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Professor Phil Weaver of the NOC delivers his speech
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the SERPENT project have contributed to a major new exhibition at the Natural History Museum, which opened on Friday 28 May. The Deep, which runs until 5 September follows oceanographic exploration, from the HMS Challenger expedition of the Victorian era…
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Royal Research Ship James Clark Ross
A two-year project, which will provide vital information on the interaction between the ocean and the atmosphere and its influence on climate, begins this month.Scientists at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), University of Leeds, and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are collaborating on the…
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Reconstruction of a Hellenistic warship (Drawing by Kirsten Flemming)
Scholars from five research institutions led by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Southampton have analysed a rare 20kg bronze ram from an ancient Mediterranean warship. Known as the ‘Belgammel’ Ram, it is named after the site where it was discovered off the coast of Libya, near Tobruk.…
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Map of the open ocean observatories of the EuroSITES network (credit EuroSITES/NOC)
In May 2010, the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) joins forces with the UK Met Office to enhance ocean monitoring at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain sustained observatory (PAP-SO), the longest multidisciplinary open-ocean time-series observatory in Europe. This collaboration should both advance…
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Prof. Woodworth (right) accepting the award from Prof. Markku Poutanen (left) and Prof. Susanna Zerbini (centre) of the EGU
The 2010 Vening Meinesz Medal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) was awarded to Professor Philip Woodworth of the National Oceanography Centre in recognition of his outstanding contributions to sea-level research.Prof. Woodworth is a senior scientist at the NOC, Liverpool, and his research…