Slides used by Julie Maguire during her presentation (Working on a Marine Research Station on the Sheeps Head Peninsula) at the 'Women and the Sea' symposium. A podcast of Julie's talk is available at http://www.ucd.ie/humanities/events/podcasts/2015/women-and-the-sea/

1. Julie Maguire
September 2015

2. Background
 Established in 1987 as part of University College Cork’s
Aquaculture Development Centre;
 2005 became Ireland’s first independent commercial
research centre;
 Currently have 7 EU funded projects.

3. The Station
 Land and sea based facilities for experimental trials on
fish and shellfish;
 Fully equipped laboratory, both pump ashore and
recirculation units, seawater filtration and treatment,
seawater storage silos, workshop and offices;
 Hatchery, conditioning broodstock tanks, larval rearing
tanks, settlement tanks and algal rearing units.

4. The Station
 A polytunnel houses large tanks which allow a more
controlled environment for culturing activities.

5. The Station
 The company has access to shellfish long-lines and
finfish cages for on-growing experiments, and also a
farm boat.

6. Tanks a million
 More than 30 outdoor and indoor tanks (from 600L to
8,000L) are currently used for finfish disease trials,
sea urchin culture and seaweed research.

7. Staff
 There are currently 11 people working in DOMMRS as
researchers, PhD students, technical officers and interns.

8. Research
 Research work at the station has grown steadily and
has included consultancy, commercial trials and co-
ordination and participation in EU projects;
 Currently we are working on hatchery of sea urchins,
disease trials on finfish, farming and processing of
seaweed and research on microalgae.

9. Current Projects

10.  AccliPhot is a Marie Curie training network devoted to study
photosynthetic acclimation processes in plants and algae
 Fundamental research is being performed in Arabidopsis,
Chlamydomonas and the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum,
which are species for the production of biofuels.
 12 partners with 13 PhD students around Europe

11.  IDREEM “Increasing Industrial Resource Efficiency in
European Mariculture” (FP7 Environment theme).
 This project involves the practice of Integrated Multi-
trophic Aquaculture (IMTA).
 PhD student Daryl is studying the benefits of IMTA
systems using an aquaponics system.
 Seaweed lines have been deployed at two salmon
sites: Bantry Bay and Kenmare.
 Other sites; Scotland (x2), Norway, Cyprus, Israel,
and Italy

13.  “Seaweeds from sustainable aquaculture as
feedstock for biodegradable bioplastics”
 FP7 Research for the Benefit of SMEs
 Co-ordinators – 11 partners

14.  ODIN aims to prevent vitamin D deficiency in Europe (in
people) through diet;
 Salmon diet trials using varying levels of vitamin D3 enriched
feed.
 18 partners led by UCC

15. AIM: to develop a small (650L to 3000L) automatic user-friendly
anaerobic digestion machine that enables the domestic on-site
treatment of a wide range of organic waste at low cost and
with low maintenance
 Co-ordinators - 21 Partners
 Waste to be tested – fish, restaurant, hospital, fruit, nut oils,
cheese

16.  SAFI - Support to the Aquaculture and Fisheries
Industries – aims to use satellite technology to
improve fisheries and aquaculture activities (FP7-
Space)
 ASIMUTH - Applied Simulations and Integrated
Modeling for the Understanding of Toxic and Harmful
Algal Blooms. In November 2013 we were awarded
the Copernicus Masters Award from the European
Space Agency for “Best service for European
citizens” for our work on this project.

17.  COASTAL THEMATIC EXPLOITATION
PLATFORMS aims to manage and standardise
satellite data (ESA funded)
 AtlantOS – Earth Observation of the Atlantic
 64 partners

18. Contacts
 DOMMRS, Gearhies, Bantry,
Co. Cork, Ireland
 +353-27-29181
 www.dommrc.com
 info@dommrc.com
 www.facebook.com/DOMMRS

19. Thank you for your attention!