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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
