Keep an eye on our Twitter feed next week - as it will be time to vote for the ultimate monster of the deep!
In recent weeks the NOC Facebook and Twitter pages have been showcasing some of the weird and wonderful creatures that live in our Oceans. Click here to refresh your memory on all of the creatures so far before the poll goes live. Registration is nowopen for the SOLSTICE-WIO Webinar Series Interdisciplinary research for the sustainable management of the marine environment, climate change and food security: Case Studies from the Western Indian Ocean which will be held as a programme of Zoom events over four Mondays in November.
SOLSTICE-WIO is a four-year collaborative project, led by NOC and funded by the UK Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). Launched in October 2017, it has brought together recent advances in marine technologies, local knowledge and research expertise to address challenges of sustainable management of the marine environment, food security and climate change facing the Western Indian Ocean region.
Click here to view the full agenda and register After a long wait, it was fantastic to welcome Ocean Business back to the NOC this week. Thank you to everyone who came along to our stand to say hello, it was great to see so many faces and chat about how the NOC can work in partnership with your organisation. We look forward to hosting Ocean Business at the NOC once again in April 2023! Earlier this week, the NOC announced it's partnership with Subsea 7, a global leader in the delivery of offshore projects for the energy sector, to create BORA Blue Ocean Research Alliance. The alliance represents a significant step towards gaining a better understanding of the worlds oceans and seas for a sustainable marine future. Click here to read the full story
In October 2020, RRS Discoverysailed from Southampton to the Iceland Basin and Rockall Trough, as part of a research expedition aimed at enhancing understanding of the role of this critical part of the ocean in the climate and weather in Europe and the Arctic. Previous to this expedition, there was a lack of measurements of the how much heat and freshwater is carried northwards by the North Atlantic subpolar gyre, which held back the progression of understanding about the relationship between ocean currents and UK climate. Click here to read the full story |