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180												<a href="/portfolio/big-data-to-protect-marine-biodiversity/" style="font-size: 17px;  display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Big data to protect marine biodiversity </a>
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183													<li><a href="/sciencetopics/edna">eDNA</a></li>
184													<li><a href="/sciencetopics/plankton">Plankton</a></li>
185													<li><a href="/sciencetopics/sustainable-fisheries-and-aquaculture">Sustainable fisheries &amp; aquaculture</a></li>
186													<li><a href="/sciencetopics/sustainable-fisheries-and-aquaculture/socio-economics-of-fisheries-and-aquaculture">Socio-economics of fisheries and aquaculture</a></li>
187													<li><a href="/sciencetopics/optimising-aquaculture">Optimising aquaculture</a></li>
188													<li><a href="/sciencetopics/food-security">Food security</a></li>
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199												<a href="/portfolio/managing-water-quality-from-catchment-to-coast/" style="font-size: 17px;  display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Managing water quality, catchment to coast</a>
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202													<li><a href="/sciencetopics/light-and-sound-pollution">Light &amp; sound pollution</a></li>
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216												<li class="list-inline-item me-3"><a href="/sciencetopics/autonomy-technology-and-digitisation/">Marine technology and autonomy</a></li>
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242												<li class="list-inline-item me-3"><a href="https://smartsoundplymouth.co.uk/" target="_blank">Smart Sound Plymouth</a></li>
243												<li class="list-inline-item me-3"><a href="https://www.westernchannelobservatory.org.uk/" target="_blank">Western Channel Observatory</a></li>
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355				<h1 class="display-5 fw-bold my-3">The ocean is in crisis. We're working to fix it.</h1>
356				<p class="lead py-3" style="line-height:1.6;">
357					Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) is an independent research charity, globally recognised for pioneering science addressing the interconnected challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and marine pollution.            
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367						<a href="https://pml.ac.uk/news/mining-pollution-puts-nearly-300000km-
367of-worlds-coastlines-at-risk-study-warns/" class="pf-hcard pf-hcard--horizontal">
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369																<img src="https://pml.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/20250315_111855_wsTJ.jpg"
370									alt="Mouth of the River Tamar"
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375								<i class="fa-thin fa-newspaper me-1"></i> News | 23 September 2026								</span>
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377							<div class="pf-hcard__body">
378								<h2 class="pf-hcard__title pf-hcard__title--lg">Mining pollution puts nearly 300,000km of world&#8217;s coastlines at risk, study warns</h2>
379								<p class="pf-hcard__desc">New research has found that tens of thousands of metal mines and mine waste sites pose a pollution risk to almost 300,000km of the world&#8217;s coastline, a threat set to&hellip;</p>
380								<span class="pf-hcard__link">Read more</span>
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385						<a href="https://pml.ac.uk/news/sewage-linked-bacteria-traced-from-source-to-devon-beaches-and-shellfish-farms-expose-gaps-in-pollution-monitoring/" class="pf-hcard pf-hcard--auto h-100">
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388									alt="Plymouth Sound. Trevor Burrows Aerials"
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393								<i class="fa-thin fa-newspaper me-1"></i>News | 22 Sep 2026								</span>
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396								<h3 class="pf-hcard_title--sm">Sewage-linked bacteria traced from source to Devon beaches and shellfish farms expose gaps in pollution monitoring</h3>
397								<span class="pf-hcard__link">Read more</span>
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410								<i class="fa-thin fa-newspaper me-1"></i>News | 21 Sep 2026								</span>
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413								<h3 class="pf-hcard_title--sm">7 out of 9 Planetary Boundaries breached: PML joins calls for UN security briefing </h3>
414								<span class="pf-hcard__link">Read more</span>
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419						<a href="https://pml.ac.uk/news/scientists-aim-to-answer-critical-questions-around-carbon-impact-of-seabed-trawling/" class="pf-hcard pf-hcard--auto h-100">
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427								<i class="fa-thin fa-newspaper me-1"></i>News | 17 Sep 2026								</span>
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430								<h3 class="pf-hcard_title--sm">Scientists aim to answer critical questions around carbon impact of seabed trawling</h3>
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443					<p class="subtitle-top-center">Our Ocean Challenges</p>
444					<h2 class="text-white fw-bold">Understanding impacts. Supporting solutions</h2>
445				</div>
446			</div>
447			<div class="challenge-grid">
448								<a href="https://pml.ac.uk/ocean-challenge/climate-change/" class="challenge-card challenge-card--climate">
449					<div class="challenge-card__img-wrap" style="background-image: url('https://pml.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Climate-change-wind-turbines.jpg');">
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456								<img src="https://pml.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Climate.svg"
457									alt="Climate Change Icon"
458									class="challenge-card__icon">
459							</div>
460						</div>
461						<h3 class="challenge-card__title text-sand">Climate Change</h3>
462						<p class="challenge-card__desc">Climate change is affecting every aspect of life in the Ocean. PML works to understand and predict climate change, its effects and potential solutions to support decision-makers, industries and society.
463</p>
464						<span class="challenge-card__cta border-sand text-sand">Explore Climate Change</span>
465					</div>
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467								<a href="https://pml.ac.uk/ocean-challenge/biodiversity-loss/" class="challenge-card challenge-card--biodiversity">
468					<div class="challenge-card__img-wrap" style="background-image: url('https://pml.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Ocean-Challenge-Biodiversity-Loss.jpg');">
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472					<div class="challenge-card__body">
473						<div class="challenge-card__header">
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475								<img src="https://pml.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Biodiversity.svg"
476									alt="Biodiversity Loss Icon"
477									class="challenge-card__icon">
478							</div>
479						</div>
480						<h3 class="challenge-card__title text-coral">Biodiversity Loss</h3>
481						<p class="challenge-card__desc">Marine ecosystems and species are under threat. PML harnesses advanced technologies to track and map biodiversity in support of marine protection and sustainable Ocean management. 
482</p>
483						<span class="challenge-card__cta border-coral text-coral">Explore Biodiversity Loss</span>
484					</div>
485				</a>
486								<a href="https://pml.ac.uk/ocean-challenge/marine-pollution/" class="challenge-card challenge-card--pollution">
487					<div class="challenge-card__img-wrap" style="background-image: url('https://pml.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Plastic-pollution-on-a-beach-in-Honduras.-Credit-The-Ocean-Cleaup.jpg');">
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491					<div class="challenge-card__body">
492						<div class="challenge-card__header">
493							<div class="challenge-card__icon-wrap">
494								<img src="https://pml.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Pollution.svg"
495									alt="Marine Pollution Icon"
496									class="challenge-card__icon">
497							</div>
498						</div>
499						<h3 class="challenge-card__title text-seafoam">Marine Pollution</h3>
500						<p class="challenge-card__desc">Plastics. Chemicals. Light. Noise. The Ocean is absorbing it all. PML examines the sources of pollution and its impacts in order to inform actions and solutions. 
501
502</p>
503						<span class="challenge-card__cta border-seafoam text-seafoam">Explore Marine Pollution</span>
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514				<p class="subtitle-top">Our Global Impact</p>
515				<h2 class="mb-3 text-white">Delivering science that matters</h2>
516				<div class="row g-0 my-3">
517					<div class="col-12 col-md-4 text-center px-4 py-3 stat-block">
518						<div class="stat-block__number">55+</div>
519						<p class="stat-block__title">Years of Research</p>
520						<p class="stat-block__desc">Over five decades of pioneering marine research by PML scientists.</p>
521					</div>
522					<div class="col-12 col-md-4 text-center px-4 py-3 stat-block stat-block--bordered">
523						<div class="stat-block__number">Top 1%</div>
524						<p class="stat-block__title">Publications</p>
525						<p class="stat-block__desc">Our research is consistently listed amongst the top 1% of the most cited environmental science papers in the world.</p>
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528						<div class="stat-block__number">600+</div>
529						<p class="stat-block__title">Collaborations</p>
530						<p class="stat-block__desc">Plymouth Marine Laboratory collaborates with more than 600 partner organisations in over 150 countries.</p>
531					</div>
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533				<p class="text-white pt-3">
534					Plymouth Marine Laboratory delivers world-class marine research with real-world impact, informing policy and working with businesses and communities to better protect life in the Ocean.            
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549				<img src="https://pml.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Rib-and-Quest.png" alt="Ocean Science on Plymouth RV Quest" class="img-fluid">
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551			<div class="col-lg-7 offset-lg-1 col-sm-12 text-white order-1 order-lg-2">
552				<p class="subtitle-top">Our vision, mission and values</p>
553				<h2>Guided by purpose</h2>
554				<p class="py-3">
555					For over 50 years, PML has been a pioneer in holistic, novel, and innovative approaches, providing integrated, solutions-driven marine science.
556					Our interdisciplinary expertise spans marine, atmospheric, freshwater, social, political, and economic systems, making us uniquely positioned to extend our scientific understanding of the relationship between society and the marine environment.
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571				<p class="subtitle-top-center text-blue">Recognition and Excellence</p>
572				<h2>Trusted, impartial and independent Science</h2>
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580				<h3 class="trust-card__title">Connecting science</h3>
581				<p class="trust-card__text">
582					We make marine science accessible and actionable, co-creating transformative ocean practices where both people and nature thrive. Our work fosters a society that understands, values, and actively cares for the ocean.
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589				<h3 class="trust-card__title">Scientific leadership</h3>
590				<p class="trust-card__text">
591					Our researchers lead international committees, advise government policy, and author landmark studies that define marine science standards globally.
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598				<h3 class="trust-card__title">Policy impact</h3>
599				<p class="trust-card__text">
600					You can find our science informing policy and referenced in science-policy reports from regional to global scale, including key roles in writing Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports.
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607				<h3 class="trust-card__title">Award-Winning research</h3>
608				<p class="trust-card__text">
609					Global recognition for scientific excellence includes MBE honors, the prestigious Volvo Environment Prize for world-leading microplastics research, and A.G. Huntsman Award for Marine Sciences.
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619				<p class="subtitle-top">
619Our people</p>
620				<h2>The faces of Plymouth Marine Laboratory</h2>
621				<p class="py-3">We work together to achieve our shared purpose in a socially and environmentally responsible way, delivered by our highly valued interdisciplinary team of scientists, technologists, and operational support staff. Research integrity underpins everything we do.</p>
622				<div class="d-flex flex-column flex-md-row align-items-center gap-4">
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640									<a href="https://pml.ac.uk/profile/dr-stefanie-broszeit/" class="text-decoration-none">
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642										alt="Photo of Stefanie Broszeit" 
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645																		<span class="pt-2 text-teal fw-bold d-block fs-6">Dr Stefanie Broszeit</span>
646									<span class="subtitle text-white"><small>Senior marine ecosystem services scientist</small></span>
647									</a>
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649								<div class="col-12 col-md-9 order-1 order-md-2 mb-3 mb-md-0">
650									<p class="fs-5 text-white mb-0">"I have always loved nature and being able to lead research into sustainable approaches to marine ecosystem management and to also understand the link between human well-being and the ocean is immensely satisfying to me."</p>
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664										class="rounded-circle img-fluid"
665										style="width:100px; height:100px;">
666																		<span class="pt-2 text-teal fw-bold d-block fs-6">Duncan McFarlane</span>
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670								<div class="col-12 col-md-9 order-1 order-md-2 mb-3 mb-md-0">
671									<p class="fs-5 text-white mb-0">"Contracts are only important if you need to know what to do, when to do it and for how much!"</p>
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687																		<span class="pt-2 text-teal fw-bold d-block fs-6">Dr Andrey Kurekin</span>
688									<span class="subtitle text-white"><small>Marine Earth Observation Scientist</small></span>
689									</a>
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691								<div class="col-12 col-md-9 order-1 order-md-2 mb-3 mb-md-0">
692									<p class="fs-5 text-white mb-0">"When I joined PML my previous work experience was mainly in the academic environment. My work at PML gave me a unique experience of being involved in numerous multidisciplinary and international projects. This opened endless opportunities for cooperation not only within the organisation, but also all around the world."</p>
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708																		<span class="pt-2 text-teal fw-bold d-block fs-6">Dr Peter Land</span>
709									<span class="subtitle text-white"><small>Remote Sensing Scientist</small></span>
710									</a>
711								</div>
712								<div class="col-12 col-md-9 order-1 order-md-2 mb-3 mb-md-0">
713									<p class="fs-5 text-white mb-0">"Though trained as a physicist, I have an engineer&#8217;s love of tinkering with things, usually algorithms that I hope will unlock secrets hidden in the satellite data I mostly work with. I love working on environmental problems and creating new tools that aim to make a global and long-lasting contribution to our understanding of our precious and fragile world and the effect we have on it."</p>
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729																		<span class="pt-2 text-teal fw-bold d-block fs-6">Dr Thomas Jordan</span>
730									<span class="subtitle text-white"><small>Earth Observation Scientist: Ocean Optics</small></span>
731									</a>
732								</div>
733								<div class="col-12 col-md-9 order-1 order-md-2 mb-3 mb-md-0">
734									<p class="fs-5 text-white mb-0">"Knowledge of ocean optics &#8211; the study of how light interacts with water and its constituent particles &#8211; is critical for the remote sensing of aquatic ecosystems. I enjoy working in this area at PML as it incorporates both experimental and theoretical concepts from physics, whilst providing societal benefit through monitoring of water quality."</p>
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747										alt="Photo of Jennifer Lockett" 
748										class="rounded-circle img-fluid"
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750																		<span class="pt-2 text-teal fw-bold d-block fs-6">Jennifer Lockett</span>
751									<span class="subtitle text-white"><small>Head of Integrated Research, Impact &amp; Support Services</small></span>
752									</a>
753								</div>
754								<div class="col-12 col-md-9 order-1 order-md-2 mb-3 mb-md-0">
755									<p class="fs-5 text-white mb-0">"I’m passionate about building an inclusive, impact-driven research culture that empowers scientists and institutions to deliver tangible benefits for people and the planet."</p>
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835			<p class="mt-3 text-white">
836				As a charitable research organisation, we depend on the generosity of funders, philanthropic trusts, foundations, companies, and individuals who share our commitment to ocean science and environmental protection. Their investment enables us to pursue groundbreaking research that addresses the most pressing marine challenges of our time.
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858					Operated by PML, Smart Sound Plymouth is the UK’s leading marine autonomy testing facility, providing businesses, researchers, and government with a comprehensive suite of services for developing, testing, and validating marine technologies. Combining authorised water space, varied sea states, and over 50 years of marine science excellence, Smart Sound Plymouth accelerates innovation across the defence, offshore energy, environmental, and maritime sectors. 
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876					Our commercial subsidiary is an environmental consultancy, providing scientific research, consulting and training to commercial and environmental organisations. PML Applications specialises in reducing clients' marine environmental impact, bringing together world-class science and practical application. All profits are reinvested directly into our research.
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