From the rocky shores of the Pembrokeshire coast to searching for clues in forensic science workshops in Ireland, the Pembrokeshire Darwin Science Festival team had a busy start to the month of November, working with young scientists on both sides of the Irish Sea. Braving a cold morning, a group of over 20 children from Monkton and Haverfordwest, who attend the centre for Traveller Education, Priory Learning Centre, Monkton, investigated life on the rocky shore at Freshwater West, as part of the festival's new Copus funded Marine Futures Pembrokeshire community project.  Despite the cold, it was the onset of a heavy downpour which finally bought the beach study to an end.  The students are interested in investigating the effects of litter on marine life and have now taken part in workshops at the Learning Centre in the next stage of Marine Futures Pembrokeshire.  William Low, coastal project officer, Keep Wales Tidy, joined the Darwin team in running the workshops at the Centre.  From the beach at Freshwater West, the Darwin team travelled to Ireland to IT Carlow to work with their Interreg IIIA partners, who were running a series of events to celebrate Science Week Ireland, as part of European Science Week.  Some of the events had a forensic theme and the Darwin team, as part of the cross-border project Inter-SEED, ran a series of workshops investigating fibres, chocolate fingerprints and blood splats.