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		<title>Science roundup, 19th July 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick turn-around on this occasion &#8211; with hopeful news from the Gulf of Mexico, though even if the leak has been blocked successfully, it will be a long time before the effects of this disaster have been fully understood (never mind fixed). To another man-made disaster, this time off the southwest coast of Africa. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science update 14th July 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The usual mixed bag of marine science, trawled from the Google deeps. This week we have tales of eels, shrimp, fish and octopuses (ar at least one octopus, called Paul, who has had a significant impact on the social behaviour of a certain species of terrestrial apes). Life at sea&#8230; What&#8217;s so special about islands? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science update 4th July 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Themes this week include climate change, and in particular how phytoplankton, some of the smallest plants on the planet, have a vital role in managing the Earth&#8217;s carbon dioxide budget. Otherwise, scientists are starting to evaluate how climate change will effect key organisms in the marine ecosystem, and results from these studies are beginning to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lancashiremcs.org.uk/blog/2010/07/04/science-update-4th-july-2010/</link>
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		<title>Chagos MPA, Film</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Chagos Islands and surrounding seas were designated a Marine Protected Area by the UK government in early April 2010. The Chagos has the world&#8217;s largest coral atoll and 55 tiny islands set in quarter of a million square miles of the world&#8217;s cleanest seas.  This is the UK&#8217;s greatest area of marine biodiversity. To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awards for all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a local area group we try to inform, entertain and educate people about the wonderful marine life in the seas around Britain. We do this through a programme of talks and events &#8211; both within our own lecture series, (see our diary) but also to other groups by invitation. For some years now presentations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lancashiremcs.org.uk/blog/2010/06/27/awards-for-all/</link>
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		<title>Science roundup 27th June 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This roundup has a focus on oceanography, physical and chemical processes in the worlds oceans. The chemistry and biology of natural seawaters are very tightly linked, with most reactions being biologically mediated. The physical side, however, dominates what chemical species marine biology has to work with, an interaction that scientists are now claiming to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lancashiremcs.org.uk/blog/2010/06/27/science-roundup-27th-june-2010/</link>
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		<title>Starfish and anemones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Marine ID course on Wednesday 9th June looked at two of the most commonly found animals in the sea &#8211; starfish and the anemones, or to get more technical, echinoderms and cnidaria. The talks looked at the characteristic features of the two groups, and were beautifully illustrated with photographs of many different species, mostly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lancashiremcs.org.uk/blog/2010/06/14/starfish-and-anemones/</link>
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		<title>Science roundup 14th June 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots of interesting articles over the last week, some physiology &#8211; how sharks and seals find their food, and how far can crocodiles migrate? Prehaps my favourite was the article on classifying arrow-worms, a group I knew nothing about them before the article. There is also a nice set of maps of North Americal marine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lancashiremcs.org.uk/blog/2010/06/14/science-roundup-14th-june-2010/</link>
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		<title>Roa Island dive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Conditions for the dive at Roa Island on Saturday 5th. June were almost perfect, bright sun.little wind, calm and undisturbed water which gave underwater visibility  in excess of  3 metres. Swimming approx. SW from the jetty towards the middle of the channel, initially over  a sea bed of cobbles covered with tube worms, common winkles [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lancashiremcs.org.uk/blog/2010/06/07/roa-island-dive/</link>
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		<title>Science roundup 6th June 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s science news is a mixed bag &#8211; so I&#8217;ve not tried to pull out articles by theme. Many of the articles have a strong central thread of common sense running through them, however! If the amount of fresh water entering the Baltic is reduced, the Baltic will become saltier, dispersing an oil-slick is [...]]]></description>
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