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NOC scientists are carrying out research examining methane outputs from the seabed in the area of the Svalbard archipelago, off NorwayMASOX observatory recovered off SvalbardMASOX (Monitoring Arctic Seafloor – Ocean Exchange) is a long-term seabed observatory on the Arctic seafloor that has been…
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An ingenious device that speeds up the task of attaching oceanographic instruments to cables has been successfully licensed to a commercial company by the National Oceanography Centre.Quick-Clamp™ was developed several years ago by Dave Jones, a Liverpool-based member of the National Oceanography…
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The National Oceanography Centre has played host to an international meeting of more than 60 experts working in the fields of earthquakes, sea level, risk assessment, tsunami warning systems and civil protection.At the meeting they planned the first tsunami exercise for the NE Atlantic and…
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University of Southampton Professor Eric Achterberg, who is based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has been awarded a prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Awards by the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science. Professor Achterberg, from Ocean and Earth Science, received…
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UK oceanographers have thought of a novel way to measure the global ocean – weigh it. In research published this week, scientists from the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool and Newcastle University have proposed an idea that will assess the mass of the world ocean by weighing at a single…
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A team of scientists have won over £1 million from the Natural Environment Research Council to monitor the effect of storms on pollution in a river / estuary in Hampshire.Excess concentrations of phosphate and nitrate in river water originating from fields, crops and sewers are some of the major…