The Ocean Tide and the Port of Liverpool

This meeting is organised by the National Oceanography Centre and the University of Liverpool, in association with the Centre for Port and Maritime History (University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University and Merseyside Maritime Museum) and the Liverpool Institute for Sustainable Coasts and Oceans (National Oceanography Centre, University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University).

This meeting marks the 100th anniversary of the world-famous Liverpool Tidal Institute, founded at Liverpool University in 1919 before moving to Bidston Observatory on the Wirral. That Institute, after many changes of name, is now a part of the present-day National Oceanography Centre. It also marks the start of teaching and research in Oceanography at Liverpool University, the first oceanography department in the UK.

The meeting will run from 10 am to 2 pm with free registration and free refreshments. For a list of speakers and to register please go to:

https://conference.noc.ac.uk/ocean-tide-and-port-liverpool

The National Oceanography Centre building in Liverpool will also be open that day for you to see the machines which made tidal predictions before the days of digital computers - see the above web site for information on that also.