awards

A prestigious award for achievement in underwater technology has been won by a marine physicist based at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Liverpool.

The David Partridge Award for Underwater Technology 2012 has been presented to the NOC’s Peter Foden at a ceremony at Trinity House in London.

The Society for Underwater Technology (…

The National Oceanography Centre this week said farewell to a research leader who has been at the forefront of UK underwater technology development for three decades.

Professor Gwyn Griffiths, the centre’s Chief Technologist and founding Head of the Marine Autonomous and Robotic Systems (MARS) facility retires this month after a 36-…

Two scientists at the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool have won prestigious awards from the Challenger Society

The Challenger Society awards four Fellowships biennially, to early career-stage marine scientists who are members of the Challenger Society, for their achievements and promise in a branch of marine sciences: marine biology,…

Congratulations to Dr Stephanie Henson who has been awarded the Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists of the European Geosciences Union.

Stephanie will be presented with the award next April during the 2012 General Assembly of the Union in Vienna, Austria. Stephanie has also been invited to present a Medal Lecture at the General…

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…

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…

Warm congratulations to Pam Talbot, formerly departmental secretary for Biology, Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems, who received an MBE in the recent Queen’s birthday honours list. The award is for services to the National Oceanography Centre and its predecessors over a period spanning 45 years.

Pam, who retired at the end of March 2010, joined the…

In recognition of his work as an international sea-level scientist, Professor Philip Woodworth of the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has recently visited Buckingham Palace to receive an MBE.

Over the last twenty years Professor Woodworth has led a team of NOC scientists working on predicting global and regional sea-level change.

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Stephanie Henson of the Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems group, National Oceanography Centre, was announced as the winner of the Early Career Research Award at the Science and Technology Symposium earlier this month.

Stephanie’s winning paper was: Henson et al. (2010) Detection of anthropogenic climate change in satellite records of ocean…

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…