Web-links
- The UK Directory of the Marine-observing Systems
"A unique searchable metadatabase of marine monitoring by UK organisations."
- 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.
- 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
- 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
"Oceans"
- New BBC series for Autumn 2008
- SIMORC: System of Industry Metocean Data for the Offshore and Research Communities