School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES)

Tiny organisms preserved in marine sediments hold clues about Arctic climate variation during an ancient episode of greenhouse warming.

Based on reconstructions of Arctic climate variability in the greenhouse world of the Late Cretaceous, Southampton scientists have concluded that man-made global warming probably would not greatly change the…

RRS Discovery UK Nitrogen Fixation – GEOTRACES Expedition 2011

Where and why?

The National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton, the Universities of East Anglia, Plymouth, Liverpool and Cape Town invite you on a virtual journey aboard the UK’s research flagship, the RRS Discovery to experience life on the cutting edge of…

Dr Heiko Pälike of the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) based at National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has been awarded the prestigious Wollaston Fund, presented by the Geological Society, London, the Learned and Professional Society for Geoscientists in the UK.

The fund has been awarded since 1831 to…

A major Southampton-led consortium project to study past and possible future sea-level rise has received a major grant award of £3.3 million over five years from the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

“The vulnerability of extensive near-coastal habitation,…

Three PhD students of the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) based at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton have won awards for presentations given at scientific conferences.

In January, second year PhD student Casey Nixon attended the Tectonic Studies Group Annual Meeting in Durham where he won the Mike…

Professor Eelco Rohling of the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton has been awarded a prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Award by the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science.

Rohling received…

Professor Harry Bryden of the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the Earth sciences.

The award ceremony was held this week during the AGU Fall…

Physical oceanography expert Dr Alberto Naveira Garabato has been awarded a 2010 Philip Leverhulme Prize. These prestigious prizes are awarded annually to the “best young scientists in the UK” and carry a value of £70,000 that the prize holder can use for any purpose in support of their research activity.

Dr Naveira Garabato is a member of the…

A team of students representing the University of Southampton has won the Southern regional heat of a national enterprise competition.

Southampton postgraduates Mahadji Bahi, David Owsianka and Victoire Rerolle, along with visiting student Alex Beaton of the University of Bristol will get the chance to show off their skills at the national final in…

Variations in atmosphere carbon dioxide around 40 million years ago were tightly coupled to changes in global temperature, according to new findings published in the journal Science. The study was led by scientists at Utrecht University, working with colleagues at the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and the University of…