A New Boat

Following a very generous donation from Prof Karin Lochte, (Honorary Fellow of Bangor University), the School now has a new small boat (a Pioneer Viking) which will replace the aluminium boat Alwyn Mon.

Mactra stultorum - the “trough shell” - bivalve, widely distributed. A shallow but active burrower in sand or muddy sand. The boat is towable and will support local work. Karin has suggested the new boat be named

Mactra, to complement Mya and Macoma (other boats in the SOS fleet).

Focusing young minds

While scientists regularly publish papers on their research to inform the scientific community of their new discoveries, here

in the School of Ocean Sciences we are also working hard to encourage youngsters to consider pursuing careers as scientists and engineers.

Dr Yueng Lenn leads these outreach activities which, in pre-COVID times, included visits to

schools, and entertaining school groups as they visited the University. During the COVID lockdown she has also run “kitchen science” classes for local school children.

Her research specifically focuses on high latitude oceanography. She has visited Antarctica

three times and the Arctic once and published several key papers focusing on these unique regions. Now with Ben Lincoln of the School of Ocean Sciences and Marcus Janout of the Alfred

Wagner Institute she has published a paper specifically aimed at inspiring young minds about

Polar Science.

You can download a copy of the paper here:

https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2020.00105

Lenn Y, Lincoln B and Janout M (2020) The Arctic: An Upside-Down Ocean. Front. Young Minds.

8:105. doi: 10.3389/frym.2020.00105