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Posted: 31 January 2011
Three Sisters, Bransfield Strait
We have spent the weekend surveying our second volcanic target in Bransfield Strait: the Middle of the Three Sisters. Again we use the plume sniffing approach... |
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Posted: 31 January 2011
The first Marine Life talk of 2011 held at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton was dedicated to the achievement of Dr Ken Collins and Jenny Mallinson, who had the inspiration to start... |
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Posted: 28 January 2011
Mud sampling: 28 January 2011
Alfred Aquilina and the sediment sampling team have been working hard in the cold temperature lab to extract water from the stinking mud from around the... |
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Posted: 25 January 2011
Pinpointing the Vents: 25 January 2011
By Wednesday we have criss-crossed the seafloor with our towed video sled and have mapped out the animal and substrate distribution on the seafloor. The... |
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Posted: 24 January 2011
Coring the seafloor: 23 January 2011
Sunday starts with a steam to a new position nearer to the Antarctic Peninsula where we have chosen a site to core the seafloor. Overnight we homed in on... |
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Posted: 20 January 2011
Statement by the National Oceanography Centre
The National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK, can confirm that there has been an incident involving the RRS James Cook in which the remotely... |
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Posted: 19 January 2011
A major Southampton-led consortium project to study past and possible future sea-level rise has received a major grant award of £3.3 million over five years from the UK’s Natural Environment... |
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Posted: 18 January 2011
Day 3 – Monday 17 January 2011 – Crossing Drake Passage
Monday and we are out in the Drake Passage: a strong head wind slowing us slightly. Drake Passage, between Cape Horn at the tip... |
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Posted: 18 January 2011
Three PhD students of the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) based at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton have won awards for presentations given at... |
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Posted: 17 January 2011
Professor Sir David King will chair the National Oceanography Centre’s newly formed Advisory Council. The inaugural meeting took place on Monday 12 January at the Institute of Physics in London,... |
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Posted: 17 January 2011
Day 1 – Saturday 15 January 2011 – Crossing Drake Passage
We wake on Saturday morning having navigated the Magellan Straits and now we start to cross the Drake Passage to Antarctica. Paul... |
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Posted: 13 January 2011
We are here to carry out a 41 day expedition in the Southern Ocean to explore the newly discovered hydrothermal vents in this remote region. Our principal scientist or expedition leader is Paul... |