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A fleet of pioneering marine robots, built and operated by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and its partners, has successfully detected whales and porpoises and recorded the sounds they make in a survey of the deep ocean off northern Scotland. In the summer of 2017 a fleet of 11 autonomous…
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Large volume submarine landslides, triggered by the inception and growth of submarine volcanoes, represent among the largest mass movements of sediment on Earth’s surface. This is according to research published today in Nature Communications by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre.…
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The ‘stars’ of this year’s Christmas card are all part of The Discovery Collections. The collections comprise benthic and pelagic samples from many areas of the world’s oceans. It is the only collection consisting solely of deep-sea and open-ocean invertebrates in the UK and provides vital insight…
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NOC Open Day 2018
Regstration for the 2018 event is now open. Register here. A FREE day of fun learning about the science and technology development taking place at Southampton’s National Oceanography Centre. The day is a mix of hands on science, exhibits and talks, with content aimed at all age groups. We’re super…
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RAL Space building
The NOC’s Dr Christine Gommenginger has been invited to speak at the 13th Appleton Space Conference at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot, Oxfordshire on Thursday 7 December 2017. Dr Gommenginger’s presentation is titled ‘Emerging Needs and Opportunities for Ocean Remote Sensing’. The…