Our Mission: To inspire everyone to take action towards sustainability and conservation of the marine environment.
Mineral Wealth Seabed Health is a joint project between The National Marine Aquarium, The Marine Biological Association and Cefas. The project, funded by the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund, aims to promote the public understanding of marine aggregate extraction and seabed organisms.
Mineral Wealth Seabed Health explores the environmental impact of dredging sand
and gravel from the seabed. Why is it necessary? How is it monitored? How
can damage be minimised?
The first phase of the project involved the collation of information collected
through seabed surveys related to aggregate extraction and the development of
related interactive learning tools for both Aquarium visitor and schools.
A second phase of the project has extended into developing a Sustainability
roadshow for local schools and teacher training days to demonstrate how
aggregate extraction can be used as a relevant and engaging case study for
sustainability issues.
For more details of the project and the outcomes, visit:
www.mineral-wealth-seabedhealth.orgEUR-OCEANS is an EC-funded “Network of Excellence” which brings together researchers from across the world to share experience, techniques and data gathered from their studies into the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems. As a part of the activity, a group of European aquariums including the National Marine Aquarium have formed a network to carry out outreach on behalf of the network of scientists.
The network of aquariums have produced a website, a number of short films, an educational programme and are also engaged in an ongoing programme of press activity to bring the work of the scientists to a broader public.
The results of this outreach activity can be viewed at:
