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Field of research Marine science research centre Location Plymouth, Devon, England Affiliations Natural Environment Research Council Address Prospect Pl, Plymouth PL1 3DH, UK Hours Open today · 9AM–5PMWednesday9AM–5PMThursday9AM–5PMFriday9AM–5PMSaturdayClosedSundayClosedMonday9AM–5PMTuesday9AM–5PMSuggest an edit Similar Plymouth University, The Marine Biological Association, City College Plymouth, Plymouth College of Art, Sir Alister Hardy Foundati Profiles | ||
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Plymouth Marine Laboratory (sometimes referred to as PML) in the city of Plymouth, England is an independent collaborative centre of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). PML's Chairman is Admiral Sir James Burnell-Nugent and PML's Chief Executive is Prof. Stephen de Mora.
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They focus global issues of global warming and sustainability. They monitor the effects of ocean acidity on corals and shellfish and report this information to the UK government. It also cultivates algae that could be used to make biofuels or in the treatment of waste water by using technology such as photo-bioreactors. They work alongside the Boots Group to investigate the usage of algae in skin care protects, because of their content of compounds that adapt to protect themselves from the sun.
Within its Seawater Hall, PML contains an in-house, fully contained, algal scale-up pilot plant; which contains a 550 L biofence Photobioreactor and a 1200 L Raceway pond system, as well as a range of smaller bubble column reactor systems at 3.5 L and 11 L capacity, for smaller scale algal production. These facilities are regularly used to generate dried algal biomass on the scale of grams to hundreds of grams. This algal innovation centre also investigates a range of downstream processing techniques for algal harvesting. In addition to large-scale investigations, PML also has a Single Cell Genomics facility: a dedicated clean room environment for single cell isolation, equipped with a high speed Atomic Force Microscope, cell sorting capability through a BD FACSARIA and a number of liquid handling machines.
PML has a wholly owned trading subsidiary, PML Applications Ltd, which has been created to facilitate the exploitation and application of PML research and its products and to provide a more appropriate interface for working with end users, industrial and commercial partners.
Core Capabilities: Biogeochemistry and systems science, Health of the environment and human health, Sustainable ecosystems and biodiversity
Cross-cutting capabilities: Earth observation, Modelling, Microbial ecology, Molecular science, Blue biotechnology, Technical solutions, Socio-economics, Policy advice
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History
The Plymouth Marine Laboratory was founded in 1988, mainly due to the recommendations of a House of Lords Report. It was formed by drawing some elements of the Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association (MBA) with the NERC Institute for Marine Environmental Research (IMER).
On 1 April 2002, PML changed from being a wholly owned NERC research centre to an independent organisation with charitable status.
Affiliations
Founding member of the Plymouth Marine Sciences Partnership (PMSP)
Partner in the National Centre for Ocean Forecasting (NCOF)
Member of the Peninsular Microbiology Forum
Co-ordinator of the Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT)
Member of the Natural Environment Research Council's Oceans 2025 programme
Member and Secretariate host of the Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO)
Non-country partners of the Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA)
Member of the Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (MarBEF) EU Network of Excellence