The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) is one of Europe's leading marine science research organisations, one of the oldest oceanographic organisations in the world and is Scotland's largest and oldest independent marine science organisation.
Sited on the Dunstaffnage peninsula, beside Dunstaffnage Castle and near Oban, Argyll on the Scottish west coast, SAMS marine research and teaching portfolio is diverse in topic and discipline, global in outlook and relevance, and delivered in partnership with academic, business, government, regulatory, voluntary and civic society colleagues.
Advanced research is carried out in the marine environment, including polar research in the Arctic and Antarctic.
SAMS delivers marine science for a productive and sustainably managed marine environment through innovative research, education and engagement with society.
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Research
In addition to marine research, in the fields of marine processes and climate change, renewable energy, the Arctic, marine prosperity and sustainability, and mining impacts, the institute has a commercial branch and an education department.
SAMS hosts the National Facility for Scientific Diving, the Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa and the Scottish Marine Robotics Facility [1].
It is an independent collaborative centre of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and an academic partner to the University of the Highlands and Islands.
SAMS is also a member of the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS), and leads Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society (SAGES).
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Degree programmes
UHI students study for the B.Sc.(Hons) in Marine Science, with options of a marine science degree with Arctic Studies or with Marine Robotics, for Masters degrees, including the two year Erasmus Plus Joint Master Degree in Aquaculture, Environment and Society (ACES) and for Ph.D.s and are mostly based at the station. Undergraduate students are posted there for at least three of their four years.
History
The Association was founded following the landmark Challenger expedition during the 1870s. The Scottish Marine Station, as it was known back then, was the first of such "marine stations" set up in Scotland. It grew quickly and just three years later, Millport Marine Station (now University Marine Biological Station Millport) was founded to further the research.
The site that SAMS now occupies was first developed by the Scottish Marine Biological Association in the late 1960s as a replacement for their outdated laboratory facilities in Millport, Isle of Cumbrae.
The research laboratories at Dunstaffnage were rebuilt and re-equipped in 2004 and new teaching facilities were provided in 2010.
The Ocean Explorer Centre, at Dunbeg, allows visitors to learn about the marine environment and the academic research going on at SAMS.
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