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Pamela Pearson, known as 'the wallasea mermaid', will be the first person to share her story as part of Holding Back the Tide - a new project delivered by CoastNet. The project will involve collecting stories, pictures and artefacts from East Anglian communities to tell stories of coastal change. It will culminate in a travelling exhibition that celebrates this coast and changes faced as told by its inhabitants.
Pamela Pearson, known as 'the wallasea mermaid', will be the first person to share her story as part of Holding Back the Tide - a new project delivered by CoastNet. The project will involve collecting stories, pictures and artefacts from East Anglian communities to tell stories of coastal change. It will culminate in a travelling exhibition that celebrates this coast and changes faced as told by its inhabitants.
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Pamela Pearson, known as 'the wallasea mermaid', will be the first person to share her story as part of Holding Back the Tide - a new project delivered by CoastNet. The project will involve collecting stories, pictures and artefacts from East Anglian communities to tell stories of coastal change. It will culminate in a travelling exhibition that celebrates this coast and changes faced as told by its inhabitants.
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Local communities to share stories of Imcore to begin where
Solutions focus proves Corepoint ends News in brief the East Anglian coast a success for SEA Imcore, Innovative Management for conference Coastal Resources, is an Interreg ● Wind and wave developments ● Maine wants lobster fisheries A new study commissioned by the Pamela Pearson, The project will involve collecting CoastNet’s first conference of IVB project and successor to the certified sustainable also known as stories, pictures and artefacts from Scottish government has found that 2008, on Strategic Environmental Corepoint project. Provisionally According to the Associated Press, ‘the Wallasea East Anglian communities to tell wind turbines will not put tourists off Assessment, proved yet again the approved by the North West Europe the US Maine lobster industry is Mermaid’, will be stories of coastal change in the visiting Scotland. According to popularity of CoastNet-style Programme, Imcore will enable seeking to have its lobster certified researchers at Glasgow’s Caledonian the first person to region over the past 50 years or conferences with a strong many of the Corepoint partners to as sustainable by the London- University carrying out the survey, share her story as more and culminate in a travelling emphasis on practical problems continue to work together and apply based Marine Stewardship Council. three-quarters of visitors surveyed part of Holding exhibition that celebrates this and solutions to implementation lessons learned and techniques said wind farms had a positive or Back the Tide – a coast and changes faced as told by of SEA in coastal and marine developed to the issue of climate neutral effect on the landscape, and new Heritage its inhabitants. situations. The approach was change in coastal areas. It is hoped 97% said wind farms would have no Lottery funded complemented by some thought- that the project will start in April. impact on their decision to visit project delivered “The telling and sharing of stories provoking contributions on the Scotland again. by CoastNet. can generate great pride in both role of SEA in environmental individuals and communities, as well justice, and on SEA as a learning This is good news for the plethora of tool for sustainable development. TV Coast’s, Mark Horton, Pamela grew up on the banks of the as reinforcing the value of the coast wind and wave development itself”, says CoastNet’s newest team speaks at APPG programmes in the pipeline or Crouch Estuary in Essex where her Beverley Walker, of Royal underway such as that by British Gas parents ran the Wallasea Yacht Club. member, Suzanne Gattrell, who is The Coastal and Haskoning Scotland, who made a owner, Centrica, who is now set to Pictured here, at the age of 20, in her coordinating the project. keynote presentation commented, Marine All Party ● Greatest glacier ice loss recorded Latest official figures from the push ahead with one of the UK's most homemade mermaid’s tail you can “It’s the best conference I have Parliamentary World Glacier Monitoring Service ambitious offshore wind generation understand why she went on to be a been to for years”. Group held its AGM For more information contact show that the world’s glaciers are building programmes off the professional synchronised swimmer – in February with Dr Suzanne Gattrell, shrinking at record rates and many Lincolnshire coast after it secured a having nursed her passion for being See www.coastnet.org.uk for Mark Horton from the popular Project Coordinator: could disappear within decades, long-term contract on the MV on and in the waters of the Crouch the conference outputs. Coast series delivering a suzanne.gattrell@coastnet.org.uk the UN Environment Programme Resolution, the world's largest from a young age. passionate address on the major turbine-installing barge. reports. Data from close to 30 challenges facing the UK’s coast. reference glaciers in nine mountain His enthusiasm for the coast, and ranges indicate that between the News in brief concern for the threatened coastal heritage and archaeology years 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 the average rate of melting and stimulated contributions from the thinning more than doubled. ● Caribbean countries plan early ● Mediterranean tuna fleet in race for ● Uncovering the mysteries of audience and a lengthy debate. tsunami warning system by 2010 the last bluefin oceanic bacteria Caribbean nations will set up a joint The most comprehensive analysis yet A team of MIT researchers is trying to Spanish company Iberdrola has also tsunami early warning centre by of the Mediterranean bluefin tuna fleet understand how microbes living in the begun testing its wave energy pilot in 2010, governments agreed at a shows it conservatively having twice oceans play a critical role in regulating CoastNet working in Wales Santoña, Cantabria, which will meeting in Panama in March. the fishing capacity of current quotas Earth’s environment. The researchers become the first of this kind to CoastNet has won a contract to Supporters want the centre to relay and more than three and a half times have devised a new method to analyse be installed in Europe. And UK tidal support CCW (Countryside Council information from national geological the catch levels recommended by gene expression in complex microbial energy firm, Marine Current Turbines for Wales) in taking forward the institutes across the region, that scientists to avoid stock collapse populations and say the work could has announced its plans to install the could help prevent deaths and ‘Making the most of the coast’ according to a new report by WWF, help better understand how oceans world's first commercial scale, grid- infrastructure damage in the event Race for the last bluefin. respond to climate change. initiative in North West Wales. Its connected tidal energy generator at of a tsunami. focus will be the Menai Straight and ● North Pacific right whale receives Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland The fleet is so bloated that just ● IMO to discuss shipping carbon Conwy Bay Natura 2000 nature new legal protection late in April. The project is expected covering its costs implies that a third emissions cuts conservation site, but taking into The US federal government in to generate enough electricity for of its fishing would be illegal, with the The International Maritime account the wider priorities and March declared the North Pacific 1,000 homes. worst over-capacity culprits being Organisation (IMO) is to discuss pressures in that area of NW Wales. right whale ‘endangered’ under the Turkey, Italy, Croatia, Libya, France binding measures to reduce carbon CoastNet will be working with local federal Endangered Species Act, In North America, proposals for a and Spain says the report. dioxide emissions from international and regional stakeholders to identify following petitions and litigation deep water farm off the coast of shipping. In April the body’s marine the best approach to the creation of from the Center for Biological Martha's Vineyard has been met with WWF is calling on concerned environment protection committee will a sustainable coastal management Diveristy. The whale, once ranging enthusiasm while the Pacific Gas & countries to dramatically reduce explore a range of options for tackling framework and action plan. from California to Alaska and across Electric Corporation were given a capacity in this fishery as a matter of the issue. the North Pacific to Russia and permit to study and possibly develop urgency ahead of the 2008 fishing Japan, is now the most endangered wave energy off the coast of season that starts end-April. large whale in the world. Northern California.