The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) is a Scottish charity (est. 1884) committed to promoting, delivering and supporting high-quality independent research and education in marine science. SAMS is a Collaborative Centre of the Natural Environment Research Council, and hosts the National Facility for Scientific Diving and the Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa. It is further an academic partner in UHI Millennium Institute under whose auspices SAMS delivers the BSc (Hons) Marine Science, and trains ca 25 PhD students. As the owner and operator of the Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory. SAMS is an internationally renowned marine research establishment. Research activities encompass the entire breadth of marine science. SAMS focuses much of its research activities on multidisciplinary research questions from Scottish coastal waters to the Arctic Ocean. Core science programme investigates past and present changes in Northern Seas.

POL's scientific research focuses on oceanography encompassing global sea-levels and geodesy, numerical modelling of continental shelf seas and coastal sediment processes. This research alongside activities of surveying, monitoring, data management and forecasting provides strategic support for the wider mission of the Natural Environment Research Council. POL is a leading world centre in tidal prediction (with related interests in earth tides and storm surges) and a leading European centre in modelling and forecasting shelf sea dynamics.

CEFAS is an internationally renowned scientific research and advisory centre working in fisheries management, environmental protection and aquaculture. They undertake a wide range of research, advisory, consultancy, monitoring and training activities. Their customer base includes Government departments (UK and foreign, central and local), international agencies, commercial companies and aid organisations. Much of their work is conducted for the UK Government and the European Union where their research and advice is utilised by policy makers, but in the past six years they have developed an increasingly worldwide client base. CEFAS has a staff compliment of approximately 550 who are based at three specialist laboratories within the UK. They have an ocean going research vessel and facilities are equipped with the latest laboratory, tank and aquatic field based equipment.

The MBA is a professional body for marine biologists with some 1200 members world-wide. The MBA has earned an international reputation for excellence and innovation in research, by the resident scientific staff and visiting research workers, including seven Nobel laureates. The current research programme reflects the wide-ranging commitment of the Association to the development of marine biology. This covers areas as diverse as cell and developmental biology, neurobiology, physiology and functional biology, reproductive biology, and ocean productivity and phytoplankton dynamics. A range of algal and invertebrate species are utilised to investigate fundamental biological problems. Long-term studies of the biology of the English Channel have been supported for more than seventy years and the Association has been instrumental in establishing The Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS) to continue the sequence of continuous plankton recorder surveys in the North Atlantic and North Sea.

sciences. The parent organisation is the UK Natural Environment Research Council. CEH’s staff have specialist skills in a wide range of environmental disciplines, ranging in scale from the gene to whole Earth systems. Research is aimed at improving our understanding of both the environment and the processes that underlie the Earth’s support systems. They are particularly interested in the impacts of human activity on natural environments.

The Isle of Wight Centre for the Coastal Environment (IWCCE) was established in 1997 to provide a focus for the council's growing activities on

kind in the world. Situated in the University of Stirling, there are more than 110 staff and 120 postgraduate students. The institute has built up a first class international reputation in teaching, research, contract research and consultancy. With an annual operating budget of almost £4 million, the Institute is core-funded by the University and also receives research and project funding from the Department for International Development (DfID; formerly ODA), the European Commission and from a wide variety of national and international research organisations, foundations and trusts and industry. The Institute has links with many other academic institutions. The Institute has had considerable direct involvement with the industry during its rapid expansion, especially at the interfaces between husbandry, environment, nutrition, reproduction and genetics, disease, engineering and economics and our research and training activities reflect this.

The Centre for Marine Biodiversity and Biotechnology (CMBB) was created with a Research Development Grant from the Scottish Higher

The Huntsman Marine Science Centre (HMSC) is a unique independent not-for-profit scientific institution; with a mission of education, research,

support of Canada's economic, ecological and scientific interests in oceans and inland waters. Ocean Sciences Division conducts research on physical and biological oceanographic processes along the east coast of Canada to provide an accurate description of the events, features and dynamics found in the nearshore, the continental shelves, and the offshore. The program can be categorized by a few key activities: *Physical and Biological oceanographic research including environmental monitoring, process research, numerical modelling and development of instrumentation in support of managing, understanding, and describing our living resource. *Ocean Climate studies to describe average and extreme conditions, seasonal and longer term variability, and trends or changes over time. *Environmental descriptions to provide advice on marine activity and operations, such as advection and dispersion of toxins or contaminants, wave impact on structures, transportation and coastal infrastructure, oil spill and search and rescue trajectory models, and assessments of development impacts.

The Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre is Canada's premier coastal research and teaching facility. Situated in Barkley Sound and adjacent to Pacific

The National Wildlife Research Centre (Ottawa, Ontario) is the focal point within the Canadian Wildlife Service for: * Research and advice on the

The Pacific Biological Station is the main facility for the Science Branch of Fisheries and Oceans Canada in the Pacific Region. PBS was

established in 1908 and is the principal centre for fisheries research on the West Coast. There is a wharf used for loading, unloading, and berthage of research vessels, as well as a small boat dock for inshore research boats. PBS also maintains a library and meeting facilities. Aquatic facilities, primarily used by Aquaculture Division, include ambient temperature and heated salt water and fresh (municipal supply) water. . Research at PBS responds to Stock Assessment, Aquaculture, Marine Environment and Habitat Science, and Ocean Science and Productivity priorities. Fisheries management through Operations Branch is also conducted here. It is anticipated that these activities will remain integral components of the Department’s ongoing business.

The Canadian Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT) at Dalhousie University was established in 1979 as a specialized resource center of

The St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences is a research centre located in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. Its mandate is research,

The Ocean Sciences Centre is a cold ocean research facility operated in conjunction with Memorial University of Newfoundland. Located in Logy

Formally established by government decree on June 3 2003, it combines the former research institutes NCMR and IMBC, together with their respective field stations. The present structure HCMR has five institutes, which carry out research into specific thematic areas. * Institute of Oceanography * Institute of Aquaculture * Institute of Marine Biological Resources * Institute of Inland Waters * Institute of Marine Biology and Genetics It enjoys top-level scientific support from its two research vessels, the RV AEGAOU and RV PHILIA, its state-of-the-art 2-man submersible THETIS as well as two deepwater ROVs, named the MAX ROVER and the SUPER ACHILLES. HCMR is also responsible for the Rhodes Aquarium and the soon-to-be completed Aquarium in Crete.