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Posted: 25 February 2011
Fieldwork in Spitsbergen Scientists are unravelling the environmental changes that took place around the Arctic during an exceptional episode of ancient global warming. Newly published results from a high-resolution study...
Posted: 25 February 2011
CTD cast Elizabeth Sargent – Discovery 361 – 12.35°N, 22.00°W Things are off to a great, albeit busy, start. We’ve worked up a good sampling plan, and have decided that we will normally do one station...
Posted: 24 February 2011
VIP guests and speakers at the Climate Change Science briefing Professor Sir David King, former Government Chief Scientific Adviser and newly appointed Chair of the NOC Advisory Council, joined ITN’s Health and Science Editor, Lawrence McGinty, and leading...
Posted: 22 February 2011
Natural iron fertilisation artound the Crozet Islands.southern Indian Ocean Scientists at the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) will participate in an international effort to assess the efficacy of ocean iron fertilisation (OIF) in reducing the amount of carbon...
Posted: 18 February 2011
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. The...
Posted: 18 February 2011
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. Established for...
Posted: 16 February 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 – The Census of Marine...
Posted: 16 February 2011
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...
Posted: 16 February 2011
Gravity core being deployed at night off South Georgia Methane-rich sediments off South Georgia The sediments just offshore Bird Island, South Georgia are rich in gases such as methane. We sampled this site last year on our way to the South...
Posted: 16 February 2011
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...
Posted: 14 February 2011
One of the newly discovered vents Scientists aboard the Royal Research Ship James Cook have discovered a new set of deep-sea volcanic vents in the chilly waters of the Southern Ocean. The discovery is the fourth made by the research...
Posted: 14 February 2011
Frame grab from SHRIMP footage of 3-metre high active chimney Vent Discovery in Adventure Caldera Friday night in the SHRIMP* van and we have been videoing the seafloor for three hours inside the Adventure Caldera, which geophysicists from the British...
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