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Friday 21 December saw the final departure of a ship that has served UK marine science for the past 50 years.

The Royal Research Ship Discovery, the UK’s oldest research vessel, has been taken out of service after a distinguished half-century of service to UK marine science. She will be replaced by a new, state-of-the-art Royal Research…

The new research ship serving UK marine science has been successfully launched at its yard in Vigo, Northern Spain.

The Royal Research Ship Discovery is now alongside an outfitting berth at the shipbuilder, CNP Freire, SA where fitting out is under way.

Commissioned by the Natural Environment Research Council the vessel will replace…

Staff reductions at the National Oceanography Centre

The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) needs to make savings – £3.5 million per annum by 2014–15. This has come about by a combination of an overall squeeze on the Natural Environment Research Council’s budget and the rebalancing of NERC’s spend from core national…

The National Oceanographic Library was officially opened today by renowned oceanographer Professor Walter Munk, at an event at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton.

NOCS has recently completed a major refurbishment of the National Oceanographic Library, the UK’s most extensive collection of oceanographic literature and one of the largest…

A prestigious award for early career scientists has been presented to Dr Derek Keir, a University of Southampton Lecturer in Earth Science, who is based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

The Jason Morgan Early Career Award is presented by the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Tectonophysics section and recognises the recipient’s…

Ambient noise in North European seas: monitoring, impact, management (3–5 October 2011, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton) – conference experts highlight how noise affects marine life.

Jacques Cousteau called the oceans the ‘Silent World’. Today, we know that they are anything but. If you think our towns are noisy places, then spare a…

Professor Ed Hill , Executive Director of the National Oceanography Centre, receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Sheffield today.

Professor Hill is a physical oceanographer and an applied mathematics graduate of the University. He graduated from Sheffield in 1981 and completed his post-graduate studies at the University of Wales…

NOC came close to winning the aap3 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) category of the prestigious South Coast Business Awards earlier this month.

On Friday 15 July staff attended a prestigious award ceremony at the De Vere Grand Harbour Hotel, Southampton, to see how the bid, put together by Candice Snelling, Environment and Energy Advisor,…

Researchers from the Marine Geoscience group at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) featured prominently at a recent conference held at the Geological Society in London, focused on submarine canyons and channels

Dr Russell Wynn, Head of Marine Geoscience, provided the opening keynote address on the study of modern channel systems. Some of…

Luminaries from NOC and its predecessors received prestigious awards in Paris this week from the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), which is celebrating its half-century this year.

Phil Woodworth (NOC), Lesley Rickards (BODC), Nic Flemming (formerly, IOS, NOCS and Chair of Eurogoos) and Meirion Jones (ex-Director of BODC) all received…