Manning, A.J. and Blanco, B. and Townend, I. and Jackson, C. and Scott, C. (2024) Updating the UK Estuaries Database: Making key data and information readily available for everyone involved in estuarine management and monitoring. In: ReMeMaRe Conference 2024, 10-11 July 2024, Scarborough Spa.
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Over the last year, under the ReMeMaRe programme, the UK Estuaries Database and its online companion the Estuary Guide (http://www.estuary-guide.net) have been reviewed consulted upon and updated. This presentation describes these products and highlights the recent improvements made to them (including a new Estuaries Database Viewer hosted on ArcGIS Online). The database and guide were first created over 20 years ago under the Estuary Research Programme (led and funded by the Environment Agency and Defra). They were developed by specialists to provide a central location where critical information about the characteristics, morphologies and dynamics of UK estuaries could be collated and readily accessed. The information they contain has been valuable for managing and monitoring estuaries, but these products were getting old. The last update to the database was in 2015 while the online guide was created in 2004 and has only been supported, not improved, since then. Following discussions with stakeholders during 2023, it was agreed that these tools should be reviewed and updated to support emerging uses for these information resources. This review was undertaken by ABPmer, HR Wallingford and Prof. Townend (the same core team that built and created the original products). It was informed by discussions with product users including those leading the Environment Agency’s Water Environment Regulations (WER) and Habitat Compensation and Restoration Programmes (HCRP). In addition to describing the content, uses and new updates of these tools, this presentation considers how they can now be developed in the future.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Poster) |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | https://coastal-futures.net/rememare |
| Subjects: | Maritime > Estuary management |
| Divisions: | Maritime |
| Depositing User: | Helen Stevenson |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jun 2024 13:18 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2024 13:20 |
| URI: | http://eprints.hrwallingford.com/id/eprint/1635 |
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