EPOC newsletter #4 now out!
EPOC Newsletter #4 now out! Edition 4 of the EPOC newsletter is out now, packed with the latest happenings from around the project community. Download PDF (3.3 MB)
AMOC in the spotlight
Atlantic Ocean circulation research reached millions last week when the UK’s Channel 4 News featured an extended segment on the RAPID array monitoring system. This timely focus on the AMOC comes just as the world’s ocean scientists gather in Scotland for the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow.
EPOC research shows critical Atlantic Ocean currents kept going during last ice age
EPOC research shows critical Atlantic Ocean currents kept going during last ice age New results from EPOC research has revealed that during the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean’s powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover across much of […]
Feeling the heat
EPOC scientists develop a powerful new tool for monitoring changes in ocean heat distribution, important for understanding ocean circulation and its role in shaping climate.
Voyage end
Voyage end 14 October 2025 Blog entry by Felipe Vilela-Silva We are back in Brittany and other regions of France, excited to begin examining the marine treasures collected near the Flemish Cap. The author of this note believes that our team is grateful for the warm welcome received—under beautiful sunny skies—in the port of St. […]
Measuring ocean change
Measuring ocean change 6 October 2026 Blog entry by Felipe Vilela-Silva, Natalia Vazques Riveiros & Bruno Ferron The crew and scientists on board L’Atalante have obtained 10 short-core samples with sediment and water containing a rich logbook of the last few millennia with valuable information of the past physico-chemical and dynamical conditions at the surface […]
Winds of opportunity
Winds of opportunity 26 September 2025 Blog by Felipe Vilela-Silva We are lucky to have the winds of opportunity blowing in our direction. The southernmost transect of the CROSSROAD-2 voyage was a success with 15 surface-to-bottom oceanographic stations, 3 box core sampling, and recovery of the 4 moorings at the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Spotting the […]
New biogeochemical sensors deployed in the Fram Strait
As part of the annual Fram Strait 2025 cruise conducted by the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI), the science team from the UK’s National Oceanography Centre deployed a new suite of autonomous Lab-on-Chip (LoC) sensors on long-term moorings in the East Greenland Current.
CROSSROAD-2 mission gets underway
CROSSROAD-2 mission gets underway 20 September 2025 Blog entry by Felipe Vilela-Silva Enthusiastic scientists have just departed from St John’s, Newfoundland to a key region where a significant portion of the AMOC’s lower limb separates from the continental slope and spreads dense water masses formed at higher latitudes towards the interior of the North Atlantic. […]
Turbulence
Turbulence measurements with a free-falling microstructure profiler Friday 29 August 2025 Blog entry by Buu-Lik Duong Turbulence is generally described as an irregular and variable state of flow, in which swirling motions (eddies) of different sizes continuously interact. These eddies range from hundreds of kilometers to a few millimeters passing energy successively to smaller and […]