Educational Resources
The information here is aimed at those learning about the ocean, or teaching ocean related topics, and contains downloadable resources, as well as links to further reading. If you would like to receive notifications when updates are made to these resources please subscribe to our Educational Resources NOC mail email bulletin.
If you have any suggestions about what resources you would like to see here, please do email them to the communications team. We regret however, that we cannot guarantee the production of any specific materials or production to a specific timetable.
- Principal Investigator - Marine Geologist (pdf)
- Senior Scientist - Biosensors and Molecular Ecology (pdf)
- Electronics Engineer (pdf)
- Molecular and Microbiology Facility Manager (pdf)
- Research Engineer - Microfluidic Sensors (pdf)
- Particle Flux Technician (pdf)
- Research Fellow - Marine Autonomous Systems Development (pdf)
- AUV Operations Mechanical Engineer (pdf)
Online resources and books
Natural Environment Research Council – Plant Earth
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/planetearth
Of Seas and Ships and Scientists:The Remarkable History of the UK's National Institute of Oceanography, 1949–1973
http://www.lutterworth.com/product_info.php?products_id=1398
Sea Level FAQs
http://www.psmsl.org/train_and_info/faqs
Ocean Literacy
http://oceanliteracy.wp2.coexploration.org
European Marine Board – Publications
http://www.marineboard.eu/publications-full-list
Young Reads
Can a Lobster be an archaeologist? Quirky Questions and Fascinating Facts about the Underwater World
http://www.sut.org/books-and-conference-proceedings/can-a-lobster-be-an-...
Oceans Wormley – a web site with material relating to the people who worked at the National Institute of Oceanography, the institute of Oceanographic Sciences and the IOS Deacon laboratory and the contributions they made to science and technology.
http://www.oceanswormley.org
About Bidston Observatory
http://www.bidstonobservatory.org.uk
These links are being provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement or an approval by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) of any of the products, services or opinions of the corporation or organisation or individual. The NOC bears no responsibility for the accuracy, legality or content of the external sites or for that of subsequent links.
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