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Laura Hepburn

Laura Hepburn

I am just completing a PhD at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, focussed on the mineralogy and geochemistry of metal-rich sediment deposits found beneath hydrothermal vents.

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Hello everyone and thank you for your interesting and inciteful discussions on this MOOC! This year many of the questions in Week 6 of the MOOC were concerned with the issue of marine litter, so this will be the focus of my final blog post. The first way that each of us can make a difference to the amount of litter that is ending up in our oceans, is to be responsible about what we are throwing away: check what items can go in your recycling bin. Continue reading →

Laura Hepburn: What does the ocean mean to me?

“With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the last–remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia?” From '20,000 leagues under the sea' by Jules Verne. For me, the ocean has always meant adventure and exploration. Continue reading →

Laura Hepburn: My research

Hello to all of you that are joining us for the latest run of the 'Exploring our Oceans' MOOC. I am currently just finishing a PhD in Geochemistry at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, during which I have taken part in the exciting ChEsSO project (http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/chess/science/chesso.html) that has been successfully exploring the Southern Ocean for new hydrothermal vent sites over the last few years. Continue reading →