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RRS Discovery in Empress Dock, Southampton
The 50th anniversary of the launch of the Royal Research Ship Discovery will be marked on 2 July 2012. This will be 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…
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JOIDES Resolution
Scientists from the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton will be joining a North Atlantic deep-sea drilling expedition that aims to uncover the secrets of the world’s climate system during the last period of ‘extreme warmth’, which occurred over 30 million years ago.The expedition will…
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Emiliania huxleyi, a globally important species of marine algae or phytoplankton
An international study to understand and predict the likely impact of ocean acidification on shellfish and other marine organisms living in seas from the tropics to the poles is published this week in the journal Global Change Biology. The results suggest that increased acidity is affecting the…
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National Oceanography Centre
IEEE AUV 2012 Conference 25–26 September 2012 at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UKAn international conference for ocean robotics is to be held at the UK’s National Oceanography Centre in Southampton 25–26 September 2012.Every two years the Oceanic Engineering Society (IEEE–OES)…
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RRS James Clark Ross
As the UK approaches summer with high hopes of good weather, a team of adventurous scientists will be setting sail for far chillier climes. Thirty researchers from eight laboratories will leave the UK on 1 June 2012 to study the effect of ocean acidification on the Norwegian, Barents and Greenland…