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Posted: 30 April 2012
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... |
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Posted: 30 April 2012
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... |
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Posted: 25 April 2012
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... |
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Posted: 23 April 2012
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... |
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Posted: 17 April 2012
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... |
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Posted: 16 April 2012
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... |
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Posted: 16 April 2012
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... |
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Posted: 11 April 2012
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 Curacao.
In the meantime, we are coring large mass flow... |
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Posted: 4 April 2012
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... |
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Posted: 3 April 2012
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... |
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Posted: 2 April 2012
There are a total of about 120 people on board the Joides Resolution, with scientists making up about a quarter of the crew. The scientific party is divided into two shifts – one half from... |
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Posted: 2 April 2012
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... |