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En route to Whittard CanyonWith thanks to Vikki Gunn (Seascape Consultants) and the iAtlantic project for hosting the JC237 blog.
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JC237: Setting sail!With thanks to Vikki Gunn (Seascape Consultants) and the iAtlantic project for hosting the JC237 blog.
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The latest CLASS related expedition to the sets sail to the Whittard Canyon, a Marine Protected Area (MPA) on 6 August. Discover more about the expedition and follow the expedition blog.With thanks to Vikki Gunn (Seascape Consultants) and the iAtlantic project for hosting the JC237 blog.
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Authors: Brian Bett & Catherine Wardell, National Oceanography CentreRRS Discovery cruise 152 has just completed and is inbound to NOC, arriving Saturday 23 July. Although a Marine Autonomous Robotic Systems (MARS) and National Marine Equipment Pool trials cruise, it has done an excellent job…
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The latest CLASS-supported cruise was an expedition to the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO) in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean. This is a continuation of a long-term time-series of observations – a vital tool that underpins our understanding of the changes occurring in the…
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Hello, I am Olmo Miguez-Salas, a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow working in the Senckenberg Institute in Frankfurt (Germany). My research involves ichnological analysis of marine sediments; in other words, I study bioturbational processes. Bioturbation is generally defined as the reworking of soils…
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The UK Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) have recently published a paper on the key challenges and emerging issues facing the UK marine climate change community.Identifying key challenges and emerging issues was a major part of MCCIP’s 2020 marine climate change impacts report card…
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Author: Andrew Yool, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.
Alongside the programme of fieldwork being undertaken as part of the CLASS project, modelling scientists at NOC are also using supercomputers to make “virtual reality” versions of the World Ocean and its ecosystems.
These computer…
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Author: Alex Megann, National Oceanography Centre.
For about ten years NOC has collaborated closely with the Met Office under the Joint Marine Modelling programme (JMMP), which forms part of the Joint Weather and Climate Research Programme (JWCRP).
Under JMMP and related programmes, NERC funds…
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Author: Allison Schaap, Ocean Technology & Engineering Group at NOC.
I had the privilege of spending February and March on board Germany’s famous icebreaking research vessel Polarstern in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica.
Organised by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (…