NC LRI Commissioning
Lead Research Organisation:
National Oceanography Centre
Department Name: Science and Technology
Abstract
Since 2000, NERC has operated a funding model that provides access to the NERC research ships and the NMEP on a 'free at the point of use' basis. Under this model, NMF has been funded by a mix of NC LRI funding and science programme funding (e.g. NERC funded Discovery Science, Strategic Research Programmes and NC Science). In 2015, NERC Council reviewed the funding model for NMF and approved the implementation of a new 'ship funding model', which, whilst maintaining access 'free at the point of use', directs NC LRI funding to pay for 'Owner' and 'Ready-To-Go' costs (essentially the fixed costs) associated with the ships, NMEP and supporting infrastructure. In Dec 2016, following work on implementation of the new funding model, it was agreed to earmark an NC LRI budget of £14.9m (from 2017/18) for the 'Owner' and 'Ready-to-Go' costs - with the final approved budget subject to the outcome of the NC LRI Commissioning Process.
Planned Impact
Refer to commissioning document
| Description | NC LRI supports marine autonomous R&D and provides a platform for testing and evaluation. NC LRI provides support to HMG when visiting foreign ports and often hosts high level delegations from national governments. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Security and Diplomacy |
| Impact Types | Policy & public services |
| Description | Facility Tour and Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | IKON Science/BOSCORF workshop to explore future collaboration with the development of their new integrated data platform Curate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Facility Tour for Dare and CLASS UK summer school |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Facility Tour for Dare and CLASS UK summer school to promote the facility as open access resource for their individual NERC projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Facility Tour for Fareham College |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Facility tour for Fareham College staff to illustrate the breadth of science undertaken at NOC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Facility Tour for Geotraces |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Facility tour for Geotraces members to illustrate the breadth of science support undertaken by BOSCORF |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Facility Tour for MUVIS staff |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Facility tour for the µ-VIS X-Ray Imaging Centre is University of Southampton staff to illustrate the breadth of science support undertaken by BOSCORF and to discuss a potential collaborative relationship |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Facility Tour for NERC Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Facility Tour for NERC Board highlighting the use of the NERC facility across a wide range of NERC science |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Facility Tour for Philanthropists |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Facility tour for Philanthropists to illustrate the breadth of science undertaken at NOC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Facility Tour for Philanthropists |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Facility tour for Philanthropists to illustrate the breadth of science undertaken at NOC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Facility Tour for Subsea7 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Facility tour for Subsea 7 employees to illustrate the breadth of science undertaken at NOC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Facility tour for OEMA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Facility tour for OEMA staff to illustrate the breadth of services offered by the facility |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Festively Fun Science Symposium Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Specialist interest talk on radiography of geomaterials at the Festively Fun Science Symposium event held for National Oceanography Centre staff at Liverpool and Southampton |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | HMTU Met Course Tour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Facility tour for the Hydrographic and Meteorological Training Unit (HMTU) participants. Introducing the work at the facility and how it links to climate science |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | IMLGS Participation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The BOSCORF Curator presented and led specialist curatorial sessions at the Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples Curatorial Conference held at SCRIPPS, San Diego, USA. This group actively improves best practice, policies and procedures relating the curation of geomaterials. The impact is improved open access geological samples and associated datasets for the international science community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/curator/ |
| Description | IODP/BOSCORF training meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | IODP representative met with BOSCORF staff to discuss potential future collaborative training workshops |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MENSA Group Tour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Facility tour for MENSA Group to illustrate the breadth of science undertaken at NOC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Marine sediment core analysis and interpretation workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | BSRG and BOSCORF are inviting conference attendees to participate in a marine sediment core analysis and interpretation workshop focused on submarine canyon dynamics. This workshop attracted specialists interested in deep marine sedimentology. It provide an opportunity to view a unique collection of geomaterials held in the national repository at BOSCORF. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://noc-events.co.uk/boscorf-training-courses-2022 |
| Description | NERC Digital Infrastructure Environment team Tour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | NERC Digital Infrastructure Environment team tour of BOSCORF to illustrate the challenges of high volumes of scientific data. NERC do not provide resource to support the management of BOSCORF data and the impact is no open access data. This sparked discussions on the importance of the securing the data for future NERC science projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Sediment core exhibit for UKRI Board members |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sediment core exhibit for UKRI Board members visiting the National Oceanography Centre. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Stand at the BSRG Conference Icebreaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | BOSCORF had a stand at the 61st British Sedimentological Research Group Annual General Meeting held at the NOC Southampton. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://noc-events.co.uk/61st-british-sedimentological-research-group-annual-general-meeting |
| Description | Subsea 7 BORA Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Participation in the Subsea 7 BORA Workshop to explore new collaborative projects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | University of Southampton and Winchester School of Art - workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | University of Southampton and Winchester School of Art - workshop to demonstrate turbidity flow science |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Worshipful Company of Shipwrights Tour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Facility tour for Worshipful Company of Shipwrights staff to illustrate the breadth of science undertaken at NOC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |