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Island of Montserrat
University of Southampton researchers based the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, with colleagues from Bristol and Penn State Universities, have produced the first image of the magma chamber (body of molten rock) beneath the active Soufrière Hills Volcano on the island of Montserrat in the…
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Arctic Ocean mean sea surface
A bulge of freshwater has been building up in the Arctic Ocean.Scientists at the National Oceanography Centre have been working with the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at University College London to study the freshwater, which has been building up in the Beaufort Sea, a part of the…
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Cold water corals in the Bay of Biscay
Bottom trawling fishing boats have devastated many cold water coral reefs along the margin of the North East Atlantic Ocean. Now, researchers have found large cold water coral colonies clinging to the vertical and overhanging sides of submarine canyons 1,350 metres below the surface of the Bay of…
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British Camp, Lake Ellsworth
Plans to drill and survey a lake under Antarctica’s ice sheet with a probe designed and built by engineers at the National Oceanography Centre have just reached another milestone.Lake Ellsworth is one of around 350 subglacial lakes in Antarctica. UK scientists and engineers aim to drill more than…
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Beebe Vent Field shrimp
Scientists have revealed details of the world’s most extreme deep-sea volcanic vents, five kilometres down in a rift in the Caribbean seafloor.The undersea hot springs, which lie 0.8 kilometres deeper than any seen before, may be hotter than 450°C and are shooting a jet of mineral-laden water more…
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David Pugh about to install a pressure sensor under a floating pier on the north shore of Loch Ness
Despite being 16 metres above sea level and with no tidal input from the ocean, Loch Ness still has its own tide, which has been measured for the first time by Liverpool-based scientists from the National Oceanography Centre.Using pressure sensors to measure the tide at several points along the…
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Pillar supporting stalked barnacles and anemones
Communities of species previously unknown to science have been discovered on the seafloor near Antarctica, clustered in the hot, dark environment surrounding hydrothermal vents.Working from the Royal Research Ship James Cook, scientists discovered new species of yeti crab, starfish, barnacles, sea…