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Chesapeake Bay management
http://www.chesapeakebay.net/index.aspx?menuitem=13853
A mass of information of the complex issues surrounding the development of environmental management schemes for the largest estuary in the US east coast.
Hilbre island web cam
http://coastobs.pol.ac.uk/cobs/webcam/
Live images and a image library taken by the camera mounted on Hilbre Island, NW England show some of the dynamic features of the Dee Estuary, a typical European partially mixed estuary with extensive tidal flats.
The Irish Sea Coastal Observatory
http://coastobs.pol.ac.uk/cobs/
Coastal observatories are now operating in many countries collecting routine oceanographic data and making it available in real time. Includes links to web cams, tide gauges, satellite images and cruise reports.
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
www.ices.dk/
ICES provides fisheries and marine environmental advice to governments and other organisations in the NE Atlantic. The web site covers the advice process and the science that underpins it as well as a number of other educational and technical publications.
National Tide and Sea Level Facility
http://www.pol.ac.uk/ntslf/
The UK’s national centre with links to international sea level measuring programmes. Links include real time sea level information, tidal prediction software and details of how the sea level network is maintained.
Coastal marine organisms
http://www.marlin.ac.uk/
A database, including images, on nearshore marine organisms from the NE Atlantic.
European seabed habitat mapping
www.searchmesh.net/default.aspx
A EC initiative to develop a map of seabed habitats for all European waters. The site includes the latest maps and details of the approach and protocols used to predict the seafloor in areas not yet surveyed.