Greater Solent Project Tracker

The Solent Forum shares and collates information on a wide range of topics, the table below highlights and links projects and ongoing research that we know about across the Solent. Please email the Forum Office if you would like your project to be listed. For more information on published research and reports in the Solent please refer to our Solent Information Database.

Project Name	Lead Organisation	Management Catchment/Location	Water Body Type
Competitive Angling as a Scientific Tool	University of Portsmouth	Solent	Marine
Integrating Diverse Values into Marine Management	Uni of Portsmouth and Partners	Portsmouth a test study site	Marine
Life on the Edge	RSPB	Solent (one of sites)	Marine
Three Harbours	Southern Water/RSPB	Langstone, Chichester and Pagham Harbours	Marine
Itchen Plastic Pollution Project	Evolve Consulting	Itchen catchment	Estuary
Solent Oyster Restoration	Blue Marine	Solent	Marine
Beneficial Use of Dredgings	Solent Forum	Solent	Marine
Natural Environment Group Projects	Solent Forum	Solent	Coastal/marine
Secrets of the Solent	Hampshire & IOW Wildlife Trust	Solent	Marine
Sea the Value - Valuing Marine Biodiversity for use in Decision Making	Portsmouth University/Plymouth University	Solent (one of two field sites)	Marine
Regional Habitat Compensation Programme	Environment Agency	Solent and South Downs	Coast
Hook Lake, Warsash, Regional Habitat Compensation Programme - Hook Lake Coastal Management Study — Coastal Partners	Coastal Partners	Southampton Water	Marine
Beachbuoy - app on CSO discharges	Southern Water	Soouth East	Marine
Solent Seascape Restoration Inventory	Solent Forum (host)	Solent/Sussex	Marine
Clean Solent Shores and Seas (Litter and water quality)	Solent Forum	Solent	Marine
Rapid Nutrient Reduction in Transitional Waters (RaNTrans)	University of Portsmouth	Langstone Harbour and Poole Harbour	Marine
Bird Aware Solent Research	Bird Aware	Solent	Marine
Southern IFCA Fisheries Research	Southern IFCA	Southampton Water, Test and Itchen, Portsmouth and Langstone	Marine
Solent Scallop/Bivalve/Oyster Surveys	Southern IFCA	Solent	Marine
Southern IFCA Fish Monitoring	Southern IFCA	Southern IFC District	Marine
Reducing and Mitigating Erosion and Disturbance Impacts Effecting the Seabed (ReMEDIES)	Natural England	Solent	Marine
A Historical Investigation of Solent Saltmarsh as Key Coastal Nursery Habitat Areas	Natural England	Solent	Marine
Total Ecosystem Management of Intertidal Habitats (TEMITH)	University of Portsmouth	Solent	Marine
Solent Plastics Pollution hub as part of the Preventing Plastic Pollution project	Solent Forum	Solent and catchments	River and Marine
Solent Seascape Project	Blue Marine Foundation	Solent	Marine
Solent sea defence ecology enhancements	Coastal Partners	East Hampshire	Marine
Chessel Bay Nurdle clean up	EA, SCC, UoS, Friends of Chessel Bay	Itchen Estuary	Marine
Hurst Spit to Lymington scheme	Environment Agency	Hurst to Lymington	Marine
University of Portsmouth Research Portal	UoP
Seagrass Ocean Rescue	WWF	IOW	Marine
New Forest Blue Horizon 2021 to 2026	Freshwater Habitats Trust	New Forest	River
New Forest Wilder for Water	Freshwater Habitats Trust	New Forest	River
Freshwater Habitats Trust Projects	Freshwater Habitat Trust	UK	River
Island Rivers Priority Projects	Isle of Wight Catchment Partnership	Isle of Wight
Green Halo Partnership	New Forest NPA	New Forest	Terrestrial/Coast
Return of the Terns	Friends of Chichester Harbour	Chichester Harbour	Marine
Chichester Harbour Protection & Recovery of Nature	Chichester Harbour Conservancy	Chichester Harbour	Marine
Itchenor BUDS/BESE trial	Chichester Harbour Conservancy	Chichester Harbour	Marine
RedPol	Chichester Harbour Conservancy	Chichester Harbour	Marine
Crustaceans, Habitat And Sediment Movement (CHASM)	Manhood Peninsular	Chichester and Solent	Marine