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Posted: 26 May 2023
The CCZ is one of the best studied areas of the deepsea, and yet we still know relatively little about it ©SMARTEX Project/smartexccz.org First comprehensive checklist of life in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone compiled Over 90% of species in one of the most likely future mining sites are undescribed by science The paper How...
Posted: 26 May 2023
NOC's Will Dixon, one of Into the Blue's hosts and Head of Marketing Peter Ryde picking up the award in London NOC’s Into the Blue podcast has been awarded the prestigious Babcock First Sea Lord’s Award for Best Use of Digital Media at the Maritime Media Awards 2022. Since 1995, the Maritime...
Posted: 25 May 2023
This August TREC comes to the NOC Southampton to gather biological samples and environmental data along the coastline. We've got several exciting events happening that you can participate in, from...
Posted: 23 May 2023
The first Socio-Oceanography workshop, an outcome was the published comment piece on plastic pollution Alliances between science, industry, society and policy are essential to reduce the scourge of plastic pollution Experts are calling on the United Nation’s Environment Programme to...
Posted: 19 May 2023
Imagery based on the GEBCO_2023 global bathymetric grid, www.gebco.net The amount of seafloor mapped has risen to 24.9%. The global effort behind mapping the world’s entire ocean floor before the end of the decade is being spearheaded by Seabed 2030. The...
Posted: 18 May 2023
In our latest Annual Report and Financial Statements we share the great success stories as the UK’s leading marine research charity, building a world where everyone feels empowered and...
Posted: 15 May 2023
The Sustainable Management of UK Marine Resources (SMMR) programme is addressing critical marine research gaps. These gaps span a variety of disciplines, from natural capital to ocean literacy and...
Posted: 15 May 2023
The UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has partnered with Ploughshare to enhance the commercial activity of NOC’s trading subsidiary NOC Innovations. NOC Innovations has signed a...
Posted: 5 May 2023
Last week the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) hosted a visit from Science Minister George Freeman, as part of a wider tour of the Solent region. Organised by the Solent LEP, the Minister led a...
Posted: 4 May 2023
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr John Siddorn as Chief Scientist and Director of Data, Science & Technology (DST) to succeed Prof Angela Hatton...
Posted: 3 May 2023
Offshore oil well drilling impacting deep-sea habitats are photographed in real-time. Impacted sponges have been photographed potentially partially recovering from sedimentation over 40 days....
Posted: 2 May 2023
Storm patterns have been moving towards the poles since the 1990s increasing the number of storms and storm force winds Wave height from these storms have decreased over the last 30 years in the...