National Oceanography Centre (NOC)

The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is the UK’s leading institution for integrated coastal and deep ocean research. NOC undertakes and facilitates world-class agenda-setting scientific research and technology development to understand the global ocean by solving challenging multidisciplinary, large-scale, long-term marine science problems to underpin international and UK public policy, business and societal outcomes. The NOC operates the Royal Research Ships James Cook and Discovery and develops technology for coastal and deep ocean research.