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Posted: 30 April 2014
Deployment of a sediment corer from RV Meteor An international team of scientists has discovered new relationships between deep-sea temperature and ice-volume changes to provide crucial new information about how the ice ages came about....
Posted: 24 April 2014
Pumice drift image A technique presented in Nature Communications by researchers from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the University of Southampton will aid in predicting the dispersal and drift patterns...
Posted: 23 April 2014
Brisingid seastar 1 May 2014 – Laetitia Gunton Life Inside a Deep-Sea Canyon Submarine canyons are unique and fascinating features found in the deep sea. They are disturbed environments, in which strong...
Posted: 14 April 2014
C-Enduro Two new generation ocean robots, developed by Hampshire companies ASV Ltd and MOST (AV) Ltd in collaboration with the National Oceanography Centre, are about to enter production as marine...
Posted: 10 April 2014
Dr Elizabeth Kent Dr Elizabeth Kent has been awarded the Adrian Gill Prize by the Royal Meteorological Society for her dedicated research into air-sea interaction and marine climatology. The prize is named in...
Posted: 4 April 2014
Saharan dust triggers plankton blooms that can be seen from space by satellite (courtesy: NASA, May 2010) Saharan dust is coating our cars and irritating our lungs – but what else is it doing? The iron that gives Saharan dust its red colour acts like fertilizer in the open ocean. Sunlight and...
Posted: 4 April 2014
Leigh Storey NOC has further strengthened its management team with the appointment of Leigh Storey as Head of National Marine Facilities Sea Systems. In this role Leigh will be responsible for managing the...
Posted: 1 April 2014
Commodore Guy Robinson from Navy Command Headquarters shaking hands with Geraint West, the NOC’s Director of National Marine Facilities after the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding The National Oceanography Centre and the Royal Navy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to enable cooperation on a variety of activities relating to marine autonomous systems with a particular...
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