News
Web-links
UKMMAS Newsletters
Capturing Sealife With Underwater Cameras
Digimap Goes to Sea:
Marine and Coastal Zone data resource
Census of Marine Life - image gallery
The world's best underwater photographs 2010
Global Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Program, 'Go-Ship' Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans Revisit the voyage of HMS Challenger
Nansen and Amundsen Basins Observational System
Observationally based assessments of circulation, water mass transformations, and transformation mechanisms in the Eurasian (NABOS) and Canadian (CABOS) Basins of the Arctic Ocean.
Designed to help build capacity amongst UK MPAs practitioners.
The UK Directory of the Marine-observing Systems"A unique searchable metadatabase of marine monitoring by UK organisations."
Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership
Marine Data and Information Partnership
SIMORC: System of Industry Metocean Data for the Offshore and Research Communities
Internet-accessible industry-generated marine meteorological and oceanographic data available for the scientific community.
GEBCO: General Bathymetric Chart of the OceansClimate change in Our World and Google Earth
Interactive animation about climate change and global temperature rises.
NERC User GroupsA means of canvassing the opinions of the NERC scientific user community.
Policy
Marine Science Co-ordination Committee
Investigating the Oceans - debate April 2009
Defra: Charting progress: an integrated assessment of the state of UK seas
Defra: The marine environment and fisheries
UK Parliament: Select Committee on Science and Technology: Investigating the Oceans
The EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive A key part of the Directive is given on page 16, Annex 1, "Qualitative descriptors for determining good environmental status"