Rick van de Wetering Wins 2025 IADC Young Author Award
;s Young Author Award is given annually to “stimulate the promotion of new ideas and encourage younger men and women in the dredging industry." The award is granted at industry-leading conferences, with 2025’s winning young authors selected from the proceedings of the 24th WODCON Congress, held from June 23-27, 2025 in San Diego, California.Rick van de Wetering was selected as the Young Author Award winner for his contribution to the paper “A laboratory scale linear rock cutting setup to study cutting forces of blunt chisels.” Dredging hard rock with a cutter
Greensea IQ to Host First Public Demonstration of Bayonet 350 AUGV
for subsea and nearshore operations, will host the first public demonstration of its Bayonet 350 Autonomous Underwater Ground Vehicle (AUGV) on June 23, 2025, at the Hotel del Coronado’s North Beach in San Diego, California. The demonstration will take place ahead of the 24th World Dredging Congress & Exposition (WODCON XXIV) and is open to invited guests from the commercial dredging and marine construction industries.The Bayonet 350 is designed for operations in the surf and swash zones—areas that are notoriously difficult to access with traditional survey and inspection platforms
NOIA Statement Regarding New US Biological Opinion
;and the Gulf demonstrates this every single day.“An effective Biological Opinion must serve as a foundation to build upon—not an endpoint—as we pursue policies that reflect the reality on the water each and every day. NOIA will continue working with the administration and Congress to ensure policies are grounded in science, transparent in process, and aligned with America’s offshore energy and environmental leadership.&rdquo
Ice Calving Argentina's Perito Moreno Glacier Stirs Awe and Concern
that the glacier could rebound as it has done before, but that for the moment it was losing between one and two meters of water equivalent per year, which if not reversed could lead to a situation where the loss accelerates.A state-backed 2024 report, co-authored by Ruiz and presented to Argentina's Congress, showed that while Perito Moreno's mass has been overall stable for half a century, the period since 2015 has seen the fastest and most prolonged loss of mass in 47 years, on average losing 0.85 meters per year.Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year
White House Aims to Eliminate NOAA Climate Research
communities vulnerable to extreme weather, threaten ocean species and harm commercial fisheries.“This is ludicrous! Whether you live on a coast or in the heartland, these proposed cuts to NOAA will impact you,” Beth Lowell, an executive at conservation group Oceana, said in an email. “Congress must act to stop the dismantling of NOAA that would directly threaten the millions of Americans that depend on healthy oceans for their jobs, businesses, and seafood dinners.”Commerce Department officials did not respond to requests for comment.Under the proposal, NOAA would transfer key responsibi
Support for Jones Act, Concern about China Voiced at Maritime Infrastructure Hearing
Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee Chairman Mike Ezell (R-MS) addressed a hearing titled “America Builds: Maritime Infrastructure” on Wednesday saying: “It is clearly critical that we must build a safer and more efficient system.”The new chairman, for the 119th Congress, said the Jones Act is quite literally the bedrock and foundation of the nation’s shipbuilding industrial base because it helps to maintain a pool of qualified American mariners that the US relies on to transport goods and its military, in times of peace and war.“Unfortunately, the rise
OSIL Buoy Charting New Waters in Central American Pacific
as a floating laboratory platform and has been installed in the Parque Nacional Coiba in Panama for the Estación Científica Coiba (COIBA AIP) to assist with the study and conservation of marine diversity and monitoring climate change. COIBA AIP is set to host the 21st Latin American Congress of Marine Sciences (COLACMAR) in 2026 so is ideally positioned as a regional leader in the study of marine sciences.Coiba Island is part of the marine corridor of the tropical eastern Pacific, and regularly sees large congregations of different migratory marine species. The buoy will continuously
NOAA Unveils FLA Keys Marine Sanctuary Restoration Blueprint
changing how we interact with our coral reefs and other nearshore habitats that wildlife — and the economies of South Florida — depend on. Together, we can make the Restoration Blueprint a path to success for the Florida Keys.”The sanctuary was established in 1990 by an act of Congress, and NOAA issued implementing regulations in 1997. NOAA manages the sanctuary in partnership with the State of Florida. Over the last 30 years, coral disease, coral bleaching, warmer ocean temperatures, increased human use and more frequent and intense storms and hurricanes have impacted the region
Maritime Risk Symposium 2024 – Great Power Competition and Gray Zone Engagement
access to data and transition away from current organization-centric data architecture? What steps can we take today to break down these barriers and enhance collaboration between GMCOI members?Panel 3 – Marine Board: Maritime Policy vis a vis the National Maritime StrategyFocus: Since 2014 Congress has tasked the administrations to develop a national maritime strategy to ensure the nation has sufficient U.S. flagged vessels, mariners and shipbuilding capacity to meet future military sealift requirements, which is critical to our national security. To date, the efforts have not produced the
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