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Widespread snowfall over UK in December 2010. Credit NASA / Jeff Schmaltz

Story - May 15, 2013

Weather forecasters have a tougher job predicting winter conditions over Europe in some years over others, concludes a new study carried out by the National Oceanography Centre. The study revealed that the relationship between our winter weather...
Malawania, the Jurassic-style Cretaceous ichthyosaur from Iraq

Story - May 15, 2013

An international team of scientists have revealed a new species of ichthyosaur (a dolphin-like marine reptile from the age of dinosaurs) from Iraq, which revolutionises our understanding of the evolution and extinction of these ancient marine...
Athena SWAN Bronze Award for OES

Story - May 14, 2013

University of Southampton Ocean and Earth Science has received the prestigious Athena SWAN Bronze Award.  The Athena SWAN awards recognise universities’ success in developing employment practices to further and support the careers of...
The primary tectonic plates and plate boundaries in the Arabian Sea region

Story - May 13, 2013

Earthquakes similar in magnitude to the 2004 Sumatra earthquake could occur in an area beneath the Arabian Sea at the Makran subduction zone, according to recent research published in Geophysical Research Letters. The research was carried out by...

Story Courosel - May 6, 2013

Looking back at our maritime heritage The Royal Research Ship Discovery in 1903 at Port Lockroy, which is a natural harbour on the northwestern shores of Wiencke Island, Antarctica. This ship was designed and built for the British National...
The team alongside CCGS Hudson

Story - May 3, 2013

A team of UK scientists have embarked on a shipboard expedition to the Labrador Sea aboard the research vessel CCGS Hudson, to further understanding of how carbon dioxide is locked away from the atmosphere by ocean processes. Led by Dr Stephanie...
The JOIDES Resolution operating in Antarctic shelf waters off Wilkes Land, Antarctica. Credit: John Beck, IODP

Story - April 22, 2013

The unique marine ecosystem of today’s Antarctic seas first developed when large ice sheets formed on Antarctica around 34 million years ago, according to new research involving a scientist based at the National Oceanography Centre,...
Liverpool Bay. Credit: NASA World Wind – Landsat 7

Story - April 16, 2013

New research tracking the movement of dredged sediment around Liverpool Bay could save millions of pounds, according to scientists at the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool. Each year, sediment has to be dredged from the port and deposited...
Coccoliths grown under current and high CO2 levels

Story - April 15, 2013

A type of marine algae could become bigger as increasing carbon dioxide emissions are absorbed by the oceans, according to research led by scientists based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS). The study, published this month in...
Professor Bryden

Story - April 12, 2013

Professor Harry Bryden FRS was awarded the 2013 Fridtjof Nansen Medal by the European Geosciences Union during this year’s General Assembly in Austria. Based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, Professor Bryden is an Emeritus...

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