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Alteration products of seafloor massive sulphides: a source of critical metals?
Artificial intelligence at sea - can smart imaging systems tell us what’s happening in the marine ecosystem right now? *
Assessing past and future closures of storm surge barriers *
Atmospheric CO2 variability and climate sensitivity during past warm climates – a lesson for the future?
Challenging the limits of the AMOC’s latitudinal coherence
Combining acoustic and visual survey data through multimodal machine learning for wide area seafloor habitat classification *
Dissecting the microbial foodweb: determining the influence of phytoplankton derived organic matter substrates on bacterial growth efficiency
Eddying Arctic Ocean *
Enhancing Autonomy and Decision-Making Capabilities of an Obstacle Avoidance System for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Operating Under Ice *
Exploring the role of turbulence and biological glue on marine snow formation
Explosive submarine eruption processes: pumice raft formation, dispersion and hazard
Fibre Optic Monitoring for Ocean Health: A potentially Global network for measuring ocean bottom temperatures *
Future of subsea methane in the warming Arctic
Global space-time variability in primary production and carbon flux using the Argo float network
Go big or go home: linking Antarctic sea ice to ocean heat & carbon uptake using ‘big data’ archives
High-performance low-complexity acoustic-fiber underwater communications
How do species emerge?
Impacts of a changing Arctic on the North Atlantic
Investigating controls on the ocean’s biological carbon uptake via sinking particles
Investigating the ecology and biogeochemistry of the twilight zone, one of the least studied ecosystems on Earth
Keeping tabs on ocean acidification: Using novel technologies to monitor carbonate chemistry from polar to tropical waters *
Mathematical and computational modelling of the impact of viral infection of oceanic phytoplankton on the global carbon cycle
Microplastics and carbon sequestration: identifying links and impacts
Modelling compound (combined fluvial, pluvial) and coastal flood inundation on large spatial scales *
Novel terrestrial analogues for potential life-favouring environments on ancient Mars
Oceanic heat and carbon sinks: The changing role of North Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water
Photo crazy - can you use images to understand the ecology of the twilight zone?
Physical and biogeochemical controls on the marine primary productivity of the Galápagos Archipelago
Robust Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Operating Under the Polar Ice
Sedimentary “filters” for emerging contaminants in estuarine and coastal systems
Size matters: how does microplastic and nanoplastic size influence their abundance and toxicity in the aquatic environment?
Submesoscale dynamics in the subpolar Labrador Sea boundary current.
Tasty or Toxic? Biogeochemistry of marine sediments in a warming ocean
Temporal variability of the carbon system across the Atlantic Ocean; causes and implications
Testing the links between magmatic, tectonic and climate controls on hydrothermal activity at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
The role of ocean circulation in future climate change
The role of the North Atlantic Ocean in our changing climate
Transport of organic carbon through submarine canyons and burial in deep-sea basins
Triggers and Feedbacks of Climate Tipping Points
Unravelling southwest Indian Ocean biological productivity and physics : a machine learning approach
WHALES: Water-column High-fidelity Active-monitoring using Low-cost Enhanced (space-time) Sampling *
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