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:


TYRE-LOSS: Lost at Sea - where are all the tyre particles?
Project start: February 2021
Active project


SEAMLESS: Services based on Ecosystem data AssiMiLation: Essential Science and Solutions (SEAMLESS)
Project start: January 2021
Active project
BIO-PLASTIC-RISK: Biodegradable Bioplastics - Assessing Environmental Risk
Project start: November 2020
Active project
BioRisk: Biodegradable Bioplastics - Assessing Environmental Risk
Project start: November 2020
Active project
FutureMARES: Climate Change and Future Marine Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity
Project start: September 2020
Active project
FRONTAL: Satellite FRONTs for detection of Anthropogenic plastic Litter
Project start: September 2020
Completed project
DREAMS - Decommissioning - Relative Effects of Alternative Management Strategies
Project start: July 2020
Completed project
Atlantic Ecosystem Assessment, Forecasting and Sustainability (AtlantECO)
Project start: June 2020
Active project

Copernicus Evolution: Research for harmonised and Transitional water Observation (CERTO)
Project start: January 2020
Active project
Quantifying the contribution of sympagic versus pelagic diatoms to Arctic food webs and biogeochemical fluxes (MOSAiC SYM-PEL)
Project start: January 2020
Completed project
Detection and Attribution of Regional greenhouse gas Emissions in the UK
Project start: September 2019
Completed project


The Economics of Marine Plastic Pollution: What are the Benefits of International Cooperation
Project start: June 2019
Completed project
SCIPPER: Shipping Contributions to Inland Pollution Push for the Enforcement of Regulations
Project start: May 2019
Completed project
NERC Earth Observation and Data Acquisition and Analysis Service (NEODAAS)
Project start: April 2019
Active project