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A hidden carbon source: permafrost under the Arctic shelves
A Mediterranean Sea in the middle of unprecedented climate change
A seismic study of the continent-ocean transition southwest of the UK
Advancing process-based sargassum forecasts with Earth Observation and Machine Learning
Antarctic Ice Sheet response to climate forcing
Connecting the world: Subsea cable risks in the Polar Seas *
Coupling of seismic and electromagnetic signals at ocean floor sensors *
Developing new tool to use remote geophysical data for sediment characterisation and assist geohazard detection
Earthquakes, faulting and fluid flow during continental extension
Examining the Effects of Relaxed Selection through Experimental Evolution of Coccolithophores
Geochemical signatures of mantle magmatism in plume-ridge contexts: a long-distance relationship
Green house gas detection using silicon photonics platform.
How can we best observe and analyse Antarctica's coldest water masses?
How climate change is causing global ocean biogeochemistry to adapt.
How does Antarctic Intermediate Water ventilate the global ocean?
How does vertical mixing shape the Arctic shelf sea dynamics?
Impacts of underwater noise associated with offshore windfarms on marine fish *
Improving the projection of gravel barrier transgression impacts
In-situ management of nuclear site contaminants: harnessing electrokinetic approaches
Intercomparison of Inlet Dynamics over annual and decadal timescales *
Microplastics and carbon sequestration: identifying links and impacts
Novel ocean sensing using seafloor telecommunications cables for geohazards and environmental monitoring
Ocean physics and ecology: can robots disentangle the mix?
Physical and biogeochemical responses to Antarctic sea ice loss: what are the implications for ocean carbon uptake? *
Physics informed machine learning approach for integration of geotechnical and geophysical data to define centimetre-scale design parameters across kilometre-scale offshore wind farms
Polar amplification of climate change in the past and future
Reconciling geotechnical and seismic data to accelerate green energy developments offshore *
Reconstructing major volcanic eruptions from their deep-sea records *
Seismo-acoustic properties of sea-ice and applications to climate monitoring.
Size does matter: linking particle size to ocean carbon storage *
Synchronous Circumpolar Cross-Slope Exchanges Modulating Antarctic Ice Shelf Melting
The role of Antarctic sea ice in configuring the global ocean
The role of Antarctic sea ice in configuring the global ocean
The role of Greenland currents in mediating the interaction between the Greenland Ice Sheet and the North Atlantic
Understanding variability in Earth’s climate and magnetic field using new archives from the Iberian Margin
Will Earth’s warming climate shift to a “permanent El-Niño” state?