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6th June 2011 Dolphins During a recent survey of Liverpool Bay a pod of at least 20 Bottlenose dolphins were spotted between Hilbre Island and the entrance to the Mersey.  Time seen 06:50 Monday 6th June 2011 » View movie of the encounter Requires Quicktime to be installed on your computer. 27th January 2011 FerryBox The FerryBox fitted to one of the Irish Sea ferries has been taken out of operation due to DFDS Seaways transferring the ship to another route. » Find out more 20th October 2010 Glider experiment Glider-175 (Rooney) has just been successfully tested off the coast of North Wales. Rooney was fitted with a Rockland microRider turbulence probe. » Find out more 15th April 2010 Glider recovery Glider-117 (Zephyr) was recovered on the 12th April after completing a survey of the Irish Sea. » Find out more 4th February 2010 National Oceanography Centre The Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory will form part of a larger organisation called the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) as of the 1st of April 2010. » Find out more 4th March 2009 Coastal Observatory workshops The third of a series of international workshops on Coastal Observatories is going to be held in the UK at Abingdon ( near Oxford) on 11-12 March 2009. » Find out more 4th October 2007 GODAE coastal workshop The Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment has its first workshop 10-11 October 2007. » Find out more 10th September 2007 The first five years August 2007 marked five years of continuous running of the POL Coastal Observatory in Liverpool Bay. 29th January 2007 BBC Radio Merseyside Debate and interviews on the burning topics with Roger Phillips.This evening 18:00-19:00 the debate will be on climate change with references to measurements beingtaken in Liverpool Bay and the Irish Sea. » Find out about the two types of radar being used » View latest radar images from Hilbre Island » View latest radar images from Formby Point » Find out about Irish Sea ferry measurements 13th February 2006 Hilbre Channel wave buoy The wave buoy in the Hilbre Channel has been re-deployed after battery replacement. » Find out more 16th January 2006 Marine radar (X-band) The marine radar is now operational again. It is setup to record images every 30 minutes. We are using it to measure currents, waves and water depths. » Use the image viewer » Find out more 12th December 2005 Glider data Data and plots are now available to download and view from the autonomous Glider deployed in the Irish Sea during the autumn period. » Find out more 23rd November 2005 New mapping tool The new MapViewer allows you to spatially view our real-time systems and model forecasts. » Try the MapViewer 17th November 2005 Glider experiment An autonomous Glider was deployed in the Irish Sea on the 26 October and recovered on the 17 November. » Find out more 5th April 2005 Additional mooring site we have now deployed a second mooring site (Site B), just off the North Wales coast and near to the North Hoyle wind farm. » Find out more |