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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...