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Posted: 17 January 2020
On 19 January an international research expedition led by scientists from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) will be sailing from Fort Lauderdale in the USA to conduct a high precision scientific survey along 24.5°N of the North Atlantic.
The expedition team on board the NOC’s RRS... Read more |
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Posted: 15 January 2020
NOC research forms part of a report on marine climate change impacts released today. This report summarises the latest evidence from 26 topics regarding the physical, ecological, and social and economic impacts of climate change on UK coasts and seas.
The key findings
There is... Read more |
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Posted: 2 January 2020
A spectacular new species of Antarctic deep-sea crustacean armed with spines, large claws and the raptorial mouthparts of a predator, has been described by National Oceanography Centre (NOC) taxonomists.
The description of the species has been published in the Zoological Journal of the... Read more |
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Posted: 17 December 2019
The NOC’s Professor Penny Holliday, Associate Head of Marine Physics and Ocean Climate, was honoured at last night’s Society for Underwater Technology AGM receiving the SUT Oceanography Award.
The SUT is an international marine science and technology Learned Society, established in 1966,... Read more |
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Posted: 29 November 2019
The NOC joined an international consortium of 55 partners this week at the inaugural meeting for the new EuroSea project. The 12.6 million Euro, EU funded project, aims to significantly improve ocean observation in Europe and beyond.
“The aim of the project is to better combine... Read more |
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Posted: 27 November 2019
A major NOC-led research programme, focused on the Atlantic Ocean, has awarded four fellowships to support early career researcher development.
These fellowships will also help address key knowledge gaps in Atlantic Ocean variability and climate regulation, as well as assessing how the... Read more |
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Posted: 26 November 2019
On Monday 2 December, National Oceanography Centre (NOC) scientists, engineers and crew will embark on a research expedition that will see them spend Christmas and New Year sailing through remote waters in the Southern Ocean on board RRS Discovery.
This is part of an exciting project, led... Read more |
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Posted: 21 November 2019
Last week, NOC hosted the Marine Autonomy and Technology Showcase 2019 (MATS2019) in Southampton, which was the fifth annual event focusing on the present and future of marine autonomous technology.
MATS2019 was our biggest and best showcase to date, with a record number of attendees,... Read more |
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Posted: 15 November 2019
The usual methods of measuring dependence on fish as a food source at the national level appears to mask coastal community level dependence on fish, according to research by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC).
The real impact of changing ocean productivity on coastal... Read more |
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Posted: 8 November 2019
A new Centre for Satellite Data in Environmental Science (SENSE) will combine industry engagement and world-leading research facilities to train a new cohort of Earth observation leaders with the expertise and knowledge to address Earth System challenges, such as changes in global temperature... Read more |
