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Posted: 24 March 2015
Ocean Business at NOC International marine science firms are choosing April’s Ocean Business event as the key venue for exploring ventures with the National Oceanography Centre’s scientists and technologists. NOC...
Posted: 23 March 2015
Deploying a RAPID buoy A ground-breaking project to observe and analyse regular data about ocean circulation and how it impacts on Britain’s climate has reached a ten-year milestone, giving valuable new insights into...
Posted: 19 March 2015
‘Supermoon’ seen from Canary Wharf, 2014 (credit: Matt Buck) ‘Supermoon’ is a term widely used to refer to when either a full or new moon coincides with the closest approach the Moon has to Earth in its elliptical orbit. It is not an astronomical term (...
Posted: 17 March 2015
Hydrothermal vent worms (courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) 2 April 2015 – Deep-sea tubeworms and super-fast fossils – Magdalena Georgieva PhD student at Natural History Museum, London and University of Leeds Polychaete worms are multi-segmented,...
Posted: 16 March 2015
Autosub Long Range The National Oceanography Centre (NOC), along with nine UK partners from across industry and academia, has won funding from Innovate UK to enable £2.9m worth of collaborative research &...
Posted: 13 March 2015
Dr Russell Wynn with one of the marine robots How marine robotic vehicles can map and monitor the ocean – and the National Oceanography Centre’s (NOC) experiences of using them – is one of the subjects being discussed at this year’s...
Posted: 12 March 2015
Monserrat volcano as seen from the JR research ship (credit: Adam Stilton, volcanologist) Tsunamis triggered by the partial collapse of the Caribbean Monserrat volcano 13,000 years ago, would have been much smaller than previously thought, according to research published soon in...
Posted: 9 March 2015
One of the 44 idealised simulations of the Southern Ocean using Q-GCM, showing the potential vorticity at the ocean surface Research at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has highlighted the significance of eddies and chaos within the ocean in controlling the response to forcing from climate change. Therefore, it...
Posted: 6 March 2015
National Oceanography Centre Monday 30 March – A Workshop to Review Requirements and Options for an Operational Service – National Oceanography Centre in Southampton. Introduction Sea Level Space Watch is a...
Posted: 6 March 2015
Hairy chested crab NOC’s remotely operated vehicle (ROV) used to investigate the social life of the hairy chested ‘Hoff’ crab. Researchers from the University of Southampton have used the Isis ROV to shed light...
Posted: 4 March 2015
Infrared picture of the canvas bucket filled with warm water NOC research on the effect of buckets on climatic data was featured in the recent BBC documentary ‘Climate Change by Numbers’, which framed the science of climate change using three...