School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES)

First-place success for Southampton undergraduate team at AAPG competition in Prague

2011 AAPG gold winners

A team of five undergraduate MSci students studying at the School of Ocean and Earth Science based at the National Oceanography centre, Southampton, have been awarded gold at the 2011 American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) European section of the Imperial Barrel Awards.

Ancient global warmings explained

Episodes of global warming occurred several times during the Palaeocene and Eocene epochs (65–34 million years ago)

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.

14 March – UK Nitrogen Fixation-GEOTRACES Expedition 2011

CTD sampling at night

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

11 March – UK Nitrogen Fixation-GEOTRACES Expedition 2011

Anouska Panton

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

7 March – UK Nitrogen Fixation – GEOTRACES Expedition 2011

Trichodesmium colony from the tropical Atlantic Ocean

Joe Snow – Discovery 361 – 02.00°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.

5 March – UK Nitrogen Fixation-GEOTRACES Expedition 2011

The ISW microstructure profiler

Alex Forryan – Discovery 361 – 03.10°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.

1 March – UK Nitrogen Fixation – GEOTRACES Expedition 2011

David and his incubation set-up

David Honey – Discovery 361 – 00.10°N, 24.30°W

Arctic environment during an ancient bout of natural global warming

Fieldwork in Spitsbergen

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.

24 Feb – UK Nitrogen Fixation – GEOTRACES Expedition 2011

CTD cast

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

Undergraduate scholarship awards

Students celebrate scholarship success

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