Climate Change is Flooding the Arctic with Light – and New Species
will affect the ecosystem is concerning, but there are also unpleasant questions for researchers. If much of the information we’ve gathered about the Arctic came from scientists stationed on brightly lit boats, how “natural” is the state of the ecosystem we have reported?Arctic marine science is about to enter a new era with autonomous and remotely operated platforms, capable of operating without any light, making measurements in complete darkness.© Standard Primitive / Adobe StockUnderwater forestsAs sea ice retreats from the shores of Greenland, Norway, North America and Russia
'Oi Connect Really Delivered,' Says SUT President Rayner
hours delivered. Good business has been conducted and new relationships formed. In lieu of a face-to-face event, Oi Connect really delivered for the ocean science and technology community.”Oceanology International is an essential date in the calendar for professionals working in the global marine science and ocean technology sector, with key conferences, multiple product launches and innumerable face-to-face meetings. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic forced the difficult decisions first to postpone the exhibition and then to run it as a virtual event, but these choices have been vindicated by
VIDEO Interview: Steve Hall, Chief Executive, Society for Underwater Technology
Hall as he looks back on his career and tenure leading SUT, and ahead to his next chapter as the CEO of the Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum at the end of 2020.Steve, to start us off, can you give us a brief personal and professional background?I suppose mine was fairly untypical background. I received a marine science degree back in the 1980s intending to join the Royal Navy. But with various defense cuts, that never happened. So, I found myself working as a surveyor in coastal surveys. I then became a customs officer, working as a specialist to oil refineries, supervising pipeline installations and tank integrity
Oi 50th "Voices": Professor Edward Hill, OBE, Chief Executive, National Oceanography Centre
up in South Australia – right by the coast. When I was eight years old, I returned from a four-week passage by ship to Southampton, and I guess the seeds were sown of becoming an Oceanographer.I read Applied Mathematics at the University of Sheffield before moving to Bangor University’s Marine Science Laboratories where I put my fluid dynamics studies to use in Physical Oceanography (MSc and PhD research). It was at Bangor as a research student that I attended my first Oceanology International when it was held at the Metropole Hotel in Brighton. I subsequently secured an academic position
Soil Research Unearths Collecting Point for Plastics
brings light to the mystery of missing marine plastic to reveal that mangroves, Blue Carbon habitats, are hugely efficiently at trapping plastics and burying them in their soils where they cannot harm vulnerable marine life or their human consumers” said Carlos Duarte, KAUST professor of marine science who supervised the research
A look inside Emily Penn’s eXXpedition
. We're still polluting—there's been a small pause in emissions, but everything else has been very much the same. So, I think we need to get back out there, to continue science and to be able to get closer to solutions.” Even after the pandemic subsides, technology will be key to marine science and exploration, thanks to its ability to increase accessibility. “Certainly, projects like ours and others out there are taking exploration that was only available to professionals to now something that is a lot more accessible to everyday people. I think that's really important because
Eager Wins 2020 Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler Contest
ASL Environmental Sciences said that Dannielle Eager is the winner of the fifth annual Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP) early career scientist award contest. Dannielle is presently studying at the University of Plymouth at Devon, UK at a postgraduate level in the school of Biological and Marine Science.Eager’s research will focus on the influence of dynamic seamount oceanography on pelagic biota in the tropical Indian Ocean, with support from the Garfield Weston Foundation, Bertarelli Foundation and the University of the Highlands and Islands. In contrast to surrounding waters, seamounts
Ocean Influencer: Dr. Jyotika Virmani, Schmidt Ocean Institute
The July/August edition of Marine Technology Reporter, the 15th Annual "MTR100", recognizes Dr. Jyotika Virmani, Schmidt Ocean Institute’s (SOI) first executive director, as an 'Ocean Influencer.' Virmani defines what it means to be passionate and motivated in the field of marine science and exploration. Her humble start began in her hometown of Manchester, England, inspired by the nearby Lovell Telescope — which was then the world’s largest steerable dish radio telescope. Today, her interests and studies, spanning atmosphere to ocean, have guided her drive to lead
How Coral, Mangroves and Seagrass Could be Affected by the Mauritius Oil Spill
can there be any hope for long-term recovery in the region.The authorsSivajyodee Sannassy Pilly is a PhD candidate in marine ecology at Bangor University.John Turner is a marine biology professor and heads the School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor University.Ronan Roche is a research fellow in marine science at Bangor University.(Source: The Conversation
