Opinion: A Call for the USNS Walter Munk to Honor America’s Greatest Oceanographer
, countering illegal fishing, conserving coral reefs, and expanding the research and operational application of autonomous systems and artificial intelligence.A third aspect of Walter’s mark on America is the strength in diversity that he represented. Walter came to the United States from Austria-Hungary in 1937, and in response to Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938, he applied for and obtained U.S. citizenship in 1939. While discussions on diversity nowadays tend to focus on race, it is equally important to include our immigrant population. According to the U.S. Census Bureau
Vontobel and Candriam back Belize's barrier reef 'superbond' buyback
from erosion and storm surges – are worth up to $559 million per year. That is equivalent to more than two-fifths of Belize's GDP.The debt plan is by no means a done deal, however.M&G Investments, which holds 3.5% of the bond according to the EMAXX data, declined to comment while Austria's Kepler Fonds, which owns around 2%, said it was undecided for now.Roughly 10% is also effectively held by Venezuela which may not be able to put in its vote as it is under U.S. sanctions and the money would need to go through the U.S. financial system.Under the proposed deal, eligible holders
ROV Helps Recovery Dive Teams Locate Dumped Car
The Remotely Operated Vehicle Committee of the Marine Technology Society, “exactly who to credit with developing the first ROV will probably remain clouded, however, there are two who deserve credit. The PUV (Programmed Underwater Vehicle) was a torpedo developed by Luppis-Whitehead Automobile in Austria in 1864, however, the first tethered ROV, named POODLE, was developed by Dimitri Rebikoff in 1953.” In late 1960’s, the US Navy began developing robots to help locate and recover underwater ordinance. By the 1980’s, commercial companies began utilizing the technology to aid in
Increased Confidence in CO2 Storage
that even small leaks can be sampled in harsh conditions. Image: Copyright STEMM-CCS ProjectThe Strategies for Environmental Monitoring of Marine Carbon Capture and Storage (STEMM-CCS) project is a European Union Horizon2020-funded research project. It brings together researchers from Germany, Norway, Austria and the UK, along with industry partner Shell, to develop the techniques and technology to detect traces of CO2 leaks if they occur in the marine environment, to observe how the gas behaves in sediments and the water column above, and predict how far leaks may spread and what impacts they might
Walter Munk: 1917-2019
;Scripps oceanographer Walter Munk (right) and Scripps Director Harald Sverdrup at Munk's graduation, 1946. (Credit: UC San Diego/ Scripps Institution of Oceanography)Rebellion and romance played a role in Munk’s journey to a science career at Scripps. He was born on Oct. 19, 1917, in Vienna, Austria, to a cosmopolitan banking family. In 1932, when he was 14, his family sent him to New York for school with the expectation that his time in the financial capital would prepare him for his own career in banking. After spending a few years working at the firm of a family friend, Munk decided he had
US warns sanctions still an option against Nord Stream 2
want to put ourselves in that position."Gazprom is the sole shareholder in Nord Stream 2, shouldering half of the 9.5 billion euro ($10.7 billion) construction cost. Gazprom's Western partners are Germany's Uniper and Wintershall, Anglo-Dutch group Royal Dutch Shell, France's Engie and Austria's OMV.($1 = 0.8888 euros)(Reporting by Alastair Macdonald; Editing by Adrian Croft
Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline is 70% Financed so Far
55 billion cubic metres of gas a year, is owned by Gazprom, which is taking on half of the planned costs of 9.5 billion euros ($11 billion).The rest is divided between five European energy companies - Germany's Uniper and Wintershall, Anglo- Dutch group Royal Dutch Shell, France's Engie and Austria's OMV.($1 = 0.8679 euros)(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Editing by Susan Fenton
NORBIT Establishes Oceans Business Unit
markets enables us to offer technology, products, solutions and services across the entire ocean space domain,” says Per Jørgen Weisethaunet, chairman and group CEO of NORBIT.NORBIT is an international technology corporation headquartered in Trondheim, Norway, and has operations in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Sweden, Poland, Italy, Iceland, U.K., Brazil, Singapore and U.S.“The creation of NORBIT Oceans gives our customers access to a much more diversified ocean-related technology portfolio. Plus, our global marketing and distribution network allows us to support the same customers wherever
Nord Stream 2 Dredging Starting Off German Coast
of 2018 or early next year.Denmark still has to rule whether the pipeline can be built near its coast, for which there is no concrete timing.Other routine permissioning processes are still under way in Sweden and Russia.Gazprom's Western partners are energy companies Uniper , Wintershall, Engie, Austria’s OMV and Anglo-Dutch group Shell.Poland's anti-monopoly office said last week it had launched proceedings against Gazprom and the five European firms financing Nord Stream 2 over a potential breach of anti-monopoly laws.Poland sees the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which would double Russia'
February 2024
