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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We're at #RDAPlenary27 this week showcasing work from the NERC Environmental Data Service. Talks and discussions have covered research data management, user experience research, and Research Citation Objects 🌍📊 #RDAP27 #MarineDataManagement @ukceh.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk @bgs.ac.uk

Group photo of Environmental Data Service (EDS) representatives standing on a staircase beside an EDS banner at the Research Data Alliance (RDA) 27th Plenary meeting.

Charlotte Miskin-Hymas stood next to her poster on 'Enabling Research Data Management through the NERC Environmental Data Service'

Monica Hanley stood at a lecturn leading a Birds of a Feather session exploring user needs, user experience methods, and opportunities for knowledge sharing within the RDA community.

James Ayliffe presenting developments in Research Citation Objects (RCOs) and their adoption.

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Last week @ukargo.bsky.social and @bodc.bsky.social attended the @challengersoc.bsky.social Conference in Bangor Clare B presented the poster 'Getting Started With Argo' to share knowledge of practical information for Early Career UK scientists when considering joining the Argo programme.

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We are at the @icos-ri.eu science conference in Lund The theme this year is “Science, Data and Action: Together for Climate Action” We are presenting our work undertaken with the ICOS Ocean Thematic Centre and ICOS Carbon Portal developers to enhance ocean metadata captured in the ICOS database 🌊📊

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Another busy day at the NERC Digital Gathering yesterday, full of presentations, posters and exhibiting Various topics were discussed- big data and collaboration opportunities, MEDIN standards and FAIR marine time-series data In the last day today, we continue to champion FAIR environmental data📊

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This week BODC are at the NERC Digital Gathering in Stirling Emma Gardner delivered a presentation on 'Developing end-to-end data management solutions for emerging sensor technologies' BODC are also exhibiting on the NERC Environmental Data Service stand, come over and say hi 👋 #dg26

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just published - the new impact case study about the AMPLIFY project; eds.ukri.org/news/impacts...

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It was a fantastic meeting, offering plenty of opportunities to network, build new connections, and engage with fellow early career professionals. #PDC #EIDC #NGDC #CEDA @bgs.ac.uk @bas.ac.uk @eidcdata.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Presentations covered #GEBCO, data submissions, & autonomous platform data management. The event provided a valuable opportunity to showcase work, exchange ideas, & learn from colleagues across the environmental data community. #PDC #EIDC #NGDC #CEDA @eidcdata.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk @bgs.ac.uk

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Last week, the NERC Environmental Data Service (EDS) Early Careers Network group met at the @noc.ac.uk in Liverpool to share knowledge and experiences across their specialist fields. #PDC #EIDC #NGDC #CEDA @bgs.ac.uk @bas.ac.uk @ukceh.bsky.social @eidcdata.bsky.social

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Monica presented the key outputs & recommendations for embedding user needs in roadmaps as part of the 'UNITED: A framework for federated computing roadmaps' project at the National Federated Compute Services - NetworkPlus (NFCS) Conference in London! Find out more: eds.ukri.org/projects/uni...

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

We're all set at the @noc.ac.uk Open Day for schools today! 🩵🌊🌍 Come and visit the BODC stand to explore how ocean data powers discoveries beneath the waves. 🌊 Make sure you stop by and check it out this Sunday when it opens up to the public! 🩵 @medin.bsky.social #NERC #BODC

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Happy World Ocean Day, 2026! 🌍💙🌊 From long-term environmental monitoring to supporting global research, BODC helps turn data into knowledge that drives ocean sustainability. Take a look for yourself: www.bodc.ac.uk/data/publish...

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

A history of data management at ICES (1902-2025)! 💡 🌟 A fascinating journal article has been included in a special edition celebrating 100 years of the ICES Journal of Marine Science! We highly recommend that you check it out 👉 doi.org/10.1093/ices...

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The BODC Argo team met with the wider UK Argo community at @noc.ac.uk in Southampton, this week for the annual UK Argo meeting. 🌍 🛰️ 🌊 This was a really valuable opportunity to collaborate with colleagues from NOC, the @metoffice.gov.uk, and the University of Southampton.💡 #OneArgo #ArgoFloat #argo

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

To celebrate Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday, check out these datasets collected during research cruise SD035👇 Chlorophyll-a samples🌿 www.bodc.ac.uk/data/publish... CTD data 🧊🌡️ www.bodc.ac.uk/data/publish... Microbial bacteria and phytoplankton abundance🦠 www.bodc.ac.uk/data/publish...

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

🗺️ GEBCO 2026 Grid Published The GEBCO_2026 grid has been developed through The Nippon Foundation–GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project @seabed2030.bsky.social, under the auspices of the IHO and the IOC of UNESCO. Find out more: seabed2030.org/2026/04/20/g... ⬇️ Download the data www.gebco.net/data-product...

GEBCO_2026 Grid - Robinson World Projection

GEBCO_2026 Grid - Robinson World Projection - image highlights mapped regions of the ocean in blue, with new data added to the 2026 grid in red.

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Helen Snaith from BODC represented #GEBCO at the Argo Steering Team meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, presenting a talk on the “Use of Deep Argo‑float derived bathymetry data in the development of the GEBCO global bathymetric grid” and exploring synergies with other groups. 🌍🌊🌍

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Happy #EarthDay🌍🌊 With over 70% of Earth covered by ocean, trusted marine data are essential to understanding and protecting our planet. We continue to curate and deliver long‑term ocean data to support science, policy, and sustainable decision‑making — from climate research to ocean conservation.

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

We are #hiring💼 The British Oceanographic Data Centre are expanding our team of Marine Data Managers with 2 positions available🌊 📍Location: Southampton or Liverpool 📅Closing date: 26th March 2026 Find out more and apply here➡️ careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/mari... #marinedata #hiring #oceancareers

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

#LoveDataWeek at BODC! 🌏 We projected the GEBCO 2025 bathymetric grid into a heart using the Bonne projection for Love Data Week 💙 🌐https://lnkd.in/eYc86p8D Find out more about our work with Seabed 2030 @seabed2030.bsky.social: seabed2030.org #OceanMapping #Bathymetry #GEBCO #Seabed2030 #Maps

General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans World Bathymetry map, Bonne (World) projection

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The NERC Environmental Data Service (EDS) training & skills team is hosting a FREE webinar on research data management. This session will be hosted in a friendly environment for learning and provide a refresh of the principles of data management! 🌊 Register here 👉 eds.ukri.org/training/ner...

Research Data Management Training - March 18th 10:00 AM

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

BODC are one of the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) five accredited Data Archive Centres, forming the Environmental Data Service (EDS). Read about our new tools developed for marine imagery and annotation management on the NERC EDS website: eds.ukri.org/news/impacts...

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

25 years of @ukargo.bsky.social !🎉 967+ floats; ~145k profiles; One global ocean! From core Argo to biogeochemical, deep-ocean and polar missions, the UK continues to support the transition to #OneArgo — a next-generation, full-depth, multidisciplinary ocean observing system. 🌊🛰️📊🌎

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

#BODCDataAdvent, day 19!❄️ He'll be coming down the Chimney in less than 1 week!🎅 Take a look at this bathymetric data from the 'Characterisation of major overburden leakage pathways above sub-seafloor CO2 storage reservoirs in the North Sea' (#CHIMNEY)😜 project! www.bodc.ac.uk/data/documen...

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Day 18 of #BODCDataAdvent, which means only 1 week to go...🎁🎅🎄 Check out the #GEBCO gridded bathymetry data for the world's oceans, held here at BODC, to track the oceans that Santa will be flying over next week🌍✨🎅🛷🌛 betadownload.gebco.net

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

On day 17 of #BODCDataAdvent we're choosing to ignore the rain.☔ Instead we're dreaming of a white Christmas by looking at the Concentration of Biogeochemical Components of Marine Snow❄️☃️Catcher particulate samples (CUSTARD-DY111) dataset.✨ Take a look for yourself🎄: www.bodc.ac.uk/data/publish...

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

We're back with day 16 of #BODCDataAdvent! 🎄🎅❄️ Explore the distribution & composition of microplastics on Galápagos beaches, including Santa🎅 Cruz. Discover the data behind this critical environmental research.🌍🏝️🌊 Check it out: www.bodc.ac.uk/data/publish...

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

On day 12 of #BODCDataAdvent, the BODC data elves bring to you model outputs containing seabed mobility projections from the North Western European sh'elf'😉 from 1992-2093 (version 2). Check it out for yourself: www.bodc.ac.uk/data/publish... ❄️🌟🌊🎅🎄

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

It's day 10 of #BODCDataAdvent and we're heading back to Christmas Island to keep us feeling festive!🎄🏝️ Christmas Island has its own code in the C32 controlled vocabulary for International Standards Organisation countries.🎄🎅 🏝️ Explore the rest of C32👇 vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/C...

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

On the 9th day of #BODCDataAdvent, BODC give to you another festive data present!🎁 Check out these historical sea level observations from Santa🎅nder, Spain (1876-1928)! www.bodc.ac.uk/data/publish... 🎄✨❄️🌊🎅

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Day 8 of #BODCDataAdvent🎅🎄 Ever wondered what's on the seabed beneath the Arctic Circle? Check out #IBCAO gridded bathymetry data☃️❄️ Download subset regions of the IBCAO grid on our new beta data download service: betadownload.gebco.net, or download the whole grid: data.ceda.ac.uk/bodc/gebco/i...

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

🔔🛷🎄 Sleigh bells ring for Day 7 of #BODCDataAdvent — but in a scientific sense of course! Today we highlight Seaglider observations collected in the Belgica Trough and across the continental slope of the 'Bell'🔔😜ingshausen Sea, Antarctica, during February–March 2020. 🎅 www.bodc.ac.uk/data/publish...

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Happy day 6 of #BODCDataAdvent🎅! Today BODC give to you an image of a 'Christmas' tree🎄 created using attenuation, fluorometry and transmittance underway data from Changing Arctic Oceans Cruise (CAO) cruise JR18007. Find out more about this cruise: hubs.la/Q02_z7g80 🎄🎁❄️☃️🎅

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Not feeling festive yet? Take a look at the Snow NERC controlled vocabularies, classifying snowfall❄️, and that's bound to make you feel merrier on the 5th day of #BODCDataAdvent! ❄️☃️🌟 vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P... vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P... vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P... ❄️☃️✨🎄

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

On day 4 of #BODCDataAdvent, our data elves present(🎁) to you model outputs containing seabed mobility projections from the North Western European sh'elf'🎄😉 from 1992-2093 (version 2). Take a look for yourself: www.bodc.ac.uk/data/publish... ✨🌊🎄❄️☃️🎅

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

It's day 3 of #BODCDataAdvent and we're thinking of a white Christmas after looking at this EDMED for sea ice, snow and snow ice thickness at Finnish ice observation stations dating all the way back to 1880! ❄️✨☃️🎄 Check it out for yourself: www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/in...

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Day 2 of #BODCDataAdvent and of course there's only one thing on our minds... Christmas (Island)!🎄🎅🎁🌟 Check out these Christmas🎅 Island sea level datasets, dating all the way back to 1955! www.bodc.ac.uk/data/documen... www.bodc.ac.uk/data/documen...

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Happy 1st December from BODC!🎄🎅🎁☃️ We thought it would be appropriate to kick off the first day of #BODCDataAdvent by sharing this festive cruise track that forms a star, this is the JC071 PAP cruise.⭐🌟✨ Check out more cruises at: www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/in...

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Danielle Wright presenting updates on new Argo vocabulary changes in the NERC Vocabulary Service (NVS) at #ADMT26, hosted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — helping keep Argo terms consistent, current, and interoperable. #Argo #ADMT #NVS

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Kamila Walicka and Matt McCormack are presenting the Argo metadata validator tool for checking the consistency of JSON metadata with the NVS Argo schema, crucial for improving consistency and reliability of Argo metadata. #Argo #ADMT26 @ukargo.bsky.social

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

James Clare presenting the new Argo Community Toolbox API. This has been built to improve the ease of use for both the Coriolis Argo Data Processing Chain and the Argo NETCDF File Format Checker. #Argo #ADMT26 @whoi.edu

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Day 2 of the ADMT-26 meeting at @whoi.edu in Woods Hole, MA USA. Today we are going to hear more about the new and exciting achievements from the Biogeochemical (BGC) Argo mission! #OneArgo #BGC #Argo #ADMT26

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

BODC Argo Real-time DAC lead, Clare Bellingham, delivering an update for the BODC DAC over the past year at the ADMT-26 meeting at the @whoi.edu.📊🌊🚢 #Argo #OneArgo #ADMT-26 #ADMT

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The BODC Argo team are in Woods Hole, MA USA at the @whoi.edu for the ADMT-26 meeting! We have a very exciting week ahead discussing all things Argo data management with teams from all around the world! #OneArgo #ADMT #Argo

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

This week, Monica from BODC attended the National Federated Compute Services (NFCS) Conference in Edinburgh She presented the project 'UNITED' and participated in the PI Panel Discussion More on the UNITED project here➡️ nfcs-networkplus.ac.uk/projects/uni... @ukri.org @noc.ac.uk

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

We welcomed around 1900 people to NOC Southampton yesterday and spoke to hundreds of enthusiastic children and parents about the importance of marine data management and what we do at NOC with scientific marine data. We would like to thank everyone that came along to see us and the NOC team!🦑⚓📊🚢🐋

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We are at the NOC Open Day in Southampton! The BODC stand is set up and ready for the local schools to come over and learn about the importance of marine data!🚢📊🌊⚓ We will be showcasing our new marine data app, so make sure you stop by!🐋🦑

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Make sure you keep an eye out for the BODC team at the NOC Open Day this weekend! We are showcasing our new app which will allow you to explore marine data collection by exploring a virtual research vessel! The BODC stand will have many fun games for all ages to enjoy so make sure to check it out!⚓🐳

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Did you know🤔 BODC host data from the UK Tide Gauge Network, on behalf of the Environment Agency Data from 42 UK tide gauges undergo thorough processing and quality control at BODC, before their publication on the BODC website🌊 Explore data from the UKTGN here➡️ www.bodc.ac.uk/data/hosted_...

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British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) @bodc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Today at the #METSRCN2025 workshop, Justin Buck presented "Complex Citations" aiming to make complex citation creation easier 📝 The group are also discussing Synthesis Product for Ocean Time Series (SPOTS), digital twins & data visualisation 📊 @usocb.bsky.social

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