Projects
At any one time, PML is undertaking around 100 research projects with science and interests stretching from local to global, from lakes to oceanic environments. We collaborate in research projects across the world, and the length and breadth of the global ocean from the poles to the tropics. Our strategic research feeds into national and international strategies such as for the UK and other governments or regulators, and maps onto strategies of public sector bodies, space agencies, charitable foundations and philanthropists, NGOs and industry.
Here you can find a selection of our current projects:
![Offshore wind farm at Liverpool. Carl Raw, Unsplash](/getattachment/b5328a97-7942-4547-9c24-e0fbb257473b/carl-raw-oqlt07psi_m-unsplash_1500_600-1-.jpg?maxsidesize=400)
MOET - Managing the Environmental Sustainability of the Offshore Energy Transition
Project start: February 2022
Active project![Offshore drilling rig](/getattachment/50aefaa7-1866-4e72-ab50-a8e1c3f2f476/insite_banner.jpg?maxsidesize=400)
![Seal. Keith Luke, Unsplash](/getattachment/e21a0ecd-bb00-4663-aa36-077375628066/keith-luke-dke9ggzs8ek-unsplash_1500_600.jpg?maxsidesize=400)
PELAgIO - Physics-to-Ecosystem Level Assessment of Impacts of Offshore Windfarms
Project start: January 2022
Active project![Seagrass and fish](/getattachment/358d48d5-2fb1-4616-870c-a0d7e275cd90/bicome_banner.jpg?maxsidesize=400)
Biodiversity of the Coastal Ocean: Monitoring with Earth Observation (BiCOME)
Project start: October 2021
Completed project![Aerial view of Mount Batten, Plymouth](/getattachment/443d5610-a098-49d5-afda-0831fee5213b/vt_lb.jpg?maxsidesize=400)
MSPACE: Marine Spatial Planning Addressing Climate Effects
Project start: August 2021
Completed project![Aquaculture cages and boat](/getattachment/ce6b84d8-77a7-4e2c-a516-aae94f64310e/shutterstock_1091461793_nextocean_pml_web.jpg?maxsidesize=400)
![Lots of tyres in a pile waiting to be recycled](/getattachment/801e8d14-1dbf-4005-af7d-711af0a8b1de/tyreloss_banner_adobestock_361794350.jpg?maxsidesize=400)
TYRE-LOSS: Lost at Sea - where are all the tyre particles?
Project start: February 2021
Completed project![Clouds over the Atlantic](/getattachment/6a2e3825-ec71-47b4-aee1-3c6d44fcef9d/mission_atlantic_banner.jpg?maxsidesize=400)
![Lake with mountain in background and stormy skies. Courtesy Jordan Lomibao on Unsplash](/getattachment/d5be5586-8d0e-4b43-b66f-3f1ad209fe79/waterforce_banner_jordan_m_lomibao_fbjhywd0azk_unsplash.jpg?maxsidesize=400)
Water-ForCE: Water scenarios For Copernicus Exploitation
Project start: January 2021
Completed project![Close up of wave. Photograph by Anastasia Taioglou, unsplash](/getattachment/63c284d5-f692-4769-be5b-29c84ace169d/seamless_banner.jpg?maxsidesize=400)
SEAMLESS: Services based on Ecosystem data AssiMiLation: Essential Science and Solutions (SEAMLESS)
Project start: January 2021
Completed project![This neField agriculture mulching film protect and raincloudseds an alt tag!!!](/getattachment/ec5c180e-ea76-4691-864c-396497dfc7ae/adobestock_86940018_biorisk_banner.jpg?maxsidesize=400)
BIO-PLASTIC-RISK: Biodegradable Bioplastics - Assessing Environmental Risk
Project start: November 2020
Active project![People on a beach at sunset](/Content/Images/People-on-beach.jpg?maxsidesize=400)
BioRisk: Biodegradable Bioplastics - Assessing Environmental Risk
Project start: November 2020
Active project![Underwater scene at Croatia. Image courtesy of Lino Thaesler, Unsplash](/getattachment/a2b6faad-0999-4598-8555-0592cce16197/futuremares_banner.jpg?maxsidesize=400)
FutureMARES: Climate Change and Future Marine Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity
Project start: September 2020
Active project![plastic bottle in the ocean. photograph from UnSplash](/getattachment/1e505325-8cd5-4477-a542-dee54797cbf6/frontal_banner.jpg?maxsidesize=400)
FRONTAL: Satellite FRONTs for detection of Anthropogenic plastic Litter
Project start: September 2020
Completed project![Oil rig in the distance. Photo by Clyde Thomas courtesy of Unsplash](/getattachment/328ef07c-5c1b-40d9-8d05-91537d924eb6/dreams_banner_clyde_thomas_jkk6kjymdpk_unsplash.jpg?maxsidesize=400)
DREAMS - Decommissioning - Relative Effects of Alternative Management Strategies
Project start: July 2020
Completed project![Research ship in the Atlantic](/getattachment/e5b1b7e4-5be0-44b3-82c6-8d202e47fb2e/atlanteco_banner.jpg?maxsidesize=400)
Atlantic Ecosystem Assessment, Forecasting and Sustainability (AtlantECO)
Project start: June 2020
Completed project![Satellite image of an Algal Bloom in the baltic sea](/getattachment/c5b1fb4c-7ec9-4099-8f1b-ae577a0d6b5d/baltic_blooms_pp.jpg?maxsidesize=400)
![View from above of waves on a beach](/getattachment/3d9e50c3-0c66-42b4-aca9-8dd998d513fa/certo_banner.jpg?maxsidesize=400)
Copernicus Evolution: Research for harmonised and Transitional water Observation (CERTO)
Project start: January 2020
Completed project![diatoms](/getattachment/fe3aea04-9af7-46e4-828e-d74a18d1e2a7/mosaic_banner.jpg?maxsidesize=400)
Quantifying the contribution of sympagic versus pelagic diatoms to Arctic food webs and biogeochemical fluxes (MOSAiC SYM-PEL)
Project start: January 2020
Completed project![London skyline, by Robert Bye, Unsplash](/getattachment/82b115a3-b529-46ee-90fd-438be418b49f/dare_banner.jpg?maxsidesize=400)
Detection and Attribution of Regional greenhouse gas Emissions in the UK
Project start: September 2019
Completed project