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Posted: 31 January 2019
L-R: Marlan’s Managing Director Alex Sinclair, the NOC’s Head of Ocean Technology & Engineering Dr Paul Bell, Marlan’s KTP Associate (now Director of Research) Dr Cai Bird and the University of Liverpool’s Head of Geography and Planning Professor Andrew Plater A Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between Marlan Maritime Technologies Ltd, the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the University of Liverpool has achieved an ‘Outstanding’ grade by funding...
Posted: 29 January 2019
 A large sea cucumber feeding as it walks across the deep seafloor at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory site (northeast Atlantic, 4850 m water depth). An important theory of biological processes in all animals (like feeding and breathing rates), has been found to hold for deep-sea animals, in a unique study based on long-term observations of the...
Posted: 25 January 2019
Registration for the 2019 event is open now. This is our annual FREE day of educational fun all about the science and innovative technology development taking place at the...
Posted: 25 January 2019
This free meeting, open to the public as well as the science community, marks the 100th anniversary of the world-famous Liverpool Tidal Institute, founded at University of Liverpool in 1919...
Posted: 25 January 2019
The annual meeting of the RINGO project (Readiness of ICOS for Necessities of Integrated Global Observations) will be held from 20 March to 22 March at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton...
Posted: 25 January 2019
Emeritus Fellow of the NOC, and sea-level scientist, Professor Phil Woodworth, has been elected as a fellow of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), in recognition of his...
Posted: 23 January 2019
Ocean Business is being held at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK from 9-11 April 2019. Firmly established as one of the most important international events in the ocean technology...
Posted: 14 January 2019
Sea surface where algal blooms can form Scientists at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) are developing an innovative new sensor and associated analytical techniques for monitoring and classifying phytoplankton that can cause harmful...
Posted: 14 January 2019
Marine Life Talks Unfortunately, due to unforseen circumstances the February Marine Life Talk, which was to be held this Thursday 7 February, will not take place. Sorry to disappoint – next Marine Life Talk: 7...
Posted: 9 January 2019
Ice Results of a recent paper published in Nature reveal that ice sheets overlying extensive wetlands can release tons of methane to the atmosphere through subglacial rivers. Ice sheets are currently...