NOC working with national capability delivery partners
National capability enables the UK to deliver world-leading environmental science, support national strategic needs, and respond to emergencies. It includes the research and development activities which keeps this capability at the cutting-edge. For marine science, this capability is managed and delivered by NOC working with its national capability delivery partners.
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Observing, modelling, understanding and forecasting marine ecosystems, to underpin evidence-based environmental solutions to societal challenges
Scottish Association for Marine Science
Working for an informed, responsible and sustainable relationship with our seas and oceans
Marine Biological Association
To promote scientific research into all aspects of life in the sea, including the environment on which it depends.
Sea Mammal Research Unit
Provides the UK’s main science capability in the field of marine mammal biology.
British Geological Survey
United Kingdom's premier centre for earth science information and expertise.
Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science
collecting data from the North Atlantic and the North Sea on the ecology and biogeography of plankton since 1931.
British Antarctic Survey
For over 60 years, undertaken the majority of Britain's scientific research on and around the Antarctic continent
