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Thin Ice release
The film Thin Ice – The Inside Story of Climate Science was released on Monday 22 April. The launch coincides with Earth Day, a global campaign to raise awareness of environmental issues and climate change.The motivation behind Thin Ice was to give people from all walks of the life the chance to…
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Liverpool Bay (credit: NASA World Wind – Landsat 7)
New research tracking the movement of dredged sediment around Liverpool Bay could save millions of pounds, according to scientists at the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool. Each year, sediment has to be dredged from the port and deposited elsewhere to maintain access for commercial…
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Big Ben
The report on marine science in the UK, by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, is published today (Thursday 23 April 2013).The National Oceanography Centre’s Executive Director, Professor Ed Hill, gave evidence to the committee last December.The full report can be found on the…
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Carving through Arctic ice
The first study of its kind to calculate the amount of nutrients entering and leaving the Arctic Ocean has been carried out by scientists based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. Their results, which are published this month in the Journal of Geophysical Research, show that there…
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Ocean Business 13
Europe’s biggest showcase for marine technology, knowledge exchange, training and careers information will bring more than 5,000 visitors from 60 countries around the world to Southampton’s waterfront this week.Visitor registrations for Ocean Business 2013 are already double those of the last show…
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Belgammel ram
Analysis of a bronze battering ram from a 2,000 year-old warship sheds light on how such an object would have been made in ancient times. Known as the Belgammel Ram, the 20kg artefact was discovered by a group of British divers off the coast of Libya near Tobruk in 1964. The ram is from a small…