Maritime Risk Symposium 2024 – Great Power Competition and Gray Zone Engagement
organizations to combat gray zone activities?Panel 6 – Multi-Service and Maritime Industry Collaboration in the ArcticFocus: As maritime activity in the Arctic region increases, how do the sea services (the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, the U.S. Coast Guard, Merchant Marine and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and maritime industry best collaborate to mitigate the risks of conducting operations in the harsh Arctic region? While domestic and United States Indo-Pacific Command maritime gray zone activities are receiving national press coverage, such activities also extend to the polar
Coral Reefs Suffer Fourth Global Bleaching Event
scientists said on Monday amounted to the fourth global bleaching event in the last three decades.At least 54 countries and territories have experienced mass bleaching among their reefs since February 2023 as climate change warms the ocean's surface waters, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch, the world's top coral reef monitoring body.Bleaching is triggered by water temperature anomalies that cause corals to expel the colorful algae living in their tissues. Without the algae's help in delivering nutrients to the corals, the corals
Rubymar Sinking Puts Coral Reefs At Risk
few artificial inputs from urban wastewater discharge and aquaculture operations."If you suddenly have a huge amount of fertiliser dumped into the ocean, you're probably going to have some pretty drastic algal blooms," said Derek Manzello, who coordinates the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Coral Reef Watch.Studies suggest that because corals there are already specially adapted to warm water conditions, they may be more resilient to rising ocean temperatures, requiring greater temperature anomalies to bleach - the process by which corals expel the colourful
PODCAST: “All in the [Gallaudet] Family”
and an aspiring ocean communicator, as well as a contributing writer to Marine Technology Reporter.RAdm Gallaudet has a long and distinguished career, including 32 years in the Navy, serving of the Oceanographer of the Navy, and a stint as Acting and Deputy Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Laurel has clearly inherited her father’s love of the oceans [and not to mention that her mother Caren was also a Naval Academy graduate, an oceanography major and a navy salvage diving officer] and in this first episode she discusses with her father and life-long mentor
All in the [Gallaudet] Family
and an aspiring ocean communicator, as well as a contributing writer to Marine Technology Reporter. RAdm Gallaudet has a long and distinguished career, including 32 years in the Navy, serving of the Oceanographer of the Navy, and a stint as Acting and Deputy Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Laurel has clearly inherited her father’s love of the oceans, and in this first episode she discusses with her father and life-long mentor the ins and outs of his maritime career
Weather Data Gathering Project Underway for US Offshore Wind
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have launched an 18-month initiative to gather extensive weather, ocean, and wildlife data near the sites of active offshore wind farms and lease areas off the coast of the Northeast United States.This effort, which is part of the third phase of the Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP3), seeks to gather high-quality data to improve the design and operation of offshore wind turbines and wind farms. Accurate forecasts are essential for maximizing wind plant output.“The major goal of WFIP3 is to
Shipwrecks Teem with Underwater Life, from Microbes to Sharks
.Maximizing discovery will require biologists, archaeologists and engineers to work together to explore these special habitats. Ultimately, the more we learn, the more effectively we can conserve these historical and biological gems.The authorAvery Paxton, Research Marine Biologist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(Source: The Conversation
DOE Launches $1.7 Million Marine Energy Prize
and share a cash prize pool of up to $1.5 million.This prize supports the goals of the DOE Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO)’s Powering the Blue Economy initiative. It is funded by WPTO and is administered by DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Office of Aquaculture, NOAA-led U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, NOAA Ocean Acidification Program, NOAA’s National Sea Grant College Program, and DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory also provide technical support
Jaia Robotics Receives NOAA SBIR Phase I Grant
Jaia Robotics, an emerging maker of low-cost, micro-sized aquatic drones (JaiaBots), announced a $174,948 SBIR Phase I grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The Project is titled, “Sea Air Boundary Energy Transfer Measurements Using Micro-Sized UxVs".Jaia will work with Jim Owens and his team at Nautilus Defense who will develop an instrumented parachute to support launching JaiaBots out of a P-3 SonoBuoy tube to collect Atmospheric Data. The JaiaBot will detach from the parachute to collect Sea Surface Data – including temperature, salinity, current
February 2024
