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Oceans 2025

"Our vision for the marine environment is clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse oceans and seas. Within one generation, we want to have made a real difference."

From: UK Government: Safeguarding our Seas, 2007

Overview and partnerships

Oceans 2025 logoOceans 2025 is a five-year strategic marine science research programme that brings together marine scientists from across the UK to address the challenges our oceans face now and in the future. Oceans 2025 aims to improve our understanding of how the ocean behaves, how it is changing, and what this means for society. It is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council to run from 2007 to 2012. Click here to go to the programme's website.

The Oceans 2025 partnership: MBA, NOC, PML, SAMS, SAHFOS and SMRU and a wide community of insitute and university researchers, industry, policy makers and the public.

 

Oceans 2025 research themes

  1. Climate, ocean circulation and sea level
  2. Marine biogeochemical cycles
  3. Shelf and coastal processes
  4. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
  5. Continental margins and the deep ocean
  6. Sustainable marine resources
  7. Health and marine impacts (not funded)
  8. Technology development
  9. Next generation ocean prediction
  10. Sustainable observations in the marine environment

It also funds three National Facilities: British Oceanographic Data Service, Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level, and the Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa

 

SAMS contributions to Oceans 2025

SAMS contributes to the following six areas of the Oceans 2025 programme:

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