The Underwater Technology Podcast
Underwater Technology Podcast - Pod20 - Professor Ed Hill OBE - The role of the UK's National Oceanography Centre
30th July 2020 - this week SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews Professor Ed Hill, OBE, who is Executive Director of the UK's National Oceanography Centre, which is based on two sites in Southampton & Liverpool. The National Oceanography Centre is the United Kingdom’s centre of excellence for oceanographic science, with a remit to provide national capability and leadership for big ocean science. It is home to two of the UK's fleet of Royal Research Ships, RRS Discovery and RRS James Cook, and houses major national facilities for marine autonomous systems, sensor development, the national oceanography library, the British Oceanographic Data Centre, National Marine Equipment Pool, and much more. NOC leads the UK delegation to UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and provides expert advice to government, industry and stakeholders across the world.
Read the NOC 'Big Science for Big Challenges' here. We are honoured that NOC is also a long-standing member & supporter of SUT.
Please subscribe, rate & review our podcast. Find out more about SUT including details of how to join here. Contact Steve Hall if you'd like to be featured on a future episode of the podcast. Thanks to Emily Boddy for composing & performing the podcast theme music and creating the artwork, thank you to Zapsplat for ambient ocean soundscape.
30th July 2020 - this week SUT CEO Steve Hall interviews Professor Ed Hill, OBE, who is Executive Director of the UK's National Oceanography Centre, which is based on two sites in Southampton & Liverpool. The National Oceanography Centre is the United Kingdom’s centre of excellence for oceanographic science, with a remit to provide national capability and leadership for big ocean science. It is home to two of the UK's fleet of Royal Research Ships, RRS Discovery and RRS James Cook, and houses major national facilities for marine autonomous systems, sensor development, the national oceanography library, the British Oceanographic Data Centre, National Marine Equipment Pool, and much more. NOC leads the UK delegation to UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and provides expert advice to government, industry and stakeholders across the world.
Read the NOC 'Big Science for Big Challenges' here. We are honoured that NOC is also a long-standing member & supporter of SUT.
Please subscribe, rate & review our podcast. Find out more about SUT including details of how to join here. Contact Steve Hall if you'd like to be featured on a future episode of the podcast. Thanks to Emily Boddy for composing & performing the podcast theme music and creating the artwork, thank you to Zapsplat for ambient ocean soundscape.