The 36 North project is an effort to understand the influences on global climate regulation.

The ANDREX programme aims to investigate the exchange of water masses between the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and the Weddell Sea.

The ARABESQUE project studied the upper ocean microbial biogeochemistry in the Arabian Sea.

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.

The ACSOE programme investigated the chemistry of the lower atmosphere (0 -12 km) over the oceans.

The Autosub Science Missions project demonstrated the usefulness of Autosub, an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV).

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.

The BOFS project studied the processes that control carbon exchanges between the atmosphere, the surface ocean and the ocean interior.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The LEACOAST2 project follows the recent LEACOAST project (2002 - 2005) in studying sediment transport under tide and wave conditions at Sea Palling, Norfolk, UK.

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.

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.

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).

The £5 million Marine Ecosystems Research Programme (MERP) is jointly funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). The reserach will be undertaken by over 50 UK scientists from 12 research organisations.

The challenge for NERC DataGrid is to build an e-grid which makes data discovery, delivery and use much easier than it is now.

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.

The OSMOSIS consortium aims to improve understanding of the Ocean Surface Boundary Layer (OSBL), the interface between the atmosphere and the deeper ocean.

The PRIME project studied the role of plankton in determining oceanic biogeochemical fluxes and their implications in climate regulation.

The RAPID programme is an effort to understand the causes of sudden changes in the Earth's climate.

Building on RAPID, the RAPID-WATCH programme aims to deliver a decade-long time series of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC).

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.

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-OSNAP is part of an international collaboration to establish a transoceanic observing system in the subpolar North Atlantic. The aim is to quantify and understand the Subpolar Gyre's response to local and remote forcing of mass, heat and freshwater fluxes, within the conceptual framework of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).

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.

The UK's contribution to the WOCE project which studied the deep oceans and carried out theoretical and numerical modelling studies.