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Contact: Dr Shubha Sathyendranath
The Pools of Carbon in the Ocean project (POCO) will explore satellite algorithms to quantify the particulate, and possibly dissolved, pools of...
Contact: Professor Icarus Allen
Shelf and coastal seas provide vital services for society, notably food, from fish, and climate regulation, through their role in drawing down and...
Contact: Dr Ruth Airs
In the ocean, nitrogen-containing compounds are thought to be an important part of the soup of compounds that affect cloud formation, and therefore...
Contact: Professor Philip Nightingale
Transport of gases between the ocean and the atmosphere, known as ‘air-sea gas exchange’, have profound implications for our...
The goal of the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) project is to understand physical and biological processes involving the carbon cycle,...
Contact: Dr Pennie Lindeque
Every year, millions of tonnes of plastic are discarded as waste, and marine plastic litter is emerging as both a threat to the oceans and a...
Contact: Dr Paul Somerfield
The Marine Ecosystems Research Programme (MERP) will address key knowledge gaps in marine ecosystem research. By bringing together existing data...
Contact: Professor Trevor Platt FRS
The aim of this project is to improve our ability to estimate the growth of ocean phytoplankton using data collected by instruments carried on...
Contact: Jerry Blackford
This project was a collaboration between several institutes which worked to develop a marine monitoring system for underwater CCS sites.Although...
Contact: Dr Joanna L Dixon
Dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) is an organic sulphur compound found everywhere in our oceans, and is produced by a number of natural biological and...
Contact: Dr Andrey Kurekin
With global population expansion, the demand for high-quality protein is rising dramatically, and fish farming is gaining importance to ensure food...
Contact: Dr Andy Rees
The shelf seas are extensive shallow seas which surround large continental land masses with significant importance to people and the Earth system...
Contact: Professor Steve Widdicombe
The shelf seas are of major importance to society, providing a diverse range of goods, such as fisheries, renewable energy, transport and services...
Contact: Dr Vassilis Kitidis
The exchange of natural and man-made gases between the ocean and the atmosphere has profound implications for our environment. The speed of the gas...
Contact: Professor Melanie Austen
The objective of DEVOTES is to gain better understanding of the relationship between pressures from human activities and climatic influences, and...
Contact: Steve Groom
The GloboLakes project investigates how lakes respond to climate change and other environmental influences on a global scale. In order to do this...
Contact: Dr Nicola Beaumont
PERSEUS is dedicated to supporting policy makers towards better management of the Southern European Seas, together representing the Mediterranean...
This ESPA Delta project aims to provide policy makers with the knowledge and tools to enable them to evaluate the effects of decisions on people...
The INDO-MARECLIM project aims to facilitate and improve the co-operation between the European Union Member States and Associated Countries and...
The aim of this project is to assess the benefits and impacts of fishing exclusion zones around marine renewable energy installations. A side...
Contact: Dr Peter Miller
The continental shelf edge is the controlling gateway to exchange of nutrients and carbon between oceanic and shelf waters, with impacts on global...
The EnAlgae project aims to develop the potential of algae as a sustainable resource for bioenergy and other products, whilst also reducing CO2...
Observations from space provide unique information which greatly aids understanding and management of climate change. However, satellite data are...
Contact: Dr Carol Turley
The 5 year UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme (UKOA) worked alongside international partner programmes as the UK’s response to...