Maritime Risk Symposium 2024 – Great Power Competition and Gray Zone Engagement
maritime service will provide insights for achieving an enduring national strategy amid growing threats to U.S. maritime industry. Can we build on solid concepts in the 2021 Tri-Service Maritime Strategy (TSMS) to get to the next level: considering an all-services focus on mutual cooperation during times of steadily rising maritime risk, military hazards, and gray-zone international conflict.Panel 2 – Maritime Domain Awareness and Tri-Service CollaborationFocus: Global maritime security and prosperity is accomplished through the effective understanding of the maritime domain and by improving
Partners Secure DEFRA Backing to Improve Marine Biodiversity Monitoring
survey a limited strip of the seabed per ping. In contrast, this project adopts a strategy leveraging the wide swath capabilities of the GeoSwath system, promising substantial gains in efficiency.The project will use an advanced interferometric sonar system capable of transmitting sonar beams over 40 times wider than a typical single-beam sonar system, allowing for greater spacing between survey lines and significantly reduced survey times. The GeoSwath 4 bathymetric sonar features an onboard Artificial Intelligence system to automate data processing and extract sea grass height estimates in real-time
Why There May Be Oceans Inside Dwarf Planets Beyond Pluto
from Jupiter is continually changing, and therefore so does the strength of the much stronger tidal force from Jupiter, which actually distorts Io’s shape.Repeated tidal distortion of its interior warms Io by internal friction, in the same way that if you bend a stiff wire to and fro several times and then touch the newly bent part to your lip (try it with a coat hanger or a paper clip), you will be able to feel the warmth.Peale’s prediction of tidal heating was vindicated only a week after publication when Voyager-1, the the first sophisticated flyby of Jupiter, sent back images of
Ocean Floor a Reservoir for Plastic Pollution
estimate of microplastics on the seafloor, this research looks at larger items, from nets and cups to plastic bags and everything in between.”Alice Zhu, a PhD Candidate from the University of Toronto who led the study, said the estimate of plastic pollution on the ocean floor could be up to 100 times more than the amount of plastic floating on the ocean’s surface.“The ocean surface is a temporary resting place of plastic so it is expected that if we can stop plastic entering our oceans, the amount would be reduced. However, our research found that plastic will continue to end up in
USACE Survey & Mapping Employees Awarded for USV Innovation
. Leading the team for AMY was Francis Postiglione, a long-time Army Corps employee and Chief of the Surveys and Mapping Branch. He noted the collaborative nature of the project: Many formal meetings were held with manufacturers along with informal staff conversations during lunch hour and break times. The entire Branch was involved in some capacity, drawing on diverse skill sets. The unmanned craft has the following specifications:Size: 24” width x 78” lengthSpeed: 16+ knotsWeight: 150 lbs.2.5 hours survey time on single battery packMulti-beam and side-scan survey system.Chief
Vattenfall, ORE Catapult Extend Test & Demo Alliance at Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm
Partnership Manager at ORE Catapult.Future projects at the wind farm will be looking at technology innovation in the areas of robotics and sustainable solutions, Vattenfall and ORE Catapult said.So far, Safety at sea pioneers Zelim tested their Swift Rescue Conveyor System which demonstrated it was 20 times faster at recovering people overboard offshore than any conventional systems, and Pegasus Welfare Solutions (PWS) constructed the world’s first in-turbine toilets that have been installed into all the wind farm’s turbines. PWS was acquired by OEG Offshore in 2021.Edinburgh based company
Improved Sample Preservation via OSIL Multiple Corers
Exploitation Licensing procedures for marine mineral extraction, in addition to academic studies of the microbiology and flora/fauna of shelf and deep-sea sediments & analysis of the associated processes.The Multiple Corers can be configured to accommodate varying numbers of core tubes, and delivery times for the corers and spares kept low, meaning even last-minute cruises are well supported, with systems remaining in constant use for many years
Boskalis Wraps Up Moray West Offshore Wind Farm Ops
carried out extensive geotechnical and geophysical survey works prior to the installation work.Then, Boskalis’ subsea rock installation vessel Rockpiper installed more than 110,000 tons of rock as scour protection for the 62 XXL monopiles required for the project.Boskalis then transported two times eight monopiles using it semi-submersible heavy transport vessel White Marlin from Asia to the Port of Invergordon in Scotland.From there, Boskalis' DP crane vessel Bokalift 2 picked up the monopiles, with weights varying from 1,515 to 1,935 tons, prior to installing them in the field by means
Feritech Global Designs Next-Gen Auto-Drop Piston Corer for Oceaneering
only one person, whereas previously at least two staff would have been needed to operate all the equipment required.“The new auto-drop piston corer technology represents a step change in precision and efficiency. We estimate that this new product will enable seabed samples to be collected up to ten times faster than with traditional piston corers,” Rob Ferris, Managing Director of Falmouth-based Feritech Global.The upgraded LARS system also includes a new, strengthened barrier rail, which can withstand pressures of up to 2 tons.“We are delighted with the outcome of this pioneering development
February 2024
