastal foraging course. As ever the course had proved very popular and we were…

On 4 August we headed to the Portrush Coastal Zone to run a Shore Thing Survey Training Day. Shore Thing is a citizen science project run by the Marine Biological Association which aims to record…

On 1 August I headed to Dunseverick to join colleagues at the Causeway Coast and Glens Heritage trust for an afternoons Coasteering. For those not familiar with this particular pastime, it…

On 31 July the Living Seas Team was delighted to be once again teaming up with Forage Ireland to deliver an afternoon of coastal foraging in Dundrum. We arrived outside Dundrum village to find…

The Living Seas team can’t believe our luck with the weather recently! Yet again on Friday 13th May, the sun shone as we met eager volunteers to get down on the shore and clean it up.