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Latest news

The 2026 intake of PhD students at SAMS, a partner of UHI

Fri, Nov 6, '26

New PhD students welcomed into "special" SAMS community

SAMS marks a season of celebration at its graduate school

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Dalhousie University students CC Ham and Hannah Ho Lung are the first to take part in the exchange programme with SAMS and UHI.

Tue, Nov 3, '26

First student exchange cements Canadian partnership

Canadian exchange students share their SAMS experience

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Prof. Mike Burrows entertained attendees with a presentation on his varied career in marine science

Fri, Oct 9, '26

Colleagues past and present celebrate Prof. Mike Burrows

Climate change scientist described as 'role model' at retirement event

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Masters student Thomas Bartram, left, and Head of SAMS Enterprise Steve Ham, on behalf of Prof. Adam Hughes, picked up prizes at the Converge Awards 2026

Fri, Oct 2, '26

SAMS UHI wins two awards at Converge final

Accolades highlight the innovative science underway at SAMS

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Latest research outputs

Broadcast spawning into a genotoxic environment implications on sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) embryos
Fengjia Liu, Kim S. Last, Theodore B. Henry, Helena C. Reinardy
Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis
6/11/2026
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Functional roles of abyssal benthos in sustaining polymetallic nodule fields
Loïc Van Audenhaege, Daniel O.B. Jones, Jennifer M. Durden, Bethany F.M. Fleming, Alejandra Mejía-Saenz, Andrew K. Sweetman, Erik Simon-Lledó
Current Biology : CB
2/11/2026
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Earth-observation variables identify temperature-centered protein-family covariation across macroalgal genomes
Alexandra Mystikou, David R. Nelson, Diana C. El Assal, Ashish K. Jaiswal, Mehar Sultana, Cecilia Rad-Menendez, Noura Al-Mansoori, Sewar T. Elias, Ma-Sum Abdul-Hamid, Layanne Nayfeh, Nizar Drou, John A. Burt, David H. Green, Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani
iScience
1/11/2026
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Practitioner perceptions of the ecosystem services of the blue bioeconomy in Europe
Suzannah-Lynn Billing, Michele Stanley, Maria Wilke, Adam Wyness, Ashley Shaji, Jurgen Adriaen, Liisi Lees, Sonja Andren, Alexandra Leeper, Wenche Uksnoy, Juliana Carvajal, Alberto Terenzi
Cleaner and Circular Bioeconomy
27/10/2026
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