28 March 2025

Tiny Ocean Opportunities

28 March 2025

Tiny Ocean Opportunities is a free version of Ocean Opportunities, a listing of 600+ marine STEM-related jobs, Post-Docs, PhDs, Masters, conferences, workshops, courses, webinars, internships, fundings, and other types of opportunities.

Samantha Andrews

13 April 2024

The Life Scientific

Professional Societies and Associations for the Marine STEM Community

Samantha Andrews

13 April 2024

The Life Scientific

Are you working or studying in a marine STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, or Maths) field? Looking for a professional society or association? Here’s a list from around the world.

Samantha Andrews

5 July 2023

People and the Sea, The Life Scientific

Life on board a research vessel: Dr Philomène Verlaan

Samantha Andrews

5 July 2023

People and the Sea, The Life Scientific

Dr Philomène Verlaan is an oceanographer researching deep sea mineral formation and a lawyer specialising in law of the sea. She shares some of her experiences on board research vessels.

Samantha Andrews

25 April 2023

People and the Sea, The Life Scientific

Achieving Chartered status

Samantha Andrews

25 April 2023

People and the Sea, The Life Scientific

Long-standing IMarEST (Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology) Fellow Tim Chesher highlights the competencies required and the stumbling blocks to avoid when applying for Chartered status through IMarEST.

Samantha Andrews

17 August 2022

The Life Scientific

Being an early career researcher in marine science

Samantha Andrews

17 August 2022

The Life Scientific

Help A Research Out users Anna Osiecka, Katarzyna Brzeska, and Aleksandra Wróbel share the result of their survey of early career marine scientists and conservationists' experiences. Their work highlights some of the barriers to equity and work ethic issues that are still to be addressed.

Samantha Andrews

27 June 2022

Technology, The Life Scientific

A (un)answered question of Chemistry (Part 2)

Samantha Andrews

27 June 2022

Technology, The Life Scientific

Chemistry abounds in discoveries, but many questions remain. We asked members of the Canadian Journal of Chemistry’s International Advisory Board: What’s the most important unanswered question in your field?

Contributor

14 April 2020

People and the Sea, The Life Scientific

Help A Researcher Out: Survey on abuse of early career marine scientists

Contributor

14 April 2020

People and the Sea, The Life Scientific

Help a Researcher Out! Anna Osiecka, Katarzyna Brzeska (WSAiB, Poland), and Aleksandra Wróbel (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) need your input for a report on some of the less pleasant aspects early career marine scientists and conservationists face.

Samantha Andrews

20 February 2019

The Life Scientific, People and the Sea

Greening your marine science

Samantha Andrews

20 February 2019

The Life Scientific, People and the Sea

When it comes to legally sharing your science, gold open-access isn’t your only option. Welcome to the world of Green Open Access - and for us marine people, MarXiv.

Samantha Andrews

27 September 2018

The Life Scientific, Technology, Environment

Converting oceanographic data from MYO Arakawa-C ORCA025 native grid to WGS84

Samantha Andrews

27 September 2018

The Life Scientific, Technology, Environment

If you have come across the BIOMER oceanographic netCDFs, you will see that it comes in an MYO Arakawa-C ORCA025 native grid. This is how I converted BIOMER into WGS84.

Samantha Andrews

16 July 2018

Fisheries & Aquaculture, The Life Scientific

Keeping the (scientific) predators out of your aquaculture

Samantha Andrews

16 July 2018

Fisheries & Aquaculture, The Life Scientific

With open access science becoming more common, some disreputable publishers are seeking to make a quick profit - and the expense of quality science. For the aquaculture industry, the repercussions could be serious.

Samantha Andrews

19 April 2018

Fisheries & Aquaculture, Conservation, Technology, The Life Scientific, Animals & Plants, Environment, Climate Crisis, Community Science

Conference Closeup: Introducing YOUMARES

Samantha Andrews

19 April 2018

Fisheries & Aquaculture, Conservation, Technology, The Life Scientific, Animals & Plants, Environment, Climate Crisis, Community Science

YOUMARES – a conference run by, and dedicated to, budding and early-career marine scientists - is taking place in Germany this September. Simon Jungblut tells us more!

Samantha Andrews

3 September 2016

Conservation, The Life Scientific, Animals & Plants

Movement, dispersal, & my PhD

Samantha Andrews

3 September 2016

Conservation, The Life Scientific, Animals & Plants

In my last post I mentioned that I am starting a PhD. I promised to tell you a little more about what my research will be looking at, so here we go!

Tiny Ocean Opportunities

Professional Societies and Associations for the Marine STEM Community

Life on board a research vessel: Dr Philomène Verlaan

Achieving Chartered status

Being an early career researcher in marine science

A (un)answered question of Chemistry (Part 2)

Help A Researcher Out: Survey on abuse of early career marine scientists

Greening your marine science

Converting oceanographic data from MYO Arakawa-C ORCA025 native grid to WGS84

Keeping the (scientific) predators out of your aquaculture

Conference Closeup: Introducing YOUMARES

Movement, dispersal, & my PhD

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