Poster Oceanographic Institute

Poster detailing a brief history of oceanography at Bidston Observatory In 1919, the Liverpool University Tidal Institute (LTI) was formed collecting some of the tide data that were used later for programming the tide-predicting machines at Bidston, after the LTI was moved to Bidston Observatory in 1929. From the 1960's onwards, these tide prediction machines were replaced by computers.

Bidston Observatory tidal studies eventually expanded into global sea level and coastal oceanographic research, joining the Natural Environment Research Council in 1969 and later housing the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC)