News Archive

NOC leads satellite altimetry into the coastal zone

Posted: 31 January 2018

A new reference book on satellite altimetry, one of the most successful ever techniques for monitoring the oceans and climate from space, highlights the NOC’s leading role in extending altimetry...

W•SENSE joins the NOC’s Marine Robotics Innovation Centre as a Strategic Partner

Posted: 30 January 2018

Pioneering underwater wireless networking and communications systems developer W•SENSE Ltd has joined the National Oceanography Centre’s (NOC) Marine Robotics Innovation Centre as a...

Global analysis reveals how sharks travel the oceans to find food

Posted: 19 January 2018

The global effort to overturn recent declines in the world’s shark population could be helped by new insights into their feeding habits. Ocean modelling by scientists at the National Oceanography...

Large volcanic island flank collapses trigger catastrophic eruptions

Posted: 19 January 2018

New research, published this week (18 January 2018) in Nature Scientific Reports, not only implies a link between catastrophic volcanic eruptions and landslides, but also suggests that landslides...

Sanchi oil spill contamination could reach Japan within a month (update)

Posted: 16 January 2018

An updated emergency ocean model simulation shows that waters polluted by the sinking Sanchi oil tanker could reach Japan within a month. The new simulation also shows that although pollution...

Sanchi oil spill contamination could take three months to reach mainland

Posted: 12 January 2018

Water contaminated by the oil currently leaking into the ocean from the Sanchi tanker collision is likely to take at least three months to reach land, and if it does the Korean coast is the most...