News Archive

NOC research shows importance of southwest UK waters for threatened marine life

Posted: 28 November 2014

Alice Jones and Lavinia Suberg recording Balearic shearwaters and harbour porpoises from the Land’s End peninsula in SW England

A series of new scientific papers by researchers at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have highlighted the importance of southwest UK waters for endangered and threatened marine life,...

NOC to play key role in major European marine science project

Posted: 24 November 2014

The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is to play a leading role in the largest marine science project that the European Commission has ever funded. The €20 million AtlantOS project, due to...

Frozen sea samples link climate, chemistry and carbon

Posted: 21 November 2014

Thousands of sea water samples are being collected by research vessels around the British Isles as part of an 18 month study of how much carbon dioxide is taken up (and released) in UK waters...

NOC wins contract to improve UK flood warning system

Posted: 17 November 2014

Engineers carrying out tide gauge repairs

Engineers from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have been repairing and upgrading key instruments of the UK’s coastal flood warning system ahead of the winter, after winning a new contract...

Scientists examine mysterious tar mounds in the West African deep ocean

Posted: 6 November 2014

A blobfish hiding behind an asphalt mound

More than two thousand mounds of asphalt harbouring a wealth of deep-water creatures have been discovered up to two kilometres deep, off the coast of Angola. In a study published in the journal...

Robot vehicles launched from Plymouth this morning on fish tracking mission

Posted: 4 November 2014

Waveglider and C-Enduro in Plymouth Harbour

Three marine ‘robot’ vehicles have been launched from Plymouth today to undertake a fish tracking mission in and around new Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). The aim is to learn how fish use these...