School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES)

A research team including scientists from the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has uncovered the likely cause of repeated episodes of natural global warming during the ancient past.

Several episodes of pronounced and rapid global warming are known to have…

Dr Claire Mahaffey and Dr Sarah Reynolds, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK – Discovery 361

Hi, I’m Sarah Reynolds and I’m a post doctoral research associate working with Dr Claire Mahaffey and Prof. Ric Williams at the University of Liverpool. Our work is focused on determining the magnitude and…

Anouska Panton – Discovery 361 – 10.04°N, 28.40°W

My name is Anouska Panton and I am a PhD student in the Nutrient Biogeochemistry lab at the University of Liverpool. My principal role on board is to collect and analyse dissolved oxygen bottle samples from both the stainless steel and the titanium rosette which will be used to…

Joe Snow – Discovery 361 – 2.00°N, 25.30°W

My name is Joe Snow and I started my PhD in Southampton last September. In the six months that I’ve been at NOCS my time has been spend familiarising myself with the background information for my project along with preparing for this cruise.

Preparing for your first cruise is a…

Alex Forryan – Discovery 361 – 3.10°S, 25.10°W

Turbulence measurements: On RSS Discovery cruise D361 turbulence in the upper ocean is being measured at every station using an ISW free-fall vertical microstructure profiler.

Turbulence is an energetic, eddying, diffusive, and highly dissipative…

David Honey – Discovery 361 – 0.10°N, 24.30°W

Hello, my name is David Honey and I’m a PhD student from the University of Southampton working onboard the RRS Discovery (D361). I’m in my final year of study and the results collected from this cruise are likely to feature heavily in my thesis. My work is primarily focused…

Scientists are unravelling the environmental changes that took place around the Arctic during an exceptional episode of ancient global warming. Newly published results from a high-resolution study of sediments collected on Spitsbergen represent a significant contribution to this endeavour.

The study was led by Dr Ian Harding and Prof John Marshall…

Elizabeth Sargent – Discovery 361 – 12.35°N, 22.00°W

Things are off to a great, albeit busy, start. We’ve worked up a good sampling plan, and have decided that we will normally do one station per day. A station can consist of a maximum of seven sampling events, such as deployments of conductance-temperature-density (CTD)…

Forty undergraduate Ocean and Earth Science students have been presented with scholarships to reward academic achievement in Geology, Geophysics, Marine Biology and Oceanography subjects.

The University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, aims to attract students of the…

Michele Paulatto, a PhD student at the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has been awarded one of the Geological Society’s President’s Awards for 2011.

Two or three of these accolades are awarded annually to young researchers of exceptional promise and…