The MarLIN team continued to pioneer the use of online information resources and data to communicate marine science to an increasing audience (e.g. Sealife Survey and education events and information, e.g. ‘Biological Recording and Education’ – developed online sighting schemes e.g.
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It provided online access to marine data and evolved into DASSH (the Archive for Marine Species and Habitats Data).
‘Seabed Data Access’ - worked with JNCC and the National Biodiversity Network (NBN) on development of Marine Recorder and marine data sharing across the UK (1999 – 2005).It provides information to support the conservation of marine species and habitats within SACs, SSSIs and other MPAs in UK waters (1999-present). ‘Biology & Sensitivity’ Key Information - developed the MarLIN sensitivity assessment approach, in liaison with SNCB staff, government agencies, and academics.The MarLIN programme was divided into three main areas Subsequent development of the website, its content, and database was supported by the advice of experts in marine biology and biodiversity data, from academia, museums, NGOs and statutory nature conservation bodies (SNCBs). The MarLIN website was officially launched at the MBA conference ‘Using Marine Biological Information in the Electronic Age’, 19-21 July 1999 organized by the MarLIN team. Further funding (especially from English Nature and Scottish Natural Heritage) allowed the core team to be created with Dan Lear, Jon Parr, Angus Jackson, and Harvey Tyler-Walters by August 1999. The MarLIN programme was created with funding from DETR and the support of the Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), in late 1998, by Dr Keith Hiscock, Prof. The MarLIN ‘biology and sensitivity’ database and website remain the largest review of the potential impacts of human activities and natural events on UK marine species and habitats yet undertaken – anywhere – ever. It also developed a wide-reaching education programme, a data archive and dissemination programme that continue today at the MBA. MarLIN’s sensitivity assessments of marine habitats and species in response to human impacts and natural events formed the basis for much further work in this area. Originally established in response to the need for information to support the Habitats Directive and marine conservation and management in general, it has been at the forefront of science communication and evidence-based policy decision support, providing information freely, for twenty years. Readers will enjoy joining Charlotte as she loses and finds herself again through her relationships with the inhabitants of Glass Town.MarLIN (the Marine Life Information Network for Britain and Ireland) pioneered the use of the Web for the dissemination of quality assured information on the marine biodiversity of the British Isles and North East Atlantic to provide information resources that support marine management, conservation, and education. Greenberg showcases the excitement that literature, their father’s library, brought to these siblings, how they used it to stoke their creativity, craft these worlds which so stimulated their minds as well as provided an escape from the harshness of reality. While there is sadness here, the main takeaway is the beauty of a child’s imagination – something modern children may have lost, with their faces constantly planted in screens. Greenberg’s drawings are childlike and simplistic the galley provided was black and white, but the finished hardcover will feature full-color illustrations, which should show the storyline to greater advantage. This leaves Charlotte alone in the rectory on the desolate moors with her curate father. It’s easy to understand why she prefers Glass Town, where she can control events, to real life, where addiction claims her brother Branwell, though not before he squanders his talent and disappoints the entire family, and illness takes all her sisters. Charlotte retreats further and further into her imaginary world as one by one she loses her siblings in the real world. Glass Town and its inhabitants, their lives, loves and adventures, were the fruit of the Brontës’ juvenilia, their “scribblemania,” and it shows in the melodramatic and often childishly overwrought lives of the Glass Town characters.
This graphic novel intertwines the storylines of Glass Town with real events in the Brontës’ lives, primarily Charlotte’s. “None of this would’ve happened, if six hadn’t become four.” So Charlotte Brontë begins the story of how the remaining Brontë siblings – Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne – created their own imaginary world, Glass Town, after the death of their two older sisters, Elizabeth and Maria. Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës