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WATER INFORMATION SUMMIT

Status, Challenges, and Future Opportunities of Internet-Based Communications
Supporting Sustainable Water Resources Management

Doubletree Guest Suites Galleria Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

This Summit is focused primarily on the role of knowledge and information management in meeting the global water crisis.
 

Complete information can be found on the WaterWeb site:
http://www.waterweb.org/
 
 

Marine Conservation Society
Annual Conference

Venue: Crawford House, Manchester University
Saturday 09:00 to 17:30

Full programme of speakers for Saturday &  Sunday.

Contact: MCS Tel: 01989 566017   Fax: 567815   EMail: mcsuk@mcmail.com
Address

Speakers:

Chris Venmore (South Devon & Channel Shellfishermen Ltd)
   Brian O'Riordan (International Collective in Support of Fishworkers)
   Jo Horwood (Chief Fisheries Science Advisor, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, UK)
   David Armstrong (Head of Conservation & Environment Issues, DG1V, European Commission) tbc
   Bernadette Clarke, MCS Fisheries Officer
   Dr. Liz Wood, MCS Coral Reef Conservation Officer

State of Our Seas Part 1 - Coastal Pollution
 the speakers:  Prof. Peter Evans (Durham University)
   Chris Davis, MCS Coastal Pollution Officer
Wonders of the Sea
 the speakers: Douglas Adams (Author)
   Gavin Parsons (Underwater Photojournalist)
   Dr Mark Woombs (NorthWest MCS Local Group )
   Richard Cooper (Round Britain & Ireland Windsurf Challenge)  tbc

Sunday  09:00 to 13:00  (including MCS Annual General Meeting)
Conservation & UK Marine Life
 the speakers: Chris Wood, MCS Members Dive Co-ordinator
   Paul Kay (Underwater Photographer)
   Dr. Dan Laffoley (Head of Marine Programme, English Nature)
   Jon Parr and Angus Jackson (Marine Life Information Network)
State of Our Seas Part 2 - Litter, Chemicals & Alien Species
 the speakers: Greg Brina, MCS Adopt-A-Beach Officer
   Dr Mark Simmonds (Whale & Dolphin Conservation Society)
   Roger Lankester (Friends of the Earth International)

For more information, contact:
Richard Harrington, Communications Officer on 01989-566017
or Sam Pollard, Director of Conservation on the same number

Marine Conservation Society, 9 Gloucester Road, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire HR9 5BU
Tel: 01989-566017 Fax: 01989-567815
www.mcsuk.mcmail.com      www.goodbeachguide.co.uk

Wembury Bay  Rockpool Rambles
Contact  Wembury Marine Centre  Tel:  01752 862538

Leaflet from Devon Wildlife Trust  Tel:  01392 279244.

Coastal Visitors Centre
Salisbury Gardens
Dudley Road
Ventnor
Isle of Wight
PO38 1EJ

Tel:  01983 855400
EMail: coastcent@iwight.gov.uk

The Centre covers many aspects of the coastal zone, which include coastal flora and fauna, marine and inter-tidal archaeology, coastal defence and particularly coastal instability issues.

Husavik

The Whale Watch capital in Iceland is based at Husavik.  Sights include Blue Whales, Humpbacks, Orca, Minkes and Sei Whales, dolphins, porpoises, plus Northern Bottle-nosed Whales.

The page for whale and dolphin spotting around Britain has not been prepared yet.  If you are interested in marine wildlife, including marine mammals, and are planning a holiday in the UK, especially Scotland, it is work clicking on the image "SeaProbe" and having a look at the page:

Also

New Quay Dolphin Monitoring Group, Cardigan Bay, Wales
http://www.ceinewydd.co.uk/

Dolphins, Porpoises and Whales of the Moray Firth
http://www.highlanderweb.co.uk/dolphins.htm

Cornwall:
Dolphins are reported from the south coast of Cornwall regularly during the summer. The Lizard peninsula is a good vantage point. 

Shetland Isles:
Sumburgh Head, the southernmost trip is a regular spot for spotting whales and dolphins as is the ferry to the islands.
 

For more cetacean reports click on the Shetland logo below:

30 August 1999
A Leatherback Turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, weighing 500 kg* was discovered alive but in a poor condition one mile off Roker, Sunderland, in the north-east of England. It was captured but died shortly afterwards. The turtle measured 2.1 metres (7 ft) long and 1.5 metres (5 ft) wide. Turtles feed on jellyfishes and the abundance of jellyfishes is thought to be the reason for its occurrence. (* the original report estimated the weight at 750 kg)
Jellyfish (NE England) Link

Report by Wayne Curtis (Sunderland)

28 August 1999
A commercial fishermen found the beautiful orange starfish, Echinaster sepositus, north of Herm Island. The crab potter has fished for 20 years and had never seen one before. The books say that this starfish reaches the northern part of its range in the Channel Islands.

Report by Richard Lord (Guernsey)
EMail:fishinfo@guernsey.net

August 1999
Ormer Deaths
The prized mollusc known as the Ormer, Haliotis tuberculata, found only in U.K. seas around the Channel Islands, but found also on the French side of the English Channel, has suffered a mysterious series of deaths in the sea and on the reefs to the south of the island of Jersey. 

   Ormer  by Sue Daly

The cause of this serious problem which has decimated the numbers and threatens to almost wipe out the population, is unknown. Last year, 1998, the Ormers on the French coast suffered a similar mortality, and this year the remaining Ormers in French seas suffered the same fate. 

Report by Sue Daly 

Further Information
Green Ormer Database

 BMLSS Report Forms

 

Can anybody identify this nudibranch found in the seas off Scotland?
August 1992 at Loch Fyne. A 20mm long specimen.
No wild guesses please!
EMail: Jim Anderson
Please also send the reply to:  Glaucus@hotmail.com
Jim Anderson's Scottish nudibranch pages
http://members.aol.com/jander4454/scotnud1.html

October 1999

• Andy Horton's Shore Watch column in the Aquarist & Pondkeeper magazine:

Also available are the MNCR Rationale and methods, which provides an introduction to the series, with details of methodology and insights into the application of marine biological information, and Benthic marine ecosystems, a summary of existing scientific information covering the British coast with an introduction which gives a wider north-east Atlantic- European perspective. 

Another book still available is Non-native marine species in British waters: a review and 
directory, published by JNCC in 1997, which remains a vital reference as introduced species 
continue to be reported from new areas. 

A full list of MNCR and other JNCC Marine Reports is available from the Marine Information 
Officer, JNCC (address below), or at JNCC*s website 
http://www.jncc.gov.uk/marine. 
JNCC publications can be purchased from 
NHBS Ltd, 2-3 Wills Road, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 5XN, UK 
(tel. 01803-865 913; fax. 01803-865 280; e-mail nhbs@nhbs.co.uk). 

Monitoring and reporting on marine Special Areas on Conservation
Joint Nature Conservation Committee
The proceedings of the LIFE-funded UK marine SACs project European workshop held in October 1998 are now available. The workshop was attended by delegates from 11 European states, and addressed important issues of interpreting the Habitats Directive in the marine environment * a rapidly-evolving field. A very important component of the workshop was input from several countries on their existing marine monitoring programmes which meet the requirements of other international conventions. It is likely that these programmes and methods will be used to help implement the Directive. The workshop also provided a basis for a European Marine Habitats Directive Network. 

Copies are available free from JNCC's Marine Information Team at Monkstone House, City Road, Peterborough, PE1 1JY, UK, tel. 01733-562626; fax 01733-555948.

from
Colin McLeod
Marine Publications Officer

These are in addition to the Coastal Directories.
The Coastal Directories series is the 15 regional directories published between 1995 and 1998.
BMLSS Summary at:
JNCC-CD.htm

Selected polychaete families and their feeding mechanisms  by Barrie G M Jamieson (Univ. of Queensland)

Click on the is text for Further Information (including how to order the CD-ROM).
 

August 1999

The  UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY HANDBOOK
by  ANNEMARIE AND DANJA KÖHLER

Published by Stackpole Books,
part of Gazelle Books Tel:  +44 (0)1524 68765
ISBN  0-8117-2966-4

At first glance this looks like an exceptional book!
 
 

by F E Moen & E Svenson
ISBN  82-9082349-5

The text is written in Norwegian, but an English version is planned. For sample photographs go the web site below:

NORWEGIAN MARINE WILDLIFE

Link to sample page of the book so you can see how the text is laid out.

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 Sue Daly produces a Creature Feature every month on her web site.

We had orginally planned to bring this service to our  members. However, as Sue is already producing this series, I have decided to devote my energies to producing other information.
 

     Featured Species:   Snakelocks Anemone

A similar exhibition is planned for the year 2000. 
Print photographs should be sent in to Glaucus House from March 2000. They could also be used on the BMLSS web sites.
However, if you have a large selection of your own photographs, I would suggest that you should arrange your own exhibitions at a Local Library or similar venue. We will help to advertise the event. 

World Oceans Day:  Details of the BMLSS Exhibitions:

This is a simple project or request to members and readers of this Bulletin. It is to take pictures of the coast when you are next down on the shore. Even general views have value, but ideally we would like photographs of the shore showing the type of rock, topography and rock pools, dominant fauna, and information that cannot be described adequately by words on the Report Cards. The name of the particular coast should be included and the grid reference, if known. Print photographs can be included in Exhibitions and on the BMLSS Web Sites and electronic publications. Electronic images in *.JPG format can also be considered for the web site. Transparency photographs are the best choice of film but these cannot be transferred to the web pages at the present time, but these will be suitable in the future. 

         Tadpole Fish                                    Raniceps raninus

August 1999
My husband Kenny and I were boat fishing in Furnace, Loch Fyne in Argyll, Scotland  and he caught a tadpole fish on a ragworm. Although we have a wide knowledge of fish species we have never heard of this fish before. We estimate its weight to be 540 grams (1 lb 3 oz) and it was approx 36 cm (14 in) in length. We knew it was unusual but we put it back as this is our policy. We took photographs of it and we sent them to the marine laboratory in Oban where it was identified.
Tadpole Fish (More Information)

The British Marine Life Study Society Web Site has been included as an Encylopaedia Britannica Recommended Site and included on the BBC On-line Internet Guide.

There are more entries on the GATEWAY pages of the BMLSS Web Site.
 
 

NEW  Marine Pollution (journal of)
The WaterWeb Ring [ Prev 5 | Prev | Random | Next | Next 5 ]                          [ List | Add ]	The Water Web Ring
Friends of the Earth SSSI Navigator http://www.foe.co.uk/wildplaces/intros/intro2.html	Useful site to identify SSSIs  If the URL has changed,  please go to the FOE Homepage.
	BIOSIS and the  Zoological Society of London
Biodiversity News (JNCC)	Regular News Bulletins
U.K ANGLERS' SHARKS, SKATES AND RAYS	For anybody interested in British sharks, this site is a must.
CoralRealm	"A coral reef marine life education web site with 1000 fish, sharks and rays in a searchable database."
The Museum of Paleontology University of California, Berkeley	Probably the best site on the Internet for biological information about groups of organisms Click on the Cowrie to go to the site

Dungeness, Kent, England Orford Ness:  Coastal Ecology of a Shingle Bank (excellent references) Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Shoreham Beach	Shingle Beach sites
Worldwide Sea Anemone DataBase(External Site)
The Fossil Company - Picture Gallery of Fossils	This might help with fossil identification,  but it best on the ecology of the   prehistoric
Geology of the Dorset Coast	Lots of detail
NEW Georgian Center for Environmental Research  (Black Sea)	Tip:  use the "Open in New Window facility"
NEW European Register of Marine Species	Not checked yet
NEW Norway:  Assessment Report on Fisheries and Fisheries related Species and Habitats Issues	North Sea Fishing Stocks
NEW	The Information Resource    for Aquaculture and Fisheries
NEW INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL ELECTRONIC ACCESS LIBRARY	Weekend access for guests
NEW Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
NEW Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Aquarium Net	Internet Publication for aquarists with extensive marine coverage.  Very Good.
Fishing News Homepage	Recommended, especially for books.
	Contains information on seals and   photographs.
Seaweb	Links and News Bulletins
ENN (Environmental) News  ***	News and campaigns
Planet Ark (Reuters)	News
Sea Mammal Research Unit	Update on seal populations, diets,   telemetry  etc.
Profusion Search Method	One of the best Search methods for   environment and serious information.  Multiple Search Engines.  It is a good tip to used the Advanced features  like typing in a Phrase.
Capt. Tom's Guide to New England   Sharks, USA	Really useful stuff on shark recognition.

BMLSS  GATEWAY 1

BMLSS  GATEWAY 2:   Britain & Europe

BMLSS  GATEWAY 3:   America & the Rest of the World

UK BIODIVERSITY
FISHBASE FISHFINDER
CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE WILDLIFE PAGE
NORWEGIAN MARINE WILDLIFE
PUBLIC AQUARIA DATABASE
SHETLAND NEWS WEBSITE
BRITISH MARINE FISH DATABASE (UK SEA FISHING)
including the EBlast Internet Search method
BBC Web Guide
SHARK TRUST (EUROPEAN ELASMOBRANCH ASSOCIATION BRITISH BRANCH)
FRANK BUCKLAND & THE BUCKLAND FOUNDATION
MarLIN Marine Life Information Network
National Geographic
Dept. of the Environment, Transport & the Regions  - Press Releases -
EUCC   European Union for Coastal Conservation
Aquatic Conservation Network

UK DIVING INFORMATION

DIVER MAGAZINE

BRITISH SUB-AQUA CLUB

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