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Posted: 26 April 2010
A team led by scientists from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, have today set sail from Govan in Scotland towards the region of the North Atlantic ocean affected by ash from the... |
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Posted: 15 April 2010
Scientists onboard the RRS James Cook have found the world’s deepest hydrothermal vents 3,1 miles down (5000 metres) in the Caribbean’s Cayman Trough.
The NOC scientists are writing a daily... |
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Posted: 13 April 2010
Professor Edward Hill has been appointed Director of the Natural Environment Research Council’s new National Oceanography Centre.
He said, “I am delighted to have the opportunity to lead the... |
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Posted: 12 April 2010
A British scientific expedition has discovered the world’s deepest undersea volcanic vents, known as ‘black smokers’, 3.1 miles (5000 metres) down in the Cayman Trough in the Caribbean.
Using a... |
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Posted: 8 April 2010
The 3rd International Ocean Stewardship Forum (IOSF), a conference designed to promote greater integration between the legal and technical aspects of marine policy-making has been cancelled.... |
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Posted: 1 April 2010
Only 30 years ago the Solent contained Europe’s largest natural oyster fishery. Today the fishery has effectively collapsed and the oyster population is rapidly approaching commercial extinction... |
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Posted: 1 April 2010
Last month the RRS James Clark Ross set sail in the direction of the Antarctic Peninsula and the Northern Weddell Sea to measure the production of Antarctic Bottom Water. Onboard ship is an... |
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Posted: 1 April 2010
The movement of ocean eddies and other surface water masses over short timescales causes rapid changes in the community composition of marine algae (phytoplankton) in the sunlit upper ocean,... |