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Contact: Dr Shubha Sathyendranath
Lake Vembanad is the largest body of water in Kerala, India, stretching almost 100km in length and spanning an area of over 2000km2. Its shores are...
Contact: Jerry Blackford
Pre-ACT is a €5.2M project led by the Norwegian research institute Sintef. The objective of Pre-ACT is to equip operators and regulators of...
Contact: Dr Victor Martinez-Vicente
Marine litter consists predominantly of plastics and is an increasing global concern because of its worldwide distribution and its impacts on the...
Contact: Dr Tom Bell
The vast, remote seas which surround the continent of Antarctica are collectively known as the Southern Ocean. This region with its severe...
Contact: Dr Gavin Tilstone
S-3 EUROHAB will use the latest satellite technology to improve the way water quality and harmful algal blooms (HABs) are monitored in the English...
Earth observation of ocean color remains our only window into the pelagic ecosystem at synoptic scales. It is a rich source of data, and...
Contact: Dr Ruth Airs
A billion tonnes of the dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is made each year by marine phytoplankton, seaweeds, corals, coastal plants and marine...
Contact: Dr Tim Smyth
AlterEco aims to develop a new observational framework based upon the latest marine autonomous systems (MAS) to improve the spatio-temporal...
Contact: Dr Jorn Bruggeman
The world's oceans and seas are home to highly diverse ecosystems and are characterised by the richness and abundance of species. Marine...
Contact: Professor Steve Widdicombe
The coastal and marine environments of South East Asia and the Western Indian Ocean (the regional foci of ACCORD) are rich and diverse, possessing...
Global climate change is one of the leading environmental threats facing mankind. To develop appropriate mitigation and adaptation strategies...
Contact: Dr Andy Rees
Our climate, and hence our lifestyle and economy, is profoundly influenced by the concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, which...
Contact: Dr Ming-Xi Yang
Major changes are occurring across the North Atlantic climate system: in ocean and atmosphere temperatures and circulation, in sea ice thickness...
The aim of this work is to provide estimates of total fish biomass for the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) of the world’s oceans in order to...
Contact: Dr Graham Quartly
The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Sentinel-3A satellite in February 2016 and Sentinel-3B in April 2018, as the start of a long-term...
Contact: Dr Caroline Hattam
Improving the resilience of communities and coral reefs to changes anticipated as a result of climate change is an issue of huge global...
Marine organisms accumulate osmolytes in response to stress and release them when environmental conditions change due to viral attack, grazing or...
Contact: Professor Melanie Austen
SWEEP is a new initiative that will help deliver economic and community benefits to the South West, whilst also protecting and enhancing the area...
The livelihoods of inshore fishermen are threatened by the loss of fisheries productivity largely due to mangrove destruction in Malaysia. This...
Contact: Dr Rory Donnelly
The Earth and Sea Observation System (EASOS) is a platform designed to provide high value decision support to tackle country-specific environmental...
Contact: Dr Mike Allen
Since the 1950s the use of chemical fertilisers has grown exponentially to cope with the increased consumption of food. The use of chemical...
The main objective of the study was to evaluate how marine protected areas (MPAs) provide benefits to the blue economy, and make the findings...
In the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) the main losses in fish stocks are linked to illegal fishing activity that has increased in recent years. Considerable...
Contact: Dr Nicola Beaumont
CoastWEB aims to holistically value the contribution which coastal habitats make to human health and wellbeing, with a focus on the alleviation of...
The AMT4SentinelFRM project focuses on providing high quality reference measurements to validate Sentinel satellite data during the Atlantic...