PODCAST: “All in the [Gallaudet] Family”
of the US Navy's newest oceanographic ship after Ballard.Image courtesy RAdm Tim GallaudetRAdm Tim Gallaudet’s Career PathI went to the Naval Academy, commissioned to become an oceanography officer in the US Navy. What was great about that career path in the Navy is you get exposed to ocean technologies from the very beginning. Even at the Naval Academy, we were using side-scan sonar to do surveys and collect data in the Chesapeake Bay.My first tour was going to graduate school at Scripps where I worked with multibeam sonar and satellite imagery. I went on a few cruises on a couple of Scripps
Sonardyne Partners with Smart Sound Plymouth
and Plymouth Marine Laboratory in advancing the capabilities of Smart Sound through Sonardyne’s technologies. The upgraded Smart Sound will provide even more opportunities for world-class testing and research, adding to Plymouth’s unique offering as a global centre of excellence for ocean technologies including autonomous marine vessels.&rdquo
Oi Americas to Host Product Launches and New Technologies
knowledge from representatives of industry, government and academia and can be found at https://www.oceanologyinternationalamericas.com/en-gb/conference.html#/sessionsAccording to OiA Conference Chair Ralph Rayner, “Daily Ocean Futures plenary sessions will focus on unlocking the potential of ocean technologies and ocean information services to support a growing blue economy that balances delivering the vast economic potential of the ocean with meeting key societal challenges such as climate change and the protection of ocean health. These plenary sessions will be complemented by related topical roundtable
Q&A: Growing Blue Economy Opportunities for US Exporters in Canada
tidal energy. Canada’s North Atlantic coastline, particularly Halifax, Nova Scotia, is emerging as a hotspot for blue economy research, investment, and innovation.U.S. suppliers may also take advantage of Canada’s highly skilled pool of talent in research and development in the area of ocean technologies through several state-of-the-art organizations, including Oceans Network Canada and innovation hubs such as the Ocean Supercluster.Do U.S. marine tech firms have any competitive advantages when entering Canada’s market?U.S. companies have a distinct advantage when doing business in Canada
RDSEA "Pic of the Week"
Combined efforts, University of South Florida's College of Marine Science; Ocean Circulation Laboratory, and the Center of Ocean Technologies (COT), bring back to life a Met-Ocean site on USF's "Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System" (COMPS), West Florida Shelf (WFS), eastern Gulf of Mexico, the initial/original coastal monitoring system in the U.S.:
Inside Sofar Ocean Technologies' Epic Quest to Open Ocean Data
Tim Janssen, CEO, Sofar Ocean Technologies, discusses this real-time ocean intelligence platform’s quest to collect, network and distribute vast amounts of ocean information and insight, essentially creating the ‘nervous system for the oceans.’Tim, to start, please give us a by the numbers look at your company?We are a startup, with 50 people in our San Francisco office, and 50 on the water. We have more than 1,200 live sensors right now, one of the largest networks ever created for ocean sensing. We have more than 5 million ocean hours on our platform and we collect more than 100
Virtual Conference to Focus on Transatlantic Marine Renewables
global economic growth. However, if we don’t develop the right technology now to ensure sustainable development, it will have a devastating impact on the marine environment. This Seminar is an opportunity to debate the challenges and opportunities associated with the development of new ocean technologies and also an opportunity for companies, research organisations and public administration to exchange views and get a better understanding of opportunities they can jointly address.”Portugal’s commitment to clean energy is underpinned by the National Energy and Climate Plan 2030,
Ocean Startup Challenge Shortlists 31 Companies for Prize
Startup Challenge, the industry reviewers have shortlisted 31 companies to vie for 10 prizes of $25,000 and in-kind support from partners.“Applicants accepted our challenge by proposing creative solutions to solve industry hurdles, with more than a third of the shortlisted companies having ocean technologies in the earliest stages of development,” said Don Grant, Executive Director, Ocean Startup Project. “Another 19 shortlisted companies applied with working prototypes.”The shortlisted solutions involve environmental monitoring, reducing marine mammal entanglement in fishing
Environmental DNA Emerging in the Ocean Science Community
into operational ocean observing? Two research labs, The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in California and the Sieben Lab at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. among others, have been working to address the question.A field-deployed microfluidic sensor (credit: Dartmouth Ocean Technologies Inc. and Sieben Laboratory Dalhousie University)MBARI has been working in this domain for decades. Starting about 25 years ago, it conceived of “ecogenomic sensors,” devices to apply molecular analytical techniques subsea. The Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) was conceived as
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