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Southampton Professor receives prestigious Fellowship

Posted: 20 December 2013

Professor Martin Palmer has been named as a Geochemical Fellow by the Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry (EAG). Since 1996, the EAG and the Geochemical Society award...

NOC scientists explore world’s largest undersea canyon

Posted: 16 December 2013

A joint British-German team has returned from a five-week research expedition, mapping and sampling a giant submarine canyon off northwest Morocco. The expedition was on the German research vessel...

What the past tells us about modern sea level rise

Posted: 16 December 2013

Sea level may reach 80 cm above the modern level by 2100

An international team of researchers report that sea level rise since the industrial revolution has been fast by natural standards and – at current rates – may reach 80 centimetres above the...

Study uncovers new evidence for assessing tsunami risk from very large volcanic island landslides

Posted: 11 December 2013

Extracting a core from the seabed. Credit Russell Wynn.

The risk posed by tsunami waves generated by Canary Island landslides may need to be re-evaluated, according to researchers at the National Oceanography Centre. Their findings suggest that these...

Antarctic fjords are diversity hotspots in a rapidly warming region

Posted: 10 December 2013

Andvord Bay, Antarctica – fjord hotspot of seafloor marine life (credit: Craig Smith, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)

Rapid climate change is threatening marine communities, but scientists have found that marine life is flourishing in Antarctic fjords despite warming in the region. Deep inside the subpolar...

Storm surge hits UK Coastline

Posted: 5 December 2013

A storm surge on 3 Jan 2014 in the Irish Sea (similar to the recent one on 5 December 2013) raised the sea surface above the astronomical tide level by 0.75 metres to 1 metre over a large area....