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Posted: 12 July 2011
Local marine fisheries and conservation, 19.30pm at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton –
by Dr Antony Jensen –
The past few years have seen a major change in fisheries and... |
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Posted: 12 July 2011
Surf and algal turf – Life on the Boscombe Artificial Surf Reef, 19.30pm at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton –
by Josie Pegg –
Completed in 2009 Boscombe artificial surf... |
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Posted: 12 July 2011
19.30pm at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton – Mining in the deep sea and the protection of marine life –
by Dr David Billett –
The deep ocean holds a wealth of minerals. As... |
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Posted: 8 July 2011
This last blog entry is by Toby Tyrrell and Eric Achterberg.
Today is the end of the cruise for most of us, and a welcome chance to relax a little, catch up on sleep and then start writing the... |
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Posted: 7 July 2011
Today is the penultimate day of scientific data collection for most of us. At 5am we measured the last of the bottles from the fifth and last bioassay. Then, a few hours later, the CTD was lowered... |
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Posted: 6 July 2011
Geo-engineering schemes aimed at tackling global warming through artificial iron fertilisation of the oceans would significantly affect deep-sea ecosystems, according to research involving scientists... |
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Posted: 5 July 2011
When we got up this morning we were met with a surprising and rather wonderful scene (see photo). It was as if we had suddenly been transported to a different climate overnight, or to a placid... |
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Posted: 5 July 2011
We are steaming rapidly northwards parallel to the west coast of Norway. Soon we will reach our most northerly latitude, 60°N, and turn westwards for home.
During our cruise we have gathered... |
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Posted: 4 July 2011
A new discovery reveals that the shrimp-like creature at the heart of the Antarctic food chain could play a key role in fertilising the surface waters of Southern Ocean with the essential element... |
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Posted: 4 July 2011
Researchers from the Marine Geoscience group at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) featured prominently at a recent conference held at the Geological Society in London, focused on submarine... |
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Posted: 4 July 2011
Success! The strategy of moving as quickly as possible to the west turned out to be a good one. Although the rolling seas seemed to go on and on, eventually by this morning the sea was more... |
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Posted: 1 July 2011
Today our planned programme of work has been thwarted by poor weather, with the sea being too rough to safely put the CTD in the water. We are currently running away westwards from the Skaggerak,... |