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15 – 19 December 2014, San Francisco Scientists from NOC are presenting their research at the AGU Fall meeting in the USA – the largest Earth and space science meeting in the world. The event, now in its 47th year, hosts 24,000 delegates from the Earth and space sciences communities from around…
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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, including seabirds and porpoises. The results are being used to support marine conservation policy and…
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SMOS Salinity Workshop
26–28 November 2014 – Met Office, Exeter, UK Ocean Salinity Science and Salinity Remote Sensing Workshop
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National Oceanography Centre
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 start in January 2015, will bring together a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines from over 60 research…
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Map of sampled areas
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. Coordinated by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), the University of Liverpool and Plymouth Marine…
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A visitor to Ocean & Earth Day 2014
The oceans are the key to the long-term health of our beautiful blue planet. They continue to surprise and amaze us as we visit this mysterious realm from coast to deep ocean. So little of the ocean has been explored that we encounter hundreds of new species every year, opening up new…
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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 from the Environment Agency. Devastating storms and high tides affected thousands of homes and…
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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 Deep-Sea Research 1, scientists at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have been examining the images…
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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 areas on a day-to-day basis. Scientists from the Marine Biological Association (MBA) and engineers from…