Southampton

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’.

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

6 January 2011 – Celebrating a decade of dedication – 19.30pm at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton –

Talk by Rachel Boschen

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Chagos Marine Protected Area

On Friday 12 November 2010, Professor Charles Sheppard of the University of Warwick will be giving a seminar at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton entitled ‘The Chagos MPA story – so far’.

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.