Jim McNeill is Leading Earth’s Citizen Warriors Across the Sea
Planet to Captain America.The Foundation Expedition last September marked the start of a new realm in McNeill’s journey to bridge discovery and citizen science: the ocean. While similar work has been conducted since 2001 as part of McNeill’s first warrior program, Ice Warrior, “the oceans are a new domain for me and I like to do my homework thoroughly,” he shared. The Foundation Expedition was exactly that: a chance to see how the Linden operated and to build the leadership dynamic with Captain Rasmus Jacobsen.Image copyright Jim McNeill/Global WarriorImages copyright Jim McNeill/Glo
Marine Telemetry: Shedding Light Below the Waves
hoped for—and argued was necessary—widespread dissatisfaction served as a sore reminder of the action still required from many major-polluter nations. Despite a lack of intergovernmental commitment, environmentalists globally are still working to understand the impacts of climate change on oceans and biodiversity.In the face of a warming climate, biodiversity is declining as organisms lose habitat to anthropogenic and natural destruction; many try to migrate to more comfortable climates. Species that are unable to adapt face local extinctions and the subsequent decrease in genetic diversity
Heatwaves Decimate Sea Urchins, Molluscs - Study
Curtin University researchers believe rising sea temperatures are to blame for the plummeting number of invertebrates such as molluscs and sea urchins at Rottnest Island off Western Australia, with some species having declined by up to 90 per cent between 2007 and 2021.Lead author Adjunct Professor Fred Wells, from Curtin’s School of Molecular and Life Sciences, said the west end of Rottnest Island had suffered a “catastrophic decline” in biodiversity. “Since 1982, we have monitored biodiversity of marine molluscs and echinoderms including sea snails, clams, starfish and
OOI‘s Pioneer Array Relocating to Southern Mid-Atlantic Bight
A team of scientists and engineers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) left Charleston, SC aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong to begin test deployments in preparation for the installation of an Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) ocean observing system in its new location in the southern Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB). The science team will deploy two test moorings off the coast of North Carolina, occupying shallow and deep sites of the proposed array. The deployments will supplement computer modeling to ensure the mooring designs perform as expected in the MAB environment. Once the array is fully
NOC Expedition Seeks Answers on Subsea Mining Impacts
Scientists from the National Oceanography Center (NOC) have embarked on a month-long research expedition from Costa Rica to the Central Pacific to understand the impacts of deep-sea extraction of polymetallic nodules on the seabed. These are hard rock like materials, highly enriched in metals found on the sea floor.The Seabed Mining And Resilience To Experimental impact (SMARTEX) project will provide the critical scientific understanding to reduce the risk of extracting these nodules in a 6 million sq km region of the central Pacific Ocean.The polymetallic nodules are highly enriched with metals
Almarin Updates Balizamar Buoy Range with Modular Design
Almarin launched the new EVO buoys, the evolution of Balizamar buoys. The Balizamar EVO buoys go one step further: their structure is made up of rotomolded polyethylene modular components, enhancing visibility and lowering cost maintenance. The inner structure is made of galvanized steel by immersion and the top mark is constructed of stainless steel. The hull is rotomolded filled with closed-cell EPS foam to ensure buoyancy. “The design of the Balizamar buoys, which dates to 2010, has been updated to meet current needs. While an improvement in materials was made in 2013 with the change
New Funding for Robot Fleet to Study Ocean Carbon Cycle
. The BIO-Carbon programme presents an opportunity to show how autonomous platforms might reduce the need for ship-based experiments in the future.”The BIO-Carbon program seeks to confront three challenges.How does marine life affect the potential for seawater to absorb CO2? The ability of oceans to absorb carbon dioxide is determined by the alkalinity of the water. Calcium carbonate is the main influence on alkalinity, but we are unsure which organisms are producing carbonates and where.At what rate does marine life convert CO2 into organic carbon? Carbon dioxide is removed from the ocean
Event: Blue Innovation Symposium
What: Blue Innovation SymposiumWhen: January 24-25, 2023Where: Wyndham Newport Hotel, 240 Aquidneck Rd., Middletown, RI 02842Web: https://blueinnovationsymposium.comThe Blue Innovation Symposium is in its 8th year of operations, and this year more than 30 speakers and 250 attendees will gather to discuss the business opportunities in creating technologies for ocean related commerce, research and defense. Leaders in offshore wind, marine energy, aquaculture, climate monitoring, and technology transfer will give brief remarks to get feedback from their fellow panel members and the audience as well.
Spinrad, Rayner Headline All-Star Speaker Line-Up @ Oi '22
gain an understanding of the latest trends in the technology enabling the collection of ocean data and the use of the resulting ocean information and knowledge to help deliver a more sustainable and equitable world.”The conference keynote speaker is the United States Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere & National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator Dr. Rick Spinrad.NOAA plays a key role in the United States’ efforts to tackle the climate crisis. This includes helping to grow the New Blue Economy which leverages NOAA’s data and knowledge of
