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Hurricane Sandy off the Cayman Trough (courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory)
Are there more tropical cyclones now than in the past – or are we just hearing more about them through media, and detecting them more successfully with satellites?That is the question addressed in new research from Denmark’s Niels Bohr Institute, which demonstrates an increasing tendency for…
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Burning fossil fuels
A new study indicates that burning all the Earth’s reserves of fossil fuels could alone cause sea levels to rise by as much as five metres – with levels continuing to rise for typically 500 years after carbon dioxide emissions ceased.Climate change, including sea level rise, is usually discussed in…
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Tenerife volcano
Scientists at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton have identified a repeating trigger for the largest explosive volcanic eruptions on Earth.The Las Cañadas volcanic caldera on Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, has generated at least eight major eruptions during the last 700,000 years.…
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Royal Research Ships James Cook (left) and Discovery
An organisation representing operators of the world’s scientific research ship fleet holds its landmark 25th annual meeting in Southampton later this month. The International Research Ship Operators (IRSO) meeting takes place at the Southampton waterfront headquarters of the UK’s National…
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Charlotte Williams (left) and Jenny Brown
Two scientists at the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool have won prestigious awards from the Challenger Society The Challenger Society awards four Fellowships biennially, to early career-stage marine scientists who are members of the Challenger Society, for their achievements and promise…