UKHO Launches Innovation Challenge to Address Coastal Problems
with a clear view of coastal inundation situations, and support other groups to identify vulnerable areas and put in place mitigation measures before an inundation event occurs.Participants will have access to world-leading geospatial and scientific ADMIRALTY data throughout the challenge - including Anguilla data sets - and will also get the chance to work with leading experts and receive support from UKHO staff as they develop a prototype product.The winning team will receive hands-on support and marine geospatial information, in addition to a cash prize of $10,000 Singapore dollars to develop an alpha
Caribbean States Kick Off Green Defense Against Disasters
every single Caribbean nation signed up and a lot of agencies willing to work with them gives a good chance of speeding the process forward," Branson told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by telephone.Partners include the Inter-American Development Bank, private firms and countries from Grenada to Anguilla and Dominica.The effort kicked off by rolling out a handful of projects, including an announcement that Airbnb, the home-sharing website service, was expanding to the Caribbean its "Open Homes" program that matches displaced disaster victims with local hosts with spare rooms free of charge
A Slithery Ocean Mystery
mystery that has intrigued scientists for centuries: the epic migration and unusual life cycle of eels. Aristotle mused that eels emerged from the mud of river bottoms, and it was not until 1923 that Danish biologist Johannes Schmidt, after a 15-year search, tracked down young larvae of both American (Anguilla rostrata) and European eels (Anguilla anguilla) in the Sargasso Sea. He assumed this was the eels’ spawning ground, but to date, no adult eels have ever actually been observed there. Meanwhile, four-inch glass eels, a juvenile life stage, have been found and fished in coastal streams in America
Deep Secrets of the Slippery Eel Discovered
, biologists and oceanographers at GEOMAR recently demonstrated the crucial influence of ocean currents on eel recruitment. Researchers did this by using, among others, a state-of-the-art ocean model developed in Kiel, in combination with genetic studies. Smoked, fried or boiled - the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) has always been a popular fish in Europe. Even though people have consumed it for millennia, the origin of the eel has long been shrouded in mystery. While the fish spend most of their lives in fresh and coastal waters, spawning and the birth of the larvae take place in the Sargasso Sea
February 2024
