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Posted: 23 August 2021
Seagrass image The UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is working alongside eleven principal scientists, political bodies and NGOs concerned with seagrass management, on the current Recovery of Seagrass...
Posted: 18 August 2021
The NOC are excited to be attending Flood Expo on the 22-23 September 2021. Flood Expo is a unique two-day event hosted at the NEC in Birmingham, which connects flood professionals, local authorities...
Posted: 18 August 2021
Satellite image of fine-scale currents with drifting sea-ice near eastern Greenland. Image credit: NASA A new study has discovered that the Transpolar Drift, a strong surface current in the Arctic Ocean, is more variable than was previously known. With the Arctic currently changing at unprecedented...
Posted: 16 August 2021
Scientists from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have contributed to The Met Office’s annual report ‘The State of UK Climate’, which revealed UK sea level has risen 16.5cm...
Posted: 9 August 2021
Underwater gliders deployed from RRS Discovery contributed to global research on the ocean carbon cycle. (Credit: Filipa Carvalho, as part of GOCART Project) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has today (9 August 2021) released its next report; the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Human activities...
Posted: 6 August 2021
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is working in partnership with a consortium of internationally renowned universities and research institutes to deliver a £5m research programme as the UK...
Posted: 5 August 2021
This week sees the start of activities under the sixth year of the Commonwealth Marine Economies (CME) Programme. The programme, which aims to ensure marine resources that belong to Commonwealth...
Posted: 4 August 2021
The NOC's first Autosub mission in July 1996 With the latest trials of the National Oceanography Centre’s (NOC) Oceanids Programme falling on the 25th anniversary of the NOC’s first Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), we look back...
Posted: 3 August 2021
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has received £10,000 in funding from the philanthropy foundation, 10% for the Ocean as part of a new partnership. The funding will support the NOC...
Posted: 2 August 2021
A special issue of the scientific journal ‘Progress in Oceanography’ highlights a further decade of critical long-term environmental monitoring undertaken at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain...
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