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  • University of Michigan picks Beaver Island for wave energy study

    10 July 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Selecting the optimal site will be a step toward providing Beaver Island with clean, reliable energy and will enhance the team’s chances for future funding, said the University of Michigan.

  • NOC: Svalbard Methane Seeps Release Less Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas

    19 October 2015
    Research & Development

    Methane seeps from seafloor deposits near Svalbard release less ‘greenhouse gas’ into the atmosphere than other Arctic sites because ocean currents there form an effective barrier, study conducted by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the University of Southampton showed. Dr Carolyn Graves, the lead author of the study from the NOC, said: […]

  • Poland: MARE-WINT Initial Training Network Project Launched

    28 February 2013

    A major new research through training project – lead by the Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery of Polish Academy of Sciences – has been launched with the aim of training in the context of doctoral programmes for 14 researchers in multi-disciplinary area of future generation of Offshore Wind Turbines. One of the strategic objectives of […]

  • New UK-Singapore partnership to boost green and digital shipping

    8 October 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Technology

    UK’s Imperial College London and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at advancing innovations in zero-carbon shipping and achieving net-zero port emissions to support the decarbonization of the maritime sector.

  • New tool to monitor effects of tidal and wave on marine life

    6 February 2015
    Environment, Research & Development, Technology

    Researchers at University of Washington are developing a new underwater robot designed to deploy monitoring instruments to gather information on marine life interactions with underwater equipment used for wave and tidal energy generation. The robot is named ‘Millennium Falcon’ and its aim is to identify risks that could arise in long-term marine renewables energy projects. It […]

  • GEOMAR to Take Part in ‘Ocean Sampling Day’

    20 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    Saturday, 21 June, is “Ocean Sampling Day.” Marine scientists will take water samples at over 170 locations worldwide to investigate the distribution and genetic diversity of microorganisms in the water. Also scientists from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel University and the joint Cluster of Excellence “The Future Ocean” will participate in […]

  • Navy Invests in Wave Energy Test Site Off Marine Corps Base Hawaii

    22 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Work at the Wave Energy Test Site (WETS) located off Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kāneʻohe has received an infusion of $9 million from the U.S. Navy. The funds, from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), are directed to the Applied Research Laboratory at the University of Hawai‘i (ARL/UH), working with UH Mānoa’s Hawaii Natural […]

  • New Study Off Mid- and South Atlantic Coast Begins

    13 September 2017
    Research & Development

    Scientists beginning a new four-and-a-half year study of deep-sea coral, canyon, and gas seep ecosystems in the mid- and south Atlantic have departed from Norfolk on Tuesday. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the United States Geological Survey (USGS), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are collaborating on the study, which will shed light […]

  • Rosneft restores system of meteorological observation in Kara Sea

    28 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Russia’s Rosneft has reported that as part of a large-scale summer Arctic research expedition “Kara-Summer – 2014” a meteorological station was installed on the island of Uedinenie. Thus, the expedition organized by the “Arctic Research and Development Center” (a joint venture of “Rosneft” and ExxonMobil), with the support of the specialists from the FGBI “Arctic […]

  • Great Potential and Even Greater Challenges for Offshore Wind Power in North Sea (Germany)

    10 August 2011
    Business & Finance

      International ‘Windspeed’ study presented, together with recommended course of action If companies and wind power equipment manufacturers find favourable conditions, the North Sea could become home to offshore wind farms with a combined generating capacity as high as 135 gigawatts by the year 2030. This is the result of a study conducted as part […]

  • Hawaii Wave Energy Test Site Gets USD 9 Million

    22 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    Work at the Wave Energy Test Site (WETS) located off Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kāneʻohe has received an infusion of $9 million from the U.S. Navy. The funds, from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), are directed to the Applied Research Laboratory at the University of Hawai‘i (ARL/UH), working with UH Mānoa’s Hawaii Natural […]

  • Aker Solutions Names New Head of Industry and Investor Relations

    13 June 2014

    Aker Solutions has recruited David Phillips from HSBC Global Equity Research as head of industry and investor relations.  Phillips, 43, served as global co-head of oil and gas research and managing director at HSBC since mid-2011 after joining the bank as an analyst in 2005. He earlier specialized as an analyst covering the chemicals sector […]

  • VIDEO: MBARI Develops New Underwater Camera

    22 January 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    MBARI engineers have designed a new underwater camera and lighting system which they hope will be simple and inexpensive enough so that almost any researcher could build one. The SeeStar project, as it is called, began as the brainchild of marine biologist Steve Haddock and Electrical Engineer Chad Kecy. Haddock, an expert on jellies, wanted […]

  • Vietnam: TU Delft, WRU Hanoi Begins Joint Venture VINWATER

    17 December 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    TU Delft and the Water Resources University (WRU) in Hanoi are starting the joint venture VINWATER, Vietnam Netherlands Centre for Water and Environment. On Monday 16 December, TU Delft President Dirk Jan van den Berg and Professor Nguyen Quang Kim, rector of WRU, will sign the memorandum of association. This will take place during a […]

  • SAFL to Advance Marine and Hydrokinetic Technology (USA)

    15 August 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The University of Minnesota’s St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL) announced the launch of new collaborative industry-academy project to advance research, innovation and training in marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) technology, an emerging renewable energy that harnesses the power of rivers, tides and waves. The project is funded by a two-year, $600,000 grant from the National Science […]

  • Marine & Offshore Engineering Expert Visits Singapore Under MTP Programme

    1 April 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Oxford professor, Paul Taylor, will visit the National University of Singapore from 25 March to 2 April 2013 under the Maritime Technology Professorship (MTP) programme, which aims to enhance research and development (R&D) in marine and offshore engineering research in Singapore. Professor Taylor is a Professor of Engineering Science and Fellow at Keble College in […]

  • Great Potential and Even Greater Challenges for Offshore Wind Power in North Sea (Germany)

    10 August 2011
    Business & Finance

      International ‘Windspeed’ study presented, together with recommended course of action If companies and wind power equipment manufacturers find favourable conditions, the North Sea could become home to offshore wind farms with a combined generating capacity as high as 135 gigawatts by the year 2030. This is the result of a study conducted as part […]

  • Germany: Siemens Implements Modular Power Electronics for Feeding Power into Grid

    8 August 2013
    Research & Development, Storage, Technology

    Together with the Technical University of Dresden and the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich, Siemens has carried out research work into a highly efficient and robust medium-voltage converter for feeding electrical energy into power supply grids. The insights gained were successfully implemented within the scope of the research project funded by Germany‘s […]

  • Prince Albert II of Monaco christens new AUV at GEOMAR

    13 September 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Technology

    Prince Albert II of Monaco has christened the new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Albert I de Monaco at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

  • Polarstern Coming Home After Amundsen Sea Survey

    19 April 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The research vessel Polarstern is expected to enter its homeport with the early-morning high tide on Thursday, April 20, 2017, marking the end of a five-month season in the Antarctic for the icebreaker and its crew. Many geoscientists in Bremerhaven can’t wait to see the samples that were collected during a six-week foray into the Amundsen […]

  • ISE to Build AMC’s New AUV for Antarctic Exploration

    12 July 2016
    Equipment

    A new underwater robot that will help scientists answer important questions about the Antarctic is due to arrive in Tasmania in early 2017, thanks to a contract awarded to International Submarine Engineering (ISE). Capable of diving to depths of 5,000 meters and travelling over 100 kilometers under thick ice, the ‘Explorer’ class autonomous underwater vehicle […]

  • Cyanobacteria Grow Faster in Sunlit Blue Ocean, NOC Study Shows

    9 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    A recent study of phytoplankton by a NOC scientist has found cyanobacteria apparently remain the faster growing CO2 fixers in the oligotrophic ocean, which covers almost 40 percent of the Earth’s surface. The scientific research paper by Professor Mikhail Zubkov, has been published in the Nature Communications journal. The study focuses on comparing intrinsic growth […]

  • Jacobs to help advance new tidal range turbine technology

    15 November 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology, Vision

    A Jacobs-led consortium of industry and academic organizations has been awarded funding from the UK government to help develop a new type of tidal turbine designed to improve the viability and potential of the country’s tidal range power projects.

  • ExxonMobil elects new board member

    26 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    U.S. oil giant ExxonMobil has elected Susan K. Avery to its board of directors, effective February 1, 2017. Exxon said on Wednesday that Avery, an atmospheric scientist who is the former president and director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, is the 13th member of the ExxonMobil board of directors, 12 of whom are non-employee […]

  • US Energy Department funds lab-industry partnerships

    25 May 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Storage, Technology

    The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) has set aside up to $2 million in funding to foster long-term industry-lab collaborative research.