Browse Function

The Protocols Database Browse Function enables you to find protocols and to explore how these protocols are used to monitor the marine environment. A series of inter-connected pre-defined queries provide a number of different pathways to the same core information. This makes it easy for you to identify and extract the protocols that are relevant to your needs.

To begin browsing the Database, select one of the following starting points:

• Human Activities – start here if you are interested in a particular human activity and want to find out how the impacts arising from that activity are monitored.
• Pressures – start here if you are interested in a particular environmental impact, problem or issue and want to find out which policies/legislation require monitoring of that pressure.
• Policy and Legislative Drivers – start here if you are interested in a particular policy or piece of legislation and want to find out which monitoring programmes are driven by that policy/legislation.
• Programmes – start here if you are interested in a particular monitoring programme and want to find out which parameters are measured and which protocols are used within that programme.
• Organisations – start here if you are interested in a particular organisation and want to find out about its monitoring activities.
• Parameter Categories – start here if you are interested in a specific set of parameters and want to know which protocols are used to measure those parameters.
• Protocols – start here if you are interested in a specific protocol and want to know which monitoring programmes use that protocol to measure which parameters.