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The National Oceanography Centre is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Peter Saunders on 20 August 2020. Peter was a Physical Oceanographer who began his career with interests in meteorology. He studied atmospheric convection for his PhD at Imperial College, London before moving to the Woods…
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The NOC’s Marine Robotics Innovation Centre has partnered with start-up company Wight Ocean Ltd on a successful proposal into the UK’s Defence and Security Accelerator’s (DASA) Map the Gap funding programme. The project will develop an amphibious bottom crawler to navigate and transit water…
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The NOC’s Marine Robotics Innovation Centre has announced that Abyssal is joining its thriving community of partners. This follows the news from earlier in the month that Cellula Robotics has partnered with the Centre. Abyssal is an independent software engineering company that delivers advanced 3D…
New study estimates there is at least ten times more plastic in the Atlantic than previously thought
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The mass of ‘invisible’ microplastics found in the upper waters of the Atlantic Ocean is approximately 12–21 million tonnes, according to research published in the journal Nature Communications. Significantly, this figure is only for three of the most common types of plastic litter in a limited…
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The Royal Navy, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have renewed and expanded their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) within the underwater environment and collaboration in trials and testing of Marine Autonomous Systems (MAS) and novel…
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The tall ship Pelican of London is circumnavigating the UK on a mission to mentor young scientists and conduct a ‘British ocean health check’. As part of its scheduled stop at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton yesterday the crew collected a replica sailing ship bucket to help their…
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The NOC’s Marine Robotics Innovation Centre has announced that Cellula Robotics is joining its thriving community of partners. Cellula Robotics Ltd. is a privately-owned company founded and based in Vancouver, BC, since 2001. They currently have a team of around 30 highly qualified and skilled…
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New research reveals the importance of the Monsoon in how abundant small pelagic fish are in East Africa. Led by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and published today in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, this study used observations of chlorophyll-a taken from satellites, as…