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Today is a day for final preparations and practice procedures while the PSO finalises the work plans to ensure the various groups of scientists and technicians will get the samples they need at the times they need them.The principal task for the cruise is to recover the suite of moorings deployed a…
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The National Oceanography Centre has welcomed the appointment of Professor Ian Boyd as Defra’s new Chief Scientific Adviser.Professor Boyd, who is Director of the Scottish Oceans Institute at the University of St Andrews, and the NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit, a Delivery Partner of NOC, will join…
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Dr Peter Heffernan CEO of the Galway based Marine Institute, and Prof Ian Wright, Deputy Director, Science and Technology, National Oceanography Centre (UK) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), on 24 April.The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney, TD, was also present…
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A new study led by the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton has gone some way towards solving one of the biggest questions in marine ecology: how does life exist in a blue desert – the largest habitat on Earth.The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,…
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Marine Board Forum highlights Innovation hotspots for the European marine sector. Technology has transformed the way humans interact with the seas and oceans. But what are the next big ideas that will drive growth in marine and maritime sectors into the future? On 18 April 2012, leading experts…
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The new research ship serving UK marine science has been successfully launched at its yard in Vigo, Northern Spain.The Royal Research Ship Discovery is now alongside an outfitting berth at the shipbuilder, CNP Freire, SA where fitting out is under way.Commissioned by the Natural Environment…
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We have just left the waters of Martinique at the start of our two day transit to our final port of Curacao - and so ends our six-week sojourn in the sunny Caribbean.We have cored over twenty holes at nine different sites off the islands of Montserrat, Dominica and Martinique. This activity has…
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We are now approaching the last week of the expedition and this time next week we will (hopefully!) be relaxing in the hotel bar in Curaçao.In the meantime, we are coring large mass flow deposits off the coast of Martinique. These are difficult sites to get material from as they tend to be made up…
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The earliest ocean measurements from 135 years ago used alongside the most up-to-date technology, confirm that ocean temperatures, particularly in the Atlantic, have increased since Victorian times.The voyage of the sailing ship HMS Challenger from 1872 to 1876 was the first dedicated to ocean…
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Staff reductions at the National Oceanography Centre The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) needs to make savings – £3.5 million per annum by 2014–15. This has come about by a combination of an overall squeeze on the Natural Environment Research Council’s budget and the rebalancing of NERC’s…
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There are a total of about 120 people on board the RV Joides Resolution, with scientists making up about a quarter of the crew. The scientific party is divided into two shifts – one half from midnight to midday, and the other covering the day shift – that are essentially mirror images of each other…
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The retreat of Arctic sea-ice in recent years and evidence of increased plankton activity have brought Arctic Ocean ecosystems to the centre of attention.Increasingly large areas of the Arctic Basin are being exposed to sunlight, which promotes intense phytoplankton blooms during summer months.…