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The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the University of Liverpool have developed a new visualisation tool to predict the maximum cost of coastal flooding to communities around estuaries. This method, published in PLOS One, works by combining high impact flooding scenarios with land use maps…
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The National Oceanography Centre has today begun the latest in a series of ambitious marine robotic vehicle trials off the UK coast. Working in partnership with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), NOC has deployed a submarine glider and an autonomous surface vehicle into the Celtic Deep area of the…
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The NOC’s Daniel Jones identified this bizarre looking marine creature as a Siphonophore. It belongs to a group of aquatic animals that include corals and jellyfish, some specimens have reached lengths of 40m! Filmed by a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) at a depth of 1325m off the Angola coast it…
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The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the University of Liverpool have entered into a new strategic partnership creating the Liverpool Institute for Sustainable Coasts and Oceans (LISCO). The new Institute is a collaborative venture that brings together marine scientists, social scientists,…
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The type and size of barnacles on the Malaysian Airways MH370 flight debris could provide clues to the path it took through the Indian Ocean, according to researchers at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC). The Indian Ocean contains a mixture of cold and warm waters, with different barnacle…
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Two new species of submarine shrimp-like creature, capable of ‘stripping’ a pig carcass in a matter of days, have been discovered by a team of scientists from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC). These 3mm long scavenging crustaceans, known as amphipods, live in depths of up to 4500 metres in…