Science & Technology

As scientists around the world sound the alarm about record sea surface temperatures, a new experimental NOAA forecast system predicts that half of the global ocean may experience marine heatwave conditions by the end of summer.

Saildrone is deploying a record 12 vehicles into the Tropical Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico this summer, supporting National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research to advance hurricane forecasting.

After several years of research & development (R&D) Eco Marine Power (EMP) announced today that it has developed a new type of sail device for ships. This sail device known as a Sailet^TM (patent pending) can increase the propulsive forces created by EMP’s patented EnergySail^® and can also be used as a stand-alone sail-assisted propulsion or energy saving device.

Imaging the structure of the deep seafloor is critical to understanding the biology and ecology of the largest living space on our planet. But to date, only about 20 percent of the ocean floor has been mapped at a resolution useful for scientific study.

Step aside self-driving cars, self-driving boats are here — and they can do more than take you on a cruise.

On the 29th of April 2023, the YUCO became the first micro–Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) to successfully cross the English Channel from Folkestone, England, to Wissant, France.

The “ocean tribute” Award 2024 call for entries is now open at https://oceantributeaward.boot.de/en/Home. Projects of interest are initiatives that promote the protection of waters and oceans with promising technologies and ideas.

The third expedition of 2023, NA151, sees Ocean Exploration Trust (OET) sailing E/V Nautilus to the Northeast Pacific to partner with Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) in ocean exploration and maintenance of the major cabled observatory, NEPTUNE (North-East Pacific Time-series Underwater Networked Experiments).

A group of world-leading seaweed scientists has warned that global wild seaweed stocks are at risk of disappearing unless urgent international protection measures are implemented.

Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, together with Giancarlo Pedote, solo ocean sailor and skipper aboard of the Prysmian Group IMOCA, announces the launch of the Sailing4Ocean project, in partnership with the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC) to monitor the state of the oceans' health using the Group’s proprietary PRY-CAM technology.

Ørsted, a world's leading developer of offshore wind farms, has designed and developed the first uncrewed surface vessel (USV) in the industry for offshore met-ocean measurement campaigns. The measurement data will help lower uncertainties in the expected annual energy production for new offshore wind farms.

The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has installed a new tide gauge on the remote Ascension Island through the Climate Linked Atlantic Sector Science project (CLASS) programme, providing a unique record of sea-level in the remote ocean.