Category: Fisheries/Aquaculture
Focuses on: Fisheries; Fish; Seafarers; Shellfish; Socioeconomics; Crustaceans; Coastal Communities; Climate Science; Boating; Blue Economy
Country/Region: UK
UK Scientific Diving Supervisory Committee
📚 Category: Ocean Professionals
🏷️ Topics include: Scuba Diving
📍 Country/Region: UK
In order to maintain an active dialogue with all the diving sectors the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE), who are charged with implementing the regulations, recognise one professional body that is representative of each diving sector. The Scientific Diving Supervisory Committee (SDSC) is the recognised representative body for the Scientific and Archaeological sector.
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The Marine Society
Royal Society of Biology
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Biology/Ecology; Policy/Governance; Career Development Support
📍 Country/Region: UK
The Royal Society of Biology is a single unified voice for biology: advising Government and influencing policy; advancing education and professional development; supporting our members, and engaging and encouraging public interest in the life sciences. The Society represents a diverse membership of individuals, learned societies and other organisations.
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Marine Biological Association
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Biology/Ecology; Policy/Governance
📍 Country/Region: UK
The Marine Biological Association (MBA) is one of the world’s longest-running societies dedicated to promoting research into our oceans and the life they support. Since 1884 we have been providing a unified, clear, independent voice on behalf of the marine biological community and currently have a growing membership in over 40 countries.
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Hydrographic Society UK & Ireland
📚 Category: Oceanography
🏷️ Topics include: Hydrography; Career Development Support; Hydrospatial; Oceanpography
📍 Country/Region: UK
The Hydrographic Society UK & Ireland (THS:UKI) is a learned professional society; our purpose is to raise awareness of the science of surveying at sea, and protect and promote the status of the hydrographic profession. Membership of THS:UKI includes companies, individual professionals and students, who are hydrographers, technologists, policy makers and educators.
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Fisheries Society of the British Isles (FSBI)
📚 Category: Fisheries/Aquaculture
🏷️ Topics include: Fish; Fisheries Science; Career Development Support
📍 Country/Region: UK
The FSBI is an international, non-political, learned Society, based in the United Kingdom, that supports scientific activity in fish biology and management through charitable sponsorship.
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Challenger Society for Marine Science
British Maritime Law Association
📚 Category: Maritime Industry
🏷️ Topics include: Law
📍 Country/Region: UK
The British Maritime Law Association was founded in 1908. Its purpose is and always has been to promote the study and the advancement of British maritime and mercantile law: to promote and consider with foreign and other maritime law associations proposals for the unification of maritime and mercantile law in the practice of different nations: to afford opportunities for members to discuss matters of national and international maritime law: to collect and circulate amongst its members information regarding maritime and mercantile law and to establish a collection of publications and documents of interest to members. (The text of the constitution will be found hereafter.)
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British Marine
📚 Category: Maritime Industry
🏷️ Topics include: Blue Economy; Boating; Sailing; Engineering
📍 Country/Region: UK
British Marine is the trade association for the UK leisure, superyacht and small commercial marine industry. Our 1,500+ members come from a broad range of businesses including boat builders, chandlers, brokers, marinas, passenger boats and engines. The core aim of the business is to deliver excellence. Both in the quality of its membership services, its representation of the interests of members and the boating community alike and, most importantly, in the quality of its members.
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British Ecological Society
📚 Category: Biology & Ecology
🏷️ Topics include: Biology/Ecology; Policy/Governance; Career Development Support
📍 Country/Region: UK
The BES was established in 1913 and we have been fostering the science of ecology ever since. We have 6,000 members around the world and bring people together across regional, national and global scales to advance ecological science.