The Technical Tracks conference programme for Oceanology International 2018 at ExCel, London (13-15 March 2018) has now been finalised, constituting the most extensive and cogent analysis of advances in ocean...

Dr McFarlane is Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at the Claremont Colleges in Southern California, USA. He received his BSc from the University of Liverpool, his MSc from Queen’s...

Operating research vessels is an important aspect of many hydrographic and oceanographic organisations. The European Research Vessel Operators (ERVO) Group coordinates small to medium-sized research vessels in Europe. This platform...

During the recent Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas, USA, the Executive Order on Implementing an America-First Offshore Energy Strategy was signed to support offshore science development. In the context...

Professor Angela Hatton has begun her new role as Director of Science and Technology at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC). She was previously Director of Research at the Scottish Association...

Manganese nodules on the seabed of the Pacific Ocean are an important breeding ground for deep-sea octopuses. As reported by a German-American team of biologists in the latest issue of...

Students and researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) were given the opportunity to test their own dynamic positioning (DP) algorithms in a full-scale setting last week....

Stanley B. Harvey has assumed responsibilities as the deputy Hydrographer of the Navy on the Commander Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (CNMOC) staff. Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, the command’s leader,...

RV 'Falkor' has left Darwin, Australia, to explore the poorly understood air-sea interactions across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The team of sea surface experts and marine geochemists on the...

European scientists are joining forces to better understand oceanic change, by coordinating ocean data acquisition, analysis and response on scales ranging from the provincial to the global. Marking a major...