science and technology

One of Europe’s biggest business-to-business showcases for the marine technology industry opens at the National Oceanography Centre, from Tuesday to Thursday, 9 to 11 April.

Ocean Business 13 will bring 300 companies to Southampton for the three-day event that is a showcase for suppliers and service providers, but also offers…

The National Oceanography Centre has welcomed the news that its owning body, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) will receive £10 million over the next two years for research and development of Marine Robotics.

The UK has a strong track record in developing autonomous underwater vehicles and, over several decades, NERC – particularly…

The most pressing issues that UK marine science needs to address over the next two decades are the subject of a prospectus published as a themed issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A last month. The volume is co-edited and carries contributions by scientists based at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS).

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An ingenious device that speeds up the task of attaching oceanographic instruments to cables has been successfully licensed to a commercial company by the National Oceanography Centre.

Quick-Clamp™ was developed several years ago by Dave Jones, a Liverpool-based member of the National Oceanography Centre’s Ocean Technology and Engineering team.

University of Southampton Professor Eric Achterberg, who is based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has been awarded a prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Awards by the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science.

Professor Achterberg, from Ocean and Earth Science, received the award to support his research on marine…

The threat posed to the United Kingdom by tsunamis that are triggered by colossal – but extremely rare – underwater landslides will be assessed in a National Oceanography Centre-led research project that has won £2.3 million in funding from the Natural Environment Research Council.

Underwater landslides can be far larger than any landslide seen…

Two projects investigating the use of robot submarines to map and monitor the seas around the United Kingdom – collecting data that will inform future government policy on the protection of the marine environment – have received £720,000 in funding.

The research programmes, led by the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have been contracted by…

Scientists at NOC and the Met Office are using sophisticated computer models to increase our understanding of ocean circulation and its influence on global climate.

A new film, published on NOC’s YouTube channel, shows a high resolution ocean simulation using the NEMO (Nucleus for European Modelling of…

The National Oceanography Centre has heralded James Cameron’s successful solo dive to the deepest part of the ocean.

The Hollywood director surfaced earlier this morning after completing a mission that took him to a depth of almost seven miles (11km) in the Mariana Trench. His submersible, Deepsea Challenger, spent more than three hours on…

Plans to drill and survey a lake under Antarctica’s ice sheet with a probe designed and built by engineers at the National Oceanography Centre have just reached another milestone.

Lake Ellsworth is one of around 350 subglacial lakes in Antarctica. UK scientists and engineers aim to drill more than two miles through overlying ice to sample its waters…