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Posted: 14 February 2011
Coring at night
We have videoed the many different areas of venting at the seafloor in the base of the Kemp Caldera and now are spending a cold, snowy night coring the mud from the seafloor.... |
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Posted: 11 February 2011
Tiny organisms preserved in marine sediments hold clues about Arctic climate variation during an ancient episode of greenhouse warming.
Based on reconstructions of Arctic climate variability... |
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Posted: 10 February 2011
Sampling the Kemp Caldera
Our final site in the East Scotia Sea is an 8 km-diameter caldera on the flank of a shallow seamount at the southern end of the South Sandwich Island Arc.
The... |
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Posted: 9 February 2011
On Thursday 10 February, former Government Chief Scientific Officer, Professor Sir David King, and ITN’s Health and Science Editor, Lawrence McGinty, will be joined by the UK’s leading scientists... |
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Posted: 9 February 2011
Analysis of a comprehensive database has revealed strong links between biological productivity in the surface oceans and patterns of biomass and abundance at the seafloor, helping to explain large... |
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Posted: 8 February 2011
Saturday 19 March 2011
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (through Dock Gate 4)
10:30am – 4:00pm (last admission 3:30pm)
Ocean and Earth Day 2011 comes at the start of Climate... |
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Posted: 8 February 2011
Geochemistry sampling at the East Scotia Ridge
Our first task at the East Scotia Ridge is to re-occupy the hydrothermal sites studied last year. A cluster of chimneys which vent at... |
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Posted: 8 February 2011
RRS James Cook in transit to the South Sandwich Islands
We have finished our work in the Bransfield Strait and now have a three day passage to our next working area near the southern most... |
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Posted: 4 February 2011
RRS Discovery UK Nitrogen Fixation - GEOTRACES Expedition 2011
Where and why?
The National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton, the Universities of East Anglia, Plymouth, Liverpool and Cape... |
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Posted: 3 February 2011
Dr Heiko Pälike of the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) based at National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has been awarded the prestigious Wollaston Fund,... |
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Posted: 2 February 2011
The Axe, Bransfield Strait
Our final site within the Strait is aptly named ‘The Axe’. This is the least studied site that we have chosen to study and first we need to map the seafloor.
Again... |
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Posted: 1 February 2011
On 25 January 2011, Dr Jung-Keuk Kang, President of the Korea Ocean Research Development Institute (KORDI), Republic of South Korea, signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with the National... |