Song of the Whale has set sail from the UK for a busy summer of marine mammal research in Ireland, Iceland and Greenland. The first project sees SOTW return to the offshore waters of Ireland, where Song of the Whale will work with the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Irish Whale and Dolphin Group and Sea… Continue Reading
Watch the recent TEDx talk by artist and MCR International patron Sonia Shomalzadeh. Continue Reading
We are pleased to announce that the Heritage Lottery Fund has made a grant of £35,100 to MCR International and our partners, Suffolk Family Carers, YMCA Suffolk & Marine Education and Research, to develop and run a project titled, “Our Estuaries, Our Youth, Our Heritage”. The project will take groups of young people out on the Stour & Orwell estuaries… Continue Reading
In April 2014, Conor joined the German Research Vessel Meteor in Cape Verde to assist with the deployment of a static recorder in partnership with GEOMAR and INDP. Our aim was to record the songs of male humpback whales, who migrate south from Iceland to the breeding grounds off Cape Verde, so the… Continue Reading
In partnership with the Thames Tideway Tunnel’s Tunnel works schools program we have designed a number of engaging curriculum-based Key Stage 3 Science lessons based around real research taking place in the Thames Estuary. Interactive lessons, worksheets, teacher’s notes and videos bring the topics of ‘Sound Waves’ and ‘Experimental Skills and Investigation’ alive, helping students… Continue Reading