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Scientists are unravelling the environmental changes that took place around the Arctic during an exceptional episode of ancient global warming. Newly published results from a high-resolution study of sediments collected on Spitsbergen represent a significant contribution to this endeavour.The study…
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Elizabeth Sargent – Discovery 361 – 12.35°N, 22.00°WThings are off to a great, albeit busy, start. We’ve worked up a good sampling plan, and have decided that we will normally do one station per day. A station can consist of a maximum of seven sampling events, such as deployments of conductance-…
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Professor Sir David King, former Government Chief Scientific Adviser and newly appointed Chair of the NOC Advisory Council, joined ITN’s Health and Science Editor, Lawrence McGinty, and leading scientists from NOC and the University of Liverpool to discuss the latest research on climate change…
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Scientists at the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) will participate in an international effort to assess the efficacy of ocean iron fertilisation (OIF) in reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere, as well as its potential impacts on marine ecosystems.Members of the In…
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Forty undergraduate Ocean and Earth Science students have been presented with scholarships to reward academic achievement in Geology, Geophysics, Marine Biology and Oceanography subjects. The University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) based at the National Oceanography…
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The National Oceanography Centre’s Liverpool site and the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) are celebrating retaining the prestigious Investors in People (IiP) standard. Established for over 20 years, Investors in People is a business improvement tool designed to help organisations enhance…
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Michele Paulatto, a PhD student at the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has been awarded one of the Geological Society’s President’s Awards for 2011. Two or three of these accolades are awarded annually to…
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Methane-rich sediments off South GeorgiaThe sediments just offshore Bird Island, South Georgia are rich in gases such as methane. We sampled this site last year on our way to the South Sandwich Islands and now have returned to complete our study of this area.We have just 24 hours to collect mud…
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The construction of a state-of-the-art research ship for UK marine science reached a significant milestone in Vigo, Northern Spain, this week with the keel-laying ceremony for the new RRS Discovery. A replacement for the Natural Environment Research Council’s 50-year old Royal Research Ship, also…
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Scientists aboard the Royal Research Ship James Cook have discovered a new set of deep-sea volcanic vents in the chilly waters of the Southern Ocean. The discovery is the fourth made by the research team in three years, which suggests that deep-sea vents may be more common in our oceans than…
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Vent Discovery in Adventure CalderaFriday night in the SHRIMP* van and we have been videoing the seafloor for three hours inside the Adventure Caldera, which geophysicists from the British Antarctic Survey discovered in 2010.Leigh Marsh, Graduate School NOCS marine biology PhD student was leading…
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Coring at nightWe have videoed the many different areas of venting at the seafloor in the base of the Kemp Caldera and now are spending a cold, snowy night coring the mud from the seafloor. Our night shift work is to collect mud from around the areas of diffuse hydrothermal flow.We extract the…