28 November 2023
Today, we welcomed a brand new Cox Analytical Itrax FleXRay X-ray fluorescence sediment core scanner to our research facility. Providing the only wet or dry sediment Itrax FlexRay scanner in the UK.
New Itrax fully operational in the Analytical Lab
The facility has operated an Itrax core scanner since 2004, which has led to over 300 papers, with 100 of these being in high impact journals. The state-of-the-art Itrax FleXRay can measure elements between Al and U... |
BOSCORF hosts workshop for the Micropalaeontological Society AGM at the National Oceanography Centre
28 November 2023
Last week, BOSCORF hosted a workshop for the Micropalaeontological Society's AGM, that was being held at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton.
The Micropalaeontological Society (TMS) exists “to advance the education of the public in the study of Micropalaeontology” and is operated “exclusively for scientific and educational purposes and not for profit”. The Society comprises five specialist groups that study Foraminifera, Nannofossils, Ostracods,... |
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3 November 2023
Over the past year, BOSCORF has been helping PhD student, Hannah Muir, to split, image and process sediment cores from the Isle of Man.
Hannah Muir is a PhD student at Swansea University, based at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS). Her PhD research project is part of The Manx Blue Carbon Project, which aims to quantify how much carbon is stored and accumulated within the Isle of Man’s territorial sea to inform decisions that could maximise natural carbon storage around the... |
14 September 2023
BOSCORF was lucky to have Tatiana Glazkova from Royal Holloway University visit to log, scan and sample a legacy core collection from the JC027 cruise in 2009. Tatiana's research focuses on fine-grained sediments in the deep ocean, particularly those affected by bottom currents. She uses a range of data at multiple scales collected from deep marine gaps, where topographic constriction may be modifying currents and potentially amplifying their influence on the deposition of... |