| This week, as part of the Natural Environment Research Council's big science showcase in the North West, we have been at the Manchester Runway Visitors Centre with hands-on demonstrations of how we are making sense of our changing seas.
Tomorrow, Saturday 29 October, is the final day of the showcase so come and see us and grab your limited edition "I met Boaty" sticker!
Whilst the real Boaty McBoatface is busy with our engineers back in the workshop preparing for its next mission we took our new inflatable Boaty out to meet its public. We had a lot of great questions about how deep Boaty can explore (6000m) and how many people can fit inside (no-one, Boaty is an unmanned autonomous robot). We also saw a lot of great photos on Twitter, see below! To find out more abut the future adventures of Boaty and friends visit our website here.  (Image credits: left @robin_toomey bottom right: @Philby91 , other images @NOCnews) We also had our scientists Jo Williams and Jeff Polton demonstrating how complex the ocean environment is and how vital it is we keep developing better technology and skills to learn as much as possible now and in the future. Jo had great hands-on experiments to show how different concentrations of salt and different layers of temperature can create hidden internal waves which affect the chemisty and biology of the seas. Jeff had some sensors which detected the changes in water pressure with depth showing the importance of not only vechicles that can work in such environments but also the importance of coding and the variety of skills we need at the NOC to keep developing our vast array of equipment. We hope to see some of these excited little faces again as future coders, engineers and scientists!  Professor Meric Srokosz (inside the DC10 airplane!)
The 2005 film 'The Day After Tomorrow' is a dramatic story about the consequences of a shutdown of the North Atlantic current, which leads to a northern hemisphere ice age in a very short period of time. Meric looked at how realistic Hollywod was in its portrayal of this disaster and explored if we should all be worried! | |  |
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Professor Tom Anderson (under Concorde)
How do scientists model the climate? What is model uncertainty? What is the greenhouse effect and how can we predict future global warming? Tom discussed all these questions on the main stage and explored why we should trust climate models and how they are being used by scientists. |
Boaty McBoatface and Friends We are also running a geat video presentation throughout the event about the development of our marine ocean robots and the adventures of Boaty and friends. On our Youtube channel you can get behind the scenes of Autosub3 (an older cousin of Boaty) here and discover how ocean robots are working together to explore ocean fronts here. | |  |
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