The team from Imperial College London, Southampton and Liverpool universities, in collaboration with The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (SRC), were collecting ocean - bottom seismometers aboard
the NERC research ship R.R.S. James Cook as part of a larger experiment when they were alerted to the volcano erupting.
ICYMI, Boaty McBoatface was selected as the name of a new polar
research ship commissioned by the UK's Natural Environment Research Council
research ship commissioned by the UK's Natural Environment
Research Council
Research Council (
NERC).
When the UK's Natural Environment
Research Council (NERC) innocently queried the internet in search of a name for their new polar research ship, the web responded gleefully, and NERC got more of a response than they bargai
Research Council (
NERC) innocently queried the internet in search of a name for their new polar
research ship, the web responded gleefully, and NERC got more of a response than they bargai
research ship, the web responded gleefully, and
NERC got more of a response than they bargained for.