UHI aims to deliver innovative energy research across the partnership focusing on providing solutions to energy challenges of our time. Each of our unique locations are well placed to provide specialist renewable energy research combined with access to well-equipped facilities and in-depth knowledge and experience in the marine, terrestrial and historical environment.
If you have any inquiries about our facilities and equipment, please contact us via energy@uhi.ac.uk so that we can help you get in contact with the partnership that suits your needs.
SAMS
The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) has an extensive portfolio of world class research and state-of-the-art equipment and facilities to help secure healthy and sustainable oceans. This is reflected in their portfolio of facilities and services involving marine mammal research, the Scientific Robotics Academy, marine growth, and the Seaweed Academy.
Below we summarised an overview of the equipment and facilities available at SAMS and a closer look is available here.
- Gliders and AUVs
- Remus and Freya
- North Atlantic Glider Base
- Moorings and Drifters
- Coastal Drifters
- Drifting Ears
- Camera based moorings
- Oceanographic Equipment
- ADCPs
- Seabird CTD’s
- Echosounders
- Multibeam Echosounders
- Hydrophones
- Commercial Diving Team
Additionally in combination with SAMS Enterprise, SAMS offers competitive and research lead energy-based consultancy service relating to but not limited to underwater noise surveys, EIA’s, consenting support service and post-consent monitoring.
ERI
In the heart of Caithness, on the doorstep to Orkney, right in front of the Pentland Firth and surrounded by the Flow Country, the location of the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) gives rise to innovative environmental research. We seek to advance the scientific understanding of contemporary environmental issues using our proximity to outstanding natural resources combined with state-of-the-art facilities.
A summarised list of available equipment and facilities can be found below. For more detailed information please look here.
- Vessel
- RV Aurora
- Drones
- Phantom 4 RTK
- Tetra TD -7
- Oceanographic Equipment
- Valeport Current Meters
- Echosounders
- Multibeam Echosounder
- ADCPs and AWACs
- Outland 1000 ROV
- Optics
- Camera traps
- Aerial Image cameras, thermal and multi-spectral
UHI Shetland
UHI’s most northerly campus in Scalloway is at the centre of fishing, aquaculture and marine survey research. Energy research, securing sustainable solutions to food production, and the consenting of MEIA (Marine Environmental Impact Assessments) and the regulation of energy development regions and protected habitats are an integral feature of UHI Shetland's research portfolio. To answer regulatory inquiries, conflict between spatial planning and fisheries, and support potential commercial or governmental inquiries UHI Shetland has a wide variety of facilities and equipment for ocean-based surveys and measurements to produce reliable datasets to tackle the big questions.
A summarised list of available equipment and facilities can be found below. For more detailed information please look here.
- Vessels
- Inshore Vessel MV Moder Dy
- Fisheries Research MV Atlantia II
- Fishing gear
- Monitored crabnet
- Lobster
- Dredges
- Oceanographic Equipment
- Multibeam echosounder
- Fisheries echosounder
- Sub-Bottom Profiler
- Grab samples
- Underwater video systems for monitoring growth and animal passage
IBFC - Inverness
The Institute for Biodiversity and Freshwater Conservation (IBFC) is located at UHI's main campus in Inverness tackling the difficult questions of freshwater management, species conservation and ecology and our forests resilience to climate change and continued human use. From deer to fish to beavers to eDNA, the IBFC offers world class facilities and equipment that can be used for fieldwork in a river, forest surveys or analyse molecular samples for metabarcoding.
If you have any further questions please have a look here.
