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Coastal processes and sea level
Beach morphodynamics
Climate change and coastal communities
Climate change impacts on the coastal zone
Coastal areas and El Nino
Coastal engineering
Coastal marine ecosystems
Coastal ocean turbulence: physics and modelling
Coastal, shelf and estuarine hydrodynamics
Continental shelf and coastal dynamics
Estuarine dynamics and processes
Geohazards, tsunami, coastal evidence for past events
Glaciers and sea level change
Integrated coastal zone management
Sea level change and impacts for society
Sediment transport: physics and modelling
Sedimentology, transport processes, marine turbulence
Shelf and coastal processes and impacts
Storm surges and coastal flooding
Environmental modelling and monitoring
Air-sea exchange
Arctic observation, sea ice
Biogeochemical models
Catchment and River Processes
Climate and environmental forcing
Climate modelling, variability and change
Coastal sediment transport: physics and modelling
Coastal, shelf and open ocean mapping
Deep-water habitat mapping and ecosystems
Ecological modelling
Ecosystem modelling
El-nino climatology
Environmental impacts - oil spills, bioremediation, human impacts
Environmental optics
Environmental statistics
Eutrophication
Food web analysis and modelling
General circulation models
Glacial-interglacial atmospheric CO2 change
Global modelling
Habitat mapping
High performance computing
Hydrodynamic modelling
Ice sheet modelling
Ice-climate interactions
Impact of ENSO and climate change
Marine aerosols and clouds
Marine systems modelling
Marine water quality
Modelling - coastal ocean and global tidal dynamics
Modelling - marine systems influence of hurricanes and climate extremes on marine ecology
Modelling of coastal and estuarine hydrodynamics and sediment transport
Ocean acidification and carbon feedbacks
Ocean-atmosphere coupling
Ocean/atmosphere interactions
Oil-reservoir modelling
Population ecology
Process based modelling of the ocean and bio-geochemical processes
Rapid climate change associated with the AMOC
Remote sensing
Role of salinity in climate variability
Sea ice dynamics and modelling
Sea surface temperature modelling
Shelf and coastal processes and impacts
Spatial analyses and habitat mapping
Species distribution models
Statistical ecology
Statistical modelling
Surface Ocean/Lower Atmosphere interactions
Survey and monitoring of the open ocean
Water quality monitoring and harmful algal blooms
Marine biogeochemistry
Air sea exchange
Air sea transfer of climate-active gases
Aquatic analytics chemistry
Benthic biogeochemical processes
Biochemical analysis of phytoplankton
Biochemistry
Biodiversity and regulation of biogeochemical cycles
Biogeochemistry
Biological pump and particle export from surface to deep ocean
Carbon cycling and carbon flux through ecosystems
Downward particle flux
Geochemistry
Global cycles of climatically active trace gases
Inorganic chemistry
Instruments for automated chemical analysis
Interactions between biological communities and biogeochemical processes
Iron cycling
Iron fertilization
Isotope Geochemistry
Major nutrients
Marine aerosols and clouds
Marine boundary layer chemistry
Methane hydrates
Microbial biogeochemistry
Nitrogen cycling and nitrogen fixation in marine systems
Ocean acidification, ocean acidification and biogeochemical cycles
Ocean biogeochemical fluxes
Ocean fertilization
Ocean-atmosphere coupling
Organic chemistry
Plankton and marine biogeochemical cycles
Radioisotope proxies
Salinity and climate variability
Trace elements and their isotopes, trace metal cycling
Trace gas biology
Marine biology and ecosystems
Acoustics in marine mammals
Algal biology
Ancient DNA; life history evolution
Animal movement
Anti-fouling and marine protection
Aquaculture
Behavioural ecology
Benthic communities and natural and anthropogenic impacts
Benthic ecology
Bioacoustics
Biodiversity and changes to ecosystem functionality
Biological consequences of carbon capture and storage
Biological oceanography
Biological proxies of environmental change
Biophysical processes
Cephalopod biology
Cetacean biology
Chemical pollutants; biomarkers; toxicology
Climate change - impact on fisheries
Climate change and migration
Climate change biology
Climatic influences on deep sea and abyssal ecology
Coastal marine biology
Coccolithophore biology
Cold aqueous environments
Community ecology and climate change
Conservation - marine vertebrates
Conservation ecology and resource management
Conservation genetics
Conservation physiology
Coral reef ecology, coral bleaching
Crustacean biology
Deep sea biology, hydrothermal vent microbiology
Deep-sea macrofaunal community ecology
Developmental and Evolutionary Genomics
Disease in algae and invertebrates
Disease in marine mammals
Diving physiology, ecology and behaviour
Ecological stoichiometry
Ecology - benthic
Ecology - conservation
Ecology - coral reefs
Ecology - Deep sea, pelagic and planktonic
Ecology - Echinoderm
Ecology - Euphausiid
Ecology - fish conservation
Ecology - Jellyfish
Ecology - Macroalgal
Ecology - Macroecology of coastal systems
Ecology - Microbial
Ecology - Molecular
Ecology - non-native species and conservation
Ecology - pelagic
Ecology - population and community
Ecology - sandy beaches
Ecology - sea ice
Ecology - seabirds
Ecology - sharks
Ecology - Temporal and spatial behavioural ecology
Ecology - Zooplankton
Ecology – Behavioural, marine predators and grazers
Ecology – Marine invertebrates
Ecology – Marine Mammals
Ecology – Marine vertebrates
Ecosystems, ecosystem services, environmental change
Ecotoxicology
Environment, ecotoxicology pollution, ecosystem health
Environmental bioinformatics
Environmental genomics
Environmental microbiology
Estuarine and coastal ecosystems
Eutrophication
Evolutionary biology
Export and particle flux
Fish - marine predator ecology
Fish biology, behaviour, population dynamics, survey techniques
Fisheries – sustainable exploitation, management strategies
Fisheries, fish systematics, taxonomy and evolutionary processes
Foodweb dynamics, analysis and modelling
Foraminfera, benthic and planktonic
Freshwater fisheries
Genetics and taxonomy
Genetics, environmental genomics of microorganisms
Human impact on marine ecosystems
Immunology and physiology of marine invertebrates
Impacts of gelatinous zooplankton on marine resources
Impacts of warming and hypoxia on marine communities
Influence of climate on deep sea ecology
Invasive species
Long term observatories
Mangrove environments
Mariculture
Marine conservation
Marine embryology
Marine eutrophication
Marine food webs
Marine genomics and microbial genomics
Marine invertebrate physiology
Marine invertebrates
Marine invertebrates immune mechamisms
Marine mammal biology
Marine mammal genetics
Marine ornamental trade
Marine predator search strategies
Marine vertebrates
Marine virology
Meiofauna
Microalgal and cyanobacterial ecology and physiology
Microbial biodiversity
Microbial plankton
Microbiology
Migratory behaviour, search strategies, foraging by marine vertebrates
Migratory pattens of marine vertebrates
Molecular genetics of marine systems
Natural and anthropogenic impacts on benthic communities
Nitrogen cycling
Novel marine genes
Nutrient biogeochemistry
Nutrient pollution
Ocean acidification - impact on ecosystems
Oil degradation in marine environments
Parasites and disease
Parasitology
Phenological shifts
Physiological responses to ocean acidification
Phytoplankton, phytoplankton productivity, physiology, zooplankton
Polar biology
Population biology
Population ecology of marine shellfish
Population modelling
Predator-prey interactions and predator search strategies
Primary production, phytoplankton and CO2
Primary production, phytoplankton physiology
Reproductive ecology of sea turtles
Sea grass
Seaweeds
Sensitivity of marine species to fluctuation and change
Sustainable marine bioresources
Marine geology
Applied environmental geosciences
Bioturbation of deep-sea sediments
Borehole research
Carbon cycle
Continental shelves, passive margins, ocean basins and ocean islands
Crustal processes
Earth surface processes
Environmental geochemistry
Geochemistry
Geohazards
Geology and geophysics
Geomicrobiology
Geomorphology
Geophysics, Geodynamics and Tectonics
Glacial geomorphology and sedimentology
Glacial sedimentary processes
Impact of oil and gas activity
Marine benthic sediment systems
Micropalaeontology
Non-linear processes
Oil and gas
Petrology
Sea floor and habitat mapping
Seabed mining, hydrocarbons, resource exploitation
Sedimentology
Tectonics
Vulcanology
Maritime
Climate Justice
Economics
History and politics of the Antarctic Treaty
Law
Logistics
Maritime literature
Shipping
Palaeo
Arctic palaeo environmental change
Biostratigraphy in the geological record
Cenozoic micropalaeontolgy
Climate-ice sheet interactions
Holocene/Quaternary palaeoceanography
Integrating ocean modelling studies with palaeo-data
Micropalaeontology
Palaeo sea level
Palaeobiology
Palaeoceanography
Palaeoclimate, Palaeoclimatology and rapid climatic events
Records of volcanism from deposits in deep sea sediments
Scleroclimatology
Physical oceanography
Air-sea gas exchange, atmospheric inputs to the marine environment
Ash sedimentation in marine environments
Boundary layer and sediment transport
Climate and uncertainty
Climate physics
Coastal ocean processes
Dynamics of ocean currents
Eddy correlation measurements
El Niño physical processes
Frazil and sea ice dynamics, thermodynamics
Hurricanes and Climate Change
Hydrodynamic modelling
Ice shelf-ocean interaction
Ice-shelf physics
Iceberg monitoring and tracking
Internal waves
Marine ice formation
Marine optics, earth observation, ocean colour
Mixing and turbulance in the ocean
Ocean acidification
Ocean circulation and processes
Ocean mixing and turbulence
Ocean-atmosphere interaction
Ocean-floor hydrothermal systems
Oceanic and atmospheric waves
Open ocean observatories
Physics of sea level change
Polar Oceanography and mixing mechanisms
Satellite oceanography
Sea ice dynamics and rheology
Sea ice thermodynamics
Sea level and ocean climate
Surface processes
Surface wave climate
Thermodynamics and energetics of the atmosphere and oceans
Tomographic modelling
Tsunami
Turbulent mixing in stratified fluids
Policy
Coastal processes and UK legislative systems
Coastal zone management
Conservation and environmental policy
Environmental science and policy
Estuarine governance
Fishing economies and businesses
Marine planning, Marine Protected Areas, marine reserves, no-take zones, marine conservation zones.
Marine resource management
Socio-economics
Sustainable shipping
Sustainable use of marine bio-resources
UNCLOS
Risk Management
Employees and general public
Man-made noise and impact on the marine environment
Marine environment
Safety
Technology
Algal biofuels
Autonomous Lander and GNSS Wave Glider Vehicles
Bioengineering solutions
Cables
Carbon capture and storage
Energy and sustainability
Instruments and sensors
Instruments for automated chemical analysis
Low carbon shipping
Marine and offshore engineering systems
Marine biotechnology, biofuels
Marine electronics
Marine hydrodynamics
Marine renewable energy
Marine renewables and ecological impact
Marine structures
Mechanical engineering
New energy infrastructure
Novel sensors
Observing systems
Oceanographic HF radar systems
Offshore platforms, including decommissioning
Radio calibration for marine samples
Robotics, autonomous underwater vehicles
Sea bed development opportunities
Ship ballast water treatment
Ship stability and safety
Sustainable marine engineering
Sustainable shipping
Technical diving operations
Transportation of CO2
Underwater acoustics
Social Science
Archaeology
Economy and the marine environment
Environment and human health
Human Health and Wellbeing
Sustainable use of marine bio-resources
Marine Pollution
Impact of pollutants in the marine environment
Marine pollution, mercury within food webs, oil degradation
Plastic pollution