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Posted: 20 December 2013
Professor Martin Palmer Professor Martin Palmer has been named as a Geochemical Fellow by the Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry (EAG). Since 1996, the EAG and the Geochemical Society award...
Posted: 16 December 2013
Recovering TOBI A joint British-German team has returned from a five-week research expedition, mapping and sampling a giant submarine canyon off northwest Morocco. The expedition was on the German research vessel...
Posted: 16 December 2013
Sea level may reach 80 cm above the modern level by 2100 An international team of researchers report that sea level rise since the industrial revolution has been fast by natural standards and – at current rates – may reach 80 centimetres above the...
Posted: 11 December 2013
GPS Station, Lake Ellsworth The webinar will be broadcast Thursday 12 December 2013 11:00 AM EST (8:00 AM PST). Registration is required for the seminar at www.oceanmysteries.net. This is part of Blue Marvel Series – there...
Posted: 11 December 2013
Extracting a core from the seabed. Credit Russell Wynn. The risk posed by tsunami waves generated by Canary Island landslides may need to be re-evaluated, according to researchers at the National Oceanography Centre. Their findings suggest that these...
Posted: 10 December 2013
Andvord Bay, Antarctica – fjord hotspot of seafloor marine life (credit: Craig Smith, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa) Rapid climate change is threatening marine communities, but scientists have found that marine life is flourishing in Antarctic fjords despite warming in the region. Deep inside the subpolar...
Posted: 5 December 2013
A storm surge on 3 Jan 2014 in the Irish Sea (similar to the recent one on 5 December 2013) raised the sea surface above the astronomical tide level by 0.75 metres to 1 metre over a large area....
Posted: 4 December 2013
Breakfast Club On the 16 January 2014 the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOC) will be hosting the next in its series of Marine Manufacturer’s ‘Breakfast Club’ meetings. At this Breakfast Club...
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