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Marine Conservation and the Solent – 19.30pm at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton –

by Amy Dale –

Forty undergraduate Ocean and Earth Science students have been presented with scholarships to reward academic achievement in Geology, Geophysics, Marine Biology and Oceanography subjects.

The National Oceanography Centre’s Liverpool site and the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) are celebrating retaining the prestigious Investors in People (IiP) standard.

The Census of Marine Life: what have we learned from this 10 year programme? – 19.30pm at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton –

by Professor Paul Tyler –

Michele Paulatto, a PhD student at the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has been awarded one of the Geological Society’s President’s Awards for 2011.

The construction of a state-of-the-art research ship for UK marine science reached a significant milestone in Vigo, Northern Spain, this week with the keel-laying ceremony for the new RRS Discovery.

Saturday 19 March 2011

National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (through Dock Gate 4)

10:30am – 4:00pm (last admission 3:30pm)

On 25 January 2011, Dr Jung-Keuk Kang, President of the Korea Ocean Research Development Institute (KORDI), Republic of South Korea, signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), which is intended to enhance existing links between our two organisations and develop new collaborative research opportunities.

The first Marine Life talk of 2011 held at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton was dedicated to the achievement of Dr Ken Collins and Jenny Mallinson, who had the inspiration to start the programme of talks back in 2000 and the tenacity to keep it going for ten years.

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.