August 2010
New SEP Consultations Page
There are several consultations currently taking place around the Severn Estuary. SEP have developed a new section on our website that will keep you abreast of the latest consultation developments. To find out more, go to our new Consultations Page.
Severn Estuary Forum 2010, Friday 8th October at Armada House, Bristol
The Severn Estuary Partnership is pleased to announce that the 2010 Severn Estuary Forum will be held on Friday 8 October at Armada House, Bristol. Please note the change of date from that previously advertised. For full details please follow this link: Severn Estuary Forum 2010.
The Severn Estuary Forum is the annual event for everyone interested in the Severn Estuary and its future. The Forum promises to be a lively day of formal and informal presentations and talks. There will be an opportunity at the Forum for displays from any organisation with an interest in the Severn Estuary. Display areas can be provided at a cost of £250 for a 1 meter display or £500 for 3 meter displays, please contact the Partnership office for further details.
Severn Tidings Newsletter Summer 2010
The latest edition of Severn Tidings, entitled 'Celebrating
our Diversity' is hot off the presses and in the process of being delivered
to all our interest groups. If you wish to receive this via our mailing
list, please contact
us. Alternatively, you can view it electronically from our website:
Issue 12 Summer 2010
State of the Severn Estuary Report
The Severn Estuary Partnership is currently working on their first draft of a State of the Severn Estuary Report. This will be a Severn Estuary Partnership (SEP) product for our funding partners and those with an interest in the estuary; it will also contribute directly to the IMCORE project by establishing baseline data sets in the context of climate and other coastal change.
The aim of the report is to engage and inform local stakeholders about the ‘State of the Severn Estuary’ and what it has to offer. It is anticipated that this document will be the first in a series that aims to review the local natural and human environment. Future issues may be more specific and focus on just one topic in detail. It is the purpose of this first report to take a broad perspective and in particular, to consider interlinkages between different uses and resources. In a restricted geographical area where demands from urbanisation, industry, recreation, conservation and climate change are increasing, this report aims to use best available science to support a wide range of statutory and non-statutory organisations in fulfilling their functions.
It is expected that the State of the Severn Report will be in draft form by the end of this year. It will be produced as a hard copy document which will also be made available online as a pdf via the SEP website. The scope of the report is the Severn Estuary area. The report aims to provide an overview about the state of the estuary in a user-friendly, easy to understand format. The report will provide references to additional sources of information, should further detail be required.
Throughout June and July the Severn Estuary Partnership have been consulting with representatives from the various sectors around the estuary in order to gauge interest and obtain feedback on how such a document would be of use to the estuary wide community and beyond.
For more information, please do not hesitate to contact Christine Marsh at the Severn Estuary Partnership.
ASERA
The Association of Severn Estuary Relevant Authorities is in the final stages of reviewing the relevant authorities’ activities and impacts upon the features of the SAC, SPA and Ramsar. The outcomes from this assessment will be incorporated in the revised version of the Management Scheme for the European marine site, this document is currently being drafted. For more information, please contact the Implementation Officer for ASERA.
Finding Sanctuary
Finding Sanctuary have achieved one of their key milestones – submitting the first progress report to the Science Advisory Panel, their feedback should be received by the end of the July. In the meantime planning continues within the working groups and local groups which are already working towards the second progress report. Feedback from the recent recreational workshop has focused finding Finding Sanctuary’s data collection efforts over the coming months and they hope the new national interactive map will help to reach those more disparate groups.
For more information about what Finding Sanctuary have been up to please visit their website: www.finding-sanctuary.org/page/news.html
Severn Estuary Levels Research Committee Conference
Severn Estuary Levels Research Committee celebrates its 20th anniversary with a major conference entitled Fish and Ships.
The event will take place from Friday 10th September to Sunday 12th September 2010 at the Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre, National Museum Cardiff, Cathays Park, Cardiff and has been arranged jointly with Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales and the SELRC.
The conference focuses on shipping and fishing within the Severn Estuary and beyond and will be held over three days. Further information including a downloadable outline programme are is available at: www.selrc.org.uk/
The Magnificent Severn
A Three day event in September celebrating the Severn Bore. See the spectacle of one of the largest Severn Bores of the year, discover the culture, heritage, and ecology of the magnificent Severn. Friday 10th, Saturday 11th, Sunday 12th September, Linton Farm, Over Gloucester - Flyer
Charting Progress 2
Charting Progress 2 is a comprehensive report on the state of the UK seas. It has been published by the UK Marine Monitoring and Assessment community which has over 40 member organisations. The report is based on a robust, peer-reviewed evidence base and describes progress made since the publication of Charting Progress in 2005. It provides key findings from UK marine research and monitoring for use by policy makers and others, as we move towards the UK vision of clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse oceans and seas. chartingprogress.defra.gov.uk/
MCCIP 2010-2011 Annual Report Card now available to download
The Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) launched its latest annual report card on July 15th, which provides the very latest updates on how climate change is affecting our coast and seas.
Almost 100 scientists from 40 leading UK science organisations
have contributed to this peer-reviewed report, which covers 30 marine
and coastal topics. The report includes a new regional seas climate
change impacts map, which highlight important differences in climate
change impacts across UK regional seas and the report also takes a first
look at how the UKCP09 climate projections can aid our understanding
of future marine climate change impacts, and for the first time covers
air-sea carbon exchanges, deep sea habitats, waterbirds and human health.
The 12-page summary report card is available to download at:
[English
language version]
[Welsh
language version]
The full online version, including the detailed peer-reviewed documents
for each of the 30 topics covered are available online at:
www.mccip.org.uk/annual-report-card/2010-2011.aspx
Detailed information on each of the 30 topics covered can be accessed
via the links to ‘Climate of the marine environment’; ‘Healthy
and diverse marine ecosystem’; ‘Clean and safe seas’
and ‘Commercially productive seas’ on the left hand side
of this webpage.
