Publications by research area

NOC staff publications in selected science research area

2016

Prospect risk, pot odds and efficient drill or no-drill decision making: what the exploration business can learn from high stakes poker

A practical guide to the use of success versus failure statistics in the estimation of prospect risk

Corers and grabs

2015

Missing nitrogen fixation in the Benguela region

Pond fractals in a tidal flat

The good, the bad, and the tiny: A simple, mechanistic-probabilistic model of virus-nutrient colimitation in microbes

Behaviour and habitat of Neohela monstrosa (Boeck, 1861) (Amphipoda: Corophiida) in Norwegian Sea deep water

Eddy-driven subduction exports particulate organic carbon from the spring bloom

The allometry of the smallest: superlinear scaling of microbial metabolic rates in the Atlantic Ocean

Satellite estimates of net community production indicate predominance of net autotrophy in the Atlantic Ocean

Marine biodiversity and ecosystem function relationships: The potential for practical monitoring applications

Habitat area as an indicator of Good Environmental Status under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive: the identification of suitable habitat mapping methods with recommendations on best-practice for the reduction of uncertainty

The DELOS project: Development of a long-term observatory in an oil field environment in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean

Supercritical-flow structures on a Late Carboniferous delta front: sedimentologic and paleoclimatic significance: REPLY

Feasibility of laser scanning to determine volumetric properties of grained fine soils

Is the meiofauna a good indicator for climate change and anthropogenic impacts?

Deep-water observation of scalloped hammerhead Sphyrna lewini in the western Indian Ocean off Tanzania

Quantification of near-bed dense layers and implications for seafloor structures: new insights into the most hazardous aspects of turbidity currents

No detectable effect of ocean acidification on plankton metabolism in the NW oligotrophic Mediterranean Sea: Results from two mesocosm studies

Deriving shallow-water sediment properties using post-stack acoustic impedance inversion

Permeability and pressure measurements in Lesser Antilles submarine slides: Evidence for pressure-driven slow-slip failure

Phytoplankton dynamics in contrasting early stage North Atlantic spring blooms: composition, succession, and potential drivers

The potential response of the hydrate reservoir in the South Shetland Margin, Antarctic Peninsula, to ocean warming over the 21st century

Can high-resolution marine geophysical data be inverted for soil properties?

First report of live deep-water cnidarian assemblages from the Malta Escarpment

Live–dead comparison of benthic foraminiferal faunas from the Rhône prodelta (Gulf of Lions, NW Mediterranean): Development of a proxy for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions

Efficient removal of recalcitrant deep-ocean dissolved organic matter during hydrothermal circulation

Architecture of North Atlantic contourite drifts modified by transient circulation of the Icelandic mantle plume

Are large submarine landslides temporally random or do uncertainties in available age constraints make it impossible to tell?

A collection of taxonomic studies commemorating Roger N. Bamber 1949-2015). Foreword

Crustal structure of the Murray Ridge, northwest Indian Ocean, from wide-angle seismic data

Abyssal foraminifera attached to polymetallic nodules from the eastern Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone: a preliminary description and comparison with North Atlantic dropstone assemblages

A re-description of Discoconchoecia elegans (Sars, 1865) (Ostracoda: Halocyprididae) from high latitudes in the North Atlantic

Temporal and spatial variation in temperature experienced by macrofauna at main endeavour Hydrothermal vent field

Interpreting monitoring data for shoreline and geohazard mapping

Xenophyophores (Protista, Foraminifera) from the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone with description of three new species

Links between surface productivity and deep ocean particle flux at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain sustained observatory

Talc-dominated seafloor deposits reveal a new class of hydrothermal system

A procedure for manufacturing silica-cemented synthetic porous rocks (Commercial in Confidence)

Living (Rose-Bengal-stained) benthic foraminiferal faunas along a strong bottom-water oxygen gradient on the Indian margin (Arabian Sea)

Characterising the stable (δ88/86Sr) and radiogenic (87Sr/86Sr) isotopic composition of strontium in rainwater

Carlsberg Ridge and Mid-Atlantic Ridge: Comparison of slow spreading centre analogues

Accumulation of conservative substances in a sub-tropical coastal lagoon

What causes large submarine landslides on low gradient (<2°) continental slopes with slow (~0.15m/ky) sediment accumulation?

Multidecadal variability of potential temperature, salinity, and transport in the eastern subpolar North Atlantic

RRS Discovery Cruise DY008, 18 Mar - 13 Apr 2014, Southampton to Southampton. Shelf sea biogeochemistry

The Eugen Seibold coral mounds offshore western Morocco: oceanographic and bathymetric boundary conditions of a newly discovered cold-water coral province

Geology, sulfide geochemistry and supercritical venting at the Beebe Hydrothermal Vent Field, Cayman Trough

Coastal observatories for monitoring of fish behaviour and their responses to environmental changes

Oxygen minimum zones in the tropical Pacific across CMIP5 models: mean state differences and climate change trends