Marine & coastal

Cadw

Caring for coastal heritage is advice provided on the care of Welsh coastal heritage to support those involved in coastal management.

Channel Coastal Observatory

The Channel Coastal Observatory is the data management centre for the Regional Coastal Monitoring Programmes and is hosted by New Forest District Council, in partnership with the University of Southampton and the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

CoastNet

The CoastNet is a not-for profit network that brings together thousands of coastal and marine professionals, institutions and community members from the UK and worldwide who care about the diverse aspects of coastal living and management.

COREPOINT

COREPOINT (Coastal Research Policy Integration) looks at issues relating to good coastal management with particular reference to integrating research and policy development and the use of a set of principles that have been developed by the European Union to promote good coastal management.

Department for Communities and Local Government

Development and Flood Risk: Planning Policy Statement 25 (December 2006) is designed to provide updated climate change impacts policy guidance to operating authorities such as Environment Agency and Local Authorities.

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Defra is the lead department for fisheries in the UK and has a major role in EU and international negotiations, as well as in managing and implementing fisheries policy.

East Riding – Coastline protection

1n 2000, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, and other interested parties agreed to develop an Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan for the fastest eroding coast in Europe. The plan balances important coastal issues, including the environment, tourism, fisheries, agriculture and rural isolation.

English Heritage – coastal and maritime

Britain’s maritime heritage is a rich source of knowledge about shipwrecks, archaeological remains beneath the sea and coastal defences. English Heritage carrries out research to understand more about this past as well as how to protect it for the future.

Environment Agency

The principal aims of the Environment Agency are to protect and improve the environment, and to promote sustainable development. They host the flood maps and flood warnings for England and Wales along with information about how to prepare for a flood.

Fisheries Research Services (FRS)

The Fisheries Research Services (FRS) is an agency of the Scottish Government. FRS provides expert scientific and technical advice to Government on marine and freshwater fisheries, aquaculture and the protection of the aquatic environment.

Historic Scotland

Historic Scotland supports a range of projects which respond to coastal change, including a programme of systematic survey of the coastline which has now covered well over a quarter of Scotland’s long and varied coast.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

IPCC Climate Change 2007: Working Group II: Impacts, Adaption and Vulnerability chapter on coastal systems and low-lying areas.

International council for the exploration of the sea

The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) coordinates and promotes marine research on oceanography, the marine environment, the marine ecosystem, and on living marine resources in the North Atlantic.

Irish Sea Observatory

The Irish Sea Observatory objectives are to understand, through measurement and modelling, the sea’s response to natural and anthropogenic forcing and to provide a framework for research into the functioning of a shelf sea in a changing climate.

MarClim

MarClim (Marine Biodiversity and Climate Change) was a study that investigated how inter-tidal species across the coastline of Britain and Ireland have responded to changes in climate over the last fifty years. MarClim was managed by the Marine Biological Association (MBA) and was completed in April 2005.

Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP)

The UK Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) brings together scientists, government, its agencies and NGOs to provide co-ordinated advice on climate change impacts around our coast and in our seas.

National Trust

Flooding and erosion along National Trust coastline, along with outline case studies of coastal management strategies.

Northern Ireland Environment Agency

The Marine Strategy Framework Directive plays a significant role in helping to deliver clean healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse oceans and seas. In Northern Ireland marine resources make a significant socio-economic contribution to the community.

Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL)

Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level was established in 1933, and is the global data bank for long term sea level change information from tide gauges and bottom pressure recorders.

RESPONSE

RESPONSE (Responding to the risks from climate change) demonstrates a process of assessing current and future hazard and risk at the coast, through the production of a series of maps at a regional scale.

Safecoast

Safecoast is a project that enables coastal managers, professionals and practitioners to share their knowledge and experience to broadening their scope on flood risk management in order to find new solutions to coastal flooding.

Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS)

SAHFOS has operated Continuous Plankton Recorder surveys since 1931, and has a Marine Climate Change Impacts Encyclopedia on its website.

Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)

SEPA is Scotland’s flood warning authority, operating flood warning services in partnership with local authorities and the police. This includes Floodline; a 24 hour telephone information service covering all of Scotland, and the monitoring of river levels, rainfall, tidal predictions and weather forecasts.