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Posted: 17 December 2021
Raymond shaking a dissolved oxygen sample on RRS Discovery cruise D253 in the North Atlantic, May 2001 The National Oceanography Centre is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Raymond Pollard on 14 December 2021. Raymond was a towering figure in oceanography who made major contributions to the...
Posted: 16 December 2021
The NOC remembers Emeritus Professor Philip Roy Pugh The National Oceanography Centre is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Emeritus Professor Philip Roy Pugh on 24 November 2021. To celebrate his significant contributions to the global marine...
Posted: 14 December 2021
UN Decade Logo As the providers of the UK Delegation to the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO), the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) would like to congratulate Professor Gideon...
Posted: 10 December 2021
This winter, as part of the JERICO-RI European Infrastructure JERICO-S3 project, the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) will access the SmartBay Observatory. The main objective of this access is...
Posted: 10 December 2021
Six functions that will deliver the IOCs High Level Objectives with Capacity Development cross cutting all functions At the 3rd meeting of the IOC Group of Experts on Capacity Development (GE-CD), held 1–2 December 2021, Alan Evans, National Oceanography Centre’s (NOC) Head of Marine Policy was re-...
Posted: 9 December 2021
Online mentoring with the Class of 2021 A new bursary made available by West of England P&I club (West P&I) and managed by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has had a highly successful first year, despite the challenges of the...
Posted: 8 December 2021
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) are delighted to share a special issue of the scientific journal “Ocean and Coastal Management” (OCMA) which highlights observational and modelling...
Posted: 7 December 2021
Autosub Long Range (ALR) better known as 'Boaty McBoatface' in water Engineers from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have headed out to the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica with renowned autonomous underwater vehicle, 'Boaty McBoatface', to help understand what is...
Posted: 2 December 2021
The SeaDataCloud team at their annual meeting (Brest, 2019). Photo credit: Charles Troupin (GHER, University of Liège) SeaDataCloud, a collaborative project involving the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC, part of the National Oceanography Centre), has today (2 December) been awarded a “les Etoiles de l...
Posted: 1 December 2021
Staff have been sharing celebratory messages 'We got the silver' The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is delighted to announce that it has been awarded the Investors in People (IIP) silver accreditation – an accolade awarded to around 15% of organisations...
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