The GEBCO One Minute Grid provides global bathymetry data on a one-arc minute grid. Version 2.0 is now available for download which includes the Arctic Ocean from version 2.23 of the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO) and updates to shallow water areas around India, the Korean Peninsula and South Africa.

The British Ocenographic Data Centre is participating in the HUMBOLDT project, which will help provide a framework for geo data harmonisation and service integration across Europe. The objective is to build and test tools to allow organisations to exchange data and information more easily, with the aim of enabling an improved response to disaster management.

The Rothera Oceanographic and Biological Time Series (RaTS) data set is now accessible via the British Oceanographic Data Centre's online series request facility.

BODC present an animation of the Forecasting Ocean Assimilation Model (FOAM) ¼° Antarctic output images for potential temperature, salinity and velocity.

Oceanographic data collected by seals as part of the 'Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans - Pole to Pole' (MEOP) project are made available to climate modellers quickly by the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) and the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU).

The UK Directory of the Marine Observing Systems (UKDMOS), is a unique searchable database of information relating to UK marine monitoring activities. It provides a new internet-based tool for searching monitoring programmes.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre has been chosen to host the GEOTRACES International Data Management Office, which is funded by the US National Science Foundation and the UK Natural Environment Research Council. As part of this commitment, BODC will receive data from national oceanographic data offices and compile datasets for all GEOTRACES key parameters.

To encourage a coordinated and expert approach to marine data management, the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) has forged partnerships with six of the Natural Environment Research Council's research centres. More information can be found under ‘Partners’, a new section introduced to our web site.

The General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) announces the launch of its new web site, designed and implemented by BODC. GEBCO consists of an international group of experts who develop and make available a range of bathymetric data sets and seafloor topography data products.

BODC announces improved functionality for the web delivery of our data series; they now include the ability to download a Keyhole Markup Language (KML) file of search results that allows you to view the full metadata report, making this an ideal data browsing tool.

BODC announces the launch of the improved international inventory of moored current meters. This online search facility has undergone a major redevelopment resulting in increased user functionality and its entries have now been sourced from more than 20 international organisations

BODC announces the launch of a web site for the CARBON-OPS project — an operational air-sea carbon flux observation capability for the UK. The web site provides access to ship-based measurements of pCO2 and ancillary surface underway and meteorological data in near real-time. The data are received daily via satellite from five UK research vessels.

BODC will be participating in the forthcoming Oceanology International event (Oi08), from 11-13 March 2008 at ExCeL London.

BODC has had its Investors In People status renewed, after passing a post recognition review.

The NERC Data Discovery Service, a new data portal, provides easy access to environmental data. It is populated with 'discovery' metadata (information about data sets), harvested on a regular basis from the NERC Data Centres and other providers, both UK and worldwide.

NERC is to provide continued support for the research programme that provides a detection system for climate changes in the Atlantic Ocean. A new programme, RAPID-WATCH, will build on the work of the Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) project, so that observations in the Atlantic will continue until 2014. This will result in a valuable ten year data set of direct measurements.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre may now be found on the social networking site Facebook - please become a fan and provide your feedback on how we may develop our Facebook presence.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre joins the social networking site BEBO - please add us to your friends list and provide your feedback on how we may develop our BODC BEBO presence.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre joins the social networking site MySpace - please add us to your friends list and provide your feedback on how we may develop our BODC MySpace presence.

We announce the launch of a new version of the NERC DataGrid (NDG) vocabulary server with increases in both functionality and performance.

Argo achieves a global array of 3000 active profiling floats. It is expected that 800 new floats will need to be launched each year to maintain this 3000 float array, as a float can only operate for approximately four years.

BODC to use freely available geospatial applications such as Google Earth to provide an easy, cost effective method for communicating data to a wider audience.

BODC handled over 32,200 requests for data and services during 2006 – 2007, an increase of more than 90% on the previous year.

BODC will undertake the near-real time and delayed mode data management for the NERC funded CARBON-OPS project.

The Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) Project Integration initiative announce the launch of its web site, prepared and maintained by BODC.

BODC announce the launch of web pages for the Marine Environment Monitoring and Assessment National database (MERMAN).

A new BODC service which provides access to over 6000 current meter data series from the National Oceanographic Database is now available.

BODC launch data management pages for the UK Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (UK SOLAS), the UK's contribution to the international SOLAS programme.

BODC launch two new software products for aiding the display, analysis and access of data, both available to download from the BODC web site.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) announce the launch of NODB data series facility which provides access to almost 50,000 data series

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) announce the launch of a GIS site map facility to aid user access to Argo Southern Ocean floats.

The amount of UK tide gauges sites offering raw sea level data as a download has doubled.

The Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) announces the launch of its new web site, designed and implemented by BODC.

BODC release the DISCO project data set on CDROM. DISCO was a multidisciplinary study of the biogeochemical cycling of dimethyl sulphide within a bloom of Emiliania huxleyi.

British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) is providing data management services for the Liverpool - East Anglia Coastal Study

BODC is participating in the SeaDataNet project, an EU Integrated Infrastructure Initiative, involving 49 major institutes from 35 countries.

BODC launch two platform-independent Web Services, aiding synchronisation of data and opening a window to our information and data holdings.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) and the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) will form the UK SOLAS Data Centre.

Edserplo is a visualisation program developed by BODC to assess the validity of tidal and other data.

BODC launch an improved data download facility for the GEBCO one minute grid.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) announce the launch of interactive GIS site maps to enhance user access to all

BODC are involved in the System of Industry Metocean data for the Offshore and Research Communities (SIMORC) project.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) announce the launch of a GIS site map facility to aid user access to wave data.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) will be exhibiting at Oceanology International 2006 (Oi06), ExCeL, London

The GEBCO One Minute Grid, in the form of individual 20 degree by 20 degree tiles as netCDF files or jpeg images, is now available online.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) provides data management services for the NERC 36 North project.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) launch a web site to access realtime data from the RAPID MOC monitoring array.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) provides data management services for the NERC Autosub Under Ice (AUI) programme.

All tide gauge data collected by the UK’s Tide Gauge Network are now available to download.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) launch new web site.

BODC welcomes the new POL Director.

BODC scrutinised by Science Management Audit (SMA) team.

BODC maintains Investors In People (IIP) standard.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) are providing data management services for the NERC Autosub Under Ice (AUI) programme.

Two of BODC's data scientists participated in the CROZEX Southern Ocean cruise.

We have moved to the purpose built Joseph Proudman Building located on the University of Liverpool campus.

In September two members of BODC visited Russian colleagues as part of the Enabling Parameter Discovery (EnParDis) project.

The tide gauge data collected by the UK’s Tide Gauge Network during 1980s are now available to download.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) and the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) are providing data management support to the Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) programme.