USACE Survey & Mapping Employees Awarded for USV Innovation
depth of water and configuration of the sea floor. This information is critical for planning, designing, constructing and monitoring the District’s many coastal-storm risk-management projects that reduce flood risk to shoreline communities in New York and New Jersey.District Commander Col. Alexander Young said, “I’m extremely proud of all employees contributing to this project. Their dedication, expertise and persistence has resulted in a true engineering marvel that greatly benefits New York’s missions. This is teamwork at its finest.”The unmanned craft, operating
Marc van der Donck Receives 2022 Alexander Dalrymple Award
The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) presented Marc van der Donck, Retired Captain in the Netherlands Navy and Chairman of the International Center for Electronic Navigational Charts (IC-ENC), the 2022 Alexander Dalrymple Award for services to international hydrography.Captain Marc received the award on World Hydrography Day in a ceremony led by UK National Hydrographer Rear Admiral Rhett Hatcher at the UKHO’s office in Taunton, England. The 2022 presentation took place this year due to delays in awarding previous winners caused by Covid-19.The 2022 award recognizes Capt Marc’s positive
Inspiring Ocean Conservation Through Art
says he learned about the ocean's importance to people and their role in caring for nature. Now, he says, “I am willing to work for the protection of the ocean.”Ridham Agarwal from India took home second place in the ages 11-14 category for her piece, The Dark Journey Ahead, while Alexander Zhang from China won third place for his artwork, Mother River Saves Lives.Each of the winners will receive scholarships of up to $500 from the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation to celebrate their achievements so they can continue to pursue their interests in art and ocean conservation
Hydromea Moves Fast Forward on Subsea Robotics, Comms Tech
LUMA with five different models going from ultra-low power to very high bandwidth for live video streaming. And we just launched EXRAY, which is a wireless inspection ROV.”Two Decades & CountingWhile Hydromea was founded in 2015, its history stretches almost 20 years ago when Schill and Alexander Barr started PhD research on underwater swarm technology. “Back then, we looked at the key enabling technologies to have underwater swarms,” said Schill. “One of them is scalable communication between the robots because you would like to have 20, 30, 50 of these devices talking
Russian Antarctic Vessel Docks in South Africa as Green Groups Protest
in South Africa on Saturday following protests by green campaigners who say its operations in the region violate a treaty banning mineral exploration.Several members of the Extinction Rebellion environmental group held banners reading "Hands off Antarctica" as the polar explorer ship Akademik Alexander Karpinsky arrived as scheduled in Cape Town's port during the morning.Earlier this week, several dozen protesters from Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion demonstrated at the port, saying the ship's seismic surveys in the Antarctic were a threat to marine life in the area and violated a
Nord Stream Gas Pipelines Rupture: Survey Underway, No Conclusions Reached Yet, Says Novak
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Thursday that a survey of the ruptured undersea Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines was still under way and no conclusions had been reached, RIA news agency reported.Both pairs of lines were together able to pump 110 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas a year under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany - more than enough to handle all Russia's pipeline gas exports outside the former Soviet Union in 2022.Moscow has blamed the West for the as-yet unexplained explosions that caused the ruptures without providing evidence, while NATO Secretary-General
Chile Uses High-tech Buoys to Protect Migrating Whales
so they can reduce noise and avoid collisions.The device also contains sensors for water temperature, oxygen levels and more to monitor ocean health and the impact of climate change, which is expected to help guide public policy.(Reuters - Reporting by Fabián Andrés Cambero, writing by Alexander Villegas, editing by Natalia Ramos and Deepa Babington
Nord Stream Probe Finds Evidence of Detonations, Swedish Police Say
20% savings in private households, businesses and industry," Klaus Mueller of the Bundesnetzagentur said."The situation may become very serious if we do not significantly reduce our gas consumption," he told Reuters. (Reporting by Reuters and Stine Jacobsen in Copenhagen; Writing by Alexander Smith; Editing by Elaine Hardcastle)'Unthinkable' That Russia Will be Excluded from Nord Stream Probe, Foreign Ministry SaysGerman Police See State Actor Role in Nord Stream Blasts as Probable - SpiegelPutin Ally Compares Nord Stream Sabotage to CIA-backed Attacks of 1980sSweden Sends Diving
Equinor and Vår Energi Support FASTsubsea's Subsea Pump Tech
process use. Final system testing is scheduled to start in 2023.“Getting this participation from large operators such as Equinor and Vår Energi is a significant achievement,” says Morten Pedersen, Engineering Senior VP for Subsea, at Aker Solutions. According to Alexander Fuglesang, Managing Director of FASTsubsea, the FASTsubsea technology allows operators to more rapidly and effectively extract additional hydrocarbons from existing offshore wells and installed infrastructurež"End-users are drawn to the technology as increased recovery (IOR) now can be done
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