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We’re pleased to provide you with everything you need to get, be at, and enjoy our annual conference. Click here. Looking forward to meeting you all soon! UKIRSC Committee

We are happy to announce we have another photo-competition this year! Send us your best marine mammal related photographs to be in a chance to win a free meal when we have our conference dinner in Plymouth. Go crazy! The more unusual the better. Here is the shortlist from last time. Entry deadline will be … Read more

The UKIRSC Committee are pleased to announce that the 2017 Conference in Plymouth will open with an Ice Breaker event at the National Marine Aquarium on the evening of the 18th of January! Our key note speakers this year on the 19th and 20th of January are Dr. Iain Staniland, a marine mammal ecologist from the British Antarctic … Read more

Welcome Leah Trigg to the UKIRSC committee! Leah is based at Plymouth University and is using telemetry tags on grey seals to understand their response to shipping noise. She will be a great addition to the team for the next conference! Here are your committee members. We want to take this opportunity to say a (belated) … Read more

The UK and Ireland Regional Student Chapter of the Society for Marine Mammalogy is pleased to announce its annual student conference. This will take place between 18th – 20th of January 2017 at the Marine Station, Plymouth University, England. Abstract deadline is 4th of January, 2017. For full details and to register, visit here

After a weekend to re-charge the batteries, we just want to say THANK YOU to all 55 participants from 13 institutions and guest speakers who attended our conference and made it successful! The quality of talks be both students and guest speakers were very high and we learnt a lot from both workshops. Thank you to everyone who was involved. However…we … Read more

We now have our own logo! Thank you to Kelly Robinson for her brilliant design which manages to depict what we’re all about!

We’re pleased to provide you with everything you need to get to, be at, and enjoy our annual conference. Click here. Looking forward to meeting you all soon! UKIRSC Committee

We’ve decided to create a logo for our regional student chapter! And we want your help! So this year we are launching a “logo design competition”! Not only does the winner gets to have their design as our official chapter logo, but they also get a free meal during our conference in January! Win win! Every active … Read more

The UK and Ireland Regional Student Chapter of the Society for Marine Mammalogy is pleased to announce its annual student conference. This will take place between 20th – 22nd of January 2016 at the Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Abstract deadline is 6th of January, 2016. For full details and to register, visit here