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Dr Brian King with Argo Float
A recording of a recent webinar on Argo – Revolution and Evolution given by Dr Brian King, a member of the Argo Steering Team based at the National Oceanography Centre, is now available online. In this webinar, Dr King discusses the Argo array of unmanned profiling ocean sensors which has brought…
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Dr Russell Wynn
Dr Russell Wynn has been appointed to a twelve-strong advisory group which will be responsible for recommending how some of the Natural Environment Research Council’s (NERC) funding should be spent. Securing the position in a strongly competitive field from across the whole UK science community,…
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HRC User Interface
German company OceanWaveS GmbH and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) have signed a renewed and extended licence deal for X-band radar technology developed at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC). The licensed technology was developed at NOC by Dr Paul Bell and utilises an advanced…
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Dr Elizabeth Kent being presented with the Adrian Gill Prize by Professor Joanna Haigh, President of the RMS
The Royal Meteorological Society (RMS) has presented Dr Elizabeth Kent with the prestigious Adrian Gill Prize at its Annual General Meeting in London this month. Dr Elizabeth Kent, from the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC), was awarded the prize for her dedicated research into air-sea…
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Collecting core samples from a salt marsh on the Newtown Estuary on the Isle of Wight (photo courtesy of Margot Saher)
A recent study has shown there is regional variation in sea-level change on the eastern and western North Atlantic and therefore no single site is representative of the ocean-wide trends. Using core samples from a salt marsh on the Newtown Estuary on the Isle of Wight, the sea level for the last…
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The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is pleased to announce a two-year partnership with the Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology (IMarEST). Engaging with the global marine industry topped NOC’s reasons for partnering the Institute – which counts 15,000 maritime professionals…
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Tide gauge at Gladstone Lock, Liverpool
Scientists have developed a new method for revealing how sea levels might rise around the world throughout the 21st century to address the controversial topic of whether the rate of sea level rise is currently increasing. The international team of researchers, led by the University of Southampton…
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Deploying a new replacement mooring – scientists will extract the data when it is recovered later (courtesy of Ben Moat)
The National Oceanography Centre’s remarkable RAPID project has reached a landmark ten years of continuous scientific measurement and knowledge advancement of a key component of the climate system. For the past decade, the RAPID project has continuously monitored the Meridional Overturning…
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Marine litter
The National Oceanography Centre has been involved in a major new survey of the seafloor that has found that even in the deepest ocean depths you can find bottles, plastic bags, fishing nets and other types of human litter. The litter was found throughout the Mediterranean, and all the way from…