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RRS Discovery leaving NOC for the last time (photo: Catherine Beswick)
Friday 21 December saw the final departure of a ship that has served UK marine science for the past 50 years.The Royal Research Ship Discovery, the UK’s oldest research vessel, has been taken out of service after a distinguished half-century of service to UK marine science. She will be replaced by…
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Setting the Course for UK Operational Oceanography
About Operational OceanographyOperational oceanography provides essential marine measurements, analyses, predictions and assessments for improving safety at sea, the efficiency and effectiveness of industrial and other activities and protection of the marine environment. It spans a broad range of…
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Peter Foden (courtesy of Jeff Pugh)
A prestigious award for achievement in underwater technology has been won by a marine physicist based at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Liverpool. The David Partridge Award for Underwater Technology 2012 has been presented to the NOC’s Peter Foden at a ceremony at Trinity House in…
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Bleached corals (Porites sp.) in the Persian / Arabian Gulf (courtesy of Jörg Wiedenmann)
Research into a process that is threatening to wipe out coral reefs, by a scientist at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has been recognised with a prestigious award worth 1.29 million euros. Dr Jörg Wiedenmann, head of the centre’s Coral Reef Laboratory has been selected by the…
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A prospectus for UK marine science (courtesy of Andrew Coward, National Oceanography Centre)
The most pressing issues that UK marine science needs to address over the next two decades are the subject of a prospectus published as a themed issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A last month. The volume is co-edited and carries contributions by scientists based at the…
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Prof. Gwyn Griffiths
The National Oceanography Centre this week said farewell to a research leader who has been at the forefront of UK underwater technology development for three decades.Professor Gwyn Griffiths, the centre’s Chief Technologist and founding Head of the Marine Autonomous and Robotic Systems (MARS)…
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JOIDES Resolution
Video of deep-ocean drilling research will be featured at this year’s 2012 AGU meeting in California, including the debut of a new 20-minute documentary of the expedition in the Atlantic this summer.Shot, edited and broadcast while on board the research drill ship, JOIDES Resolution, the videos…
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The wave flume: setting up the acoustic systems
Professor Peter Thorne and Dr Richard Cooke of the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool travelled to Barcelona recently to take part in an international study on boundary layer sediment dynamics.The boundary layer in this case refers to the layer of water next to the seabed. Here, flowing…