Image Credits
We would like to thank the following people for allowing OSPAR to use their fantastic images on our website;
Anemone: NOAA
Eutrophication: F Laimot
Windfarm: Paul Langrock
Oil platform: Louis Vest
Reactor core: Wikipedia Commons
Tromso: Justin Gwynn
Ringhals facility in Sweden: Vattenfall
The Azores: Richard Emmerson
Phytoplankton: NOAA
Orkney Islands: David Johnson
http://www.ospar.org/about/how
Bird aggregation: Jan Van de Kam
http://www.ospar.org/about/history
Harbour seals: Klass Kreuijer
http://www.ospar.org/about/publications
Oyster catchers: Jan Van de Kam
http://www.ospar.org/about/principles
Walruses: Marine Photobank
http://www.ospar.org/about/international-cooperation/memoranda-of-understanding
Plumose anemone: David Johnson
http://www.ospar.org/convention
Oil boats in Aberdeen harbour: David Lewis
http://www.ospar.org/convention/agreements
Vlissingen Harbour: FaceMePls
http://www.ospar.org/convention/text
Estuary: Martin Stock
http://www.ospar.org/organisation/staff
The Azores: Richard Emmerson
http://www.ospar.org/organisation/observers
Dan Tysk windfarm: Paul Langrock
http://www.ospar.org/organisation/task-managers-chair-resources
Refinery: Simon Hadleigh-Sparks
http://www.ospar.org/organisation/vacancies
Svalbard Glacier: K Karkow
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/bdc
Cod: Fosshagen, Hordaland
Ocean quahog: Paul Kay
Roseate tern: Jorge E Saliva
Harbour Porpoise: Wikipedia
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/bdc/species-habitats
Lamprey: T Lawrence/Great Lakes Fishery Commission
Thornback ray: Wikipedia
Gulper Shark: Andy Murch/ Elasmodiver
Short-snouted seahorse: Wikipedia
Bowhead whale: Day Donaldson
Ivory gull: Jomilo75
Bluefin tuna : Open Cage
Zostera marina: Harald Fosshagen
Loggerhead turtle: Oceana/Juan Cuentos
Modiolus modiolus beds: Scottish Natural Heritage
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/bdc/species-habitats/list-of-threatened-declining-species-habitats
Ocean quahog: Paul Kay
Azorean barnacle: RSB Photography
Dog whelk: Martin Talbot
Flat oyster: H Zell
Azorean limpet: RSB Photography
Lesser black-backed gull: Mick Lobb
Ivory gull: Jomilo75
Steller’s eider: US Fish and Wildlife Services Headquarters
Balearic shearwater: Marcabrera
Black-legged kittiwake: Yathin S Krishna
Roseate tern: Jorge E Saliva
Iberian Guillemot: Martha de Jong-Lantink
Thick-billed murre: Tony Morris
Sturgeon: Yu Diving
Allis shad: Fernando Coello vicente
Portuguese dogfish: Alan Jamieson
Gulper shark: Gulper Shark: Andy Murch/ Elasmodiver
Leafscale gulper shark: Dr Alan Jamieson
Basking shark: Chris Gotschalk
Spotted ray: Ross Bullimore
Cod: Hans Petter Fjeld
Long-snouted seahorse: Massimiliano De Martino
Short-snouted seahorse: Wikipedia
Orange roughy: OSPAR
Porbeagle: NOAA
Lamprey: T Lawrence/Great Lakes Fishery Commission
Thornback ray: Wikipedia
White skate: Theo Modder
Salmon: Hans Petter Fjeld
Spurdog: NOAA
Angel shark: Philippe Guillaume
Bluefin tuna : Open Cage
Loggerhead turtle: Oceana/Juan Cuentos
Leatherback turtle: U Tinglar
Bowhead whale: Day Donaldson
Blue whale: Tom Benson
Harbour Porpoise: Wikipedia
Carbonate mounds: NOAA
Deep-sea sponge aggregations: MAREANO Institute of Marine Research
Intertidal Mytilus edulis Beds on Mixed & Sandy Sediment: Mark A Wilson
Intertidal Mudflats: Audrey Becconais
Littoral Chalk Communities: Tony Morris
Lophelia pertusa Reef: Joon 1
Maerl beds: Ross Bullimore
Modiolus modiolus beds: Scottish Natural Heritage
Oceanic Ridges with Hydrothermal Vent: Universitat Bremen
Ostrea edulis Beds: Robin Stott
Sabellaria spinulosa Reefs: Sir Ron Jessop, Master of all servant to none
Seamounts: Crown copyright
Sea-Pen & Burrowing Megafauna Communities: Harald Fosshagen
Zostera beds: Thomas Abiven
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/bdc/marine-protected-areas
Map of OSPAR MPAs: BFN, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Germany)
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/bdc/biodiversity-monitoring-assessment-1
Polar bear: Sebastian Unger
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/hasec
Data buoy monitoring: The dearly missed Stumpy & Simon
Eutrophication: Michael Meiters
Lead: Jurii
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/eiha
Pacific Osprey windfarm boat: Paul Langrock
Willy Weston of Morston Mussels: Eastern Inshore Fisheries & Conservation Authority
Thames Barrier: Craig Allen
Munitions: Gauss
Microbeads: Current Biology
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/eiha/offshore-renewables
Pacific Osprey windfarm boat: Paul Langrock
Dan Tysk Windfarm: Paul Langrock
Strangford Loch tidal power: Ardfern via Wikimedia Commons
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/eiha/marine-litter
Underwater tyre in Norway: Mailk Naumann/Marine Photobank
Whale and diver: Alberto Dario Romeo/Marine Photobank
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/eiha/marine-litter/marine-litter-indicators
Beach litter in Norway: Bo Eide
Beach litter collection: Karin Baerwald/Marine Photobank
Fulmar: John Dunn
Microbeads: Current Biology
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/eiha/marine-litter/regional-action-plan
Tern: David Cayless/Marine Photobank
Shark: Elaine Blum/Marine Photobank
Gannet: Sasha Regmann/Project Blue Sea/Marine Photobank
Whale and diver: Alberto Dario Romeo/Marine Photobank
Nets: Eleanor Partridge/Marine Photobank
Fishing for litter: KIMO International
Foreshore litter: Bo Eide
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/eiha/marine-litter/marine-litter-conference
Microbeads: Current Biology
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/eiha/noise
Propeller: Harland & Wolff
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/eiha/fishing-mariculture
Willy Weston of Morston Mussels: Eastern Inshore Fisheries & Conservation Authority
Fish: John Dunn
Morston mussel beds: Nick Moys
Fish cages: Thomas Bjorkan
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/eiha/shipping
Shipping containers in Rotterdam port: Andri Stashko
Whale struck by ship: Tyler Ingram
Comb jellyfish: Orin Zebest
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/eiha/dredging-dumping
Land reclamation images: Andries Jumelet
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/eiha/munitions
Munitions: Gauss
Munitions: Yatagan Miam
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/eiha/other-activities
Brighton beach: Anne Roberts
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/oic
BP ETAP platform: Crown Copyright
Oil boat in Iceland: Arne Halvorsen
Helicopter: Bryan Burke
Statoil Gudrun Platform Norway: Sten Dueland
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/oic/installations
BP ETAP platform: Crown Copyright
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/oic/discharges
Platform waves: Bryan Burke
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/oic/carbon-capture-and-storage
Platform: Louis Vest
Carbon Capture and Storage diagram: Department for the Environment and Climate Change UK
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/oic/chemicals
Supply boat: Colin Lowe
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/rsc
Power plant at night: Bjorn Schwartz
Research cruise: Justin Gwynn
Ringhals reactor Sweden: Vattenfall
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/rsc/nuclear-discharges
Reactor core: Wikipedia
Platform: Justin Gwynn
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/cross-cutting-issues
Oil boats in Aberdeen harbour: David Lewis
Polar Bear: Sebastian Unger
Communication: Elycefellz
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/cross-cutting-issues/communications
Message in a bottle: Dasha Bondareva
Cartoon: Jurgen Appelo
http://www.ospar.org/work-areas/cross-cutting-issues/msfd
Bass rock from Berwick: Lisa Jarvis
The Azores: Richard Emerson
Images credited in each article.
Newsletter images
Vacancy: Lauren Mitchell
