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The Cretaceous diatom Stephanopyxis
Tiny organisms preserved in marine sediments hold clues about Arctic climate variation during an ancient episode of greenhouse warming.Based on reconstructions of Arctic climate variability in the greenhouse world of the Late Cretaceous, Southampton scientists have concluded that man-made global…
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Black-browed albatrosses off the stern of the RRS James Cook
Sampling the Kemp CalderaOur final site in the East Scotia Sea is an 8 km-diameter caldera on the flank of a shallow seamount at the southern end of the South Sandwich Island Arc.The vents in the centre of the caldera are sulphur rich and are surrounded by huge numbers of clams, seven-armed sea…
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Professor Sir David King
On Thursday 10 February, former Government Chief Scientific Officer, Professor Sir David King, and ITN’s Health and Science Editor, Lawrence McGinty, will be joined by the UK’s leading scientists to discuss the latest research on climate change.The ‘Science of Climate Change Briefing’ aims to…
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Global seafloor invertebrate biomass (image: Dan Jones, NOC; data courtesy Chih-Lin Wei, Dept. of Oceanography, Texas A&M Univ.)
Analysis of a comprehensive database has revealed strong links between biological productivity in the surface oceans and patterns of biomass and abundance at the seafloor, helping to explain large regional differences.The research was conducted by an international, multi-institutional research team…
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Ocean and Earth Day
Saturday 19 March 201110.30am – 4.00pm (last admission 3.30pm)National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (Dock Gate 4)Ocean and Earth Day 2011 comes at the start of Climate Week, the UK’s first week dedicated to understanding and tackling climate change. Visitors to the National Oceanography Centre,…
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Jeff Hawkes on the deck of RRS James Cook
Geochemistry sampling at the East Scotia RidgeOur first task at the East Scotia Ridge is to re-occupy the hydrothermal sites studied last year. A cluster of chimneys which vent at temperatures over 380°C produce a buoyant plume of warm water and particles which are dispersed laterally a few hundred…
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Laura Hepburn wrapped up warm and working on her sediment samples
RRS James Cook in transit to the South Sandwich IslandsWe have finished our work in the Bransfield Strait and now have a three day passage to our next working area near the southern most South Sandwich Island, Thule.Our route takes us north-east past Gibbs, Elephant and Clarence Islands on a…
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Dust Sunset
RRS Discovery UK Nitrogen Fixation – GEOTRACES Expedition 2011Where and why?The National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton, the Universities of East Anglia, Plymouth, Liverpool and Cape Town invite you on a virtual journey aboard the UK’s research flagship, the RRS Discovery to experience life on…
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Dr Heiko Pälike
Dr Heiko Pälike of the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) based at National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has been awarded the prestigious Wollaston Fund, presented by the Geological Society, London, the Learned and Professional Society for Geoscientists in…
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Livingstone Island
The Axe, Bransfield StraitOur final site within the Strait is aptly named ‘The Axe’. This is the least studied site that we have chosen to study and first we need to map the seafloor.Again we use the conductivity-temperature-depth package to identify anomalous chemical signals in the deep water…
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Dr Kang and Prof. Willmott at KORDI for the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding
On 25 January 2011, Dr Jung-Keuk Kang, President of the Korea Ocean Research Development Institute (KORDI), Republic of South Korea, signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), which is intended to enhance existing links between our two organisations and…