A Graveyard for Glaciers
ocean warming (42%) but larger than contributions from melting of the ice sheets in Greenland (15%) and Antarctica (8%).“The conversation about climate change can be very abstract, with many devastating statistics and sophisticated scientific models that may feel incomprehensible,” said Rice University anthropologist Cymene Howe back in 2019 when a memorial was unveiled, the first of its kind in the world, at the place where the Icelandic glacier Okjökull once stood.One of the ideas behind the subsequent Glacier Graveyard ceremony was to help people feel the impacts of climate change
Fiber Optic Sensing and Mining an Ocean of Data
off Toulon. Photo from Diane Rivet Sladen et al. nature com. 2019.That project led to an experiment, in March 2018, involving the University of California, Berkeley (where Lindsey was a graduate student), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and Rice University. The idea was to use a 20 km-long section of the 51 km MARS fibre optic cable used to communicate with seabed instruments to gather oceanographic or seismic signals. The cable was going to be “dark”, i.e. not in use, for a few days for maintenance. That made it available for the
Subsea: The Future of Unmanned Vehicles
efficient and effective in the hands of the operator. Full integration and task efficiency is the only real path forward for these systems. We have to address how to deliver a system that does what the operator intends it to do, easily.”AUVs“Two years ago I attended a workshop at Rice University moderated by the Subsea Systems Institute where major oil & gas companies, their providers, and underwater vehicle manufactures spent the day generating a development strategy for AUVs for subsea applications,” said Bob Melvin, the Vice President of Engineering at Teledyne Marine Systems
New Offshore Oil Investments Needed to Avoid Shortages -Hess
, U.S. oil producer Hess Corp said on Thursday. The past four years of low oil prices have major producers pulling back on needed offshore investment, and the gap between supply and demand should help prices rebound, Hess Chief Operating Officer Greg Hill said at an energy conference at Rice University's Baker Institute. "The world is going to have to invest in more than shale," said Hill, whose company has projects in offshore Guyana, Gulf of Mexico, and Gulf of Thailand. Expanded offshore production "will play a critical role in avoiding another supply shock."
Roan Joins IMCA in North America
of the U.S. Coast Guard’s National Offshore Safety Advisory Committee where he chaired several subcommittees that provided industry input for future USCG regulations. He holds a BS in Marine Transportation from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in King’s Point, N.Y. and an MBA from Rice University in Houston
Why is Coral Dying at East Flower Garden Bank?
offering advice and assistance in trying to help discover the cause. An initial response cruise was launched with Texas A&M University (TAMU), July 30-August 2, to collect water samples for water chemistry sampling. A second response cruise, led by FGBNMS, with partners from Rice University, UNCW-Chapel Hill and TAMU, took place August 4-7. Researchers conducted photo transects and scooter surveys, and collected more than 300 samples of corals and sponges, both affected and unaffected, as well as directed water samples in specific areas of the impacted reef. These samples will
Seatronics Names Pence as Vice President
and gas industry, with a substantial focus on subsea development. She has held leadership positions in business development, commercial management, strategic planning and general administration with both Subsea 7 and Ceona, and holds a BBA in marketing from Texas A&M University and an MBA from Rice University in the USA.
February 2025
