- Adriatic Dolphin Project (ADP)
ADP is run by Blue World, a non-profit NGO dedicated to the preservation of the marine ecosystem. It focuses particularly on research and conservation of bottlenose dolphins in the Adriatic Sea, but also aims at protecting whole marine environment through research, conservation and education activities.
http://www.blue-world.org/
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Review It - Argo Project
Argo is a global array of 3,000 free-drifting profiling floats that will measure the temperature and salinity of the upper 2000 m of the ocean in or near real-time. The programme involves a team of International scientists.
http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/
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Review It - Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT)
The programme undertakes biological, chemical and physical oceanographic research during the annual return passage of the RRS James Clark Ross from the UK to the Falkland Islands in September and from the Falklands to the UK in May. During the first phase of the project (1995 to 1999), twelve research cruises took place, providing a coherent set of repeated measurements over ocean basin scales. A second phase of the project is now underway, and will include six cruises between 2002 and 2005. These will sample further into the centre of the North and South Atlantic Ocean and along the north-west coast of Africa.
http://www.pml.ac.uk/amt/
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Review It - Atmospheric Chemistry Studies in the Oceanic Environment (ACSOE)
A UK NERC Thematic Research Programme to investigate the chemistry of the lower atmosphere (0 - 12 km) over the oceans. The studies aim to bring about a clearer understanding of natural processes in the remote marine atmosphere, and how these processes are affected by atmospheric pollution originating from the continents. This information is vital in understanding regional and global-scale changes in atmospheric chemistry and climate.
http://www.uea.ac.uk/~acsoe/welcome.html
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Review It - Atmospheric Deposition and Impact (ADIOS)
Atmospheric Deposition and Impact of pollutants, key elements and nutrients on the Open Mediterranean Sea. Aims at understanding the magnitude, timing and geographical distribution of atmospheric deposition and impact of selected pollutants, key elements and nutrients on the Mediterranean open sea, an ecologically sensitive marine environment.
http://adios.univ-perp.fr/
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Review It - Autosub Under Ice (AUTOSUB)
A 5-year, £5.86 million programme to explore 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 of sub-ice shelf processes in the climate system.
http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/SOES/MSC/OC/CEO/aui/aui.html
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Review It - Baltic Sea Experiment (BALTEX)
BALTEX is designed as a cage experiment to assess the total heat and water flux divergence of the BALTEX area. The basic BALTEX programme elements include numerical modelling, data assimilation, experimental and numerical process studies, re-analysis of existing data sets, and application of remote sensing.
http://aragorn.gkss.de/deutsch/Baltex/
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Review It - Biological Effects of Environmental Pollution (BEEP)
an interdisciplinary project as a consequence of its focus on scientific interfaces between chemistry, biology, biochemistry and ecotoxicology. The goal of this research programme is to evaluate the potential of using biological marker determined in marine organisms as a means of assessment of chemical contamination and to investigate the socio-economic implications for certain selected zones.
http://beep.lptc.u-bordeaux.fr/
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Review It - Climate Variability and Predictability Study (CLIVAR)
An interdisciplinary research effort within the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) focussing on the variability and predictability of the slowly varying components of the climate system. It investigates the physical and dynamical processes in the climate system that occur on seasonal, interannual, decadal and centennial time-scales.
http://www.clivar.org/
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Review It - 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, and will support the delivery of Biological Action Plans aimed at securing the management of Natura 2000 sites.
http://www.pol.ac.uk/home/research/p2t2-459.html
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Review It - Coriolis
Coriolis is a French project for operational oceanography contributing to the in-situ part of the system, with the objective of developing continuous, automatic and permanent observation networks. The data collected will enable water properties such as temperature, and ocean circulation to be mapped.
http://www.ifremer.fr/coriolis/
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Review It - 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 continuing three-dimensional estimates of the global state of the ocean in near-real time in support programs such as GODAE and CLIVAR.
http://www.ecco-group.org/
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Review It - European North Atlantic Margin (ENAM).
The overall objective of the ENAM II project is to quantify and model large-scale sedimentary processes and material fluxes in the north Atlantic and to assess their relation to the variability of oceanic and cryospheric processes. The timing, causes and flow behaviour of mass wasting events and the relationship between mass wasting events and deep-sea fan developments are to be determined in order to understand the spatial and temporal variability of marine systems from the shelf edge to the continental slope and the deep sea.
http://www.marine.ie/rnd+projects/marine+environment/oceanography/past+projects.htm
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Review It - Eurosion
Project commissioned by the General Directorate Environment of the European Commission, which will result in policy recommendations on how to manage coastal erosion in Europe in the most sustainable way.
http://www.eurosion.org/
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Review It - Forum Skagerrak
A common initiative of the regions surrounding Skagerrak, in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, to find solutions to prioritised environmental problems where co-operation can lead to effective measures. The project, was partly financed by EU Interreg IIC and ran from October 1999 to June 2001 with a budget of 600K Euro.
http://www.forumskagerrak.com/
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Review It - Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)
GRACE will be able to map the Earth's gravity fields by making accurate measurements of the distance between two satellites, using GPS and a microwave ranging system. It will provide scientists with a way to map the Earth's gravity fields. The results from this mission will yield information about the distribution and flow of mass within the Earth and its oceans and surroundings.
http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/
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Review It - INlet Dynamics Initiative : Algarve (INDIA).
The INDIA Project is motivated primarily by a requirement to improve understanding of the interacting hydrodynamic and sedimentological processes at work in the European coastal zone and to develop improved methodologies to predict changes in morphology. Undertaking such a study requires a dynamic natural field site where processes are sufficiently active to result in observable changes in the physical environment over a time span commensurate with a realistic field campaign.
http://www.pol.ac.uk/india/INDIA.html
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Review It - International Cooperative Study of the Gulf of Thailand (GoT)
A regional research programme for the sustainable management of the Gulf of Thailand. Objectives are to establish an institutional and information network on scientific and socio-economic data collection, exchange, analysis and integration, to develop the capacity of the region to collect and analyze data, and to integrate multidisciplinary data into formats usable by various sectors.
http://www.start.or.th/got/
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Review It - International Marine Global Change Studies (IMAGES)
a global program to collect and study marine sediment records. The overriding IMAGES science issue is to quantify climate and chemical variability of the ocean on time scales of oceanic and cryospheric processes; to determine its sensitivity to identified internal and external forcings, and to determine its role in controlling atmospheric CO2.
http://www.images-pages.org/
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Review It - Jason
an oceanography mission to monitor global ocean circulation, discover the tie between the oceans and atmosphere, improve global climate predictions, and monitor events such as El Niño conditions and ocean eddies. The Jason-1 satellite carries a radar altimeter and it is a follow-on mission to the highly successful TOPEX/Poseidon mission. It is joint mission between France and USA. The satellite will be launched in May 2000.
http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/jason-1.html
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Review It - Land-Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS).
LOIS was a 6 year project (1992 - 1998) of the UK's Natural Environment Research Council involving over 360 scientists from 11 institutes and 27 universities. This project was the United Kingdom's contribution to LOICZ. It aims were to quantify and simulate the fluxes and transformations of materials (sediments, nutrients, contaminants) into and out of the coastal zone, extending from the catchment to the edge of the continental shelf. The main study area, embracing river catchments, estuaries and coastal seas, was the UK East Coast from Berwick upon Tweed to Great Yarmouth, concentrating on the Humber and its catchment, and to a lesser extent the River Tweed. The shelf edge study was focused on an area to the west of Scotland.
http://www.pml.ac.uk/lois/
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Review It - Marine Productivity (MarProd)
A Thematic Programme of the Natural Environment Research Council. It is funded for a period of five years starting in 2000. Its aim is to develop coupled modelling and observational systems for the pelagic ecosystem, with emphasis on physical factors affecting zooplankton population dynamics. MarProd provides a major UK contribution to the international Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics project (GLOBEC).
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/projects/marprod.html
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Review It - Microbial Ecosystem Dynamics (MEDEA).
MEDEA is a combined experimental and theoretical approach towards understanding the mechanisms determining microbial ecosystem dynamics in the photic zone. Centered around an idealized conceptual/mathematical model, questions are addressed concerning mechanisms regulating structure and function of the food web.
http://imp.imp.uib.no/medea/
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Review It - 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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Review It - 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 km by 1,000 km in size. The project office is located at the University of Washington in Seattle.
http://www.neptune.washington.edu/
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Review It - Physiological Ecology of a Pelagic crustacean (PEP).
Impact of a Climatic Gradient on the Physiological Ecology of a Pelagic crustacean - a study of the functional marine biodiversity as a basis for understanding ecosystem structure, dynamics and resilience is focused on the Northern krill. The patterns of diversity in this species - an important component of Atlantic communities - will be investigated at specific locations in the north-eastern Atlantic, the Kattegat and the Meditarranean.
http://www.obs-vlfr.fr/PEP/.index.html
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