NDC Seminar Series 13
More than 30 people joined the NDC for the recent seminar series featuring Dr Tom Wilding of the Scottish Association For Marine Science on assessing marine growth on offshore structures, the NDC’s Samuel Cauvin on the Data for Net Zero project - visualising North Sea infrastructure and cross sectoral data - and Haleigh Jorgeson on the impacts of decommissioning on benthic microbial communities in the North Sea.
Published: 14th April 2024
Deputy Lieutenants of Aberdeenshire visit NDC
NDC staff welcomed Deputy Lieutenants of Aberdeenshire Jim Buchan and James N'Dow.
Published: 29th March 2024
Work placement blog – Lewis Jack – Ellon Academy
The NDC hosted senior Ellon Academy pupil Lewis Jack on a work placement programme for half a day every week for six months. In his blog Lewis explains how he found out about the NDC and what he has learned from his time here.
Published: 21st March 2024
NDC – NDA partnership continues to grow and deliver benefits
The National Decommissioning Centre (NDC) and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) are working in partnership on research to support the energy sector to reduce costs and emissions, improve environmental outcomes and deliver sustainable net zero decommissioning.
Published: 1st February 2024
Energy Minister visits National Decommissioning Centre to mark fifth anniversary
The National Decommissioning Centre (NDC) has marked its fifth anniversary with a visit from Scotland’s Minister for Energy and the Environment, Gillian Martin MSP.
Published: 16th January 2024
Study looks at how marine mammals are coping in contaminated environments
A new publication from researchers Dr Rebecca von Hellfeld and Christoph Gade has looked at how marine mammals are coping in increasingly contaminated environments.
Published: 14th December 2023
NDC welcomes first year class from Northfield Academy as part of sustainable city project
Students from Northfield Academy got the chance to engage with researchers and try out some new technology when they visited The National Decommissioning Centre (Wednesday, 1 December) as part of their project studying Aberdeen as a sustainable city.
Published: 8th December 2023
MSc Decommissioning students get chance to attend prestigious conference
The NDC was delighted to sponsor the attendance of Diogo Prado and Peter Burrows, two University of Aberdeen MSc students, at the recent Offshore Energies UK Offshore Decommissioning Conference in St Andrews.
Published: 27th November 2023
Economic and environmental challenges of decommissioning offshore wind farms
An important new paper from the National Decommissioning Centre's Dr Shahin Jalili and colleagues has assessed the economic and environmental challenges of offshore wind farms as they enter the decommissioning phase.
Published: 24th November 2023
Update from Abraham Mensah – PhD student funded by Ghana National Petroleum Corporation
The National Decommissioning Centre's Abraham Mensah is doing a PhD funded by Ghana National Petroleum Corporation. He tells us about his research here.
Published: 24th November 2023