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Posted: 29 July 2011
Just after 0700 hrs this morning we began recovery of the PAP 1 sensor array. This includes a Met Office ODAS (Ocean Data Acquisition System) buoy.
ODAS measures air pressure, air and sea... |
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Posted: 28 July 2011
This morning the technical team used an acoustic release system to free the sediment traps that were deployed at the PAP site from the research vessel Celtic Explorer in September 2010. Principal... |
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Posted: 27 July 2011
On Monday most folks in the science party started research activity when we reached Goban Spur where we collected water and sediment samples. The sampling tubes on the mega corer fill with... |
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Posted: 27 July 2011
On 26 July, 160 Ocean and Earth Science graduates received their degrees from the University of Southampton.
Graduation is the highlight of the academic year and a tribute to the hard work of... |
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Posted: 26 July 2011
This morning, as we headed for Goban Spur, we were accompanied by a pod of common dolphin. Keeping pace easily with the ship, they jumped and flew through the choppy surface waters.
Once... |
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Posted: 25 July 2011
Last night the team ensured that kit was secured and ready for the science programme. Sea water bottles were lashed together, boxes stowed carefully and equipment attached to work-benches...... |
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Posted: 21 July 2011
![RRS James Cook cruise 062 area of operations [F: Falmouth, C: Cork, PSB: Porcupine Seabight, PAP: Porcupine Abyssal Plain]](https://noc.ac.uk/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/story/clip_image002_0.jpg?itok=xXPLMb7z)
On Sunday 24 July the Royal Research Ship James Cook will head out from Falmouth into the deep Northeast Atlantic on a research expedition to the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP).
The PAP site is the... |
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Posted: 21 July 2011
At the 17th Session of the UN International Seabed Authority (ISA; 12–22 July 2011) in Kingston, Jamaica, Dr David Billett of the National Oceanography Centre was elected as Chairman of the Legal... |
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Posted: 21 July 2011
Professor Ed Hill , Executive Director of the National Oceanography Centre, receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Sheffield today.
Professor Hill is a physical oceanographer... |
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Posted: 20 July 2011
NOC came close to winning the aap3 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) category of the prestigious South Coast Business Awards earlier this month.
On Friday 15 July staff attended a prestigious... |
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Posted: 14 July 2011
Undiscovered ‘alien’ life forms that thrive without sunlight in temperatures approaching boiling point may soon come to light thanks to a ground-breaking marine research mission aboard the Irish... |
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Posted: 12 July 2011
The Mysteries of Ageing in a Marine Environment, 19.30pm at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton –
by Dr Joel Parker –
From immortal jelly fish and sea anemones that live for... |