Grants were first offered in 2008 – 2014 (No grants were awarded in 2010). No grants were available between the years 2014-2018 inclusive due to a lack of funds. The scheme recommenced in 2019, as the ‘Roger Bamber Research Grant’.

2008

• Paul Kay: Identification of Small Gobies – is this Practicable Using Field Photographic Techniques?

2009 conference: Plymouth: Paul Kay: The viability of digital photography as a tool in identifying small marine fishes.
2011 conference: Lin Baldock & Paul Kay, Diversity in the appearance of British and Irish gobies.

Baldock, B. & Kay, P. (2012). The Pomatoschistus Problem.  Porcupine Newsletter, No. 31, 65-70.

• Shelagh Smith: Molluscs from the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP).

Report submitted 2011.

2009

• Roger Bamber: Search for Leptochelia savignyi from its type-locality, Madeira (Bamber: No. 28 (2010); St Andrews Conference, 2010).

Bamber, R.N. (2010) The Search for Leptochelia savignyi (Tanaidacea) from its Type-Locality, Madeira.  Porcupine Newsletter, No. 28, 27-29.

Bamber, R.N. (2012) Littoral Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Macaronesia: allopatry and provenance in recent habitats.  JMBA, 92(5), 1095-1116

• Roger Herbert: Reproduction and habitat of the marine alga Padina pavonica (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) in the British Isles.

2011 conference: Roger Herbert, Bill Farnham & Rachel Luxton, Status of the BAP Priority marine alga Padina pavonica in the British Isles – an update.
2015 conference: Roger Herbert, 300 years of sustained observations reveal likely mechanisms for local extinction and persistence of the calcareous alga Padina pavonica in southern Britain.

Herbert, Farnham & Tittley 2009, Reproduction and habitat of the marine alga Padina pavonica (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) in the British Isles.  Porcupine Newsletter 27, 28-29.

• Anna Yunnie: Non-native species and recreational boating: Characterisation of early life-history stages and quantification of occurrence on hulls.

Yunnie, A. (2010) Non-native species and recreational boating: characterisation of early life-history stages and quantification of occurrence on hulls.  Report to the Porcupine Marine Natural Society by Anna Yunnie, April 2010.

2010 No grants awarded (No suitable applicants)

2011

• Emily Priestley & Angie Gall: Underwater Survey of North Cornwall, 2011.

2012 conference: Emily Priestley & Angie Gall, Sea Stacks, Sponges and Seaweeds: North Cornwall coastal underwater surveys

Gall, A. 2012. Seastacks, sponges and seaweeds. PMNHS Newsletter 32: 22–24.:

2012

• Roger Bamber: Analysis of sedimentary conditions appropriate to Tanais grimaldii
• Pablo Lopez-Gonzalez & Francisco García Cárdenas:  Sea pens (Octocorallia, Pennatulacea) from Porcupine Abyssal Plain.

Tammy Horton, Mike Thurston, Pablo López-González & Francisco J. García Cárdenas (2014). Porcupinella and other Pennatulacea from the Porcupine Abyssal Plain. PMNHS Bulletin 1: Spring 2014, 20-21

• Louise Firth: Sabellaria alveolata in north-west Britain: an assessment of the distribution and abundance following two consecutive cold winters

2013 conference: Louise Firth, Sabellaria alveolata in northwest Britain: distributional changes in response to extreme weather events & recent warming.

Firth, L. (2016) Sabellaria alveolata in NW Britain: changes in distribution in response to extreme weather events & recent warming, PMNHS Bulletin 5, 39-43.

2013

• David Kipling: Improved resources for the in-situ identification and recording of British ascidians.

Bowen, S., Goodwin, C, Kipling, D. and Picton, B. (2019) Sea Squirts and Sponges of Britain and Ireland.  Seasearch guide.

 2014-2018 Scheme suspended

 2019

• Kimberley Mills: Redescription of the shovelhead worm, Magelona equilamellae (Harmelin, 1964) with comparisons to Magelona alleni (Wilson, 1958).

Mills, K. & Mortimer, K. 2019. PMNHS Bulletin 13: 63–67.

• Teresa Darbyshire: Improving knowledge of the Identification and Distribution of Eyelash Worms (Myxicola spp. Annelida, Polychaeta) in UK waters.

2020 conference: Teresa Darbyshire, The status and distribution of eyelash worms (Myxicola spp) in UK waters.

 2020 No grants awarded (No suitable applicants)

2021

• Lin Baldock: A Plethora of Porifera – a Proposal to Study an Extraordinary Habitat for Sponges in Lyme Bay, Dorset
• Alison Nimmo and Fiona Sanderson: study of limpets on the Isles of Scilly

2022

• Abbie Taylor: A comprehensive guide to the terminology and identification of shovel head worms for all abilities (Annelida: Magelonidae)
• Lara Baptista: Reconstructing the phylogeny and biogeographical history of phidoloporid
  bryozoans in the North Atlantic