VideoRay Names Snyder Director of Applications Engineering, Integration and Testing
its new Director of Applications Engineering, Integration and Testing.Snyder began his career with a degree from Duke University before serving as a special operations officer for the US Navy. After his service with the US Navy, he earned a graduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Now a highly seasoned marine technology professional, Snyder brings to VideoRay over two decades of expertise garnered from leadership and field positions at robotics and technology organizations such as SeaVision Underwater Solutions, L3 Harris-Oceanserver, and Terradepth.With VideoRay’s
Greensea IQ Demo Day: Bayonet’s Tech Shines at Cordage Park
On October 17th, the waterfront in Plymouth, MA, was abuzz with innovation and excitement. A demonstration and ribbon-cutting event hosted by Greensea IQ in Cordage Park showcased some remarkable technology by Bayonet, a Greensea IQ company. Other manufacturers, including SeaTrac, Jaia Tech, and MIT SeaGrant, were also on hand to demonstrate their technology.Cordage Park is on Plymouth’s picturesque waterfront, providing a perfect backdrop for this innovative demonstration event. Bayonet specializes in Autonomous Underwater Ground Vehicles (AUGVs), offering a range of sizes to meet diverse
Hearing the Light: DAS could Revolutionize Subsea Defense
regularly monitor whale behavior, and whalesong has long been known to traverse great distances. But what made this particular set of observations special was the sensor of choice. It wasn’t a hydrophone, the trusted tool of the marine bioacoustics trade. Instead it was pulses of light transmitted through 120 km of undersea fiber optic cable running between the towns of Longyearbyen and Ny-Ålesund.The NTNU scientists utilized a relatively new and innovative technology known as distributed acoustic sensing, or DAS, which relies on fiber optics to detect pressure waves emanating from
MTR100: Deep-sea Mining May Prove Pivotal in the Climate Change Discussion
need relocating and no local power stations or transport infrastructure that needs building.”The Cook Islands, alongside Nauru, have also begun to prepare for large scale DSM by collaborating with partners to explore the abundance of nodules in their exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Moana Minerals Limited is a company based on the Islands that focuses on nodule collection for the clean energy transition and exploring the EEZ for evidence-driven decisions. “This is all in line with our plan to work cooperatively with the Cook Islanders to ensure maximum local benefit is derived,&rdquo
TMC's NORI Starts Monitoring Environmental Impact of of Pilot Nodule Collection System Trials
strategic partner, Allseas, tests a system consisting of a prototype nodule collector at the seafloor connected to a riser system to bring nodules to the surface production vessel, Hidden Gem, TMC said.According to TMC, researchers use a range of high-tech equipment, including bespoke tools developed by MIT, Scripps, and Sequoia Scientific, to characterize the behavior of sediment plumes generated by the prototype collector on the seafloor. Researchers are using three dedicated moorings, current meters with acoustic modems to provide real-time seafloor current data and a large array of other specialized
Lander Lab #3: Buoyancy
you leave the dock is a better place to find a problem than on-station with everyone on deck and the weather window closing. • A design tip: Keep the upper hemisphere of the top sphere as empty as possible. Restrict contents to recovery beacons that need to see or be seen. This limits the amount of weight that needs to be lifted above the water line on recovery. If heavier elements are required, such as an acoustic release system, place those parts in the lower part of the top sphere. An acoustic release board or countdown timer release with their batteries could also
MASSA: Innovation Inside its DNA
a new bowling score system; to designing, building and delivering sonar systems used by the most powerful navy on the planet, Massa Products Corporation represents nearly eight decades of invention and innovation. Photo courtesy MassaTechnology Development: Cradle to GraveFrank Massa (1906-1990), MIT Swope Fellow Graduate, began involvement in the sound industry since the early days of the Victrola, working for Victor Talking Machine, RCA Victor, and later Brush Development Company. He developed new designs and patents throughout his career. He worked on everything from the development of sound
Subsea Vehicles: Diving into the Autosub Program
, which remained with the vehicles right through to Autosub6000. “The distributed architecture of the system was really ground breaking,” he says. Operations in 1999, with Autosub 2 in Antarctica. All images from the National Oceanography Center.1996 had been a big year for AUVs. MIT’s Odyssey II had completed a survey off British Colombia and International Submarine Engineering’s Theseus laid a 175km fiber optic cable under sea-ice in the Canadian Arctic. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Autonomous Benthic Explorer had also been making observations around
Research: Study Pinpoints 'Twin Triggers' of Triassic Era Marine Life Extinction Event
history of our Earth, but also what climatic changes we can expect moving forward as CO2 levels continue to increase.”This research, led by Curtin University and funded by the ARC, was conducted in collaboration with researchers at the University of Southampton, Lahmont-Doherty Earth Observatory, MIT, and Oxford University. Dr Fox did the research as part of his PhD studies at Curtin and is now at Khalifa University.The full research paper, ‘Two-pronged kill mechanism at the end-Triassic mass extinction’, was published in Geology and can be found online here