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Session 1: Marine Conservation and Estuarine Management

Characterisation of European marine sites in south west England: Fal and Helford cSAC - BS Chesman, GR Burt, M Taylor, P Jonas, N Cunningham, PJ Worsfold & WJ Langston

Condition monitoring Special Areas of Conservation - Roger Covey

Recent work by the Environment Agency in the European marine sites of the south west - B Bunting, R Hudson & P Jonas

Management of water quality in the south west European marine sites: The way forward - WJ Langston, BS Chesman & GR Burt

The Seine-Aval programme: A project for a future management of the Seine estuary - J-C Dauvin

Session 2: Contaminant behaviour and impact

The behaviour of tritium in south west estuaries - A Turner, GE Millward & M Stemp

Relative sensitivity of cyto- and genotoxic biomarkers in two marine bivalve mollusc species in the Tamar Estuary - VV Cheung & A Jha

The determination of trace metals in the Tamar Estuary using a voltammetric in situ profiling (VIP) system - AD Tappin, C Braungardt & EP Achterberg.

Influence of cockle density and water current on the destabilisation of intertidal sediment from the Tamar Estuary (Plymouth, south west England) and the consequent release of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) - A Ciutat, J Widdows & JW Readman

Session 3: Ecological Processes

Evolution of estuaries – Past and future - D Prandle

Ecological impacts of metal pollution in the Fal and Hayle estuaries - A review - A Grant

Has time influenced the metal contamination in mining-impacted estuaries from southwest England? - S Luoma, P Rainbow, B Smith, K Brix, L Poirer, N Bury & C Hogstsrand

Long-term ecological monitoring of industrial effluent discharges to the Severn Estuary - R Brown, R Swarbrick & M Field

Long term ecological changes in the Tamar Estuary: Are they related to dredging activity or climate change ? - J Widdows & M Brinsley

Session 4: Modelling and predictive tools

Water quality management of rivers and estuaries - R Falconer, B Lin, D Kay & C Stapleton

A pollutant dispersion model for the Severn Estuary: Set-up, verification and application - AM Riddle, PF Robinson & JO Lewis

A non-linear numerical investigation of the Teignmouth estuarine plume front (south west UK) - N Stashchuk, M Pritchard & D Huntley

Modelling in a regulatory context - N Murdoch & P Jonas

Session 5: Water quality in respect of nutrients

DON and estuarine water quality: The forgotten nitrogen pool - EP Achterberg, ES Badr & AD Tappin

Evaluating the implementation of the nitrates directive: moving towards a strategy for eutrophic estuaries in nitrate vulnerable zones - RJ Nimmo-Smith, M Fitzsimons, GE Glegg, R Parkinson, JP Richards & P Worsfold

The biogeochemistry of nutrients in the Tamar Catchment - U Mankasingh, M Depledge, T Galloway &
PJ Worsfold

Natural estuarine particles and their uptake of nitrogen in estuaries (NEPTUNE) - AD Tappin, M Fitzsimons & GE Millward

Session 6: Habitats and biodiversity

The impact of geomorphological change on Biodiversity Action Plan habitats in the Camel Estuary, Cornwall - B Gibberd & DS Brew

Can we predict the development of plant communities on a restored saltmarsh? - HL Mossman, A Grant & A Davy

Predicting the effects of climate change on the community structure of the Bristol Channel - PA Henderson

Sustainable dredging for habitat protection in the upper reaches of the Dart Estuary - hydrographic and oceanographic survey operations - P Odling-Smee

Session 7: Physical Processes

Turbidity and salinity of some estuaries of south west England - RJ Uncles

The physical oceanography of the lower Dart Estuary: Temporal trends and frontal dynamics - AD Priestly & RHC Thain

The formation of gravity currents in the Tamar Estuary - R Lewis, RJ Uncles, JA Stephens, A Riddle & J Lewis

GIS assessment of intertidal mudflat stability in the lower Tamar Estuary over the last century - AJ Bale, RJ Uncles & A Villena-Lincoln

An energy balance approach to the mixing and dispersion of a small estuarine plume: Teignmouth, South Devon - D Huntley & M Pritchard

Mapping surface suspended particle distributions in a coastal environment using remote sensing data - SJ Lavender, D Doxaran & RCN Cherukuru

In-situ floc spectra observations made in the upper reaches of the Tamar Estuary, UK - AJ Manning & SJ Bass

Poster Session

Water and sediment quality in two SW European Marine Sites – review work and modelling undertaken by the Environment Agency - Peter Jonas, Rachel Hudson, Kevan Connolly, Jane Fletcher-Peters, Deborah Tyrrell, Thomas Ash, And Neil Murdoch

Recent studies by the Environment Agency on the contaminant levels in the water, sediments and infauna of the Severn Estuary and Poole Harbour - Peter Jonas, Rachel Hudson, Chris Nikitik, Suzy Witt and Mitch Perkins

NERC British Isles GPS Archive Facility - David Baker

Interannual variation in populations of the toxic dinoflagellate Dinophysis in coastal and estuarine waters of the western English Channel - Duncan A. Purdie and Joanna Dagan

Climatic regulation of Phaeocystis algal blooms in coastal waters of the western English Channel - Duncan A. Purdie, Arantza Iriarte and Claire Holeton