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, a
- http://www.pol.ac.uk/home/research/prog2/projects/t2-459.html

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
- http://www.pol.ac.uk/home/research/prog2/projects/t2-425.html

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 cli
- http://ijgofs.whoi.edu/

Marine Productivity (MARPROD)
- Developed coupled model and observational systems for the pelagic ecosystem, with emphasis on physical factors affecting zooplankton population dynamics. Marine Productivity was the UK contribution to the international Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLO
- http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/marineproductivity/

Marine and Freshwater Microbial Biodiversity (M&FMB)
- Researching aquatic microbial biodiversity in the context of community interactions and ecosystem function, investigating the potential of marine and freshwater microbes for biotechnological exploitation.
- http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/mfmb/

Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS)
- GLOSS aims at the establishment of high quality global and regional sea level networks for application to climate, oceanographic and coastal sea level research. The programme became known as GLOSS as it provides data for deriving the 'Global Level of the
- http://www.gloss-sealevel.org/

Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT)
- Undertakes biological, chemical and physical oceanographic research in the North and South Atlantic Ocean and along the north-west coast of Africa.
- http://web.pml.ac.uk/amt/

Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics
- aims to advance our understanding of the global ocean ecosystem and how it responds to global climate change. GLOBEC investigates the links between climate and marine ecosystems.
- http://web.pml.ac.uk/globec/

Significance of anthropogenic nitrogen for central Baltic Sea N-cycling (SIGNAL)
- Addresses the question of eutrophication sources and what impact additional nitrogen has on the productivity in remote regions. Find project objectives, methods, results and photos.
- http://www.io-warnemuende.de/projects/signal/index.html

Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)
- Project intended to be a permanent global system for observations, modeling and analysis of variables needed to support operational ocean services worldwide. Find project description, articles, calendar, contacts and staff profiles.
- http://www.ioc-goos.org/

Coriolis
- French project for operational oceanography with the objective of developing automatic and permanent observation networks. Find project description, news and contacts.
- http://www.coriolis.eu.org/

European Directory of the Initial Ocean-observing System (EDIOS)
- Searchable directory of ocean observing, measuring, and monitoring systems.
- http://www.edios.org/

Biological Effects of Environmental Pollution (BEEP)
- The goal of this research is to evaluate the potential of using biological markers determined in marine organisms as a means of assessment of chemical contamination and to investigate the socio-economic implications for certain selected zones.
- http://www.beep.u-bordeaux1.fr/

Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC)
- Summary of research of experiments to record temperatures in the ocean in order to verify existing climate models by using sound. An additional study was conducted to see what impact the underwater noise had on marine animals.
- http://atoc.ucsd.edu/

Coastal Observatory, Liverpool Bay (COBS)
- Coastal Observatory built on real-time measurements and model predictions with particular focus on the Irish Sea and Liverpool Bay hosted by the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory.
- http://cobs.pol.ac.uk/

RAPID Meridional Overturning Circulation data (RAPIDMOC)
- Near real time data from key moorings, deployed as part of a monitoring array at 26.5°N to measure the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Part of the NERC Rapid Climate Change programme.
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/rapidmoc/

Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean (NEMO)
- A modeling framework for oceanographic research and operational oceanography. It allows ocean related components (ocean dynamics,ice,biogeochemisty) to work together and to be interfaced with the component of the earth system.
- http://www.lodyc.jussieu.fr/NEMO/

Monitoring the Atlantic Inflow Toward the Arctic (MAIA)
- Developing a system based on coastal sea-level data for monitoring the inflows of Atlantic Water to the northern seas.
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/projects/european/maia/

Cornell Morocco Project
- Cooperative research between Cornell University, Morocco and Spain to study the geodynamics of the western Mediterranean (Alboran) region. Page includes current projects and completed research summaries.
- http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/morocco/morocco.html

Atmospheric Deposition and Impact (ADIOS)
- Created to study the impact of the atmosphere pollutants and natural substances affects the biochemistry of the Mediterranean Sea. Page includes current problems, approach methods and objectives of the study.
- http://forecast.uoa.gr/adios/

Autosub Under Ice (AUTOSUB)
- Explores 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
- http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/aui/aui.html

Projections of ice-diminished Arctic Ocean (IDAO)
- Examines the historical evolution of the arctic ice-ocean system and projects a diminished arctic sea-ice cover with multiple warming scenarios.
- http://psc.apl.washington.edu/IDAO/

Imperial College Ocean Model (ICOM)
- an unstructured adaptive finite element ocean model being developed at Imperial College, London.
- http://amcg.ese.ic.ac.uk/cgi-bin/index.pl?page=home.htm

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.imedea.uib.es/oceanography/html/research/Projects/WEB_omega/index.html

Trans-Atlantic Study of Calanus finmarchicus (TASC).
- The objective is to understand the physical and biological processes which control the population dynamics of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus, a key zooplankton species in the north-east Atlantic. Establishing the relationship between the physical and bi
- http://calanus.nfh.uit.no/TASC.HTML

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://www4.fimr.fi/project/basis/index.htm

Surf and Swash Zone Mechanics (SASME)
- The project investigates the physical processes which take place in the surf zone on a coast with and without structures. The project shall lead to significantly improved description of the cross-shore and longshore transport, which mainly occurs within t
- http://www.wldelft.nl/other/sasme/index.html

Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ)
- The LOICZ Project focuses on the area of the earth's surface where land, ocean and atmosphere meet and interact. The overall goal of this project is to determine at regional and global scales: the nature of that dynamic interaction; how changes in vario
- http://www.loicz.org/

MAss Transfer and Ecosystem Response (MTP II-MATER)
- The overall objective of the MTP II MATER is to study and to quantify the triggering and controlling mechanisms of mass and energy transfer between the different compartments (land - sea, sea - atmosphere, water - sediment, living - non living, pelagos -
- http://doga.ogs.trieste.it/mater/

JERICHO: The Impact of a Changing Wave Climate on our Coasts
- The principal objective is to investigate which parts of Britain's coastline may have experienced an increase in wave height similar to that observed by satellites in the surrounding seas. The project is funded by the British National Space Centre and th
- http://www.satobsys.co.uk/Jericho/

@ Sea
- Webzine features science adventures aboard Harbor Branch Oceanographic's research ships. Live coverage and original articles.
- http://www.at-sea.org/

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 co
- http://www.ecco-group.org/

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

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/

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
- http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/rapid/rapid.php

Louisiana-Texas Shelf Physical Oceanography Program (LATEX)
- A six-year research initiative that has as its principal objective the identification of 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

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 ocean
- http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Research/IntCoop/Oce/veins/

Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem (GCLME)
- an effort to assist countries adjacent to the guinea current ecosystem to achieve environmental and resource sustainability.
- http://www.chez.com/gefgclme/

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 t
- http://www.seasearch.org.uk/

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/

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
- http://www.neptune.washington.edu/

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/

European Sea Level Service (ESEAS)
- Centralised depository of European Sea Level Data.
- http://www.eseas.org/

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

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

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 achievin
- http://www.ukmarinesac.org.uk/

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

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/

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 diffe
- http://wessex.eas.ualberta.ca/~myers/CLIVAMP/clivamp.html

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/

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

Arctic Climate System Study (ACSYS)
- Concentrating on the understanding of Arctic Ocean variability and change including sea ice processes.
- http://acsys.npolar.no/

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
- http://www.jhu.edu/~scor/

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 b
- http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/welcome.htm

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 Departmen
- http://usjgofs.whoi.edu/

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/

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
- http://www.forumskagerrak.com/

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/

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
- http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/index.shtml

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/

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 al
- http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/jason-1.html

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.
- http://www.pol.ac.uk/india/INDIA.html

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 pr
- http://cdiac.ornl.gov/oceans/glodap/

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

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/

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/

Adriatic Dolphin Project (ADP)
- Research and conservation of bottlenose dolphins in the Adriatic Sea, and protecting whole marine environment through research, conservation and education activities.
- http://www.blue-world.org/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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

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 projec
- http://www.mumm.ac.be/~patrick/mast/

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
- http://www.ifm.uni-hamburg.de/~wwwto/ResearchTopics/CARTUM/carthome.htm

Antarctic Circumpolar Current Levels by Altimetry and Island Measurements (ACCLAIM)
- 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

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
- http://www.images-pages.org/

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

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

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

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 a
- http://www.uea.ac.uk/~acsoe/welcome.html

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 scien
- http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html

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/

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 NEA
- http://www.pol.ac.uk/oshi/neatgin.html

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 Eur
- http://www.pol.ac.uk/oshi/ganes.html

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

Argo Project
- Global array of free-drifting profiling floats that will measure the temperature and salinity of the upper 2000 m of the ocean in or near real-time.
- http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/

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 sto
- http://web.dmi.dk/pub/STOWASUS-2100/

North Sea Model Advection Dispersion Study (NOMADS )
- an intercomparison of advection-dispersion models for the North West European continental shelf presently available and being used at various institutes within the European Union.
- http://www.pol.ac.uk/coin/nomads/

Black Sea Ecosystem Processes and Forecasting/Operational Database Management System
- Project started in 1999 as co-operation between major regional marine research institutions with support of NATO Science for Peace Programme to explore, quantify and predict ecosystem variability of the Black Sea
- http://sfp1.ims.metu.edu.tr/

Processes in Regions of Fresh Water Influence (PROFILE)
- studies the role of physical processes controlling water-property distributions, suspended sediments controlling the availability of light, nutrients and phytoplankton growth. The project comprises development of a 3-D nearshore model, measurements in con
- http://www.pol.ac.uk/coin/profile1.html

Autonomous System for Monitoring Air-Sea Fluxes (AutoFlux)
- The study aims to develop and test (in both laboratory and the field) an autonomous atmospheric measuring system which will measure surface stress, sensible and latent heat flux and also carbon dioxide flux.
- http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/JRD/MET/AUTOFLUX/

Ocean Circulation and Climate Advanced Modelling Project (OCCAM)
- The OCCAM project has developed two high resolution (1/4 and 1/8 degree) models of the World Ocean - including the Arctic Ocean and marginal seas such as the Mediterranean. The project is being carried out by researchers at the Southampton Oceanography Ce
- http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/JRD/OCCAM/

Multidisciplinary Oceanographic Research in the Eastern Boundary of the North Atlantic (MORENA)
- Measures, understands and models shelf-ocean exchange in a typical coastal upwelling region of the eastern boundary layer of the subtropical ocean.
- http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/ocean/morena.html

Air Sea GAS EXchange MAGE (ASGAMAGE)
- Investigating the way the sea and the atmosphere exchange greenhouse gases.
- http://www.knmi.nl/asgamage/

Atlantic Data Base for Exchange Processes at the Deep Sea Floor (ADEPD)
- Network of European researchers involved in geochemical and biological processes in the deep sea of the Atlantic.
- http://www.pangaea.de/Projects/ADEPD/

Sapropels And Palaeoceanography (SAP).
- The overall aim of this EC MAST III funded project is to better understand the (paleo) functioning of the eastern Mediterranean and to determine its role in the global environment by studying characteristic biogeochemical processes.
- http://www.geo.unimib.it/Conisma/SAP.htm

Coastal Study Of Three - Dimensional Sand Transport Processes And Morphodynamics (COAST-3D).
- The purpose of the COAST3D project is to improve understanding of the physics of coastal sand transport and morphodynamics, and to produce validated modelling tools, and methodologies for their use, in a form suitable for coastal zone management.
- http://www.hrwallingford.co.uk/projects/COAST3D/

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 fro
- http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/

Baltic Sea System Study (BASYS).
- Examines the susceptibility of the Baltic Sea to external forcing and to improve the quantification of past and present fluxes in the area.
- http://www.io-warnemuende.de/Projects/Basys/en_home.htm

A_Model for Biodiversity Studies : Integrating Environmental and Population Variation (AMBIOS).
- To determine the interrelationships between the physical properties of ecosystems and the ecology of organisms in the generation of biodiversity.
- http://www.leeds.ac.uk/biology/research/europe/ambios.html

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
- http://www.obs-vlfr.fr/PEP/.index.html

Ocean Colour for the Determination of Water Column Biological Processes (BIOCOLOR)
- The aim of this study is relate changes in the properties of the water column and associated sucessions in the phytoplankton with changes in optical properties and ocean colour. Models based on these relationships will be developed and validated. These mo
- http://abyss.iopan.gda.pl/biocolor/

PROcesses of Vertical Exchange in Shelf Seas (PROVESS).
- PROVESS is a joint European MAST III funded interdisciplinary study of vertical fluxes of properties through the water column and the surface and bottom boundaries based on the integrated application of new measuring techniques, new advances in turbulence
- http://www.nbi.ac.uk/provess/

PRe-Operational Modelling In the Seas of Europe (PROMISE).
- PROMISE's objectives are to develop a framework in which to optimise the application of existing pre-operational dynamical models of the North Sea and to quantify sediment exchange rates and scales between coast and the near-shore. PROMISE is an EU-RTD Pr
- http://www.pol.ac.uk/promise/

World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)
- The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) is a component of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) and is the most ambitious oceanographic experiment undertaken to-date.
- http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/OTHERS/woceipo/ipo.html

Coastal and Shelf Sea Interactions (COIN).
- The overall aim of the NERC CCMS "COIN" project is to improve the understanding of the active processes in coastal and shelf seas and their essential interactions, thereby enabling the development of coupled models for forecasting and management
- http://www.pol.ac.uk/coin/

Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
- "An International Partnership in Geological Oceanography" -- Texas A&M University
- http://www-odp.tamu.edu/