Continuous Plankton Recorder Archives - Ocean and Coastal Futures

04 Aug 2026

UK plankton communities shifting fast as seas warm, major review finds

Photo by NOAA A major new scientific review has found that climate change is already driving large-scale shifts in the plankton communities that underpin UK marine food webs, with knock-on risks for fisheries, seabirds and the ocean’s ability to store carbon. A landmark rolling review The study, from the UK’s Marine Climate Change Impacts […]

23 Apr 2019

Continuous Plankton Recorder tracks the rise of plastics in the oceans

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Since 1957, the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) has been towed over 6.5 million nautical miles in the North Atlantic and adjacent seas. The operators have also kept records track of entanglements that disrupted their work: what snared the equipment, where it happened and when. This has proved a valuable source of data on plastic waste, […]