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Marine Benthic Data (Management)
Published date 2019-05-07JNCC undertakes a range of data management activities at all stages of a dataset’s life for datasets created through its offshore benthic survey programme. This ensures that the data are well maintain...
Offshore Industries
Published date 2019-04-08The offshore marine environment extends from the edge of territorial waters to the UK Continental Shelf. This area continues to see extensive growth in offshore industry activity, which can have impa...
Marine Protected Areas
Published date 2019-04-09The offshore marine environment supports a diverse range of benthic habitats, and many important species, including seabirds and marine mammals. Our statutory remit in the offshore environment means ...
Outer Thames Estuary SPA
Published date 2020-06-01Status: Special Protection Area (SPA) The Outer Thames Estuary MPA lies along the east coast of England in the southern North Sea and extends northward from the Thames Estuary to the sea area off Grea...
Analysis Ready Data (ARD)
Published date 2019-05-23JNCC is leading in the creation of Analysis Ready Data (ARD) products for the Sentinel-1 and -2 platforms; pre-processing data to a proposed UK standard to be adopted in academia, industry and governm...
Liverpool Bay SPA
Published date 2020-06-01Status: Special Protection Area (SPA) Liverpool Bay / Bae Lerpwl SPA is in the east of the Irish Sea, bordering the coastlines of north-west England and north Wales. The boundary of Liverpool Bay / Ba...
Wormy reflections - Blog #5
Published date 2019-09-09Earlier this summer, we were delighted to announce the discovery of a new species of polychaete worm. As our previous blog posts have been describing, we are currently back at West Shetland Shelf Mari...
The sponges of Faroe-Shetland Sponge Belt MPA
Published date 2021-08-27Most people associate sponges with a nice bubble bath. Chances are, however, that the sponge you have sitting in your bathroom has little in common with the sponges that we are seeing at the bottom of...
Offshore Seabed Survey
Published date 2019-05-31JNCC undertakes surveys of the UK’s offshore seabed (from 12 nm to the limits of the UK’s EEZ) across a range of habitats and depths (from 15 m to 2000 m) with a variety of partner organisations. Betw...
Nature-based Solutions: IACCG case studies
Published date 2021-11-01This section of the website has been created on behalf of the UK Inter-Agency Climate Change Group (IACCG). It showcases some of the very best examples of projects on Nature-based Solutions from acros...