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Marine Life Talk – 7 April 2011

Tompot blenney (credit: Matt Doggett)

Marine Conservation and the Solent – 19.30pm at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton –

by Amy Dale –

Undergraduate scholarship awards

Students celebrate scholarship success

Forty undergraduate Ocean and Earth Science students have been presented with scholarships to reward academic achievement in Geology, Geophysics, Marine Biology and Oceanography subjects.

Investment in People

From left: Mark Hebden, Liz Bradshaw (both BODC), Pam Ferguson, Pete Hunt (both NOC)

The National Oceanography Centre’s Liverpool site and the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) are celebrating retaining the prestigious Investors in People (IiP) standard.

Marine Life Talk – 3 March 2011

Whalefall

The Census of Marine Life: what have we learned from this 10 year programme? – 19.30pm at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton –

by Professor Paul Tyler

SOES PhD student wins Geological Society’s President’s Award

PhD student Michele Paulatto

Michele Paulatto, a PhD student at the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has been awarded one of the Geological Society’s President’s Awards for 2011.

Discovery milestone

Ed Hill (left) at the keel-laying ceremony

The construction of a state-of-the-art research ship for UK marine science reached a significant milestone in Vigo, Northern Spain, this week with the keel-laying ceremony for the new RRS Discovery.

Ocean and Earth Day at NOC Southampton

Ocean and Earth Day

Saturday 19 March 2011

National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (through Dock Gate 4)

10:30am – 4:00pm (last admission 3:30pm)

NOC and KORDI to promote collaboration

Dr Kang and Prof. Willmott at KORDI for the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding

On 25 January 2011, Dr Jung-Keuk Kang, President of the Korea Ocean Research Development Institute (KORDI), Republic of South Korea, signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), which is intended to enhance existing links between our two organisations and develop new collaborative research opportunities.

Marine Life Talks programme: A Decade of Dedication

Rachel presents Jenny and Ken with thank-you gifts

The first Marine Life talk of 2011 held at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton was dedicated to the achievement of Dr Ken Collins and Jenny Mallinson, who had the inspiration to start the programme of talks back in 2000 and the tenacity to keep it going for ten years.

Postgraduate student prize winners

Double award winner Casey Nixon

Three PhD students of the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) based at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton have won awards for presentations given at scientific conferences.