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Posted: 29 February 2012
Planet Under Pressure NOC Liverpool is organising a session at the Planet Under Pressure conference in London called Past and Present Sea Level Rise and Ice Sheets. The session will take the form of poster...
Posted: 29 February 2012
Iceberg (courtesy Ben Moat, National Oceanography Centre) Icebergs on the high seas – in times gone by and in a changing world – Talk by Dr Bob Marsh, Physical Oceanographer, National Oceanography Centre This talk addresses the scientific and...
Posted: 23 February 2012
Uncovering fossil remains Application is now open for Ocean and Earth Science’s new MRes in Vertebrate Palaeontology. This new one-year course offers you the chance to study the evolution and anatomy of vertebrates at...
Posted: 22 February 2012
A Mayan temple in the Kingdom of Tikal; one of the most prominent of the Classic Period A new study reports that the disintegration of the Maya Civilization may have been related to relatively modest reductions in rainfall. The study was led by Professors Martín Medina-Elizalde...
Posted: 13 February 2012
Preparing the sub-surface profiler The RRS James Cook is in the Southern Ocean on a 51-day expedition to look at deep water mixing in this turbulent ocean. Two young scientists aboard, Alex Brearley and Katy Sheen, are running...
Posted: 8 February 2012
The RRS Discovery The 50th anniversary of the launch of the Royal Research Ship Discovery was marked on 2 July 2012. This is her last year of service, a half-century of science that has included surveying the ocean...
Posted: 6 February 2012
RRS Discovery Scientists, crew and support staff, past and present, associated with the Royal Research Ship Discovery gathered in 2012 to celebrate the half century of the vessel’s service to UK science...
Posted: 2 February 2012
Giant Jellyfish (Nemopilema nomurai) clogging fishing nets in Japan (courtesy of Dr Shin-ichi Uye) A global study has questioned claims that jellyfish are increasing worldwide. Blooms, or proliferation, of jellyfish have shown a substantial, visible impact on coastal populations – clogged...
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