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Day 1 – Saturday 15 January 2011 – Crossing Drake Passage

We wake on Saturday morning having navigated the Magellan Straits and now we start to cross the Drake Passage to Antarctica. Paul Tyler is in charge of this expedition and we have a busy schedule ahead of us.

Paul has been going to sea as a scientist since he was…

We are here to carry out a 41 day expedition in the Southern Ocean to explore the newly discovered hydrothermal vents in this remote region. Our principal scientist or expedition leader is Paul Tyler from the University of Southampton who has vast amounts of experience of working in this hostile environment.

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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)…

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…

Rapid turnover and remodelling of lipid membranes could help phytoplankton cope with nutrient scarcity in the open ocean.

A team led by Patrick Martin of the University of Southampton's School of Ocean and Earth Science based at the National Oceanography Centre has shown that a species of planktonic marine alga can rapidly change the chemical…

The BSRG AGM is the most important event in the BSRG calendar and is the focus for much of BSRG’s activities. The meeting features an extensive academic and social programme which includes pre-conference workshops, talk and poster sessions and the conference dinner.

An exciting programme features an icebreaker reception with guest speakers,…

A team led by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre have measured the air-sea exchange of carbon dioxide in the open ocean at higher wind speed then anyone else has ever managed. Their findings are important for understanding how interactions between the oceans and the atmosphere influence climate.

“Evaluating the factors influencing the…

We would like to invite you to attend the 7th UK Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers Conference to be held at the National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool on 30–31 March 2011.

Rationale for YCSEC

Research on coastal physical processes in the UK occurs under a variety of different disciplinary labels, including oceanography, geography,…

Southampton scientists along with colleagues in New Zealand have used a sophisticated optical mapping technique to identify and accurately measure changes in coastal morphology following a catastrophic series of landslides.

“Our findings are important for assessing geological hazards and reducing the dangers to human settlements,” said geophysicist…

Marine geoscientist Dr Veerle Huvenne of the National Oceanography Centre has been awarded a major research grant worth around 1.4 million Euros over five years to map complex habitats in the deep ocean and study the biodiversity they support.

The European Research Council (ERC) ‘Starting Grant’ scheme aims to fund young, early career scientists…