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A team of scientists in the United Kingdom and the United States has warned that the native fauna and unique ecology of the Southern Ocean, the vast body of water that surrounds the Antarctic continent, is under threat from human activity. Their study is published this week in the peer-reviewed…
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This spring, researchers including Professor Damon Teagle of the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science, based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, will mark the 50-year anniversary of an ambitious project to drill to the mantle, by taking another significant…
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Professor Eric Achterberg, University of Southampton – Discovery 361We have returned home this week from our UK GEOTRACES cruise in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. The cruise (7 February – 19 March 2011) was part of our project funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council.The main aim of the…
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A team of five undergraduate MSci students studying at the School of Ocean and Earth Science based at the National Oceanography centre, Southampton, have been awarded gold at the 2011 American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) European section of the Imperial Barrel Awards.The annual…
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The start of the UK’s first national Climate Week on Monday 21 March is marked in Southampton with the unveiling of one of the largest solar power installations in the area.The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has installed a 117kW Photo Voltaic (PV) array at its Southampton site as part of an…
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Ocean and Earth Day is on Saturday 19 March 201110.30am – 4.00pm (last admission 3.30pm)National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (Dock Gate 4)Visitors to Ocean and Earth Day can learn more about the impact of mankind on the oceans’ delicate ecosystems – and what NOCS is doing to reduce its carbon…
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A research team including scientists from the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has uncovered the likely cause of repeated episodes of natural global warming during the ancient past.Several episodes of…
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Dr Claire Mahaffey and Dr Sarah Reynolds, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK – Discovery 361Hi, I’m Sarah Reynolds and I’m a post doctoral research associate working with Dr Claire Mahaffey and Prof. Ric Williams at the University of Liverpool. Our work is focused on…
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Tsunamis are long, powerful waves that are created by sub-sea earth movements – earthquakes, land and ice slips, meteor strikes. But not all Earth movements create these waves, many give little or no effect.A tsunami occurs because the water mass of the ocean is displaced and, much like throwing a…
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Anouska Panton – Discovery 361 – 10.04°N, 28.40°WMy name is Anouska Panton and I am a PhD student in the Nutrient Biogeochemistry lab at the University of Liverpool. My principal role on board is to collect and analyse dissolved oxygen bottle samples from both the stainless steel and the titanium…
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Joe Snow – Discovery 361 – 2.00°N, 25.30°WMy name is Joe Snow and I started my PhD in Southampton last September. In the six months that I’ve been at NOCS my time has been spend familiarising myself with the background information for my project along with preparing for this cruise.Preparing for…
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Alex Forryan – Discovery 361 – 3.10°S, 25.10°WTurbulence measurements: On RSS Discovery cruise D361 turbulence in the upper ocean is being measured at every station using an ISW free-fall vertical microstructure profiler.Turbulence is an energetic, eddying, diffusive, and highly dissipative state…