On Friday night the Blue Ventures London-based contingent met at the office for the Christmas party, which involved copious amounts of….pizza (kindly donated by Pizza Hut) and general festive tomfoolery. A great time was had by all (we hope)!

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‘Reef Conservation UK’, the annual meeting of the UK’s coral reef science and conservation community, took place at London Zoo on Saturday 10th December. There was an excellent turnout for the event, with three sessions of stimulating presentations, discussing recent progress in coral reef ecology and conservation management.
Blue Ventures’ marine scientists David [...]

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We would like to congratulate Tom Hardy and Amelia Curd, our BV scientists, on their recent engagement. It would seem Andavadoaka’s island paradise really is just too romantic! Richard has even bought a new hat.

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According to a new report by the European Environment Agency (EEA), 75 percent of Switzerland’s glaciers will have melted by 2050 as a result of climate change. This will see populations concentrated in the centre of the country with deserts spreading in the south and ice sheets melting in the north. The previous [...]

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Last week Blue Ventures staff were involved in meetings of all partners in the Andavadoaka project which BV is involved in. Field scientists Tom and Amelia gave presentation on BVs work on Finfish and Octopus monitoring and the ecological monitoring and Socio economic research coordinator Minna Epps gave talks on the village of Andavadoaka as [...]

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