Goose Barnacle, Barnacle Goose
06 March 2020
Goose Barnacles, can be found in their thousands still clinging to their driftwood raft on the strandline, They once puzzled people for hundreds of years.
Archive of: Marine
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Slipper Limpet
02 March 2020
Along our Sussex beaches there are millions of shells of the Common Slipper Limpet - so named because the empty shells resemble tiny slippers up to 50mm long.
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Glassworts
26 January 2020
they are a flowering plant with what must be the smallest of flowers.
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Help Our Kelp - Byelaw Update
23 January 2020
The pioneering campaign to restore a vast underwater Kelp forest off the Sussex coast achieved its first major milestone, as the introduction of a critical new byelaw has been agreed.
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Creature feature: Green Shore Crab
05 January 2020
Green Shore Crabs have been recorded on every single Shoresearch survey we have undertaken in the last year
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Merry Christmas from Sussex Seas
23 December 2019
Here is some of our favourite festive-themed marine wildlife
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Oil on Sussex beaches
10 December 2019
One aspect of our seas has greatly improved in recent years - oil dumped by shipping…
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Leatherback Turtle
14 November 2019
Astonishingly, a Leatherback Turtle was spotted last month just off Brighton, it’s incredibly rare to spot one this far east in the Channel.
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Climate, Oceans and Coastal Communities Conference
17 October 2019
This hugely successful conference was organised by the Centre for Aquatic Environments (University of Brighton), United Nations Association (London and South East), and the Sussex Wildlife Trust, attracting over 150 delegates to the University’s Moulsecoomb campus on the 10 October 2019
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Help Our Kelp consultation
02 October 2019
Dr Sean Ashworth from Sussex IFCA writes about the public consultation on near shore trawling