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Planet Under Pressure
NOC Liverpool is organising a session at the Planet Under Pressure conference in London called Past and Present Sea Level Rise and Ice Sheets. The session will take the form of poster presentations by scientists together with a 90-minute panel discussion. The session takes place on the second day…
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Iceberg (courtesy Ben Moat, National Oceanography Centre)
Icebergs on the high seas – in times gone by and in a changing worldTalk by Dr Bob Marsh, Physical Oceanographer, National Oceanography CentreThis talk addresses the scientific and historic importance of icebergs, ranging from evidence for ‘iceberg armadas’ in the distant past, through the story of…
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Uncovering fossil remains
Application is now open for Ocean and Earth Science’s new MRes in Vertebrate Palaeontology.This new one-year course offers you the chance to study the evolution and anatomy of vertebrates at the world-renowned National Oceanography Centre Southampton.An exciting science combining geology, anatomy,…
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A Mayan temple in the Kingdom of Tikal; one of the most prominent of the Classic Period
A new study reports that the disintegration of the Maya Civilisation may have been related to relatively modest reductions in rainfall.The study was led by Professors Martín Medina-Elizalde of the Yucatan Center for Scientific Research in Mexico and Eelco Rohling of the University of Southampton in…
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Preparing the sub-surface profiler
The RRS James Cook is in the Southern Ocean on a 51-day expedition to look at deep water mixing in this turbulent ocean.Two young scientists aboard, Alex Brearley and Katy Sheen, are running an expedition blog from the ship at https://dimesuk3.blogspot.com.The expedition, led by Alberto Naveira…
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The RRS Discovery
The 50th anniversary of the launch of the Royal Research Ship Discovery was marked on 2 July 2012. This is her last year of service, a half-century of science that has included surveying the ocean floor, measuring ocean currents, monitoring climate change, and discovering new species around the…
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RRS Discovery
Scientists, crew and support staff, past and present, associated with the Royal Research Ship Discovery gathered in 2012 to celebrate the half century of the vessel’s service to UK science. On 2 July 2012 the National Oceanography Centre Southampton marked the 50th Anniversary of the launch of…
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Giant Jellyfish (Nemopilema nomurai) clogging fishing nets in Japan (courtesy of Dr Shin-ichi Uye)
A global study has questioned claims that jellyfish are increasing worldwide.Blooms, or proliferation, of jellyfish have shown a substantial, visible impact on coastal populations – clogged nets for fishermen, stinging waters for tourists, even choked intake lines for power plants – and recent…