The first marine biological station in Canada: 100 years of scientific research at St. Andrews

1999 ◽  
Vol 56 (12) ◽  
pp. 2495-2507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward A Trippel
Keyword(s):  
New Brunswick ◽  
Canadian Journal ◽  
Aquatic Environment ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Early Research ◽  
Marine Research ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Aquatic Sciences ◽  
Permanent Station

The first marine biological station in Canada was established in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, in July 1899. The original station was a portable laboratory and was moved between various summer research sites in Atlantic Canada before a permanent station was established in St. Andrews in 1908. Early research included practical problems in the fisheries and descriptive work of coastal fauna and was performed by university researchers. Contributions to Canadian Biology, a journal founded to report the findings of the early station's researchers, in time evolved into the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. For the first 75 years, the station was managed as part of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada and its predecessors, and since 1979 by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (from 1972 to 1978, two other government departments held this responsibility). Research on fisheries, the environment, oceanography, and aquaculture has dominated the station's history. July 1999 marked the 100th anniversary of marine research in St. Andrews. We celebrate and remember with pride our accomplishments and look forward to the future of conserving Canada's aquatic environment and the livelihood of Atlantic Canadians.

New insights into the controversy surrounding marine biological laboratory (Marine Station) facilities in the Firth of Clyde in the early twentieth century

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-170
Author(s):  
P. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Marine Biological Laboratory ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Biological Laboratory ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Marine Station ◽  
Regius Professor ◽  
Adjacent Island

Three letters from the Sheina Marshall archive at the former University Marine Biological Station Millport (UMBSM) reveal the pivotal significance of Sheina Marshall's father, Dr John Nairn Marshall, behind the scheme planned by Glasgow University's Regius Professor of Zoology, John Graham Kerr. He proposed to build an alternative marine station facility on Cumbrae's adjacent island of Bute in the Firth of Clyde in the early years of the twentieth century to cater predominantly for marine researchers.

Illustrations and the genesis of Barrett and Yonge's Collins pocket guide to the sea shore (1958)

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Publishing History ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Illustrated Text ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Twenty nine items of correspondence from the mid-1950s discovered recently in the archives of the University Marine Biological Station Millport, and others made available by one of the illustrators and a referee, shed unique light on the publishing history of Collins pocket guide to the sea shore. This handbook, generally regarded as a classic of its genre, marked a huge step forwards in 1958; providing generations of students with an authoritative, concise, affordable, well illustrated text with which to identify common organisms found between the tidemarks from around the coasts of the British Isles. The crucial role played by a select band of illustrators in making this publication the success it eventually became, is highlighted herein. The difficulties of accomplishing this production within commercial strictures, and generally as a sideline to the main employment of the participants, are revealed. Such stresses were not helped by changing demands on the illustrators made by the authors and by the publishers.

The marine biological station of the University of Liverpool at Port Erin, Isle of Man: a new wing, and a new research vessel

1968 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-272
Author(s):  
J. S. Colman ◽  
A. B. Bowers
Keyword(s):  
Irish Sea ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Public Aquarium ◽  
Small Stone ◽  
The Irish Sea ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Set Up ◽  
New Research ◽  
The University

The origins of the Marine Biological Station go back to 1885, when Professor, later Sir William, Herdman organized the Liverpool Marine Biological Committee. The Committee conducted dredging excursions in the Irish Sea, and also set up a very small shore laboratory on Puffin Island (off Anglesey) from 1887 to 1891. In 1892 activities were transferred to two small stone buildings (which still exist—see Pl. III) on Port Erin Bay. After nine years these buildings had become quite inadequate to accommodate the growing numbers both of visiting naturalists and of vacation classes which were started at Port Erin in 1897, so a further move was made to the present site at the south-west corner of Port Erin Bay in 1902.In 1919 the control and ownership of the Marine Biological Station was transferred from the L.M.B.C. to the University of Liverpool; until 1939 the Station formed part of the Department of Oceanography, from 1939 to 1949 it was part of the Department of Zoology, and since 1950 it has formed a separate Department of the University.The original building of 1902, whose whole seaward frontage still remains virtually unaltered (Pl. I), consisted of a central public aquarium (now room 5 on Text-fig. 1) flanked by a sea-fish hatchery (now 8, 9) and a few small research rooms (2,3,4,6,7), with two sizeable laboratories for student classes on the first floor (45–47 and 28, 30–32 on Text-fig. 2). A very valuable asset consisted of three large open-air ponds which still, after 65 years, perform their original function of maintaining a breeding stock of some 200 adult plaice.

scholarly journals Note on the Occurrence of Arthopyrenia foveolata at Plymouth

1921 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 557-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lily Batten
Keyword(s):  
Marine Algae ◽  
Neap Tide ◽  
High Water ◽  
Frequent Occurrence ◽  
Robin Hood ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Conspicuous Feature ◽  
Tide Level ◽  
Western Shore

When shore-collecting for marine algæ at Plymouth in early April, an organism which has now been identified as a calcareous lichen was brought to my notice by Dr. Orton. It occurred in large patches on the rocks both above and below high-water mark in the neighbourhood of the Marine Biological Station, and was also very frequent on the limpets and barnacles in the vicinity. When examined with a lens, the thallus of the lichen was observed to be thickly dotted either with perithecia or with well-marked pits which had apparently been previously occupied with fruits. The lichen was found to be identical with the species collected in Robin Hood Bay, Yorkshire, by E. M. Holmes, in 1901, and described by A. Lorrain Smith as Arthopyrenia foveolata. Arthopyrenia differs from Verrucaria in the fact that the associated alga is Trentepohlia, and the above species is easily distinguished by the pits which occur on the thallus.The same species has been recorded by M. C. Knowles from various places round the coast of Ireland, including the western shore of Blacksod Bay. It occurred on limestone rocks at about high neap-tide level, and also on live and dead barnacles where it was almost always associated with colonies of Rivularia atra. At Plymouth, the frequent occurrence of the lichen on limpet shells is a conspicuous feature in the distribution.

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