PML provides
capability for observing, modelling, understanding and
forecasting marine ecosystems, to underpin evidence-based
environmental solutions to societal challenges. PML do so by
applying world-leading, integrated,
scientific understanding, focused on the interactions between the
marine environment and society, in estuarine, coastal and shelf
waters, as well as the upper layers of the global
ocean.
PML's long term objective
is the sustainability of the marine ecosystem as climate regulator;
a source of food, water, renewable energy, and livelihoods; and a
contributor to human health and prosperous human societies.

Watch PML's new short
film, “Ocean
acidification: Connecting science, industry, policy and
public”, commissioned by the Natural
Environment Research Council (NERC).
The film brings together a wide range of
stakeholders and highlights the vital need for good communication
between the groups, to help address global issues such as ocean
acidification.