We have a new committee member!

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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

Announcement of the UKIRSC 2017 Student Conference

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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

Thank YOU!

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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 have an amazing new logo!

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

Competition time!

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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

Announcement of the UKIRSC 2016 Student Conference

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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

Meet the new committee

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First and foremost,  we would like to say a very warm and big THANK YOU to previous committee member James Robbins, who is now doing some really cool fieldwork off California. Good luck James and hopefully see you soon. Two new members have joined the committee this year  – Matt Carter and Holly Armstrong from … Read more

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