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  • Hyper Dolphin Surveys Omurodashi Volcano, Japan

    15 November 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    In August 2012, scientists conducted an intensive geological survey of the submarine rhyolitic Omurodashi volcano located south of Izu-Oshima, Tokyo Metropolis, using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Hyper Dolphin. The survey, led by Kenichiro Tani, Research Scientist, Institute for Research on Earth Evolution (IFREE) Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), is the first […]

  • OERA and Innovate UK to fund tidal development projects

    21 November 2014
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Research & Development, Technology

    The Offshore Energy Research Association (OERA) and Innovate UK (the new name for the Technology Strategy Board) are jointly investing approximately CAD 1.4 million (approximately GBP 755,000) in collaborative R&D projects to develop enhanced sensing technologies for tidal in-stream energy applications.   As stated on OERA’s official website, the objective is to develop the technologies that […]

  • New Offshore Wind Cost Reduction Project Launched

    10 February 2014
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    A new European FP7 project, LEANWIND, which commenced in December 2013, received funding of €10million from the European Commission. The project seeks to address inefficiencies in logistics and transport issues for offshore wind installations and so contribute to the reduction of costs. LEANWIND was awarded to a consortium of 31 partners from 11 countries and […]

  • Radiolaria Serves as Example for Offshore Wind Foundation Structures (Germany)

    12 March 2013
    Environment, Research & Development

    In a research project called “Intelligent Foundation Structure for Offshore Wind Turbines”, Professor Christine Döbert from the Technical University of Mittelhessen wants to develop cost effective and environmentally friendly alternatives to conventional techniques of building offshore wind foundations. Cooperation partner in this project is the Bremer Maritime Offshore Group. Coastal wind turbines, which are installed […]

  • OSU surveys sea floor animals to facilitate ORE growth

    14 July 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Oregon State University (OSU) researchers have conducted a study into the relation of sediment and animal life on the sea floor which could simplify the development of wave and wind renewable energy sites in the Pacific Northwest.

  • WindSentinel’s Virginia Offshore Wind Data Now Available

    19 July 2016
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development

    A WindSentinel buoy that has been gathering offshore wind data off Virginia Beach, Virginia, has ended its 19-month deployment and collected a wealth of information, which forms the first publicly accessible database to help improve offshore wind development. The AXYS’ WindSentinel buoy, one of the two commissioned by the U.S. Energy Department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), recorded data […]

  • RV Petrel in C-2A Greyhound Survey

    26 January 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The US Navy has called on the research vessel (RV) Petrel to survey the location of a C-2A Greyhound aircraft that crashed into the Philippine Sea en route to USS Ronald Reagan on November 22, 2017. Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV) personnel on board the vessel will depart from the Philippines in the coming […]

  • Global Ocean Warming Doubles in Recent Decades, Study Shows

    21 January 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    Lawrence Livermore scientists, working with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and university colleagues, have found that half of the global ocean heat content increase since 1865 has occurred over the past two decades. “In recent decades the ocean has continued to warm substantially, and with time the warming signal is reaching deeper into the ocean,” […]

  • BAE Systems to supply electric hybrid power & propulsion system for UVM’s new vessel

    9 February 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Equipment, Infrastructure, Research & Development, Technology, Transition, Vessels

    BAE Systems to power University of Vermont research vessel with emission-reducing electric power and propulsion system.

  • Deltares Conducting Sand-Grain Movement Study

    21 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Deltares will team up with the University of Twente and Delft University of Technology to improve the understanding of sand transport in the swash zone, and the predictive power of the company’s models. The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research NWO has announced the approval of the Shaping the Beach study proposal. The aim of the […]

  • VIMS Gets Grant to Maximize Health of Chesapeake Bay

    30 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    Sea level has been rising in the Chesapeake Bay region for thousands of years, since the end of the last Ice Age. The difference today is that the rate of sea-level rise is accelerating, and millions of people and billion of dollars in property occupy the Bay’s shifting shoreline. Now, a grant of $941,590 from […]

  • KNUD E. HANSEN, DTU Aqua Work of RV DANA IV Replacement

    26 October 2018
    Project & Tenders

    KNUD E. HANSEN and DTU Aqua at Technical University of Denmark have signed a contract on consultancy assistance for a project study and concept design of a 65 meter multidisciplinary marine research vessel to replace the aging R/V DANA IV from 1981. The concept study will clarify design drivers and evaluate on the preliminary construction, […]

  • Study Shows How Fault Activity Links to Water Entering Earth

    8 March 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    Research led by geoscientists at the University of Southampton and with contributions by marine scientists at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel is reportedly the first to show a direct link between fault activity and the amount of water entering the solid Earth along faults. The reaction between the deep Earth rocks and […]

  • ITF Says Dialogue between Maersk and Unions Is Positive

    30 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    Representatives of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) stated that the dialogue between Danish Maersk Group and unions established by the ITF’s Maersk Network is positive. This was said at the company’s annual general meeting held in Copenhagen on March 28. The network was formed to promote the needs of workers employed by Maersk, identify […]

  • Minister Applauds UK Marine Science

    14 October 2013

    The Science Minister, the Rt Hon David Willetts MP, followed the naming of the Royal Research Ship Discovery with a speech to an audience, including research leaders from across the UK marine science community, together with representatives from industry and government. It was the Minister’s first visit to NOC and he said that he was […]

  • BAS Names New Director (UK)

    21 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    Professor Jane Francis has been appointed as the new Director of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Chief Executive of the Natural Environment Research Council, Duncan Wingham said, “I am delighted to have Jane Francis join NERC as the new Director of the British Antarctic Survey. She joins us at a time in which our need […]

  • China Expresses High Hopes for Jiaolong’s Deep-Sea Mission

    4 June 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    China’s manned submersible, Jiaolong, will attempt a deep-sea dive to 7,000 meters. If it succeeds in this mission, China will hold the record for performing the deepest dive. The deep-sea dive will test the vessel’s crew which will conduct a series of tests in the Pacific Ocean starting June 10. Xiangyanghong 09, the ship carrying […]

  • Russia: Yantar Shipyard to Conduct Mooring Trials for RV Seliger

    2 January 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Yantar Shipyard (PCZ) is planning to conduct mooring trials, ordered by the Russian Ministry of Defense, for Research & Survey Vessel Seliger in January 2012. ‘Seliger’ is a heading vessel of Project 11982 elaborated by the Central Marine Design Bureau ‘Almaz’. Shipyard ‘Yantar’ has signed the Shipbuilding Contract with the Ministry of Defense of RF in February […]

  • USA: General Dynamics Wins Additional USD 12.5 Million for MLP Contract

    5 July 2011
    Business & Finance

      General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $12,500,000 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-11-C-2109) for engineering and technical design services to support research and development of advanced submarine technologies for current and future submarine platforms. Advanced submarine research and development includes studies to support the manufacturability, maintainability, producibility, reliability, manning, […]

  • Global Data Releases “LNG Tanker Industry Outlook Globally, 2011”

    7 July 2011

    New Energy research report from GlobalData is now available from Fast Market Research:  LNG Tanker Industry Outlook Globally, 2011 – Capacity and Specifications of All Operating and Planned LNG Tankers to 2013 Summary GlobalData’s energy offering, “LNG Tanker Industry Outlook Globally, 2011 – Capacity and Specifications of All Operating and Planned LNG Tankers to 2013” […]

  • Ireland gets resource assessment for AMETS wave test site

    18 November 2016
    Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Researchers from the Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy (MaREI) and NUI Galway have produced a paper that provides a detailed assessment of the wave energy resource at the Atlantic Marine Energy Test Site (AMETS), located west of Belmullet, Ireland.

  • DesignPro expanding its hydrokinetic operations

    10 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Ireland-based company DesignPro has informed it is setting up a dedicated unit focused on the commercial development of its hydrokinetic range of devices.

  • NREL Unveils 15MW Reference Offshore Wind Turbine

    14 February 2020
    Research & Development, Technology

    The U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released open-access designs of the International Energy Agency (IEA) 15MW reference offshore wind turbine.

  • Ontario Halts Offshore Wind Projects (Canada)

    13 February 2011
    Authorities & Government, Environment

    Ontario is not proceeding with proposed offshore wind projects while further scientific research is conducted.   (ontario) [mappress] Source: ontario, February 14, 2011

  • Virginia Beach Won’t Buy Chesapeake Light Tower to Collect Wind Data (USA)

    17 August 2011

      Spend $50,000 on a wind-energy research study that the governor wants? OK.   By Deirdre Fernandes (hamptonroads) [mappress] Source: hamptonroads, August 17, 2011;