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‘Supermoon’ seen from Canary Wharf 2014
Many places along the UK coastline will experience the highest tide for 18.6 years between the 19th and 30th of September, as a result of the co-incidence of a series of astronomical factors. Watch a video of Professor Kevin Horsburgh explaining this using a football and a tennis ball. This…
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Vent chimney at the Von Damm vent site
A crucial process has been identified to explain the reason why dissolved organic carbon (DOC) levels in the deep oceans are constant despite a continuous supply from the surface ocean. This research has been published today in the journal Nature Geoscience and was conducted by scientists from the…
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Prof. Bess B Ward
9 October 2015 – Nitrogen cycling in the oxygen minimum zone Bess B Ward Oxygen minimum zones form in a few special regions of the ocean due to the confluence of high productivity waters (usually fed by upwelling) and slow midwater ventilation. In these regions, depth intervals several hundred…
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Extreme weather at sea (image: Ben Moat)
New research has revealed the impact on the North Atlantic of severe ocean surface heat loss during the extreme winter 2013–14. The research by scientists at the NOC, University of Southampton and Imperial College London has just been published and is featured in the recent 2014 State of the…
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NOC’s Dr Bramley Murton preparing for a dive mission
UK and Brazilian scientists will be working together to study the formation of critical ocean minerals essential for new technology – particularly environmental technology such as photovoltaic cells. MarineE-tech, a £4.2M research programme funded by NERC (UK) and FAPESP (Brazil), will assess…
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The Calanus copepod (image: Daniel Mayor)
A new study published this week in Nature Scientific Reports reveals the importance of omega-3 fatty acids for the health of the ocean. This research shows that ‘ocean-fleas’ play a vital role in maintaining a healthy ocean depend on omega-3 to survive. These 2-mm long creatures, called copepods…
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An orange Roughy in a coral reef taken by the Isis ROV
The first true three-dimensional picture of submarine canyon habitats has been produced using a unique combination of marine robotics and ship-based measurements. The information captured in this new set of maps ranges in scale from the 200km canyon down to the size of an individual cold-water…
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The Blue Whale surfacing
An incredibly rare sighting of a Blue Whale in English waters was captured on camera by scientists on-board the RRS James Cook. The huge mammal, twice as long as a double-decker bus, was spotted on 24 August approximately 400 km southwest of Cornwall, over a deep-sea canyon on the northern margin…