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Winter 2009

Autumn 2009

Summer 2009

  • 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.

  • The UK Marine Protected Areas Centre

    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 Oceans

  • Climate change in Our World and Google Earth

    Interactive animation about climate change and global temperature rises.

  • NERC User Groups

    A means of canvassing the opinions of the NERC scientific user community.

    Policy

  • Marine Science Co-ordination Committee
  • Investigating the Oceans - debate April 2009
  • Government Response to pre-legislative scrutiny and public consultation on the draft Marine Bill - September 2008

  • 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"

  • Defra's Marine Programme Plan 2008/09

    • General environment

  • Pacific Ocean - the world's rubbish dump
  • "Oceans" - BBC series - Autumn 2008