News

30 January 2018
January 2018 saw the first run of a new course delivered by BOSCORF and the University of Southampton: "Techniques and protocols in sediment core description, analysis, data visualization and interpretation". This course was designed for first year PhD students to provide a rapid introduction to the key skills needed for successful analysis of sediment cores and sediment data. "I really enjoyed the technique and protocols in sediment core description, analysis, visualisation and...
29 January 2018
  This month, Dr. Anna Lichtschlag has been using the BOSCORF ITRAX to assess the geochemistry of sediments potentially containing valuable marine resources: Polymetallic nodules are small concretions found worldwide on the seafloor in water depth of up to 6000 m. The nodules contain economically significant amounts of metals such as Ni, Cu, Zn, Co and Mo and for this reason they are a target for future mining operations. During mining of the nodules the seafloor sediments...
11 January 2018
The University of Southampton led Black Sea MAP (Maritime Archaeological Project http://blackseamap.com/ in partnership with the Bulgarian National Archaeological Institute with Museum (http://naim.bg/en/home/) and Centre for Underwater Archaeology (CUA; http://www.cua-sozopol.com/en/), is one of the largest and most ambitious projects of its type ever undertaken. The project’s international team, funded by the Expedition and Education Foundation (EEF), a charitable foundation...
27 November 2017
BOSCORF has recently completed a large ITRAX scanning project with Matt Nichols, currently a second year PhD at Southampton. Here Matt details how he will be using the Ca/Ti ratio to refine the age model for his core, and the importance of XRF data in this study.   Mediterranean outflow water (MOW) leaking into the Atlantic Ocean has been shown to significantly affect Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), one of the main long-term drivers of heat distribution...
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