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Posted: 29 July 2022
Ocean: Exploring the Marine World A brand new richly illustrated celebration of the world’s oceans and seas, developed in consultation with an international panel of experts including the National Oceanography Centre’s (...
Posted: 29 July 2022
Dr Maaten Furlong The National Oceanography Centre (NOC), one of the world’s top ocean science organisations for research and innovation, has appointed a global expert in autonomous and robotics development to...
Posted: 28 July 2022
The latest annual report shows the continuation of warmer than average years and increasing rate of sea level rise around the UK. The State of the UK Climate 2021 report reviews the climate and...
Posted: 27 July 2022
Dr Mike Clare working in the NOC's British Ocean Sediment Core Research Facility (BOSCORF) The visible effects of plastic entering the ocean are sadly all too clear to us now, but what about the plastic we can’t see? Microplastics, plastic fibres and fragments that are between 1...
Posted: 22 July 2022
Image: sensors being put in place. Image credit: Professor Pete Talling Prompt action by scientists recovered sensors drifting across the Atlantic Ocean that held data on a seabed sediment avalanche that travelled for 1,100km to ocean depths of 4,500m. A study...
Posted: 13 July 2022
Creating an even more inclusive workplace culture is an ongoing priority for marine science institutions worldwide. Given the unique working environment of research ships and the potential to be...
Posted: 12 July 2022
RRS James Cook ready to set sail to to the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre. Scientists from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) will be embarking on an expedition to the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre to measure ocean...
Posted: 12 July 2022
Surface phytoplankton captures carbon, stores it in cell walls, and transfers it to the ocean deep after the algae die. How might the seasons affect this process? Image: NOAA National Ocean Service/Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Researchers at the University of Bristol, the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and other UK institutions predict that the amount of carbon stored by microscopic plankton will increase in the coming...
Posted: 11 July 2022
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the West of England P&I Club (West P&I) are proud to introduce Adeola Dahunsi and Selasi Yao Avornyo as the two students selected for the second...
Posted: 8 July 2022
Global seafloor areas considered mapped in the GEBCO grid. Grey: mapped areas in the 2021 release. Red: additional coverage in the 2022 release. <em>Image: Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Global Center (GDACC) on behalf of Seabed 2030.</em> The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project, an international effort to chart the world’s entire ocean floor, has announced an increase in ocean data equating to the size of Europe. The...
Posted: 7 July 2022
NOC at the UN Ocean Conference During the week 27 June to 1 July, representatives from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), UK participated in the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. The Conference focus was on SDG14 (...
Posted: 5 July 2022
During last week’s UN Ocean Conference, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (IOC-UNESCO) launched a pilot...