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24 June 2019 › Boaty McBoatface resurfaces
Our PNAS article on the DynOPO results has been published - and with it came a lot of media attention for Boaty McBoatface. Read More ›

20 June 2019 › Sailbuoy training
We went to Bergen, Norway to learn to pilot a new autonomous surface vehicle, the Offshore Sensing Sailbuoy. This vehicle will be deployed in the Labrador Sea in December 2019. Read More ›

31 January 2018 › EGU GeoTalk blog
Eleanor was profiled in the GeoTalk blog of the European Geophysical Union, as the 2017 awardee of the Ocean Sciences Devision Outstanding Early Career Scientist. Read More ›

21 December 2017 › PhD Opportunities
The annual call for PhD opportunities at the Graduate School of the National Oceanography Centre Southampton (GSNOCS) is now open. Deadlines in January - see opportunities in our group below. Read More ›

25 September 2017 › Oceans and Climate event in London
The University of Southampton is running a series of public lectures on the Environment. Sept 25th, the topic was Oceans and Climate, and Eleanor was one of the keynote speakers talking about using ocean observations to investigate the ocean circulation - including the RAPID array and Boaty McBoatface. The event was livestreamed and tweeted (#UoSLectures) from the venue, the Institute of Mechanical Engineers in London. Read More ›

28 June 2017 › Return of Boaty McBoatyface
The DynOPO project and successful missions of Autosub Long Range got a bit of coverage in the news today, with articles in the BBC, the Guardian, and press releases on the University of Southampton webpage and the NERC website. Read More ›

2 June 2017 › For Wissenschaftsjahr
For a German-British celebration of Marine Science, Eleanor Frajka-Williams was profiled on her work in the Atlantic. Read More ›

22 May 2017 › MerMEED & OSMOSIS results
Heading to Liege Turbulence meeting - Gwyn Evans, Xialong Yu, Eleanor & meeting up w/Louis Clement & Christian Buckingham. Read More ›

19 May 2017 › FreshWATERS balloon launch
Launching a balloon for the FreshWATERS project, early in the morning on 19 May 2017. Read More ›

17 May 2017 › Autosub Long Range
We took Boaty McBoatface (ALR-1) with us to the Orkney Passage for Boaty's maiden voyage. Here are a collection of blog posts, videos and animations about the adventure. Read More ›

8 May 2017 › End of DynOPO cruise #2
We made port in Montevideo on 8 May - after setting sail from Punta Arenas, Chile on 17 March! 52 days at sea. Read More ›

28 April 2017 › EGU Early Career award
Eleanor was awarded with the Outstanding Early Career Scientist award for Ocean Sciences 2017 Read More ›

20 March 2017 › Piece in the Conversation about Boaty McBoatface
How famed submarine will help unlock the causes of deep sea warming Read More ›

17 March 2017 › DynOPO cruise blog
We are setting sail on the Dynamics of the Orkney Passage Outflow process cruise. Sailing southeast from Punta Arenas to the Antarctic peninsula archipelago, separating the Weddell and Scotia Seas. Read More ›

8 Dec 2016 › MerMEED first cruise
MerMEED small boat process cruise: 7 days off the Bahamas in Dec 2016. Read More ›

25 August 2016 › Eddy watch in the Bahamas
We're on eddy watch for the project MerMEED Read More ›

11 August 2016 › 3 postdoc positions, varied durations
Recruiting for posts associated with NERC-funded projects, including DynOPO and FreshWATERS. Closing dates from 23 August to 7 Oct. Read More ›

5 July 2016 › New perspective on the MOC variability
A bundle of circle plots of the MOC at 26N Read More ›

23 June 2016 › Recruiting + to be advertised soon
Recruiting for several posts associated with NERC-funded projects, including DynOPO and FreshWATERS. Closing dates from 24 July. Read More ›

1 June 2016 › New NERC project funded
New project funded to develop air-launch platform for ocean drifters Read More ›

29 September 2015 › Teaching schedule
New term started Mon, 28 Sep 2015 Read More ›

21 July 2015 › RAPID AMOC
Neela Morarji, Lena Schulze and Eleanor head to Bristol for the joint RAPID/USAMOC international meeting. Read More ›

1 July 2015 › IUGG Prague
Freya Garry, Lena Schulze and Eleanor present at IUGG general assembly in Prague. Read More ›

25 May 2015 › Using satellites to estimate the MOC
There are lots of exciting things that a 20-year time series of the MOC interannual variability could be used for! This paper describes a method to estimate the Atlantic MOC at 26N since 1993. Read More ›

5 May 2015 › MOC from Space
This page is a stub, but in the meantime, you can download the paper or data* or slides from my talk at IUGG using the links above. Read More ›

25 May 2015 › Data MOC from Space
This page is a stub, but in the meantime, you can download the paper or data* or slides from my talk at IUGG using the links above. Read More ›

18 April 2015 › DynOPO cruise #1
Successful end of first field campaign for DynOPO! 5 weeks at sea on the RRS JCR; Lots of instruments deployed. Read More ›