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BODC has been or is currently involved in the following UK based projects and initiatives

• 36 North — 2004 - 2008
  The 36 North project is an effort to understand the influences on global climate regulation.
• Antarctic Deep Water Rates of Export (ANDREX) — Ongoing
  The ANDREX programme aims to investigate the exchange of water masses between the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and the Weddell Sea.
• ARABESQUE — Completed  1998
  The ARABESQUE project studied the upper ocean microbial biogeochemistry in the Arabian Sea.
• Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) — 1995 - 2005
  The AMT programme undertakes a twice yearly transect between the UK and the Falkland Islands to study the factors determining the ecological and biogeochemical variability in the planktonic ecosystems.
• Atmospheric Chemistry Studies in the Oceanic Environment (ACSOE) — Completed 2000
  The ACSOE programme investigated the chemistry of the lower atmosphere (0 -12 km) over the oceans.
• Autosub Science Missions — Completed 2002
  The Autosub Science Missions project demonstrated the usefulness of Autosub, an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV).
• Autosub Under Ice (AUI) — 2002 - 2007
  The AUI programme will investigate the role of sub-ice shelf processes in the climate system. The marine environment beneath floating ice shelves will be explored using Autosub.
• Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study (BOFS) — Completed 1994
  The BOFS project studied the processes that control carbon exchanges between the atmosphere, the surface ocean and the ocean interior.
• Coastal Flooding by Extreme Events (CoFEE) — 2007 - 2010
  The CoFEE project aims to improve our understanding of how the coast will respond to changes in climate, sea level, storm and wave frequency. Its particular focus is changes to coastal flood risk, shorelines, beach profiles and coastal habitats.
• Enabling Parameter Discovery (EnParDis) — 2003 - 2005
  EnParDis is a project to develop our Parameter Dictionary. Parameter dictionaries are used to label data with a standard description and are crucial when searching out and exchanging data.
• Fluxes Across Sloping Topography of the North East Atlantic (FASTNEt) — 2011 - 2015
  The FASTNEt consortium aims to improve current understanding of exchange processes taking place at ocean–shelf boundaries. A combination of novel observational strategies and modelling techniques will focus on the shelf edge, west of the UK, as part of a four year scientific study.
• Land-Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS) — Completed 2001
  The LOIS project was designed to study coastal processes. Investigations covered river catchments, estuaries and coastal seas and their long-term evolution, air-sea interaction and shelf-edge interactions with the open ocean.
• Liverpool - East Anglia Coastal Study 2 (LEACOAST2) — 2006 - 2009
  The LEACOAST2 project follows the recent LEACOAST project (2002 - 2005) in studying sediment transport under tide and wave conditions at Sea Palling, Norfolk, UK.
• Marine and Freshwater Microbial Biodiversity (M&FMB) — 2000 - 2005
  The M&FMB programme is intended to understand the huge variety of microscopic life which inhabits our oceans, lakes and rivers. It will also investigate the potential for biotechnological exploitation.
• Marine Productivity (MarProd) — 2000 - 2005
  The main goal of MarProd is to develop coupled modelling and observation systems for the pelagic ecosystem, with emphasis on the physical factors affecting zooplankton dynamics.
• Marine Environment Monitoring and Assessment National database (MERMAN) — 2006 - 2009
  MERMAN is a new national database designed to hold and provide access to data collected under the Clean Safe Seas Environmental Monitoring Programme (CSEMP) - formerly the National Marine Monitoring Programme (NMMP).
• NERC DataGrid — 2002 - 2005
  The challenge for NERC DataGrid is to build an e-grid which makes data discovery, delivery and use much easier than it is now.
• North Sea Project — Completed 1992
  The North Sea Project aimed to enhance scientists’ ability to predict the impact of man’s activities on the North Sea through the development computer based models.
• Plankton Reactivity in the Marine Environment (PRIME) — Completed 2000
  The PRIME project studied the role of plankton in determining oceanic biogeochemical fluxes and their implications in climate regulation.
• Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) — 2001 - 2007
  The RAPID programme is an effort to understand the causes of sudden changes in the Earth's climate.
• RAPID-WATCH — 2008 - 2014
  Building on RAPID, the RAPID-WATCH programme aims to deliver a decade-long time series of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC).
• UK Tide Gauge Network — Ongoing
  A network of tide gauges set up as a result of severe flooding along the east coast of England in 1953. The network forms the basis for present day storm surge forecasts.
• UK Ocean Acidification (UKOA) — 2010 - 2015
  The UKOA programme is the UK's response to the call for increased research effort into this emerging science area following widespread concerns about ocean acidification.
• UK Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (UK SOLAS) — 2003 - 2010
  The UK's contribution to the SOLAS programme which aims to clarify the complex interactions between the ocean and atmosphere. The focus is on chemical exchanges that affect marine productivity and climate.
• UK World Ocean Circulation Experiment (UK WOCE) — Completed 2002
  The UK's contribution to the WOCE project which studied the deep oceans and carried out theoretical and numerical modelling studies.

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