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Saturday 19 March 2011
10.30am – 4.00pm (last admission 3.30pm)

National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (Dock Gate 4)

Ocean and Earth Day 2011 comes at the start of Climate Week, the UK’s first week dedicated to understanding and tackling climate change. Visitors to the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (…

On 25 January 2011, Dr Jung-Keuk Kang, President of the Korea Ocean Research Development Institute (KORDI), Republic of South Korea, signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), which is intended to enhance existing links between our two organisations and develop new collaborative research opportunities.

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Three PhD students of the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) based at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton have won awards for presentations given at scientific conferences.

In January, second year PhD student Casey Nixon attended the Tectonic Studies Group Annual Meeting in Durham where he won the Mike…

Professor Sir David King will chair the National Oceanography Centre’s newly formed Advisory Council. The inaugural meeting took place on Monday 12 January at the Institute of Physics in London, where Terms of Reference were agreed.

Sir David is Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, Director of…

The House of Commons Select Committee for Energy and Climate Change has published its Second Report ‘UK Deepwater Drilling – Implications of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill’.

The written evidence provided by Research Councils UK (RCUK) to the inquiry incorporated scientific knowledge offered by the National Oceanography Centre (and other NERC centres)…

Professor Philip Woodworth of the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool has been awarded an MBE in the 2011 New Year’s Honours List.

Philip was Director of the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) for over 20 years. The PSMSL is the global databank for sea-level change information and it is largely thanks to its dataset that we are able…

Peter Winter, the National Oceanography Centre’s new Director of Planning and Resources, takes up his post this week.

Peter is the member of the centre’s Executive Board responsible for the full range of administrative functions – delivered across two sites in Southampton and Liverpool – that underpin the delivery of the centre’s world-leading…

The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and its partners featured strongly in the Society for Underwater Technology’s 2010 awards, which were recently presented at the SUT Annual General Meeting onboard the Guild of Master Mariners Headquarters Ship Wellington.

Dr Nic Flemming OBE, who served many years at the Institute of Oceanographic…

Professor Harry Bryden of the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the Earth sciences.

The award ceremony was held this week during the AGU Fall…