Research Conferences

Research conferences have run every two years from 2002 to 2008. These provide a forum for anyone interested in research, management issues and establishing the sustainable use of our coastal natural resources. Conferences are orgnaised by the North East Kent Scientific Coastal Advsiory Group (NEKSCAG).

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North East Kent Coastal Research Conference
25 November 2008
Proposed Natural England Research Report

The 2008 conference included the latest scientific research around the North East Kent coast and marine environment on:

• Marine Protected Areas MAPs - the Eastern Channel 'Marine conservation Zones' project
• The Pegwell Bay - chalk erosion project
• Effects of Spartina clearance in Pegwell Bay
• Green algae around Thanet - friend or foe!
• Reviewing biotopes in Botany Bay
• Problems with shellfish production in NE Kent
• Pacific oyster distribution within the inter-tidal zone
• The Charm2 project - towards an 'ecosystem approach to managing the local marine area'
• Metals concerntrated within the sediments of Pegwell Bay, and 
• An open group 'conversation with the sea' led by a scientist and fisherman - about the state of our fisheries
• Conference programme (30KB). 

The conference presentations and discussion will be compiled within a Natural England Research Report during 2009.   This conference was coordinated by NEKSCAG with support from Pfizer Limited, and held at the Pfizer Social Club, near Sandwich, Kent CT13 9QL.

Current Marine & Coastal Issues for North East Kent
9 November 2006
Natural England Research Report NERR029

Presentations, papers and workshops included:

• Thanet Coast SAC: intertidal monitoring and condition status
• Filter feeding crustaceans in the Kentish Stour estuary
• Life on the edge - the invertebrate fauna of Kent's soft cliffs
• Beyond the Sandbanks' - An introduction to the use of satellite telemetry to monitor the movements of Harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) around the Kent coastline
• Art for Nature’s sake
• The small business of searching and dredging for cockles in the Thames Estuary; is it sustainable?
• Riding the waves of PWC management: partnership working in Kent
• A channel habitat atlas for marine resource management
• North Kent - Shoreline Management Plan
• Collecting and managing Kent marine survey data
• Local Fisheries management and changes in the marine Environment
• Workshops sessions:  a) Implications of collecting from the foreshore; b) A Highly Protected Marine Area; c) Agreeing the Thanet Coast Project’s future work remit; d) Impact analysis – activity  v. coastal zone

• Link to Research Report: NERR029 - Current marine and coastal issues for North East Kent: proceedings of the third North East Kent Coastal Conference 9 November 2006

'Making Connections'
11 November 2004
English Nature Research Report 630

• Part 1-NE Kent Coast Conference (2004) - Introduction, Programme, Presentation - Systems thinking (Diana Pound BSc MSc, IEEM, IUCN CEC)
• Part 2-NE Kent Coast Conference 2004 - Presentation - North East Kent European marine sites Management Scheme: Where have we got to and where are we going? (Susannah Peckham), Making links with local people – The Thanet Coast Project (Tony Child), An anthropological study of Kent Fishing communities – research objectives and methodology (Yoshitaka Ota), The Kent Coastal Network (Liz Holliday)
• Part 3-NE Kent Coast Conference 2004 -Presentation - Starting to think about the questions science may need to consider to understand the ecosystems of the NE Kent European marine site (Diana Pound BSc, MSc, MIEEM), Pilot survey of seal haul-out sites off of the north Kent Coast (Jon Bramley & Brett Lewis), The marine algal flora of Thanet - stability or change? (Ian Tittley),  Appendix 1 Summary of workshops and whole group sessions.

Proceedings of the North East Kent Coastal Research Conference
22 October 2002
English Nature Research Report 570

• Part1-NEKentCoastConf(Oct2002) - Introduction, Summary of Workshops, The Thanet Coast
• Part2-NEKentCoastConf(Oct2002) - Changes in the near-shore biotope at Foreness Point, Margate; The importance of Ostracoda and their relationship with the marine near shore environment 
• Part3-NEKentCoastConf(Oct2002) - Investigation into the macro-algae community of Pegwell Bay, Pegwell Bay: 1994-2001, The effects of human activity on turnstones and other wading birds within the Thanet and Sandwich Bay Special Protection Area (SPA).

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