Projects (108)
 Coastal Habitat Management Plans (CHaMPs)   - The project is intended to help develop and trial a methodology to allow EU member states to fulfil essential obligations under Article 6.2 of the Habitats Directive. In the UK this is reinforced by MAFF High Level Targets for Flood and Coastal Defence, a - http://www.pol.ac.uk/home/research/prog2/projects/t2-459.html 
Sediment Transport and Boundary Layer Equipment (STABLE) - STABLE is a large instrument to measure sea bed currents. Rapidly changing 3-D turbulent currents are measured by three pairs of electromagnetic current meters, while slower, tidal currents are measured by four, red Savonius rotors and a current-direction - http://www.pol.ac.uk/home/research/prog2/projects/t2-425.html
Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) - An international programme to assess more accurately, and understand better the processes controlling, regional to global and seasonal to interannual fluxes of carbon between the atmosphere, surface ocean and ocean interior, and their sensitivity to cli - http://ijgofs.whoi.edu/
Marine Productivity (MARPROD) - Developed coupled model and observational systems for the pelagic ecosystem, with emphasis on physical factors affecting zooplankton population dynamics. Marine Productivity was the UK contribution to the international Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLO - http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/marineproductivity/
Marine and Freshwater Microbial Biodiversity (M&FMB) - Researching aquatic microbial biodiversity in the context of community interactions and ecosystem function, investigating the potential of marine and freshwater microbes for biotechnological exploitation. - http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/mfmb/
Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) - GLOSS aims at the establishment of high quality global and regional sea level networks for application to climate, oceanographic and coastal sea level research. The programme became known as GLOSS as it provides data for deriving the 'Global Level of the - http://www.gloss-sealevel.org/
Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) - Undertakes biological, chemical and physical oceanographic research in the North and South Atlantic Ocean and along the north-west coast of Africa. - http://web.pml.ac.uk/amt/
Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics - aims to advance our understanding of the global ocean ecosystem and how it responds to global climate change. GLOBEC investigates the links between climate and marine ecosystems. - http://web.pml.ac.uk/globec/
Significance of anthropogenic nitrogen for central Baltic Sea N-cycling (SIGNAL) - Addresses the question of eutrophication sources and what impact additional nitrogen has on the productivity in remote regions. Find project objectives, methods, results and photos. - http://www.io-warnemuende.de/projects/signal/index.html
Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) - Project intended to be a permanent global system for observations, modeling and analysis of variables needed to support operational ocean services worldwide. Find project description, articles, calendar, contacts and staff profiles. - http://www.ioc-goos.org/
Coriolis - French project for operational oceanography with the objective of developing automatic and permanent observation networks. Find project description, news and contacts. - http://www.coriolis.eu.org/
European Directory of the Initial Ocean-observing System (EDIOS) - Searchable directory of ocean observing, measuring, and monitoring systems. - http://www.edios.org/
Biological Effects of Environmental Pollution (BEEP) - The goal of this research is to evaluate the potential of using biological markers determined in marine organisms as a means of assessment of chemical contamination and to investigate the socio-economic implications for certain selected zones. - http://www.beep.u-bordeaux1.fr/
Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC) - Summary of research of experiments to record temperatures in the ocean in order to verify existing climate models by using sound. An additional study was conducted to see what impact the underwater noise had on marine animals. - http://atoc.ucsd.edu/
Coastal Observatory, Liverpool Bay (COBS) - Coastal Observatory built on real-time measurements and model predictions with particular focus on the Irish Sea and Liverpool Bay hosted by the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory. - http://cobs.pol.ac.uk/
RAPID Meridional Overturning Circulation data (RAPIDMOC) - Near real time data from key moorings, deployed as part of a monitoring array at 26.5°N to measure the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Part of the NERC Rapid Climate Change programme. - http://www.bodc.ac.uk/rapidmoc/
Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean (NEMO) - A modeling framework for oceanographic research and operational oceanography. It allows ocean related components (ocean dynamics,ice,biogeochemisty) to work together and to be interfaced with the component of the earth system. - http://www.lodyc.jussieu.fr/NEMO/
Monitoring the Atlantic Inflow Toward the Arctic (MAIA) - Developing a system based on coastal sea-level data for monitoring the inflows of Atlantic Water to the northern seas. - http://www.bodc.ac.uk/projects/european/maia/
Cornell Morocco Project - Cooperative research between Cornell University, Morocco and Spain to study the geodynamics of the western Mediterranean (Alboran) region. Page includes current projects and completed research summaries. - http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/morocco/morocco.html
Atmospheric Deposition and Impact (ADIOS) - Created to study the impact of the atmosphere pollutants and natural substances affects the biochemistry of the Mediterranean Sea. Page includes current problems, approach methods and objectives of the study. - http://forecast.uoa.gr/adios/
Autosub Under Ice (AUTOSUB) - Explores the marine environment beneath floating ice shelves using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, the programme brings together UK researchers from a broad range of disciplines to investigate the role - http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/aui/aui.html
Projections of ice-diminished Arctic Ocean (IDAO) - Examines the historical evolution of the arctic ice-ocean system and projects a diminished arctic sea-ice cover with multiple warming scenarios. - http://psc.apl.washington.edu/IDAO/
Imperial College Ocean Model (ICOM) - an unstructured adaptive finite element ocean model being developed at Imperial College, London. - http://amcg.ese.ic.ac.uk/cgi-bin/index.pl?page=home.htm
Observations and Modelling of Eddy Scale Geostrophic and Ageostrophic Circulation (OMEGA) - Aims to study the three-dimensional ageostrophic circulation and quantitatively estimate the vertical velocity and to evaluate the impact of the ageostrophic vertical motion on biogeochemical properties. - http://www.imedea.uib.es/oceanography/html/research/Projects/WEB_omega/index.html
Trans-Atlantic Study of Calanus finmarchicus (TASC). - The objective is to understand the physical and biological processes which control the population dynamics of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus, a key zooplankton species in the north-east Atlantic. Establishing the relationship between the physical and bi - http://calanus.nfh.uit.no/TASC.HTML
Baltic Air-Sea-Ice Study (BASIS). - An EC MAST III study to create and analyse experimental process data for optimization and verification of atmosphere-ice-ocean models. - http://www4.fimr.fi/project/basis/index.htm
Surf and Swash Zone Mechanics (SASME) - The project investigates the physical processes which take place in the surf zone on a coast with and without structures. The project shall lead to significantly improved description of the cross-shore and longshore transport, which mainly occurs within t - http://www.wldelft.nl/other/sasme/index.html
Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) - The LOICZ Project focuses on the area of the earth's surface where land, ocean and atmosphere meet and interact. The overall goal of this project is to determine at regional and global scales: the nature of that dynamic interaction; how changes in vario - http://www.loicz.org/
MAss Transfer and Ecosystem Response (MTP II-MATER) - The overall objective of the MTP II MATER is to study and to quantify the triggering and controlling mechanisms of mass and energy transfer between the different compartments (land - sea, sea - atmosphere, water - sediment, living - non living, pelagos - - http://doga.ogs.trieste.it/mater/
JERICHO: The Impact of a Changing Wave Climate on our Coasts - The principal objective is to investigate which parts of Britain's coastline may have experienced an increase in wave height similar to that observed by satellites in the surrounding seas. The project is funded by the British National Space Centre and th - http://www.satobsys.co.uk/Jericho/
@ Sea - Webzine features science adventures aboard Harbor Branch Oceanographic's research ships. Live coverage and original articles. - http://www.at-sea.org/
Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) - A consortium formed by a group of scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) with the technical goal of the sustained production and evaluation of co - http://www.ecco-group.org/
Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Processes and European Climate (COAPEC) - The goal of COAPEC is to determine the impact on climate, especially European climate, of the coupling between the Atlantic Ocean and the atmosphere, including the influence of ENSO on this coupling. - http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/coapec/coapec.php
Ocean Margins (LINK) - Aimed at the geological understanding of ocean margins to improve prediction in exploration and reservoir characterisation for developing deep-water oil fields. - http://www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/thematics/oceanmargins/
Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) - A £20 million, six-year (2001-2007) programme of the Natural Environment Research Council. The programme aims to improve our ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the - http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/rapid/rapid.php
Louisiana-Texas Shelf Physical Oceanography Program (LATEX) - A six-year research initiative that has as its principal objective the identification of processes governing the circulation, transport, and cross-shelf mixing of the waters on the Texas-Louisiana shelf. - http://www.gulfbase.org/project/view.php?pid=lspop
Variability of Exchanges In the Northern Seas (VEINS). - The overall objective of VEINS was to measure and to model the variability of the fluxes between the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean with a view on implementing a longer term system of critical measurements needed to understand the high-latitude ocean - http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Research/IntCoop/Oce/veins/
Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem (GCLME) - an effort to assist countries adjacent to the guinea current ecosystem to achieve environmental and resource sustainability. - http://www.chez.com/gefgclme/
Seasearch - UK project for volunteer sports divers who have an interest in what they're seeing under water, want to learn more and want to help protect the marine environment. The main aim is to map out the various types of sea bed found in the near-shore zone, up t - http://www.seasearch.org.uk/
European Seafloor Observatory Network (ESONET) - Comprises a network of long-term, sea floor, multi-disciplinary observatories at key provinces around the European margin providing continuous vigilance in relation to geophysical, biogeochemical, oceanographic and biological phenomena. - http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ecosystem/esonet/
NEPTUNE US - Project to establish a regional-scale ocean observatory in the northeast Pacific Ocean. The Project's 3,000-km network of fiber-optic/power cables will encircle and cross the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate in the northeast Pacific Ocean, an area roughly 500 - http://www.neptune.washington.edu/
NEPTUNE Canada - The NorthEast Pacific Time-Series Undersea Networked Experiments project is a regional-scale ocean observatory for interactive, real-time, long term ocean and earth studies and is led in Canada by the University of Victoria. - http://www.neptunecanada.ca/
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