Sarah Fielding, Author at Exploring our Oceans

Redistributing marine biodiversity – guest post from Jamie Hudson

I’m Jamie Hudson, a Marine Biology PhD student at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK. My research looks at the role different factors have in redistributing marine biodiversity around our coasts, notably climate change and hybridisation. The ranges occupied by species are by no mean static- species are moving areas due to multiple reasons. There is a plethora of data that show our oceans are warming. Continue reading →

Exploring our Oceans goes to South Africa

Earlier this year a couple of the project team visited Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, as part of a collaborative effort to build links between NMU and the University of Southampton. Myself (Sarah Fielding, course project manager and Learning Designer) and Sofy Bazzini (film-maker and multimedia developer) went on a whirlwind tour lasting less than a week. Continue reading →

Our new look course is live!

A warm welcome to you, whether you have arrived here via the FutureLearn course or by some other route across the internet! The University of Southampton with FutureLearn ran its first Massive Open Online Course in Oceanography – Exploring our Oceans – between February and March 2014. The course has since been revised and our new 4-week version is now live (launched on 10 October 2016). Continue reading →

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