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In 2013 Ben Fogle will attempt to swim more than 3,000 miles from America to Cornwall. Supported by a yacht, Ben will need to swim more than 30 miles a day to reach his target of completing the crossing in under 100 days. Swimming up to 12 hours a day, Ben will use the support yacht for sleeping…
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NOC researcher, Dr Judith Wolf, will explain some of the science behind achieving world class performance at sailing at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy from 7pm on Thursday 24 May.Cutting Edge: Behind Sailing will explore what it takes to win gold at Olympic level through an…
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The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, its nature, and implications for observationsProfessor Carl Wunsch, MIT & University of OxfordWednesday 23 May 2012The so-called Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) has been a major focus of studies of present, past, and future…
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So far, almost forty new PhD students from all over the world have been recruited to join the Graduate School of NOCS in the autumn.These successful recruits to the GSNOCS will engage with world-leading researchers in tackling a spectrum of scientific challenges ranging from climate change, ocean…
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Scientists based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton have discovered a previously unrecognised volcanic process, similar to one that is used in chocolate manufacturing, which gives important new insights into the dynamics of volcanic eruptions.The scientists investigated how a process…
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We awoke this morning to the sight of land (Wales) in the distance. The first land we have seen since Lundy Island, mid afternoon on 1 May.The lab equipment is being packed away and all the paper work is being completed for the end of the cruise. We have had the group photo, so we really are…
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We will be back in UK waters shortly so underway sampling will start again. Everyone else is starting to pack up their equipment and looking forward to all the analysis of the frozen filters and samples when they get back to NOC.This morning I have been on a tour of the ships engine rooms. There is…
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Today has been a quiet day in that everyone has been bent over their laptops securing their data, and log sheets and writing their sections of the cruise reports.All except the underway samplers who have continued to sample until we left international waters. We are now transiting Irish waters, and…
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The appointment of Professor Nicholas Owens as Director of the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS) has been welcomed by the National Oceanography Centre. Based in Plymouth, SAHFOS is a Delivery Partner of NOC in providing marine science national capability. The Foundation…
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Today was programmed to be the last on site, so there was lots to be packed in. The last Megacore was completed over night, and the PELAGRAs floats were recovered after 48 hours deployed.This morning there was a deep CTD and the plan was for a quick turnround and then two more CTDs and a SAPS dip.…
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Time out here is precious so the nights are busy too. Corinne deployed a new zooplankton net overnight; the last one got ripped as it was hauled back on board and the Mega Corer was deployed again.Henry, Brian, Sara and Kerstin have worked hard most nights processing the cores when they arrive back…
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The schedule was changed this morning so that PAP3 could be redeployed.The deck crew will need all the available space for the PAP1 deployment which will now be just after mid-day. The redeployment went smoothly and PAP3 is now firmly in place. Next on the schedule was the Bathysnap deployment.…