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Professor Ian Boyd, Defra’s new Chief Scientific Adviser

The National Oceanography Centre has welcomed the appointment of Professor Ian Boyd as Defra’s new Chief Scientific Adviser.

Professor Boyd, who is Director of the Scottish Oceans Institute at the University of St Andrews, and the NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit, a Delivery Partner of NOC, will join Defra in September on a three-year contract.…

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The National Oceanography Centre

On 12 August in Golden, Colorado, USA, Dr Angus Best of the National Oceanography Centre’s Marine Geoscience Research Group made a successful bid to host the biennial Second International Workshop on Rock Physics at NOC in Southampton in May 2013.

The First International Workshop on Rock Physics, held last week at the Colorado School of Mines, was a…