Marine Science

Inquiry by the Science and Technology Committee (Commons), 13 April 2012 to 3 July 2013. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

9th Report - Marine Science - Volume I (Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence) (11 April 2013)
9th Report - Marine Science - Volume II (Volume II: additional written evidence) (11 April 2013)
2nd Special Report - Marine Science: Government Response to the Committee's Ninth Report of Session 2012-13 (3 July 2013)

Evidence sessions

28 November 2012: Joan Edwards, Head of Living Seas, The Wildlife Trusts. Alec Taylor, Marine Policy Officer, RSPB, and Dr Jean-Luc Solandt, Senior Policy Officer, Marine Conservation Society.
5 December 2012: Phil Durrant, Managing Director, Gardline Environmental Limited (representing the North Sea Marine Cluster), Professor Ralph Rayner, Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST), and Richard Burt, Chair, Association of Marine Scientific Industries (AMSI) Council Dr Phillip Williamson, Science Coordinator, UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme, Professor Jonathan Sharples, Research Centre for Marine Sciences and Climate Change, Liverpool University, and Stephen Dye, Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP)
12 December 2012: Professor Alan Rodger, Interim Director, British Antarctic Survey, and Professor Ed Hill, Director, National Oceanography Centre
3 January 2013: Dr Matthew Frost, Deputy Director, Policy and Knowledge Exchange, Marine Biological Association, and Professor Stephen de Mora, Chief Executive, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
16 January 2013: James Cross, Chief Executive, Marine Management Organisation (MMO) Richard Benyon MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Natural Environment, Water and Rural Affairs, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Professor Ian Boyd, Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
14 October 2013: Simon Reddy, Executive Secretary, Global Ocean Commission, and Professor Alex Rogers, Professor in Conservation Biology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford; Joan Edwards, Head of Living Seas, The Wildlife Trusts, Dr Jean-Luc Solandt, Senior Biodiversity Policy Officer, Marine Conservation Society, and Liam McAleese, Member, North Sea Marine Cluster.