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Posted: 31 March 2010
New research ship contract awarded The UK’s leading environmental research organisation has commissioned a state-of-the art scientific research ship to replace the RRS Discovery, which was built in 1962 and is coming to the end of...
Posted: 24 March 2010
Spider Crabs and Jelly Fish (credit: NOC/NERC) Some regions of the deep ocean floor support abundant populations of organisms, despite being overlain by water that contains very little oxygen, according to an international study led by...
Posted: 22 March 2010
Ocean and Earth Day The enormously exciting Ocean and Earth Day took place at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (via Dock Gate 4) on 20 March 2010. The recent years have shown ample evidence of the...
Posted: 9 March 2010
Acantharian cyst (Patrick Martin SOES/NOCS) Spore-like reproductive cysts of enigmatic organisms called acantharians rapidly sink from surface waters to the deep ocean in certain regions, according to new research. Scientists suspect...
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