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Members of the SBCF at the University of Glasgow, led by Nick Kamenos, have published a study of the impact of climate and land use change on carbon burial

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Two new blue carbon reports have been published as part of Marine Scotland's Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science report series.

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The Orkney Blue Carbon Report was published on 13 January, with contributions from many SBCF members.

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Natural Environment Minister Mairi Gougeon joined primary school children from St Margaret’s Primary School in Montrose for the launch of a blue carbon citizen science project

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Craig Smeaton and William Austin contributed to a paper led by Elena Lo Giudice Cappelli titled Organic carbon rich sediments: benthic foraminifera as bio-indicators of depositional environments

Craig Smeaton (University of St Andrews) has had a paper titled Where’s the Carbon: Exploring the Spatial Heterogeneity of Sedimentary Carbon in Mid-Latitude Fjords published in Frontiers in Earth Sciences 

Teams from St Andrews, Stirling and SAMS have recently completed a research cruise collecting samples to investigate the carbon trapped in both  coastal and shelf sediments, the impact of trawling on shelf sediments and the formation of pockmarks.

The SBCF was officialy launched by Roseanna Cunningham (Cabinet Sec for Environment, Climate Change & Land Reform) on the 2nd of Novemeber at the MASTS Annaul Science Meeting. 

A new STV news feature on Blue Carbon and Hope Spots. Check it out here

Corallie Hunt and members of the SBCF have recently published a paper using acoustics to map seabed carbon.

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Allan Audsley and Tom Bradwell visited BOSCORF this week to examine there cores collected last summer on board the Scotia last summer. 

St Andrews scientists to investigate impact of climate and coastal change on world’s most prestigious golf courses.

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Several SBCF members attended  and presented blue carbon research at the SAGES 2019: Global Climate Challenges for a Blue Green Economy confrence

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To see what was presented have a look at the abstract booklet

The Scottish Blue Carbon Forum has got a new logo and branding which highlights the different blue carbon environments which research is being undertaken. 

Allan Audsley (University of Stirling) has published a paper titled Distribution and classification of pockmarks on the seabed around western Scotland in the journal of maps.

Ben Taylor an alumnus of the SBCF published a paper entitled - Sediment Dynamics of Natural and Restored Bolboschoenus maritimus Saltmarsh, in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

A team from St Andrews and SAMS recently returned from a 12 day cruise to the N and NW sea lochs of Scotland to collect samples to better understand the rate at which carbon is buried and how kelp is intergrated into the sediment OC store.

Craig Smeaton and members of the SBCF have recently published the first C stock estimates for the surficial sediments of the UK EEZ. 

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SBCF members have contributed to a global review on the role of fjords as as aquatic critical zones, highlighting there importance as hotspots for carbon burial and storage. 

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SBCF researchers have contributed to an new short film in collaboration with climateXchange.

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Several SBCF members attended  and presented blue carbon research at the climateXchange event this week.

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Several SBCF members attended the MAST & SUPER DTP training event this week which focused on how to use your research to inform the policy world.

Corallie Hunt (University of St Andrews), was again on board the Scotia collecting sediment samples from across the north sea focusing on the Moray Firth and the Firth of Forth regions. 

New paper An Assessment of the Tea Bag Index Method as a Proxy for Organic Matter Decomposition in Intertidal Environments led by a St Andrews Undergraduate now at the UCSB

A number of the SBCF members attend and presented at a 1 day Blue Carbon meeting in Edinburgh. The SBCF commitee chaired the session in addtion to sponsoring the meeting.