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Hurricane Katrina (credit: NASA/SVS)
Extreme storm events of the magnitude of Hurricane Katrina will occur more frequently because of climate change, according to a new study involving the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool.The research, published in PNAS this week, concluded that the threat from hurricane-induced storm surges…
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Backbone of whale skeleton on seafloor (courtesy of NERC)
Marine biologists have, for the first time, found a whale skeleton on the ocean floor near Antarctica, giving new insights into life in the sea depths. The discovery was made almost a mile below the surface in an undersea crater and includes the find of at least nine new species of deep-sea…
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A lump of gas hydrate extracted from the seabed
A new collaboration between the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the University of Southampton is seeking to improve geophysical remote sensing of seafloor methane gas and hydrate through innovative laboratory experimental and theoretical studies.Researchers will develop a new laboratory…
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Glider
A project to develop ocean-going robotic vehicles that will carry out sustained marine research over long periods has awarded contracts to five leading-edge technology companies under the Government-backed Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI).The SBRI competition has awarded the five three-…
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Soufriere Hills volcano in Montserrat (image: www.geo.mtu.edu)
Helping assess volcanic hazards is the next task for National Oceanography Centre scientists working in the Caribbean Sea. Following the successful investigation of hydrothermal vents in the Cayman Trough, scientists on board the RRS James Cook have moved on to study the volcanic island of…
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Extracting cores from a marsh in southern New Zealand (courtesy: Prof Gehrels)
Professor Philip Woodworth of the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Liverpool and Professor Roland Gehrels of Plymouth University asked when sea level rise started to accelerate – and narrowed it down to a point in the early 1900s.Global sea levels are rising.Geologists will tell you that, in…