National Oceanography Centre
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Into the Blue, produced by the National Oceanography Centre in the UK, aims to dive deep into subjects relating to our ocean and it's seas by speaking to experts from the world of oceanography all with the goal of helping the ocean and life within it flourish.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It connects ocean measurement and climate systems to the decisions, records, technologies, and lived conditions that make the research matter.
NOC Into the Blue Podcast makes ocean science tangible by pairing research questions with the people who measure, model, or directly encounter changing seas.
The AMOC meets your disaster-movie brain, then an ocean scientist brings out the models.
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A drought-linked ocean bloom becomes a measured look at how land, air, and marine life connect.
An ocean bloom beginning near Madagascar and moving east gives this single episode a clear scientific pull. Dr Zoe Jacobs asks Professor Merrick Schroppos how a 2019 drought in Southern Africa may have carried airborne iron over the Indian Ocean, helping trigger an earlier,…
A thoughtful episode on ocean science, fishing communities, economics, culture, and coastal life.
Socio-oceanography comes through here as a practical way of asking ocean science to make room for the people who live with its findings. Dr Katia Popova grounds the idea in the Indian Ocean's reversing monsoonal winds and currents, then turns to a marine glider surfacing near…
AI feels concrete here, from ocean robots choosing where to gather data to machine learning turning thousands of images into patterns.
Artificial intelligence gets a clear oceanographic frame here: a tool for finding structure across vast fields of observation. A senior researcher describes using unsupervised machine learning to reduce 14,000 images to 12 while preserving the dynamics, in work on upwelling…
A measured guide to the high seas treaty and the policy work behind marine protection.
Ocean protection comes into focus as a legal and policy project in this careful conversation on the high seas treaty, marine protected areas, and the work required to make them function.
A childhood fjord memory opens into a focused look at Ocean Bottle's collection model.
Ocean Bottle's approach to plastic pollution is framed through Will Pearson's childhood memory of looking into fjord water from a dinghy, then brought back to the practical mechanics of the company's bottle model.
Coral, ocean acidification, and diving stories shape a grounded conversation about the ocean.
Coral and ocean acidification stay at the center of this episode, with Dr Sarah Fowle's diving stories giving the discussion its shape. The conversation works best when it moves from underwater memories into the science, because the ideas land through lived experience rather…
A patient geology story that turns deep-sea clues into a lost tropical island.
This episode follows a marine geologist and colleagues as they piece together red clays, lava flows, tropical weathering, kaolinite, and possible fossil roots to argue that a tropical island once rose where the Rio Grande rise now sits, about a thousand meters below sea level.
A practical look at the logistics that let ocean science leave port.
Ocean science is framed less as a story of breakthrough than as the careful planning that makes the work possible. Dr Zoe Jacobs and Dr Ella Darlington walk through expedition logistics as a set of linked decisions: matching vessels and kit to the science, keeping data flow…
Documentary storytelling on ecology and Indigenous land stewardship, hosted by Mendel and Adam.
Books, systems, and the questions that unlock them.
Coastal science, patiently and beautifully reported.
Soil life, climate repair, practical regeneration.
Will sits down with underwater photographer and filmmaker Lewis Jeffries.
Dee Kafari opens by asking whether a new Jules Verne round-the-world record attempt can really be done next year.
Dr Socrates Lukaides discusses the critical role of monitoring carbon in oceans to combat climate change, highlighting projects like George for sensor development and Chalke for studying cocolithophores.
In this Christmas special, host Dr Zoe Jacobs interviews Dr Chelsea Baker about marine snow and its importance.
Will Dixon speaks with Phil Bishop and Liz James about how the Boer Blue Ocean Research Alliance came together and what it is doing.
Dr Zoe Jacobs speaks with Dr Ella Darlington about what it takes to plan a scientific expedition.
Dr Zoe Jacobs talks with Dr Sarah Fowle about ocean acidification and what corals can tell us about our ocean.
The episode opens with the oceans as the largest carbon reservoir at the surface and follows a marine geochemist at the National Oceanography Centre from geology into questions about how ocean processes may connect to climate change.
Coastal flooding is the subject, and the conversation keeps circling back to the real world.
Zoe Jacobs opens with a playful ocean question and welcomes Dr Joelle Hershey to the show.
Dr Zoe Jacobs speaks with Dr Elizabeth Keds about an apparent cold feature in early 20th century sea surface temperature data.
This episode explores the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) through discussions with oceanographers Rita Markina and Tillis Petit.
Dr Katya Popova introduces the emerging field of socio-oceanography, which integrates natural and social sciences to tackle ocean-related challenges.
Host Will interviews Hannah Muir, a PhD researcher at the National Oceanography Centre, about her upcoming 1,450km bikepacking journey along the Rhine River from the Swiss Alps to the North Sea.
Will Pearson, co-founder of Ocean Bottle, discusses how his childhood experiences and witnessing plastic waste as a deckhand led him to create a company that funds plastic collection in developing countries.
Marine life sits at the center of this conversation.
James Ketchell is chasing a rare kind of circumnavigation.
Dr Zoe Jacobs opens the AMOC mini-series by talking with Olly Tooth about what he studies and why it matters.
The host puts Dr Zoe Jacobs in the guest seat to talk about marine heatwaves in UK waters.
This episode features an interview with Professor Penny Holliday, NOC's Chief Scientist, discussing 20 years of research using the RAPID array to monitor the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).
Dr Zoe Jacobs interviews climate scientist Dr Hemant Katri about the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), exploring whether it's weakening, what climate impacts would result, and addressing common misconceptions.
Marine geologist Professor Brownlee Merton recounts how a 2018 expedition to study mineral deposits on the Rio Grande Rise accidentally discovered evidence of a lost tropical island the size of Iceland, now sitting 1000 meters beneath the South Atlantic.
The episode opens with a simple problem: ocean damage is harder to see than damage on land.
Professor Merrick Schroppos discusses a study on the unusual Madagascar phytoplankton bloom, which occurred earlier and was three times larger than normal due to iron-rich particles from a Southern African drought.
Dr Jules Kajtar, an astrophysics PhD who moved into climate science, tells host Dr Zoe Jacobs that marine heatwaves can warm the ocean to depths of hundreds of meters and persist for weeks to months.