National Oceanography Centre Open Day

About

A free day of educational fun all about the science and innovative technology development taking place at the National Oceanography Centre. Focused around the four big challenges facing our global ocean, and celebrating World Oceans Day, this event will be a mix of hands on science, exhibits and talks, with content aimed at all age groups.

The NOC are super busy with deployments of their autonomous vehicle fleet this Summer but the engineers and scientists invite you to come inside their workshops and view some of the equipment they're preparing for expeditions and deployment. Whilst the RRS Discovery will be docked and viewable from the 'Ships Zone' there will be no access to the dock or the ship for safety reasons.

There's still plenty to see and do including the work looking at microplastics in the deep ocean, coastal defence research, cold water corals and laboratory experiments and demonstrations.

Register for tickets online.