public events

Ocean & Earth Day – 23 March 2013

Pleased to eat you! (Ocean & Earth Day 2012)

The enormously exciting Ocean and Earth Day takes place at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton this year on 23 March from 10.30 to 16.00 (last entry 15.30), as part of National Science and Engineering Week.

Marine Life Talk – 6 September 2012

Holothurian (copyright David Shale 2010)

The weird and wonderful life at the Mid-Atlantic ridge, 19.30pm at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton –

by Dr Claudia Alt

TONIGHT! Marine Life Talk – 5 July 2012

Brittlestars

Secret life of a new brittlestar from the Antarctic deep sea, 19.30pm at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton –

by Rachel Boschen

TONIGHT! Marine Life Talk – 7 June 2012

Plastic Planet

Plastic Planet – 19.30pm at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton –

by Jennifer Durden

RRS Discovery: 50th Anniversary of her Launch

RRS Discovery

Scientists, crew and support staff, past and present, associated with the Royal Research Ship Discovery gathered in 2012 to celebrate the half century of the vessel’s service to UK science.

Marine Life Talk – 3 May 2012

Sampling at Swanage

TONIGHT! Solent Aliens, 19.30pm at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton –

by Moira Maclean

Marine Life Talk – 5 April 2012

Tthe life aquatic (image: Daniel Riordan)

Living the life aquatic: a maritime archaeological odyssey, 19.30pm at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton –

by Dr R Helen Farr

Marine Life Talk – 1 March 2012

Collecting water from the CTD

Ecosystem effects of deep-water oil well blowouts – 19.30pm at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton –

by Charlie Main

Deep-water oil well blowouts can bring large quantities of hydrocarbons into contact with the seabed and hence the seafloor (benthic) ecosystem.

Marine Life Talk – 2 February 2012

Coral

Why are corals colourful? by Ed Smith – 19.30pm at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton

Corals are renowned for their spectacular colouration. The proteins responsible for this vivid pigmentation are found in most shallow water corals and provide hues ranging from blue to green to red.

Marine Life Talk – 3 November 2011

Fisheries Patrol Vessel

Local marine fisheries and conservation, 19.30pm at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton –

by Dr Antony Jensen

The past few years have seen a major change in fisheries and inshore conservation management in England