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Marine Advice, Monitoring & Research at CEFAS

Marine Advice, Monitoring & Research at CEFAS. Mike Waldock. Advisory Activities and the Environment. Aggregate extraction. Dredging and disposal. Pipelines. Oil spills. OCNS. Diffuse Inputs. Boating/shipping. Riverine. Monitoring Marine Environmental Quality.

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Marine Advice, Monitoring & Research at CEFAS

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  1. Marine Advice, Monitoring & Research at CEFAS Mike Waldock

  2. Advisory Activities and the Environment Aggregate extraction Dredging and disposal Pipelines Oil spills OCNS

  3. Diffuse Inputs Boating/shipping Riverine

  4. Monitoring Marine Environmental Quality • Validates our risk assessments - feedback loop • Integrates effort from a number of Departments and Agencies to meet Defra needs to demonstrate sustainable development • Potentially provides clear measures of our performance in managing marine systems.

  5. Environment Quality Monitoring OSPAR /EC MEMG –Marine Environment Monitoring Group formally the MPMMG - Marine Pollution Monitoring Management Group 7 UK organisations NMMP - National Marine Monitoring Programme MEMG NMMP

  6. NMMP • Chemistry • Contaminants in water sediment and biota • Nutrients in water • Biological effects • toxicity • disease • reproductive effects • biochemical measurements • Biology - • Benthic community • Plankton community

  7. Biological effects cont... • Whole animal imposex

  8. Biological effects Cont... • cellular/GM • biochemical measurements Mutatox--mutagens er calux/yes/yas - EDCs dr calux erod - oil/PCBs/dioxin M/T- metals VTG - EDCs

  9. Biological effects Cont... • Genetic damage and disease

  10. Progression of carcinogenesis Renegade population of cells growing outside constraints of normal cellular architecture DNA adduct Initiated cell Mutation or DNA repair? Cancerous pathology

  11. MARINE ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH PROGRAMME Managing marine activities Monitoring & Assessment Assessment of inputs to sea Understanding the seas Deposits Aggregate extraction Marine emergencies Integrated Management Monitoring & Assessment Hazardous Substances (Assessment, Fate & effects) Eutrophication Ecological Structure & Function Environmental Processes & Pathways ME11 ME12 ME13 ME14 ME22 ME41 ME21 ME31 ME32 Research Themes • 70 plus R&D contracts with Defra – 40 plus at Cefas • And fisheries and fish health and aquaculture

  12. Data relevant to the SW? Mercury in fish tissue AEMR series

  13. Better Integrated Monitoring • 2004 “State of the Seas” report Contaminants Ecosystem approach Oceanography Habitats Fisheries

  14. International Obligations - OSPAR Hazardous Substances “by continuously reducing discharges, emissions and losses of hazardous substances with the ultimate aim of achieving concentrations .....near background values for naturally occurring substances and close to zero for man-made synthetic substances”

  15. International Obligations - OSPAR Eutrophication “to achieve and maintain a healthy marine environment where eutrophication does not occur”

  16. International Obligations - OSPAR Biodiversity “to protect and conserve the ecosystems and the biological diversity of the maritime area which are, or could be, affected as a result of human activities, and to restore, where practicable, marine areas which have been adversely affected.”

  17. Identification of causative substances

  18. Changes to the monitoring strategy using the DPSIR framework to monitor performance Causal Chain

  19. Changes to the monitoring strategy Altering timing and effort spatial survey effort trend programme time

  20. Changes to the monitoring strategy Altering timing Nutrient monitoring requires frequent observations

  21. Changes to the monitoring strategy Altering timing • fluorescence • temp. • salinity • turbidity • nutrients • irradiance

  22. Changes to the monitoring strategy Quality Assurance • QUASIMEME • BEQUALM • NATAQC ring tests so that all data is comparable

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