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Job title Lab Technician – Summer Placement. Company Scottish Sea Farms. Description of the job Scottish Sea Farms has a summer placement opportunity for a Laboratory Technician to support fish health and quality monitoring work. Working closely with the lab team, the successful candidate will help deliver daily water sampling and analysis across Shetland sites, focusing on the identification and enumeration of harmful plankton and jellyfish species. The role also supports staff training and provides technical input on fish health and welfare. This is a hands-on opportunity for someone with a strong interest in marine biology or aquaculture. The candidate will gain practical lab experience, contribute to real-world fish health services, and support ongoing improvements in water quality monitoring. Scottish Sea Farms operates 46 marine farms, 3 freshwater hatcheries and 2 processing facilities. As a recognised employer across the West Coast, Highlands and...

Job title Marine Futures South Wales Intern. Company Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum, in partnership with Natural Resources Wales and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, funded by The Crown Estate. Description of the job Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum has launched the Marine Futures: South Wales Internship Programme, offering a unique opportunity to gain skills, knowledge and on-the-job experience across a variety of sectors in the marine environment. The internship is funded by The Crown Estate and runs in partnership with Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum (host), Natural Resources Wales and Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult. Two intern positions are available. The 2026 internship programme will be based around the Marine Energy Test Area (META) with a focus on the application of technical knowledge, community engagement and ocean literacy by enhancing the data available for the test sites. The role is a mixture of working from Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum in Pembroke...

Job title PhD Opportunity: Advancing Plankton Imaging & Machine Learning to Transform Marine Biodiversity Monitoring. Company Marine Research Plymouth (University of Plymouth, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Marine Biological Association). Description of the job Marine Research Plymouth is offering a 3.5 year PhD studentship to advance plankton imaging and machine learning to transform marine biodiversity monitoring. The studentship is due to start on 1 October 2026. Plankton play essential roles in marine food webs and global carbon cycles, acting as sensitive indicators of environmental change and enabling predictions of climate impacts on ocean biodiversity. However, current plankton monitoring is insufficient, limiting the ability to detect biodiversity shifts, model ocean responses to climate stressors, and inform effective conservation policies. Although advances in imaging technologies have enhanced the spatio-temporal resolution of plankton sampling, these...