MacArtney Germany Appoints Alexander Gravert as Sales Manager
MacArtney Germany has appointed Alexander Gravert as Sales Manager to strengthen regional connectivity initiatives.Located at our Kiel operation, led by Managing Director Torsten Turla, Alexander will help drive connectivity efforts in the DACH region, which includes Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.Alexander will focus on ocean science, marine and offshore, and naval industries, with the primary objective of improving customer support, increasing customer engagement, and facilitating closer collaboration.Alexander is a sales expert with over fifteen years of experience in international sales across
Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Seventh Lowest Extent on Record
overall, downward trend in the minimum extent from 1979 to 2024 is 12.4 percent per decade relative to the 1981 to 2010 average. From the linear trend, the loss of sea ice is about 77,000 square kilometers (30,000 square miles) per year, equivalent to losing the state of South Dakota or the country of Austria annually.“Every year brings something new for the Arctic Ocean,” said NSIDC senior research scientist Walt Meier. “This summer we saw very early ice loss in Hudson Bay, open water near the North Pole and a stubborn ice floe near the Bering Strait that persisted through the summer
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
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