The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has been dedicated to preserving and distributing oceanographic and marine data for over 55 years. Their multidisciplinary data holdings include physical, chemical, biological, and geophysical datasets assembled from diverse activities. NOC fulfills its responsibility by adopting robust standards—many of which it has helped to develop—in close cooperation with national and international data management partnerships and networks. Key networks include the Natural Environment Research Council’s (NERC) Environmental Data Service (EDS), the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN), SeaDataNet, and EMODnet in Europe, as well as the Research Data Alliance (RDA) globally.
Additionally, NOC functions as the National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC) within the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO’s International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) program. NOC is funded by the UK Research and Innovation. They joined the World Data System as a Regular Member in December 2024. We are excited to welcome them to the WDS community and look forward to future collaborations.
For more information about NOC, visit their website.