CHASM and Sussex Bay
The CHASM project has now been included in the list of projects within Sussex Bay's Blue Natural Capital Lab network that supports collaboration, innovation and testing:
Crustaceans, Habitat And Sediment Movement. — Sussex Bay
Sussex Bay is a regional vision for the Sussex coast described as 'blue mirror to the South Downs' . Encompassing the sea, coast and rivers, it stretches along 100 miles of Sussex coastline from Selsey in the west to Camber Sands in the east:
2022 CHASM Film
Fishing has been a part of Selsey Bill, West Sussex and the surrounding areas since the Bronze Age. Local fishermen tell of huge changes to the fishing grounds in recent years, about the small numbers of lobsters being caught locally, and large influxes of sediment arriving in their fishing grounds. Needing to understand these changes led to the development of... Read More»
2023 BLUE Sediment Workshop
CHASM, in partnership with the marine charity BLUE Marine Foundation, delivered a workshop examining marine sediment influencing Selsey and the rest of the Sussex Coast. The workshop took place on 18 May 2023 and was funded by the Rewilding Network. This was the Sussex Sediment Monitoring and Adaptive Response Workshop, which brought together the key regulators involved in... Read More»
Life Solved Live
Life Solved Live is a lecture series held by the University of Portsmouth presenting discoveries intended to change the way you see and understand things. The introductory lecture by Professor Alex Ford discussed the shocking truth behind our pollutants and our marine life in his talk ‘Sex changing sea life’. This was an absolute light bulb moment for the... Read More»