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Posted: 29 September 2016
Into the blue – RRS Discovery in Liverpool 4–7 October 2016 We live and breathe science. From the air in our lungs to whether of not it rains today, environmental science explains much of what happens to us. Did you know that air quality...
Posted: 28 September 2016
Autosub6000 City-sized maps of terrain and life on the sea-floor have revealed that drifts of ‘marine snow’ on submarine hillsides act as a source of food to fuel a higher biomass of marine life on the hills...
Posted: 28 September 2016
PAP Surface Buoy European scientists are joining forces to better understand oceanic change, by coordinating ocean data acquisition, analysis and response on scales ranging from the provincial to the global....
Posted: 27 September 2016
Humpback whales 6 October 2016 – Marine Conservation Efforts in Southern Mozambique Speaker: Francesca Trotman Love the Oceans, founded in 2014 by University of Southampton graduate Francesca Trotman, is...
Posted: 22 September 2016
Gliders on the launch vessel at SAMS prior to deployment on ‘Exploring Ocean Fronts’ An ambitious two-week mission involving ten marine robots has commenced off northwest Scotland. The third in a series of demonstrator missions, this latest phase sees the largest fleet of marine...
Posted: 20 September 2016
The TOMCAT team Leading scientists from across the world travelled to NOC for the first TOMCAT working group meeting. This group aims to take advantage of the fast development of optical technologies to help...
Posted: 16 September 2016
Oil and Gas collaboration The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has launched a new collaborative way of working with the oil and gas industry. NOC will provide innovative science and technology to enable industry to work...
Posted: 12 September 2016
Bythocaris A new study recently published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles offers clues to the potential impact of ocean acidification deep-sea, shell-forming organisms. This collaborative...
Posted: 8 September 2016
PAP site Met Office buoy The UK has become the newest member of an international consortium supporting science on greenhouse gasses, through long-term research infrastructure. The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is the...
Posted: 5 September 2016
Methane hydrate recovered from ocean sediments off Svalbard NOC scientists have contributed to the publication of an authoritative new report on the impacts of ocean warming on species, ecosystems, and ocean ‘goods and services,’ such as carbon management...
Posted: 5 September 2016
Shells on a beach Science and industry will now be able to map beaches and sandbanks without getting any feet wet. This follows three years of collaborative research resulting in a new commercial licence between...
Posted: 2 September 2016
Working on sensors The National Oceanography Centre is seeking commercial partners to exploit its state-of-the art platform technology incorporating lab-on-chip microfluidic techniques. The technology is...
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