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(1/4) Looking for virtual work experience?

The National Oceanography Centre are running a virtual work experience program for 14-19 year olds this August.

📚️ Program details:
📆 August 5th - August 12th 2026 (work experience does not take place over the weekend).
📍 Online
⏲️ ~10am-4pm

We're delighted to be attending Ocean Sciences Meeting starting on 22nd!

👥 We have 100+ attendees at nearly 200 sessions
🩵 Looking forward networking, insightful discussions and sharing research
📍Find us: Stand 59, Hall 5

Full list of NOC events ↙️
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#OSM26

In the Red area, Hall 3, Tides and Coastal Flooding #osm26 @noc.ac.uk

🔊Paper alert🔊

@noc.ac.uk @ukri.org

📢paper alert📢

🌊Evaluating SWOT in the Coastal Zone: Comparisons with Tide Gauge and Airborne LiDAR in the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary, UK🌊

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

by Youtong Rong et al. in AGU GRL
@noc.ac.uk @ukri.org @ukspaceagency.bsky.social

‼️ New paper from our coastal science colleagues on interdisciplinary approaches to coastal research from an early career perspective.

🌊 📝 💡 #ECR #coastalscience #newpublication

Navigating interdisciplinary coastal research in the UK: Challenges and solutions from an early career perspective | Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures | Cambridge Core Navigating interdisciplinary coastal research in the UK: Challenges and solutions from an early career perspective - Volume 4

🔊Paper alert🔊

🌊Navigating interdisciplinary coastal research in the UK Challenges and solutions from an early career perspective

by Apine et al in @universitypress.cambridge.org Coastal Futures

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/cft....

@noc.ac.uk @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social @ukri.org

Happy 1st December from BODC!🎄🎅🎁☃️
We thought it would be appropriate to kick off the first day of #BODCDataAdvent by sharing this festive cruise track that forms a star, this is the JC071 PAP cruise.⭐🌟✨
Check out more cruises at: www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/in...

The image contains the graphical abstract of the paper. The abstract reads: Due to the energy dissipation induced by vegetation, restoration of natural ecosystems such as salt marshes is often considered an attractive nature-based solution against coastal flooding as an alternative to hard engineered defences. Even though this vegetation's capacity to dissipate energy has been well affirmed in the literature for short waves, it is still disputed for long waves (i.e., storm surges and tides) resulting in significant uncertainty on the potential effectiveness of mitigating the impact of storm surges. Furthermore, restoration or creation of coastal habitats often face challenges due to space limitations and social resistance linked to loss of valuable land. Hybrid schemes, integrating existing hard defences and natural solutions (e.g., vegetation zones), could be a good alternative to overcome such problems. However, evidence to support their implementation and design is lacking. In this study, a modelling chain in Delft3D-FM has been implemented to test the efficiency of a hybrid solution consisting of an embankment and vegetation zones in a case study in the inner Forth estuary (Scotland, UK). The flood protection effectiveness of the proposed solution is assessed for the storm Xaver (December 2013) that greatly affected the area. The model results indicate that the proposed hybrid scheme could considerably reduce the land loss for coastal protection and that the effect of vegetation depends on design criteria such as position and orientation relative to the prevalent current flow. These results provide valuable insight towards applicability, design and implementation of hybrid schemes.

🔊Paper alert🔊

Enhancement of coastal flood mitigation by implementing hybrid flood defences integrating hard engineering and nature-based solutions🌊

by Matsoukis et al. in STOTEN @elsevierconnect.bsky.social

🔗https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.181063
@noc.ac.uk @ukri.org #CoOpt #SMMRUK

Splash! How can you measure waves overtopping a sea defence? Until recently the main method was "see how quick a bucket fills up". Margaret Yelland and Jenny Brown's Wire Wall uses a grid of capacitance wires and has now been tested for a year of continuous monitoring. 🌊

Waves crashing and overtopping in Dawlish during Storm Barra. Image recorded by the University of Plymouth's Camera

🔊New paper alert 🔊

🌊Spatial and Temporal Variation in Wave Overtopping Across a
Coastal Structure Based on One Year of Field Observations 🌊

by J. Brown @noc.ac.uk with @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social Network Rail and SW Coastal monitoring

🔗https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse13112194

#wirewall @ukri.org

Large wave crashing against sea wall

🌊 Today is #WorldTsunamiAwarenessDay

While 5 Nov is known for Guy Fawkes Night in the UK, globally it’s a day to raise awareness of tsunami risk.

At NOC, we're advancing detection & resilience, from tide gauges to fibre optic sensing.

Discover more lnkd.in/gEfxCrSF

#GetToHigherGround #TsunamiDay

UK Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) has just published the latest rolling update on anthropogenic climate change effects on sea temperature 🌊🌡️.

This update was led by NOC's Dr Richard Cornes.

Read the full report here 👇
www.mccip.org.uk/temperature

👩‍🎓 PhD position at the National Oceanography Centre 👨‍🎓

🔍 Project: Heat, Freshwater and Oxygen Budgets in the Eastern Subpolar North Atlantic: Implications for UK continental shelf and European Weather.

🤝Team: Tiago, Neil, Lidia, & Bieito @bfcastro.bsky.social

🌊 Info: www.o-snap.org/phd-at-noc-uk/

Nitrogen fixation under declining Arctic sea ice - Communications Earth & Environment Nitrogen fixation occurs under Arctic sea ice and is positively correlated with primary production, according to analyses of transects across the marginal ice zone and in the Central Arctic Ocean.

So cool to see this one out!! www.nature.com/articles/s43...
@noc.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social @mioceanologie.bsky.social

How ESA’s ice mission is transforming ocean monitoring - Earth Online In 2010 CryoSat embarked on a mission to investigate Earth’s icy zones but, during its 15 years in orbit, the satellite has gone beyond ice monitoring to deliver unprecedented insight into the dynamic...

Want to know how Cryosat 🛰️is transforming ocean monitoring and how @noc.ac.uk is involved on this @esa.int mission?

Worry not! We got you covered! head this way 👇

earth.esa.int/eogateway/su...
🌊 #seaice #satellite

Call for blogposts on maritime history - several of the topics related to marine climate, data transcription, visualisation - apparently no need to moderate your enthusiasm

Proud to announce we've been shortlisted as a finalist for Mersey Maritime’s Industry Awards! 🏆

NOC’s Satellite Intertidal Mapping Project led by Paul Bell, Clive Neil, and Christine Sams, has been shortlisted for the Technology & Innovation Award.

More on this project here⬇️

Researchers from NOC are among the global community of scientists who have contributed to this new publication by @ametsoc.org! 🌎 Find details below ⬇️

Submit an Abstract to the 🌊 Ocean Sciences Meeting #OSM26 🌊 session:

HC013 - Resource characterization, hydrodynamic and environmental responses of ocean-based energy
agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr...

Deadline 20th August 2025

@noc.ac.uk

Submit an Abstract to the 🌊 Ocean Sciences Meeting #OSM26 🌊 session:

OT002 - Advances in understanding of ocean surface waves at the coast: evidence from new observations and models
agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr...

Deadline 20th August 2025

@noc.ac.uk

Submit an Abstract to the 🌊 Ocean Sciences Meeting #OSM26 🌊 session:

HE007: Large-scale changes in the Arctic and Subarctic - Processes and Impacts

agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr...

Deadline 20th August 2025

@noc.ac.uk

IOC data for Hawaii showing waves arriving at Hawaii over a period of hours, live at 30th July 06:53 UTC.

Tsunamis in Hawaii. Heights in metres. Notice how the first wave wasn't the biggest. Real time data at www.ioc-sealevelmonitoring.org/station.php?...

Submit an Abstract to the 🌊 Ocean Sciences Meeting #OSM26 🌊 session:

DO012 - Regionally Downscaled Ocean Climate Predictions and Projections

agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr...

Deadline 20th August 2025

@noc.ac.uk

Submit an Abstract to the 🌊 Ocean Sciences Meeting #OSM26 🌊 session:

PS002 - Dynamics at the sloping boundary: understanding the interactions and exchanges between shelf seas and the deep ocean

agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr...

Deadline 20th August 2025

@noc.ac.uk @whoi.edu @samsocean.bsky.social

@metoffice.gov.uk ‘s 'State of the UK Climate' report is out today, with some key findings:

🌊UK sea level is rising faster than the global average
🌡️extremes are becoming the norm
🥇record breaking weather events are becoming more frequent
🔥the last 3 yrs have been in the UK's top 5 warmest on record

📢paper alert📢

🌊Evaluating Water Levels from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission in a Hyper-Tidal Coastal and Estuarine Environment🌊

doi.org/10.1029/2024...
by Lichtman et al. in AGU Earth and Space Science
@noc.ac.uk @ukspaceagency.bsky.social

The impacts of human-made structures on larval connectivity in the northern North Sea - Communications Earth & Environment New human-made structures in areas with stronger residual current flow in the northern North Sea could improve larval connectivity, while existing structures serve as interchanges between intermittent...

📢paper alert📢

🌊The impacts of human-made structures on larval connectivity in the northern North Sea 🌊

doi.org/10.1038/s432...

by Barton et al. in @commsearth.nature.com

@noc.ac.uk @heriotwattuni.bsky.social @uniofhull.bsky.social

Dynamics and Temporal Variability of the North Atlantic Current in the Iceland Basin (2014–2022) The North Atlantic Current (NAC) volume transport variability was strong at 16–120-day periods associated with the mesoscale activity in the Iceland Basin High volume transport coincided with the...

📢new paper alert📢

🌊Dynamics and Temporal Variability of the North Atlantic Current in the Iceland Basin (2014–2022)🌊

by Dotto et al. in #JGROceans @agu.org

👉 doi.org/10.1029/2024...

@noc.ac.uk @samsocean.bsky.social @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social y.social
@ukri.org

Living with climate change in a delta country YouTube video by National Oceanography Centre

With videos exploring marine robotics 🤖, marine modelling 💻or remote sensing 📡 to applications to fisheries, salt intrusion and the impact of climate change on water security. Take a look here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCKY...

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