The objectives of this project are to determine the interrelationships between the physical properties of ecosystems and the ecology of organisms in the generation of biodiversity, to measure objectively the resultant diversity and to produce operational

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 -

The overall objective of the ENAM II project is to quantify and model large-scale sedimentary processes and material fluxes in the north Atlantic and to assess their relation to the variability of oceanic and cryospheric processes. The timing, causes and

The goal of ESOP-2 is to understand the thermohaline circulation in the Greenland Sea, its sensitivity, and impact on global ocean circulation, building on a unique combination of novel experimental techniques, modelling and experience gained under ESOP-1

The BENGAL project is a high resolution temporal and spatial study of the BENthic biology and Geochemistry of a north-eastern Atlantic abyssal Locality. This project has the general objective of understanding how the physics, chemistry and biology of the

BASYS aims to further the understanding of the susceptibility of the Baltic Sea to external forcing and to improve the quantification of past and present fluxes in the area.

The strategic objective of EUROROCK is to adopt the European rocky coast as a model system to understand the functioning of the extreme marine environment represented by the intertidal zone, in relation to dominant physical factors and their influence on

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

The main goal of the CANIGO project is to understand the functioning of the marine system in the Canary-Azores-Gibraltar region of the Northeast Atlantic Ocean and its links with the Alboran Sea through comprehensive interdisciplinary basin scale studies.

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.

The general objective of the SEDMOC project is to fill gaps in our existing knowledge of transport processes of non-cohesive sediments in the marine coastal environment, and to find suitable parameterizations of those processes which will lead to improvem

Prediction of Cohesive Sediment transport and bed morphodynamics in estuaries and coastal zones with Integrated Numerical Simulation models.

The LATEX Program is a six-year oceanographic research initiative that has as its principal objective the identification of key dynamical processes governing the circulation, transport, and cross-shelf mixing of the waters on the Texas-Louisiana shelf

Aims to improve scientific knowledge and understanding of the development and downwearing of shore platforms and of the relationships between shore platform change and the rates of retreat of sea cliffs on the landward side of the platforms.

The objective of the EDAP project is to develop know-how on Electronic DAta Publishing for MAST research projects and to make available, by the end of the project, a guideline on electronic data publishing. This is achieved by looking at three different M

The Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) is an international programme coordinated by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) for the establishment of high quality global and regional sea level networks for application to climate, oceano

Ocean Drilling Program in detail - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Coloumbia University - Borehole Research Group.

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

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.

The overall aim of ROBLINKS is to develop and test robust coherent acoustic communications at long ranges in shallow water at data rates in excess of 1 kbit/s.