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Congratulations to Dr Stephanie Henson who has been awarded the Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists of the European Geosciences Union.Stephanie will be presented with the award next April during the 2012 General Assembly of the Union in Vienna, Austria. Stephanie has also been…
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The University of St Andrews, a National Oceanography Centre Delivery Partner, has been awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize in recognition of the work of a world-leading research unit which is helping to further understanding and protection of the oceans. The Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) at…
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The rebuild of Isis is gathering pace as the remotely operated vehicle is repaired following a shipboard incident at the start of the year.It was in January near the Antarctic Peninsula, during the James Cook cruise JC055, that Isis was struck by the ship’s port propeller during deployment and was…
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The National Oceanographic Library was officially opened today by renowned oceanographer Professor Walter Munk, at an event at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton.NOCS has recently completed a major refurbishment of the National Oceanographic Library, the UK’s most extensive collection of…
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The Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) has launched the latest of its interactive maps that allow users to explore changes to sea level as observed by tide gauges.The anomalies map demonstrates how sea level varies from year to year when compared the long-term average at that site,…
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Future changes in the climate of the Arctic Ocean – and their possible impact on the climate of the United Kingdom and globally – are the subject of a major new study, supported by a £2.4 million grant from the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).The Arctic is the fastest-warming…
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A prestigious award for early career scientists has been presented to Dr Derek Keir, a University of Southampton Lecturer in Earth Science, who is based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. The Jason Morgan Early Career Award is presented by the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU)…
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A British engineering team has headed off to Antarctica for the first stage of an ambitious scientific mission to collect water and sediment samples from a lake buried beneath three kilometres of solid ice.Using ground-breaking technology developed at the National Oceanography Centre, this…
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A formal project is now in place to create NOC’s new, national autonomous underwater vehicle facility. Gwyn Griffiths, Head of Ocean Technology and Engineering, is managing the project to deliver the facility, which has been christened MARS (Marine Autonomous and Robotic Systems). MARS will be…