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Name

University of Liverpool, Oceanographic Laboratories, Department of Earth Sciences

Address

PO Box 147
Bedford Street North

Zipcode

L69 3BX

City

Liverpool

State

Merseyside

Country

United Kingdom

Email

inapplicable

Centre Website

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/~anu/oceanography/index.html

organisation profile

The Department of Earth Sciences was formed from the merging of the two departments of Oceanography and Geological Sciences in 1987. The Department emerged from the 1987 University Grants Committee Earth Sciences Review with Level 1M status, that is in the top group of six mainstream Earth Sciences Departments. This top grading was carried over into the first research assessment exercise and was reiterated in the 1992 exercise when the Department again emerged with the top (Level 5) ranking. The Oceanographic Laboratories owe their origin to the Department of Marine Biology and Fisheries established by Sir William and Lady Herdman in 1919. Physical oceanography became important in 1933 and was gradually balanced by appointments in marine chemistry from the mid-1940s. By the late 1970s the department presented a balanced programme of research and teaching in marine chemistry and physical oceanography. It enjoyed strong links with Bidston Observatory (Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory) which from its inception until 1 April 1969 was an institute of the University of Liverpool and still remains affiliated to the University. Within the present Oceanographic Laboratories, marine chemistry and physics are taught to postgraduate level. Research activities cover marine electrochemistry, speciation and distribution of trace metals in sea water, marine organic geochemistry, pollution, trace metals and trace organics in the marine atmosphere, trace element geochemistry and mineralogy of marine sediments, biogeochemistry of diagenesis, ocean mesoscale dynamics and the seasonal and regional variability of the upper ocean. The Environmental Organic Chemistry and Geochemistry Group is active in a number of research areas and has recently been involved in work on the deep sea, in collaboration with the DEEPSEAS project at the IOS Deacon Laboratory. A limited database relating to organic chemical parameters in deep sea sediments has been built up. Information from this will be published in the open scientific literature, but all detailed data can be made available to interested scientists on a collaborative basis.

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EDMO record id

10

Collating centre

British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC)

Latest update

15 February 2016 6:29:59 PM