Directory > Science > Earth Sciences > Oceanography > Projects 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/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) Ocean Data Assimilation at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MIT. http://ecco.jpl.nasa.gov/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Processes and European Climate (COAPEC) The goal of COAPEC is to determine the impact on climate, especially European climate, of the coupling between the Atlantic Ocean and the atmosphere, including the influence of ENSO on this coupling. http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/coapec/coapec.php Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) The UK has always played a leading part in ODP and has been at the forefront of the many and diverse scientific advances and discoveries spanning, for example, high resolution stratigraphy, climate change, Earth dynamics and history, natural hazards, resource potential, crustal fluids and the deep biosphere. http://www.bgs.ac.uk/odp/home.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Ocean Margins (LINK) Aimed at the geological understanding of ocean margins to improve prediction in exploration and reservoir characterisation for developing deep-water oil fields. http://www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/thematics/oceanmargins/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) A £20 million, six-year (2001-2007) programme of the Natural Environment Research Council. The programme aims to improve our ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation. http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/rapid/rapid.php Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Louisiana-Texas Shelf Physical Oceanography Program (LATEX) The LATEX Program is a six-year oceanographic research initiative that has as its principal objective the identification of key dynamical processes governing the circulation, transport, and cross-shelf mixing of the waters on the Texas-Louisiana shelf http://www.gulfbase.org/project/view.php?pid=lspop Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Variability of Exchanges In the Northern Seas (VEINS). The overall objective of VEINS was to measure and to model the variability of the fluxes between the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean with a view on implementing a longer term system of critical measurements needed to understand the high-latitude oceans steering role in decadal climate variability. http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Research/IntCoop/Oce/veins/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem (GCLME) an effort to assist countries adjacent to the guinea current ecosystem to achieve environmental and resource sustainability. http://chez.com/gefgclme/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Seasearch UK project for volunteer sports divers who have an interest in what they're seeing under water, want to learn more and want to help protect the marine environment. The main aim is to map out the various types of sea bed found in the near-shore zone, up to about 5 miles off the coast or 30m depth around the whole of the British Isles. http://www.seasearch.org.uk/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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European Seafloor Observatory Network (ESONET) Comprises a network of long-term, sea floor, multi-disciplinary observatories at key provinces around the European margin providing continuous vigilance in relation to geophysical, biogeochemical, oceanographic and biological phenomena. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ecosystem/esonet/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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European Deep Ocean Margins (EURODOM) Involves eight research institutes and universities in Europe offering employment to pre-doc and post-doc researchers interested in working on "Assessment of continental slope stability" and "Deep carbonate mounds and reefs". http://geomar.geo.ub.es/eurodom/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Monitoring the Atlantic inflow toward the Arctic (MAIA) The overall objective of MAIA is to develop an inexpensive, reliable system based on coastal sea-level data for monitoring the inflows of Atlantic Water to the northern seas. Available observation systems, including standard tidal stations, will be used to obtain transport estimates with a time resolution of less than a week and show that the method is generic and can be applied to a similar monitoring of other regions. http://www.bodc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/framer?http://www.bodc.ac.uk/projects/maia.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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European Sea Level Service (ESEAS) Centralised depository of European Sea Level Data. http://www.eseas.org/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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EDIOS - European Directory of the Initial Ocean-observing System EDIOS will be a searchable marine Directory of the ocean observing, measuring, and monitoring systems operating in Europe and is an initiative of EuroGOOS (European Global Ocean-observing System). http://www.edios-project.de/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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New Millennium Observatory Network (NeMO NeT) Hydrothermal vent monitoring - links intruments and a camera located within the caldera of a submarine volcano to the Internet. http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/nemo/realtime/index.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey (CPR) Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science runs the Continuous Plankton Recorder survey, a long term plankton survey in the North Atlantic and North Sea. The database is online. http://www.sahfos.org Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Global Ballast Water Management Programme (GloBallast) Assisting developing countries to implement effective measures to control the introduction of foreign marine species. http://globallast.imo.org/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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UK Marine Special Areas of Conservation The vast coastline and seas around the UK have a remarkable marine natural heritage and provide rich resources for both work and recreation. These are treasures that need to be safeguarded and the UK Marine SACs Project is playing a major role in achieving this. http://www.ukmarinesac.org.uk/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) The British Oceanographic Data Centre is responsible for the management of data sets arising from the AMT programme. The role is to assemble quality-controlled data from all cruises into a relational database, so that spatial and temporal links between multiple parameters are maintained. http://www.bodc.ac.uk/projects/amt.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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EnviWave EnviWave's main objective is to validate altimenter and ASAR wind and wave sensors against buoys, wave models and other satellites. http://www.oceanor.no/projects/enviwave/index.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Intertidal Ecology An Australian Schools Science Talent Search project which examines the affects of Rockey Shore geology on intertidal distribution. It aims to not only provide research results, but also to educate and inform the community. http://www.geocities.com/smifchicken Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Copepod-Diatom Relations in Dabob Bay Copepod - Diatom relations research by the University of Washington's School of Oceanography. http://www.ocean.washington.edu/dabob/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Prediction of Aggregated-Scale Coastal Evolution (PACE). The project is the European Part of a worldwide network of research projects dealing with the prediction of the largescale evolution of sandy coasts, at decadal and century scales. http://www.alkyon.nl/Projects/A009.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Observations and Modelling of Eddy Scale Geostrophic and Ageostrophic circulation (OMEGA) Aims to study the three-dimensional ageostrophic circulation and quantitatively estimate the vertical velocity and to evaluate the impact of the ageostrophic vertical motion on biogeochemical properties. http://www.icm.csic.es/geo/gof/ra/omega/general.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Ocean State Estimation Projects (OSEP) Ocean modeling, fitting and state estimation strategies (data assimilation) at Climate Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. http://horizon.ucsd.edu/neilson/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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CLImatic VAriability of the Mediterranean Paleo-circulation (CLIVAMP). CLIVAMP is a research program whose objective is to investigate the long term variations of the thermohaline circulation of the Mediterranean Sea for time scales ranging from interannual up to changes during the ice ages. CLIVAMP will thus study the different states of the Mediterranean Sea during the past, its paleo-circulation and the processes affecting the ventilation and the overturning of the water masses. http://wessex.eas.ualberta.ca/~myers/CLIVAMP/clivamp.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Canary Islands Azores Gibraltar Observations (CANIGO) The main goal of the CANIGO project is to understand the functioning of the marine system in the Canary-Azores-Gibraltar region of the Northeast Atlantic Ocean and its links with the Alboran Sea through comprehensive interdisciplinary basin scale studies. http://www.allgeo.uni-bremen.de/forschung/projects/canigo/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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BENthic biology and Geochemistry of a north-eastern Atlantic abyssal Locality (BENGAL). The BENGAL project is a high resolution temporal and spatial study of the BENthic biology and Geochemistry of a north-eastern Atlantic abyssal Locality. This project has the general objective of understanding how the physics, chemistry and biology of the abyssal benthic boundary layer respond to, and modify the incoming chemical signal from the overlying surface layers and thus affect the palaeoceanographic record in the underlying sediment. http://www.marine.ie/information+services/data+and+info+products/cd-roms/bengal+mariner.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Marine Biodiversity and Climate Change (MarClim) Uses novel syntheses of existing long-term data on temperature-sensitive, readily observed intertidal climate indicator species to make predictions on changes in coastal diversity that may result from global warming. http://www.mba.ac.uk/marclim/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (GEOHAB) Large scale ocean research programme involving an international community of scientists studying harmful algal blooms (HABs). http://ioc.unesco.org/hab/GEOHAB.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Arctic Climate System Study (ACSYS) Concentrating on the understanding of Arctic Ocean variability and change including sea ice processes. http://acsys.npolar.no/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) Activities focus on promoting international cooperation in planning and conducting oceanographic research, and solving methodological and conceptual problems that hinder research. Scientists from thirty-six SCOR member nations participate in SCOR working groups and steering committees. http://www.jhu.edu/~scor/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) A new international research initiative which has as its goal: 'To achieve quantitative understanding of the key biogeochemical-physical interactions and feedbacks between the ocean and the atmosphere, and how this coupled system affects and is affected by climate and environmental change'. http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/welcome.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (U.S. JGOFS) The US national component of the international Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) and an integral part of global climate change research. Supported primarily by the U.S. National Science Foundation in collaboration with the NOAA, NASA and the Department of Energy and the Office of Naval Research. http://usjgofs.whoi.edu/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) An international programme to assess more accurately, and understand better the processes controlling, regional to global and seasonal to interannual fluxes of carbon between the atmosphere, surface ocean and ocean interior, and their sensitivity to climate changes. http://www.uib.no/jgofs/jgofs.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Remote Sensing System For Mapping Submerged Vegetation for Coastal Zone Management (RESCOMAN) A project aimed at developing a robust, operational and cost-efficient remote sensing system for mapping submerged vegetation as a means of assessing the environmental quality of coastal waters. http://www.dmu.dk/rescoman/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Tropical Atmosphere Ocean Project (TAO) The TAO Array of moored buoys measures oceanographic and surface meteorological variables critical for improved detection, understanding and prediction of seasonal-to-interannual climate variations originating in the tropics, most notably those related to the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO). http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/index.shtml Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Ocean Margin EXchange (OMEX) OMEX is a large-scale multidisciplinary project bringing together scientists throughout Europe. This major oceanographic initiative studies the biogeochemical fluxes and processes occurring along the European continental shelf. http://www.pol.ac.uk/bodc/omex/omex.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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North Pacific Marine Research Program (NPMR) NPMR is dedicated to scientific research in the Bering Sea and adjacent waters, with the goal of better understanding the oceanic and ecological systems. http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP) a cooperative effort to generate a unified data set and to determine the global distribution and inventories of inorganic nutrients, both natural and anthropogenic carbon species and natural and bomb-produced radiocarbon from data acquired from several projects such as WOCE, JGOFS, OACES. http://cdiac.ornl.gov/oceans/glodap/index.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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COSINUS Project. Prediction of Cohesive Sediment transport and bed morphodynamics in estuaries and coastal zones with Integrated Numerical Simulation models. http://www.bwk.kuleuven.ac.be/bwk/cosinus/cosinus.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Deep Tow Research Group Research on deep water marine sediments that applies deep tow high resolution seismic and sediment core analysis. Gulf of Mexico bathymetry maps and marine geology links are available. http://deeptow.tamu.edu/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Network for Environmental Observation of the Coastal Ocean (NEOCO) Real-time coastal monitoring project based in California designed to monitor a wide spectrum of temporal and spatial variability in the coastal ocean environment. http://es.ucsc.edu/~neoco/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Significance of anthropogenic nitrogen for central Baltic Sea N-cycling (SIGNAL) Addresses the crucial question of the eutrophication sources and what impact additional nitrogen has on the productivity in remote regions. The investigation was carried out in the Baltic Sea where the impact of eutrophication is one of the main threats to the ecosystem due to the 80 million people living in its watershed and the results will aid new management strategies. http://www.io-warnemuende.de/projects/signal/en_index.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Marine Effects of Atmospheric Deposition (MEAD) Concerned with potential eutrophication problems in coastal seas and the role of atmospheric deposition to these problems. Involved field experiments in the Kattegat, the results from which were used to develop predictive computer models. http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/mead/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) An international field experiment in the Indian Ocean during 1999 to study natural and anthropogenic climate forcing by aerosols and feedbacks on regional and global climate. http://www-indoex.ucsd.edu/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC) ATOC's primary goal is to gather information about temperatures in the ocean in order to verify existing climate models. The technique, of sending sound across entire oceans, is expected to yield extremely valuable data, in both detail and scope. http://atocdb.ucsd.edu/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) A new international partnership of scientists and research institutions organized to explore Earth's structure and history through scientific ocean drilling. The research program will start in October 2003. http://www.iodp.org/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Living with the Sea Addressing the impact of sea level rise and the UK flood and coastal defence response on the internationally important habitats protected by the UK Habitats and Birds Directive. http://www.english-nature.org.uk/livingwiththesea/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Under Sea Ice and Pelagic Surveys (USIPS) Utilises Autosub-1, an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), to investigate the physical and biological environment of the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ), and to assess the potential of AUVs for improving acoustic estimates of the biomass of fisheries resources. http://www.marlab.ac.uk/USIPS/USIPS.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Surface Current And Wave Variability EXperiment (SCAWVEX) The SCAWVEX project is addressing problems in wave and current development and their interaction in shallow water environments. The primary object is to measure the spatial and temporal variability of waves and currents in coastal regions utilising the full range of state of the art measurement techniques and models. http://www.shef.ac.uk/~sceos/environmental/scawvex/home.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Benthic Boundary layer in the deep ocean (BENBO) A major inter-disciplinary, process-oriented study which will provide a dynamic bio-physico-chemical model to aid in the assessment of man's impact on the deep-sea. http://biology.st-and.ac.uk/sites/benbo/Introduction.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Baltic Air-Sea-Ice Study (BASIS). An EC MAST III study to create and analyse experimental process data for optimization and verification of atmosphere-ice-ocean models. http://www.smhi.se/sgn0106/if/oceanografi/basis.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Autonomous Lander Instrument Packages for Oceanic Research (ALIPOR). The principal aim of this EC MAST III initiative is to create a European fleet of autonomous lander vehicles that can operate together in joint research projects. The different groups will build lander vehicles to carry out a variety of experiments ranging from sediment probes to fish tracking. http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Research/ProjectGroups/DeepSea/alipor.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Acoustic Monitoring of the Ocean Climate in the Arctic Ocean (AMOC) The overall aim of this project is to explore, simulate and design an acoustic concept for long-term monitoring of the ocean temperature and ice thickness in the Arctic Ocean for global warming detection. http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/sig/amoc_fnd.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Integrated Coastal Zone Management in France, Norway and Greece (COASTMAN) Comparative analysis of institutional arrangement experiences and needs for Integrated Coastal Zone Management in France, Norway and Greece. http://coastman.free.fr/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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COupled Hydrodynamical Ecological model for REgioNal Shelf seas (COHERENS) COHERENS is a European funded project for the scientific and technical validation and the dissemination and exploitation of a three-dimensional integrated model for coastal and shelf seas developed over the period 1990-1996 within two previous MAST projects. http://www.mumm.ac.be/~patrick/mast/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Coastal Area Modelling for Engineering in the LOng Term (CAMELOT) An ambitious seven-year programme of research into the development of methods for making predictions of coastal morphology over periods of up to decades. http://www.hrwallingford.co.uk/projects/CAMELOT/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Comparative Analysis and Rationalization of Second-Moment Turbulence Models (CARTUM) sets out to meet the challenge to merge theoretical aspects, new field observations, laboratory measurements, and computer-generated data sets with computational and numerical considerations with the ultimate goal of significantly improving second-moment closure models. http://www.ifm.uni-hamburg.de/~wwwto/ResearchTopics/CARTUM/carthome.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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The Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) The Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) is an international programme coordinated by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) for the establishment of high quality global and regional sea level networks for application to climate, oceanographic and coastal sea level research. http://www.pol.ac.uk/psmsl/programmes/gloss.info.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Antarctic Circumpolar Current Levels by Altimetry and Island Measurements (ACCLAIM) consists of measurements from coastal tide gauges and bottom pressure stations, together with an ongoing research programme in satellite altimetry in the South Atlantic and Southern Oceans. http://www.pol.ac.uk/psmsl/programmes/acclaim.info.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Bedford Basin Plankton Monitoring Program (BBPMP) A weekly record of phytoplankton, bacterioplankton, nutrients, temperature, salinity and oxygen at the deepest point of the Halifax Harbour inlet system (Canada). http://www.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/ocean/BedfordBasin/BedfordBasin.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Climate Variability and Predictability (VLIVAR) The German contribution to the international CLIVAR program contributes mainly to climate variability on scales of decadal and longer periods, with emphasis on the role of the ocean for the dynamics and predictability of long-term climate variations. http://www.ifm.uni-kiel.de/general/clivar/clivar.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Soviet / American Gas and Aerosol expedition II (SAGA II) The overall goal of SAGA II was to evaluate the sources, distributions, and fates of climatically significant trace species in the remote, marine environment. http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/hats/ocean/saga2/saga2.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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NERC Autosub Missions Thematic Programme (Autosub) aims ultimately to provide scientists with the capability to collect routine physical, biological, chemical and geophysical data, to depths of 6000 metres and over transects of several thousands of kilometres via autonomous underwater vehicles. http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/PR/Autosub.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Florida Bay Circulation & Exchange Program The study is designed to answer questions about the interchange between Florida Bay waters and the coastal waters of the Florida Keys. In addition, it will characterize the seasonal and potentially the annual variability in the background currents in Florida Bay and the eastern Gulf of Mexico. http://mpo.rsmas.miami.edu/flabay/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) Project Provides quantitative data on global ocean bio-optical properties to the Earth science community. Subtle changes in ocean color signify various types and quantities of marine phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants), the knowledge of which has both scientific and practical applications. http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Initiative for international cooperation in ridge-crest studies (InterRidge) An international and interdisciplinary initiative concerned with all aspects of mid-ocean ridges. http://triton.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~intridge/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Hydrothermal Vent Program (VENTS) Established in 1984, conducts research on the impacts and consequences of submarine volcanoes and hydrothermal venting on the global ocean. http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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North East Atlantic, Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian sea experiment (NEAT GIN) The NEAT GIN experiment took place during September-October 1989 at the Norwegian shelf edge near 68°N. Seven moorings, five in a closely-spaced cross-slope section, have proved a valuable precursor to the Shelf Edge Study (SES) west of Scotland. The NEAT GIN data analysis has now been completed. http://www.pol.ac.uk/oshi/neatgin.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Global AssimilatioN Applied to Modelling of European Shelf Seas (GANES) This EU-CEO project will use satellite altimeter and radiometer data assimilated into global ocean models, to provide ocean current, temperature and salinity boundary conditions for shelf and coastal models which predict sea-levels and currents around Europe. http://www.pol.ac.uk/oshi/ganes.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Study (BATS) A long time-series study of biogeochemical cycles of the sea near Bermuda. http://www.bbsr.edu/cintoo/bats/bats.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Sediment Transport and Boundary Layer Equipment (STABLE) STABLE is a large instrument to measure sea bed currents. Rapidly changing 3-D turbulent currents are measured by three pairs of electromagnetic current meters, while slower, tidal currents are measured by four, red Savonius rotors and a current-direction vane. Water depth and wave-induced pressure changes are measured by two pressure transducers, while suspended sediment concentration profiles are measured by three acoustic backscatter sensors. Housekeeping functions are measured by a compass, pitch and roll sensors and two temperature sensors. http://www.pol.ac.uk/home/research/p2t2-425.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Regional STOrm, WAve and SUrge Scenarios for the 2100 century (STOWASUS-2100) Aims to study severe storms, surges and waves in the present climate and in a scenario with increased CO2-concentration. More specifically the project is a joint atmospheric/oceanographic numerical modelling effort aiming at constructing and analysing storm, wave and surge climatologies for the North Atlantic/European region in a climate forced by increasing amounts of greenhouse gases and to compare with present day conditions. http://web.dmi.dk/pub/STOWASUS-2100/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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