Marine: UK marine science, monitoring and assessment
In order to address pressing marine issues and set future priorities it is necessary to undertake effective science, monitoring and assessment initiatives. Without these activities we cannot improve our understanding of the marine environment and our impact upon it.
How do we achieve this?
In order to satisfy Defra's policy needs we commission a number of research and monitoring activities. These include:
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UK Marine Monitoring and Assessment Strategy
Safeguarding Our Seas committed the UK to an ecosystem-based approach to the management of the marine environment. The 2005 report Charting Progress concluded that current monitoring programmes were insufficient for this purpose and the UK Marine Monitoring and Assessment Strategy was developed as a result. -
Charting Progress - an Integrated Assessment of the State of UK Seas
This report illustrates the extent to which the seas around the UK meet the goal of being sustainable, healthy and productive. Where necessary management requirements are identified in order to achieve these goals. - Charting Progress 2 – the Second Integrated Assessment of the State of UK Seas
Efforts are currently under way to produce a second UK State of the Seas report in 2010 ensuring alignment to other key marine environmental reporting initiatives (e.g. OSPAR 2010 Quality Status Reports and the initial assessment required by 2012 under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive). - The Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN)
MEDIN is a collaborative and open partnership of organisations who both use and generate marine data. For more information about MEDIN see http://www.oceannet.org/ or contact Dave Cotton (dcott@bodc.ac.uk). -
Quality Status Report of the Marine and Coastal Areas of the Irish Sea and Bristol Channel 2000
This report is the result of Defra's commitment at the 1992 Ministerial meeting of the Oslo and Paris Commissions (OSPAR) to complete a programme of quality assessment of the whole of the North-east Atlantic by the year 2000.
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