The World’s Most Powerful Ocean Current Could Slow by 2050
Circumpolar Current (ACC) is likely to slow down.The ACC is located just to Australia’s south. It flows around Antarctica and connects our planet’s three major ocean basins – the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans.The ACC is more than 100 times stronger than the current of the Amazon River and five times stronger than the Gulf Stream.It’s a powerful current that separates the Antarctic continent from its northern neighbors, acting as a physical and oceanographic barrier that isolates the icy continent.Over the years, there has been a lot of scientific debate about the impact
OPINION: Save a Nickel, Kill a Thousand - The Pennies-Wise, Lives-Foolish Effort to Eliminate NOAA
;Without NOAA, someone would have to pick up the bill for all of those assets, and their continuing operations and maintenance costs. And that someone will be the privileged few willing to pay the private sector the fees and subscriptions that would have to be charged, like one does for Netflix or Amazon Prime. Wanna know when that hurricane’s going to make landfall, or where those tornadoes are going? Pay up.NOAA has historically been grossly under-resourced to fully implement its stated mission: “To understand and predict changes in climate, weather, ocean and coasts
Shearwater Nets Petrobras Contract for 3D Survey Off Suriname
services specialist Shearwater Geoservices has secured a large 3D seismic survey from Petronas in Suriname.The project, covering 6,000 square kilometers, marks the continuation of Shearwater’s commitment to Petronas in this frontier area having previously performed acquisition work in Block 52.The Amazon Warrior vessel has been allocated to the three-month project, starting in the fourth quarter of 2024.“High-quality seismic data is a key enabler for unlocking the vast resource potential of the prolific Suriname-Guyana basin and accelerating exploration activities.“Shearwater’s
Boskalis Wraps Up Moray West Offshore Wind Farm Ops
by Siemens Gamesa.The project is aiming to be generate first power in 2024 with an operational life of over 25 years, according to Ocean Winds, which is a joint venture in charge of the development formed by Engie and EDP Renewables.Under the recent power purchase agreement signed with the developers, Amazon will source 473MW of clean power from the wind farm, which is more than half of its capacity.Nexans Completes Cable Pull-Ins at Moray West Offshore Wind FarmSiemens Gamesa Rolls Out First Moray West 14MW Offshore Wind Turbine NacellesDEME Installs First XXL Monopile for Moray West Offshore Wind FarmAmazon
Nexans Completes Cable Pull-Ins at Moray West Offshore Wind Farm
substation platform (OSP) for the project using its DP vessel Bokalift1. Two months later, DEME installed the first XXL monopile foundation as part of the project that will feature 60 Siemens Gamesa offshore wind turbines rated at over 14MW.Under the power purchase agreement signed with the developers, Amazon will source 473MW of clean power from the wind farm, which is more than half of its capacity.Siemens Gamesa Rolls Out First Moray West 14MW Offshore Wind Turbine NacellesDEME Installs First XXL Monopile for Moray West Offshore Wind FarmAmazon to Source 473MW of Clean Power from Scottish Offshore
Inside the Subsea Cable Firm Secretly Helping America Take on China
as the world’s preeminent superpower.SubCom, a company born out of a U.S. Cold War project to spy on Soviet submarines, is living a double life.Publicly, it is one of the world’s biggest developers of undersea fiber-optic cables for telecom firms and tech giants like Alphabet’s Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta Platforms.Behind the scenes, SubCom is the exclusive undersea cable contractor to the U.S. military, laying a web of internet and surveillance cables across the ocean floor, according to the four people with knowledge of the matter: two SubCom employees and two U.S. Navy staffers
Massive Bloom of Brown Seaweed Heads Toward Florida and the Caribbean
since 2011 – the first time that large aggregations of sargassum were detected from space? While climate change is warming ocean waters, and sargassum grows faster in warmer water, I believe it’s more plausible that the cause is a drastic increase in agricultural activity in the Brazilian Amazon.Scientists have shown that huge brown tides that were observed in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005 and 2011 were linked to nutrients carried down the Mississippi River. Now, intensive cattle ranching and soybean farming in the Amazon basin are sending rising levels of nitrogen and phosphorus into the Atlantic
Dutch Project to Grow Seaweed in Offshore Wind Farms Gets $1.6M from Amazon
Amazon.com has granted 1.5 million euros ($1.6 million) to a Dutch project testing the viability of commercially growing seaweed in between turbines of offshore wind farms, the company and organizers said on Thursday. The project, led by the non-profit group North Sea Farmers, will also research the potential of using seaweed for carbon capture. Hundreds of thousands of hectares (acres) of the Dutch North Sea have been earmarked for wind parks as the government seeks to build 21 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030 and will be closed for shipping. The spaces between the turbines
Saildrone Hires Cuyler as COO and Jones as Sales VP
Mark Cuyler, formerly of Amazon Last Mile, joins Saildrone as Chief Operating Officer, and Dennis Jones joins as VP of Sales.Saildrone announced two new leadership team members poised to help the company grow its operations and sales support efforts. The addition of Mark Cuyler as Chief Operating Officer and Dennis Jones as Vice President of Sales will help Saildrone to grow and scale ocean data solutions for maritime security, ocean mapping, and science.“Mark has a proven track record of building teams at startups, established OEMs, and new industry players, and Dennis brings to Saildrone an
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