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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 - February 1, 2013
Microscopic ocean algae called coccolithophores are providing clues about the impact of climate change both now and many millions of years ago. The study found that their response to environmental change varies between species, in terms of how...
Page - November 10, 2011
University of Southampton
As a hosting partner of the National Oceanography Centre, the University of Southampton enjoys a collaborative and multidisciplinary relationship with NERC colleagues based at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton...
Page - October 7, 2011
The Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems (OBE) Group addresses the ways in which the growth of biological communities in the ocean are regulated, the roles such communities play in the global climate system and the influence of global change on...
Page - September 6, 2011
The DeepSeas subgroup formed in the 1980’s to study how life in the deep sea might be influenced by the changing of the seasons, in other words DeepSeasonality. Since that time the group has broadened its work to study topics like the longer...
Page - September 6, 2011
In the OBE Biophysical Processes subgroup we study the impact of the ocean circulation on the marine ecosystem at all scales, from the size of whole oceans to less than a kilometre. In particular we study the influence of physical processes on...
Page - September 6, 2011
Microscopic plants grow in the upper sunlit zone of the ocean, the start of a complex range of interactions and exchanges which constitute the marine food web. Although most of the action takes place within the top few tens of meters of the...
Page - September 6, 2011
“Microorganism” (microbe) is a term used to include all single-celled organisms, both prokaryotes (organisms without a cell nucleus, which includes Bacteria and Archaea) and eukaryotes (organisms with a cell nucleus, once split as...
Page - September 6, 2011
We are a group of marine scientists who investigate how the ocean's microscopic phytoplankton control chemical processes in the ocean. These wonderfully diverse plant-like organisms provide food for the entire marine food chain, produce much...
Page - June 14, 2011
The oceans are not just deep wet and salty, they exhibit great variations in temperature, salinity (saltiness) and indeed depth. Gradients (changes and boundaries) in these properties lead to much of the highly dynamic motion of the...
