🌊 Excited to share that “Guiding Marine Restoration and Enhancement in the Shetland Islands” co-created with the local community has officially launched! 💙 @UNOceanDecade #Shetland #MarineRestoration #OceanScience #SustainableSeas #CommunityLed #UHI @ThinkUHI @mastscot

Ending 2024 by closing one huge chapter of my life, ready to begin a new one! Today I finally completed a full draft of my PhD thesis 😱😍🐳🐋 🥳 ready to begin a new postdoctoral position next week at @uhishetland, on a project researching marine mammals around Shetland ☺️🐳🦭🐬

📷 A Year with the Marine Spatial Planning Team 📷 As the year draws to a close here is a look back at what the Marine Spatial Planning team in Scalloway have been up to this year in numbers! #MarineSpatialPlanning #YearInReview #2024Highlights #ThinkUHI #uhishetland @ThinkUHI

🔔#job: Fisheries Research Assistant – @uhishetland ▪️Closes: 30 Nov ▪️Salary: £26k + Island allowance ▪️Location: Shetland ▪️Details👉 https://t.co/gn5rzpL2s0 Sign up for #OceanJobs👉 https://t.co/KcnPU9RS9b #hiring #vacancy

Last week, we were pleased to welcome specialist trainer Carolyn Barton to conduct Marine Mammal Observer Mitigation training at UHI Shetland, in Partnership with ESB and Endorsed by the UN Ocean Decade. #uhishetland #thinkuhi

Our #research provides groundbreaking insights into the turbulent inflow and #wake dynamics, important for the future roll-out of tidal #turbine arrays and their #marine ecological interactions. @AlexNimmoSmith @thembauk @PlymUni @uhishetland @SupergenORE @EPSRC @BrydenCentre_EU

🎉We are thrilled to announce that the ESB-funded Marine Mammal Observer Training, in collaboration with UHI Shetland has officially received endorsement from the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development! 🎉 @UNOceanDecade @ThinkUHI @ESBNetworks

🌊 Marine Research in Fair Isle! 🌊 Researchers from UHI Shetland where in Fair Isle at the start of this month to conduct hydro-acoustic and drop-down video surveys of the seabed aboard the Moder Dy! Stay tuned for more updates! #thinkuhi #uhishetland

🐋 Marine Mammal Observer (MMO) Training Course 🐋 📅 24th and 25th September 2024 📍 Scalloway Campus, UHI Shetland 🔗 Please email rachel.shucksmith@uhi.ac.uk to register #MarineMammals #MMO #MarineConservation #OffshoreTraining #MarineLife #thinkuhi #uhishetland

🌊 New Publication Alert: Enhancing Marine Management through Spatial Resolution! 🌊 #MarineScience #EcologicalModelling #EnvironmentalManagement #MarineEcosystems #SpatialResolution #GoodModellingPractice #uhishetland #thinkuhi

Spent a day away from the desk yesterday helping @sophieafsmith96 check on the hydrophones she has deployed to monitor porpoise aggregations off Shetland, as part of her @uhishetland @SUPERDTP1 PhD 🌊 A fab day at sea with brilliant skipper James John 🐟💙

It’s great to highlight the work of Dr Katie Brigden, a pelagic fisheries scientist at @uhishetland Marine Science and Technology Department, who is involved in the Scottish Pelagic Industry-Science Data Collection Programme: https://t.co/RfmsHuXZeB #ThinkUHI #Shetland

🌊🚢 Happy Day of the Seafarer! 🚢 In honor of this day, we're excited to promote some of our maritime courses!  📚 For further details, email us at training.shetland@uhi.ac.uk or see the course details here: https://t.co/Ld1ydwnMnl #UHIShetland #ThinkUHI

🌊 Dive into a new career! Join Introduction to Commercial Fishing course at UHI Shetland from Jan 29 - Feb 16, 2024. Get hands-on experience, mandatory certifications, and the chance for full funding. 🎣 Contact training.shetland@uhi.ac.uk for info. #CommercialFishing #Training

New funded PhD at UHI Shetland: "Tracing patterns of vessel movement – understanding secondary spread of fouling marine invasive non-native species”. Application deadline is 29 January 2024. Full info: https://t.co/KjA6sZ8Ls9 #uhishetland #PhD #findaPhD #ThinkUHI

Fisheries Scientist wanted for Ling project https://t.co/MVdQxRGX6n #recruitment #job #vacany #Shetland

Shetland staff and students have been involved with the new exhibition and publication, Nurture: Living in the Landscape 2023, for the fourth Living in the Landscape (LiLa) international, interdisciplinary Spring/Summer School

Read more about "Just Transition to Net Zero" UHI Shetland's first policy brief https://t.co/izQK3CLWiM produced by the Marine Spatial Planning team.

A new paper from our own Mia McAllister showing why the annual Shetland Inshore Fish Survey (SIFS) is so important to understanding our local environment. You can find out more and a link to the paper on our website

UHI Shetland's Board of Management are looking to recruit independent directors to the Board, as well as to the position of the Chair of the Board. You can find out more here