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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 for Ocean Wealth UK project (ReSOW UK). ReSOW UK will provide scientific evidence and a strategic vision…
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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, government agencies and key decision-makers with the very latest knowledge and products helping to…
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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 rates, this discovery could impact future predictions for climate change and the world’s rising surface…
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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 since 1901 (excluding land movement). The State of the UK Climate Report 2020 published last month shows that UK sea…
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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 have resulted in the Arctic warming at more than twice the global rate over the last 50 years. The Arctic…
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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 Government steps up efforts to prepare and protect against the impacts of climate change. The data and…
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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 Small Island Developing States are better understood and managed, is delivered on behalf of the Foreign…
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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 to that first Autosub-1 mission, and how it paved the way to the innovative AUV operations and developments…
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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’s involvement in The Thwaites-Amundsen Regional Survey and Network Integrating Atmosphere-Ice-Ocean Processes (…
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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 Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO) PAP is operated by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) as part of the Natural…