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  • Gouldby Appointed Visiting Professor at University of Southampton

    13 July 2018
    Business & Finance

    HR Wallingford Chief Technical Director of Flood Risk, Ben Gouldby, has been appointed Visiting Professor in Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton. Prior to the appointment, Ben collaborated with Dr Ivan Haigh, Associate Professor in Coastal Oceanography at the University of Southampton, on research into extreme but plausible coastal flooding scenarios for […]

  • EdgeTech Expands Massachusetts Facility (USA)

    13 October 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

      EdgeTech and affiliate ORE Offshore have recently added another 7,500 sq/ft of manufacturing and office space to their Massachusetts facility. The manufacturer of side scan sonars, sub-bottom profilers, bathymetry systems, acoustic releases, USBL systems and other specialized underwater acoustic solutions continues to grow in size and product offerings. The new space will be used […]

  • USA: Skidaway Institute Scientist Studies Hydrothermal Vents and Undersea Volcano

    16 September 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

      Skidaway Institute of Oceanography scientist Aron Stubbins joined a research cruise this summer to study hydrothermal vents, but what his fellow scientists found was a recently erupted undersea volcano. The Axial Seamount​ is an undersea volcano located about 250 miles off the Oregon coast and is one of the most active and intensely studied […]

  • Brazil: Halliburton Starts Building Its New Technology Center in Rio de Janeiro

    16 August 2011
    Business & Finance

    Today, Halliburton broke ground at the construction site of its new Technology Center at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Technology Park, located at Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The groundbreaking represents a milestone in the Cooperation Agreement signed in 2010 between Halliburton and the UFRJ for the purpose of providing […]

  • Marine renewables – Canada’s national opportunity

    30 March 2016
    Environment

    Marine Renewables Canada (MRC) has hosted two outreach events in Ottawa last week in an effort to gain support for the sector and provide awareness about industry, highlighting marine renewable energy as a national opportunity. MRC’s Open House event featured displays from 15 members as well as a series of industry updates from project developers, […]

  • PLOCAN hosts MRE challenges seminar

    24 June 2016
    Environment, Research & Development

    Representatives from two Canary Islands-based firms, Raley Estudios Costeros and Hexia, held a seminar on marine renewable energy challenges yesterday, June 23, at PLOCAN.

  • Denmark: DHI Tests Floating Wind Turbines in Its Wave Basins

    12 November 2012
    Research & Development, Technology

    As a member of the HYDRALAB-IV consortium, DHI offers access to research groups to conduct experimental studies in its wave basins. One of the projects selected by HYDRALAB’s user selection panel for Transnational Access to the facilities concerns ‘Dynamic Response of Floating offshore Structures under Random Waves and Wind Action’. The project was formulated by […]

  • Totaro & Associates Opens European Headquarters

    5 January 2015

    Totaro & Associates (T+A), a market research and innovation strategy consultancy, has opened their European Headquarters in Hamburg, Germany as of 1 January, 2015. The company cites strong demand for competitive benchmarking as well as intellectual property (IP) risk mitigation services from existing and new European clients. In the midst of companies re-centralizing their research […]

  • MaRINET Accepts Applications for EMEC Till March (UK)

    20 February 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Overseas wave and tidal energy technology developers have to apply, until the end of February, for funds to help them access the “scale” test facilities at EMEC, the Orkney-based European Marine Energy Centre. The MaRINET wave and tidal testing funding scheme runs until March 2015 and further calls for access will be made during that […]

  • MaRINET Accepts Applications for EMEC Till March (UK)

    20 February 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Overseas wave and tidal energy technology developers have to apply, until the end of February, for funds to help them access the “scale” test facilities at EMEC, the Orkney-based European Marine Energy Centre. The MaRINET wave and tidal testing funding scheme runs until March 2015 and further calls for access will be made during that […]

  • Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Reports on OWF Environmental Impact

    6 December 2017
    Environment, Ports & Logistics, Research & Development

    Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) has published a report on the environmental impact of offshore wind farms in Belgium, which has 870MW in operational wind turbines in its part of the North Sea as of 2016 and plans to reach 2.2GW by 2020. 

  • IWES and Frazer-Nash Partner Up for Offshore Wind

    16 December 2019
    Business & Finance

    UK consultancy Frazer-Nash and the German Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate in the offshore wind energy market. The two parties signed the deal in Bremerhaven, Germany, under which they will work together on asset management and the research underpinning asset management good practice. According […]

  • ThayerMahan snaps up OASIS

    6 August 2020
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Groton-based tech firm ThayerMahan has acquired Ocean Acoustical Services and Instrumentation Systems (OASIS). Founded in 2016, ThayerMahan has grown into one of industry leaders in autonomous marine sensor/system solutions. Led by its visionary founder, Michael J. Connor, ThayerMahan has developed patented technology solutions in acoustics, electronic sensing, autonomy, communications and data management while providing MDA […]

  • USA: NERACOOS Secures USD 1.77 Million in Federal Funding for Ocean Observation

    30 November 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

      The maritime and ocean research community will benefit greatly from federal funding of more than $1.7 million recently awarded to NERACOOS, the Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems. NERACOOS, a component of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), spans coastal waters from the Canadian Maritime Provinces of Nova Scotia and New […]

  • Scientists Develop Drone Submarines Through SUNRISE Project

    27 January 2015
    Equipment

    Engineers in the Portuguese town of Porto are working on SUNRISE, an European research project developing drone submarines, which talk to each other using sound signals. Computer Science Professor Chiara Petrioli is the project coordinator: “What you see here are underwater robots that are able to communicate and cooperate with each other, creating the so-called […]

  • Japan and the UK to jointly boost maritime autonomy

    16 April 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Technology

    UK and Japanese stakeholders are engaged together to accelerate the development of an assurance framework for maritime autonomy and instigate the development of appropriate regional and international regulations.

  • NREL set to fast-track novel marine energy tech with new wave test tank

    18 April 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology

    The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has installed the first wave test tank at its Flatirons Campus in Colorado, which can help shepherd marine energy prototypes from abstract concepts to the market.

  • OpenEarth: Knowledge Management Workflow for Dredging Projects

    3 June 2013

    The sustainable interaction between humankind and planet Earth poses huge hydraulic and environmental engineering challenges. Confronting these challenges one-project-at-atime, while seemingly attractive from a budget management perspective, results in grave inefficiencies in developing and archiving the basic elements that are invariably involved: data, models and tools. Hardly any project is by itself of sufficient scale […]

  • Possible Expansion of Poisonous Lionfish Off North Carolina, Study Shows

    16 September 2014
    Research & Development

    Warming water temperatures due to climate change could expand the range of many native species of tropical fish, including the invasive and poisonous lionfish, according to a study of 40 species along rocky and artificial reefs off North Carolina by researchers from NOAA and the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. “The results will allow us to […]

  • First graduate in Minor Offshore Wind in the Netherlands

    22 August 2013

    Offshore WIND was present when in February this year graduate Bram Zijlstra received his degree in Mechanical Engineering specialising in offshore wind. This was the first specific offshore wind graduation on higher education level. Bram Zijlstra (22) studied mechanical engineering at the NHL Hogeschool in Leeuwarden, in the North of the Netherlands. By 2012, after […]

  • Climate change can impact Australian ports infrastructure and dredging requirements

    18 December 2009

    THE Australian Maritime College’s (AMC) Maritime Transport Policy Centre (MTPC) and the AMC’s National Centre for Marine Conservation and Resource Sustainability have teamed up to research on what impact climate change will have on Australian ports… Source: Shipping Industry, December 17, 2009

  • Fisheries urged to diversify their take

    27 April 2010

    Researchers say the fishing industry needs to harvest a more diverse range of species to take the pressure off our favourite seafood. Australian fisheries scientist Tony Smith, from the CSIRO’s Wealth from Oceans Flagship in Hobart, says there needs to be a “balanced exploitation” of the oceans.

  • Clarkson: September newbuild orders way down

    2 November 2009

    At the end of September, the global newbuild orderbook comprised 38 percent of the total orderbook set for delivery in 2010, according to a study by Clarkson Research Services. As at September 30, there were 8,671 ships (162 million CGT and 517 million DWT) still to be delivered.

  • Antarctic fish’s winter ‘sleep’

    5 March 2008

    The Antarctic cod puts itself into a state similar to hibernation for the winter, researchers have found, which is highly unusual for a fish. Scientists with the British Antarctic Survey (Bas) found Notothenia coriiceps lowers its metabolic rate during winter, saving energy.

  • CSA completes geophysical survey at US offshore wind project

    17 August 2021
    Project & Tenders

    CSA Ocean Sciences has completed a series of geophysical surveys as part of an ongoing campaign of nearshore multidisciplinary marine surveys at a U.S. offshore wind project. Research vessel Dolphin began the work along a critical export cable route in May at the project located off the Northeastern U.S. CSA is also conducting benthic surveys […]