CSIRO Aims to Create a 'Weather Service' for Water Quality
Research and Development Institute (SARDI); Western Australia’s Department of Water and Environmental Regulation; along with industry BiOceanOr; Hunter Water; universities and research organizations including ANU Institute for Water Futures; ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society; Curtin University; La Trobe University (Cisco-LTU Centre for AI and Internet of Things); University of Queensland (Reef Catchments Science Partnership, Joint Remote Sensing Research Program and Remote Sensing Research Centre); and international collaborators including CSIRO Chile; Hanoi University of Mining and
Interview: Harry Stewart, President & CEO, The Dutra Group
I can recall thinking ‘this is kind of boring, running a tractor, pulling a disc or a plow in the dust and the heat. I decided there's got to be something better.”With a strong work ethic now ingrained, Stewart set his course on engineering, earning an engineering degree from the University of California, Davis. It was his roots that led him to the doorstep of Dutra and a long, successful career.“It was the year after I graduated that I was out at my family farm, which is adjacent to a river. There was a problem with the levee, and there was a construction company (Dutra) that
Shrinking Sea Meadows Store More Carbon Than Forests. Scientists Race to Track What’s Left
of a soccer field of these seagrasses every 30 minutes around the world, according to the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP). And scientists are now racing to take stock of what remains.“There are a lot of unknowns—even things as simple as how much seagrass we have,” said Oxford University earth observation scientist Gwilym Rowlands, who is helping the Seychelles government map the island nation’s seagrass and estimate how much carbon it stores.“If you look at the map data for seagrass, there are huge holes” in what we know.Seagrasses play a large role in regulating
Study: Sunflower Sea Star Population in Peril
The combination of ocean warming and an infectious wasting disease has devastated populations of large sunflower sea stars once abundant along the West Coast of North America, according to research by Cornell University and the University of California, Davis, in Science Advances.“At one time plentiful in nearshore waters, the sunflower sea stars right now cannot be found off the California coast and are rare into Alaska,” said Drew Harvell, Cornell professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, a co-lead author. “Numbers of the sea stars have stayed so low in the past three years
Subsea Robotics: SOI Mission Discovers New Hydrothermal Vent and Species
resolution using co-located multibeam sonar, scanning laser Lidar, and stereo photography. The biological communities and the geological and geochemical characteristics of these vent fields were then explored and sampled using ROV SuBastian.Principal Investigators Drs. Robert Zierenberg from University of California Davis, Victoria Orphan from California Institute of Technology, and David Caress from MBARI, along with scientists from Oregon State University, the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, the Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada
New Slocum Glider Delivered to UC Davis
Teledyne Webb Research said it has recently sold and delivered a Slocum Glider to The University of California, Davis. After its maiden flight in Antarctica, where the vehicle was initially used to examine physical processes of ice shelves in the Western Ross Sea, the glider has now been delivered to Davis where plans are underway for its new deployment in Lake Tahoe. The glider shipped to UC Davis is equipped with a Seabird SBE pumped CTD, Wetlabs FLBBCD sensor and two customer supplied sensors including an Aanderraa oxygen optode and a sonotronics fish pinger. The
New Research to Examine Oil Spill Impacts
A research team led by University of South Florida College of Marine Science professor Dr. Steven Murawski has been awarded a $1 million grant to explore how oil spills, such as the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) in 2010, impact the economic, ecological and social system aspects of fishing communities. The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announced Thursday a total of $2.1 million in grants. Murawski’s team, which also includes Dr. Claire Paris, a bio-physical modeler from the University of Miami, and an environmental science
WHOI Names Abbott President, Director
1, 2015, Abbott will become the 10th director in WHOI's 85-year history, succeeding Susan Avery, who served from 2008 to 2015. A biological oceanographer whose research focuses on the interaction of biological and physical processes in the upper ocean, Abbott joins WHOI from Oregon State University where he served as dean and professor in the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. Over a career spanning 35 years, Abbott has served on numerous professional committees for federal science funding agencies, scientific societies and laboratories, and has advised the Office of Naval
WHOI: Fukushima Radioactivity Detected Off West Coast
Institution of Oceanography, Southwest Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Program National Park Service, St. Mary's School, The Guacamole Fund, The Institute for Building Biology and Ecology, Tillamook Estuaries Partnership, Ucluelet Aquarium, Umpqua Soil & Water Conservation District, University of California Davis Marine Pollution Studies Lab, University of Hawaii, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
February 2024
