Southampton

Restoring Chesapeake Bay habitats

 Stargrass (Heteranthera) with milfoil (Myriophyllum) (courtesy of Nancy Rybicki, USGS)

Efforts to restore the environment of Chesapeake Bay, one the largest estuaries in the world, are paying dividends according to new research. The findings suggest that reduced nutrient inputs and improved water clarity have resulted in increased abundance and diversity of submerged vegetation, with reductions in the proportion of exotic species.

Challenger Conference for Marine Science – 6–9 September 2010

Challenger Conference 6–9 September 2010 at NOC Southampton

Climate change topic of keynote marine science talk.

The impact of climate change on humans is the subject of a lecture that forms the centerpiece of a key conference on the challenges facing the ocean environment.

Marine Life Talk – 2 September 2010

Scallop (credit: Paul Naylor)

Fishing for sustainable seafood - 2 September 2010 - National Oceanography Centre in Southampton - 19:30pm -

Jolyon Chesworth -

IOC commemorative stamps presented to National Oceanographic Library

Jane Stephenson of NOL with Trevor Guymer (left) and Rolly Rogers (right)

First day cover stamps commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) have been presented to the National Oceanographic Library (NOL) based at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Southampton.

Engineered coral pigment helps scientists to observe protein movement with super-resolution

Fluorescence of mouth region of the reef coral Lobophyllia hemprichii

Scientists in Southampton, UK, and Ulm and Karlsruhe in Germany have shown that a variant form of a fluorescent protein (FP) originally isolated from a reef coral has excellent properties as a marker protein for super-resolution microscopy in live cells.

Geoscientists explain differences between large Sumatran earthquakes

Geophysical equipment (‘airguns’) being deployed

University of Southampton scientists based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, along with US and Indonesian collaborators have uncovered clues as to why some undersea earthquakes generate huge tsunamis. Their findings may help explain why the 2004 Sumatra ‘Boxing Day Tsunami’ was so devastating.

Challenger Conference for Marine Science – 6–9 September 2010

Challenger Conference 6–9 September 2010 at NOC Southampton

The challenges facing the ocean environment in the 21st Century are the subject of a key conference later this year.

Preparations are under way for the 14th Biennial Challenger Conference for Marine Science, which takes place at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, from 6–9 September 2010.

Marine Life Talk at NOC – 1 July 2010

Deep sea hydrothermal vents – a journey to the Southern Ocean

Deep sea hydrothermal vents – a journey to the Southern Ocean

by Leigh Marsh and Laura Hepburn

Ecological change in the abyss – the Amperima Event

The sea cucumber (holothurian) Amperima rosea

Even in the dark abyss of the deep ocean animal communities can undergo rapid, widespread and radical changes. Scientists at the National Oceanography Centre are at the forefront of monitoring these changes and understanding the mechanisms responsible. Their latest research is published in a special issue of the journal Deep Sea Research II.

Autosub3 plays central role in understanding glacier melt

Autosub3, a robot submarine operated by the National Oceanography Centre

Autosub3, a robot submarine operated by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), has been instrumental in revealing reasons for steady thinning of a vast glacier in Western Antarctica over recent decades.