Busy day deploying #subtidal #instruments around #seagrass off St Martins using The Scillies premium glass bottom boat #SeaQuest seaquestscilly.com . BLUEcoast Plymouth Research @pu_cmar

Bank holiday weekend with @pu_cprg and @pu_cmar on St Martins. Deployed Aquadopp (wave buoy), 2 ADV rigs, 17 pressure sensors, main rig with Vectrinos, EMCMs and suspended sediment sensor, and collected 64 bed samples. Now we are waiting for some waves. MarineSciencePlymUni Marine Institute

First @pu_cprg large UK field trip of the year on St. Martin's (Isles of Scilly). Careful placement of our instruments in the amazing sea grass meadows surrounded by an array of extra sensors throughout the bay

Deployment of main instrument rig by cprg and Chris Mar crew during #seagrass experiment on St Martins. We are trying to record flows amongst seagrass fronds using Nortek Group Vectrinos and Teledyne Valeport EMCMs. Footage by Peter Ganderton. MarineSciencePlymUni Marine Institute Plymouth Research

Halfway through a week of @pu_cprg Natural Environment Research Council acoustic surveys of seagrass in Isles of Scilly with our small USV Yellow Pig. @Valeport VA500 collecting some great data to be used to develop new seagrass acoustic detection tools Plymouth Research.

Successfully pulled out the main instrument rig for BLUEcoast seagrass field experiment under the serenest conditions, but still have our pressure sensors out for another month. @pu_cprg @pu_cmar MarineSciencePlymUni

Researchers from University of Plymouth are revealing some of the secrets of one of the most environmentally significant areas of the Indian Ocean, with the help of #ADCPs: nortekgroup.com/knowledge-cent…

Until we are out again, here is an overhead #drone clip from a past University of Plymouth research trip to Wolf Rock lighthouse 😀

Busy day on the prom at #Dawlish installing the blocks that will support instrumentation to measure beach levels and overtopping. @Wirewall_NOC @pu_cmar Plymouth Research #waves #resilience Network Rail Western

Busy @pu_cprg @pu_cmar day installing the camera, laser scanner and met station systems at Dawlish for the CreamT project. The @wirewall_NOC installation is also well under way. Plymouth Research MarineSciencePlymUni South West Rail Resilience Programme

First installation for the Natural Environment Research Council funded University of Plymouth netCTF project, deploying a newly developed system at the @BIForUoB FACE field site. Monitoring forest canopy temperatures with thermal IR and RGB cameras. An impressive facility even if it is a long way from the sea!

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Far from the sea…this week we deployed University of Plymouth developed research instrumentation on the new @CsirForig tower in the Bobiri forest. Thermal/visible cameras and met station. A great team to work with and quite an experience! University of Plymouth Technicians Plymouth Research William hagan brown @plymouthbiol

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Great to join in on the University of Plymouth Masters field trip yesterday with Prof Alex Nimmo Smith & Peter Ganderton flying #drones over the frontal feature in Plymouth Sound, including ADCPs, CTDs, particle imaging, #seabird observations and more! Students all on it! #Dolphins too! 👌 #fieldwork