Dr Magnus Johnson's Projects (12)

Delivery of the regional pilot UK Commercial Fishing Social Survey (Fishing Lives) within the North East IFCA region May 7, 2024 - Jun 7, 2025

Great Yorkshire Kelp Forest Apr 1, 2024 - Mar 31, 2025
Project Brief: Developing a comprehensive baseline dataset of kelp habitats on the Yorkshire coast using both novel and existing data, to include an estimation of carbon sequestration values and possible enhancement opportunities.

UK Seafood Fund – Science & Innovation Pillar - Fisheries Industry Science Partnerships (FISP) Research Proposal Development - Investigation into the potential of an east-coast stone crab fishery Jul 1, 2022 - Nov 30, 2022
Recent media interest resulting from the initial mis-identification of a stone crab, Lithodes maja, as a king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus, a high value invasive crab species known to be found in Norwegian waters) raised the profile of this speci... Read More about UK Seafood Fund – Science & Innovation Pillar - Fisheries Industry Science Partnerships (FISP) Research Proposal Development - Investigation into the potential of an east-coast stone crab fishery.

Electrifying the fleet Jan 14, 2022 - Mar 31, 2022
Audit of fishing boats around the UK with a view to investigating hte fasibility of fully or partly electrfying a range of vessel

ECPE PPF: Development of an operational UAV-based system for monitoring plastic waste in the coastal environment Nov 1, 2019 - Nov 30, 2020

Humber Aquaculture Project Phase II ENG3680 Jan 1, 2019 - Nov 30, 2020
Phase II of EMFF project that has recently had funding go-ahead. We were asked to put in a 2nd submission to expand the aquaculture site from a few to 60 trestles,

Assessment of nearshore shallow water Marine Protected Areas May 1, 2018 - Mar 31, 2020
This project aims to accurately map the distribution of nearshore features within the Holderness Inshore MCZ, Flamborough SAC and Runswick Bay MCZ over 17,300m of transects.

This project will pilot the application of newly enhanced oil & gas inspe... Read More about Assessment of nearshore shallow water Marine Protected Areas.

Yorkshire Coast Shark & Ray Programme ENG3021 Jun 1, 2019 - Dec 31, 2020
This project aims to support the monitoring of a series of protected and commercial shark and ray species assessing their distribution, site fidelity and movement on the Yorkshire Coast. The project intends to facilitate a citizen science led program... Read More about Yorkshire Coast Shark & Ray Programme ENG3021.

Humber Aquaculture Partnership - Project 3 Sep 1, 2018 - Sep 30, 2020
Development of educational and research aquaculture facility on Spurn Point

Humber Aquaculture Partnership - Project 2 Sep 1, 2018 - Sep 30, 2020
Part two of the Humber Aquaculture Partnership

Humber Aquaculture Partnership - Project 1 Sep 1, 2018 - Sep 30, 2020
Partnership with YWT to develop an aquaculture site on Spurn Point.

Sublittoral rock indicator: spatial correlation between environmental conditions and biological data Jan 1, 2017 - Jun 1, 2018
The Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) wish to develop and calibrate the ‘morphological diversity of sponge assemblages plus anthozoan species composition and abundance’ indicator for the monitoring of sublittoral rock. Initial analysis of So... Read More about Sublittoral rock indicator: spatial correlation between environmental conditions and biological data.