Ocean Acidification: Warming’s “Evil Twin”
the report points out that changes in deep-ocean pH are irreversible on centennial to millennial time scales.New ways of studying ocean acidification are being developed including the use of nuclear and isotopic techniques by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s environmental laboratories in Monaco.Ocean acidification has now increased by around 30% compared to pre-industrial levels. This has occurred over several hundred years - an instant for the geological record.The geological record could hold some important information for today’s situation, and a recently released study in Evolving
Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) ... To Clear the Air, Look Beneath the Waves
a competitive and effective CDR technique, Oceans 2050 is conducting a study to better understand the process and the rate at which carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere. The study, which covers 20 farms in 12 countries, is nearly complete, with results to be announced at the end of March during Monaco Ocean Week. With the study results, Boyce shares, “We intend to submit a carbon credit methodology, and generate Verified Carbon Standard carbon credits for the carbon sequestration work our partner farmers are already doing.” And the future of seaweed farming for CDR looks bright. &ldquo
Winners of Captain Don Walsh Award for Ocean Exploration Announced
,” said Judith Patten MBE, president of the SUT.Following the well-documented Five Deeps Expedition dives in 2019, further dives have taken place. In 2020, Vescovo partnered with the French Navy to dive on the wreck of the submarine Minerve, and with the International Hydrographic Bureau and the Monaco Blue Initiative to explore the deepest spot in the Mediterranean. He then partnered with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia to conduct scientific dives to the unique brine lakes at the bottom of the Red Sea.Vescovo has mapped over 1 million square kilometers
Prince Albert II of Monaco Christens Geomar's New AUV
Prince Albert II of Monaco on Thursday today christened the new autonomous underwater vehicle "Albert I. de Monaco" at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.The AUV “Albert I de Monaco” was built by IQUA Robotics in Spain. It is about 1.5 meters long and can dive up to 200 meters deep. Being equipped with various sensors, including a side-scan sonar and an oxygen sensor, the device can be used both for measurements in the open water and for seafloor mapping. "With the new vehicle, we want to support research projects near the coast in particular, but also
Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE Livestream
On Friday, May 31, the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE awards event will be livestreamed from Monaco where the winners of the $7 million global ocean mapping competition will be revealed.The three-year competition challenged teams to advance deep sea technologies for autonomous and unmanned, fast and high-resolution ocean exploration.Tune in here at 1:30 p.m. (ET) to see the overall and NOAA bonus prize winners announced.
Walter Munk: 1917-2019
Munk was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences for his fundamental contributions to the field of oceanography, the first time the prize was awarded to an oceanographer. In 2001, he was the inaugural recipient of the Prince Albert I Medal in the physical sciences of the oceans, which Prince Rainier of Monaco created in cooperation with the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans. Among Munk’s favorite honors was the 2014 awarding of the Explorer’s Medal from the Explorer’s Club, an organization founded in 1904 that includes some of the last century’s
Scientist Pool Data to Create the $3B Ocean Map
Seabed 2030 have been companies - in particular Dutch energy prospector Fugro and deep-sea mapping firm Ocean Infinity. Both were involved in the search for the Malaysian airliner MH370, which disappeared in 2014.But mapping the oceans goes back much further, said Mayer - to 1903, when Prince Albert I of Monaco was the first to do it comprehensively. The rudimentary method involved tossing overboard a "hunk of lead at the end of a rope" to plumb the depths.Technology evolved after the second world war to using echosound reflections, but that produced only a "blurry picture", said Mayer
Mapping the Future
maps. In existence since 1899, the 7th International Geographic Congress held in Berlin nominated a Commission on sub-oceanic nomenclature that was also to be responsible for the publication of a general bathymetric chart.The Commission convened in Wiesbaden (April 15-16, 1903), with Prince Albert I of Monaco in the chair, and adopted the characteristics defined in a memorandum by J. Thoulet. The 24 sheets of Carte générale bathymétrique des océans were then printed in Paris in 1905. Although not widely known, GEBCO has been responsible for all subsequent version of the paper
Interview: David Millar, Fugro
methods. The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project is a global initiative that aims to correct this data shortfall by producing a definitive, high-resolution bathymetric map of the world’s oceans by the year 2030. The project originated during the 2016 Forum for Future Ocean Floor Mapping in Monaco and became operational in February of this year under the leadership of The Nippon Foundation and GEBCO [General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans]. The goal of the project is to enhance global policy decisions, improve ocean sustainably, and advance scientific research.A project of this scale can
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