{"id":24,"date":"2015-07-20T11:20:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T11:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:52:57","slug":"research-overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/research-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/07\/SMRU16_tagged-seal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-808\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sea Mammal Research Unit is a world leading academic and applied research group, whose expertise and interests span a wide range of subject areas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current Research Priorities:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Evaluating the status and dynamics of marine mammal populations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Investigating the importance of marine mammals as components of marine ecosystems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Determining the impact of anthropogenic activities in the oceans on marine mammals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Studying marine mammal social structure and communication<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Observing the oceanographic environment of marine mammals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Providing the technological basis for observing free-ranging marine mammals and their environment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not an exhaustive list, but provides a broad outline of how our research is of strategic importance to understanding marine ecosystems and our changing oceans, the impact of which was recognized in the <a href=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/knowledge-exchange-ref-2014\/\">2014 REF exercise<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The University of St Andrews recognises the need for greater understanding of animal research and has therefore signed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk\/regulation\/concordat-openness-animal-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Concordat of Openness on Animal Research<\/a> in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sea Mammal Research Unit is a world leading academic and applied research group, whose expertise and interests span a wide range of subject areas. Current Research Priorities: This is not an exhaustive list, but provides a broad outline of how our research is of strategic importance to understanding marine ecosystems and our changing oceans,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}