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Scientists at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton have identified a repeating trigger for the largest explosive volcanic eruptions on Earth.

The Las Cañadas volcanic caldera on Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, has generated at least eight major eruptions during the last 700,000 years. These catastrophic events have resulted in eruption…

NOC scientists are carrying out research examining methane outputs from the seabed in the area of the Svalbard archipelago, off Norway

MASOX observatory recovered off Svalbard

MASOX (Monitoring Arctic Seafloor – Ocean Exchange) is a long-term seabed observatory on the Arctic seafloor that has been monitoring methane flares off the west coast…

A team of scientists, including University of Southampton scientists who are based at the National Oceanography Centre, have shed new light on the world’s history of climate change.

The Pacific Ocean has remained the largest of all oceans on the planet for many million years. It covers one third of the Earth’s surface and has a mean depth of 4.2km.…

Research from the University of Southampton and the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton has found that an imbalance of nutrients in reef waters can increase the bleaching susceptibility of reef corals.

Corals are made up of many polyps that jointly form a layer of living tissue covering the calcareous skeletons. They depend on single-celled…

The contract to inspect and maintain the United Kingdom’s network of tidal gauges – the country’s early warning system for coastal flooding – has been won by the National Oceanography Centre.

The contract, worth £1,080,000 over four years, was awarded by the UK’s Environment Agency.

NOC’s Liverpool-based Tide Gauge Inspectorate, part of…

Research carried out at the National Oceanography, Southampton has provided new insight into the basic immune response and repair mechanisms of corals to disease and changing environmental conditions.

The study, published in the latest issue of the journal Coral Reefs, found that increased growth is the underlying physiological process…

NOC researcher, Dr Judith Wolf, explains some of the science behind achieving world class performance at sailing in a new video released ahead of the Olympic sailing events at Weymouth.

Cutting Edge: Behind Sailing explored what it takes to win gold at Olympic level through an interactive, thought-provoking and demonstration-packed evening at the…

NOC researcher, Dr Judith Wolf, will explain some of the science behind achieving world class performance at sailing at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy from 7pm on Thursday 24 May.

Cutting Edge: Behind…

The retreat of Arctic sea-ice in recent years and evidence of increased plankton activity have brought Arctic Ocean ecosystems to the centre of attention.

Increasingly large areas of the Arctic Basin are being exposed to sunlight, which promotes intense phytoplankton blooms during summer months. This is encouraging some to think that a northward…

Despite being 16 metres above sea level and with no tidal input from the ocean, Loch Ness still has its own tide, which has been measured for the first time by Liverpool-based scientists from the National Oceanography Centre.

Using pressure sensors to measure the tide at several points along the loch, Philip Woodworth and his colleagues, Machiel Bos…