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One of Europe’s biggest business-to-business showcases for the marine technology industry opens at the National Oceanography Centre, from Tuesday to Thursday, 9 to 11 April.

Ocean Business 13 will bring 300 companies to Southampton for the three-day event that is a showcase for suppliers and service providers, but also offers…

This event took place on Saturday 17 March 2012

Ocean and Earth Day 2012 is the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton’s (NOCS) event for the National Science and Engineering Week, and is run in tandem with NOC Liverpool and the University of Southampton Ocean and Earth Science.

The NOC is the premier UK Centre for research…

University of Southampton Professor Eric Achterberg, who is based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has been awarded a prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Awards by the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science.

Professor Achterberg, from Ocean and Earth Science, received the award to support his research on marine…

Developments in the use of autonomous underwater vehicles for science and industry are the subject of an international conference which takes place in Southampton next month (September 2012) – the first time the event has been held in the United Kingdom.

IEEE AUV 2012 is a collaborative event dedicated to autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for…

The enormously exciting Ocean and Earth Day takes place at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton this year on 23 March from 10.30am to 4pm (last entry 3.30pm), as part of National Science and Engineering Week.

In 2012 over 3,000 people came to learn about the wonders…

The 50th anniversary of the launch of the Royal Research Ship Discovery will be marked on 2 July 2012. This will be her last year of service, a half-century of science that has included surveying the ocean floor, measuring ocean currents, monitoring climate change, and discovering new species around the globe.

When RRS Discovery was…

IEEE AUV 2012 Conference 25–26 September 2012 at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK

An international conference for ocean robotics is to be held at the UK’s National Oceanography Centre in Southampton 25–26 September 2012.

Every two years the Oceanic Engineering Society (IEEE–OES) sponsors a collaborative…

In 2013 Ben Fogle will attempt to swim more than 3,000 miles from America to Cornwall. Supported by a yacht, Ben will need to swim more than 30 miles a day to reach his target of completing the crossing in under 100 days.

Swimming up to 12 hours a day, Ben will use the support yacht for sleeping and eating, logging his stop and start position each…

NOC researcher, Dr Judith Wolf, will explain some of the science behind achieving world class performance at sailing at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy from 7pm on Thursday 24 May.

Cutting Edge: Behind…

Universities and Science Minister David Willetts has hailed the new Southampton Martine and Maritime Institute (SMMI), of which the National Oceanography Centre is a component, as exemplary of the relationships required between industry and higher education to drive future economic growth in the UK and around the world.

Mr Willetts formally opened…