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  • Alstom to Lower Capital Cost of Offshore Wind Turbines (USA)

    20 September 2011
    Business & Finance

      Alstom and several prominent US-based research institutions have been awarded a $4.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to research and develop advanced control systems and integrated innovative sensors that increase energy production and lower the capital cost of offshore wind turbines—especially those based on advanced floating substructures. The award was […]

  • Indonesia Preps to Explore Its Offshore Energy Prospects

    7 August 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Indonesia’s Center for Marine Geological Research and Development (PPPGL), the research and development agency of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), conducted a sea trial of Geomarin III research vessel in the Sunda Strait. This sea trial is a preparation for the identification of sedimentary basin research to support the preparation of oil […]

  • Beaufort Building officially opens on July 11

    9 July 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Beaufort Building which will house a number of marine energy researchers and offices will be opened on July 11, 2015. The construction of the Building was enabled by €15.2 million investment provided by the Irish government and private investors. The Building covers some 4700 m2 across five floors, and has provision for 135 researchers and […]

  • MoHC Plans to Document Underwater Heritage in Sea of Oman

    17 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Plans to research, manage and document underwater historic treasures in the Sea of Oman are set by Ministry of Heritage and Culture (MoHC). As Muscat Daily reports, the senior government officials discussed various aspects of research, as well as financial costs that will be reviewed and approved by experts, and the stages in which the […]

  • Supergen ORE Hub Boosts Renewables R&D with £1M Funding

    26 July 2019
    Research & Development, Technology

    The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy Hub has awarded almost £1 million to UK universities to support research projects investigating all aspects of offshore renewable energy (ORE). The Hub’s Flexible Fund has been established to enable UK researchers to respond to a number of key ORE engineering challenges. It also aims to support project areas that […]

  • MBARI Presents Campeche Escarpment Findings

    10 December 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    About 65 million years ago, an asteroid or comet crashed into a shallow sea near what is now the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. The resulting firestorm and global dust cloud caused the extinction of many land plants and large animals, including most of the dinosaurs. At this week’s meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) […]

  • USA: Horn Point Laboratory Acquires REMUS 600 System

    11 July 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Hydroid, Inc., a subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime and the leading manufacturer of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), announced that the Horn Point Laboratory at the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Science has purchased one REMUS 600 system to use as a shared research platform for advancing oceanographic studies of coastal and near coastal environments. “We […]

  • Refit of Former German Fishery Protection Vessel ‘SEEFALKE’ Completed

    23 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    After a refit period of about three years the refit of the former German fishery protection vessel “SEEFALKE” to a research ship has been completed. RV “FALKOR”, now a multi-functional scientific research vessel, shall today be delivered to the owner. RV “FALKOR” is a ship of 82.9 m length, a breadth of 13.0 m, and […]

  • Germany: Peters Schiffbau Shipyard Completes RV FALKOR’s Refit Project

    23 April 2012

    After a refit period of about three years the refit of the former German fishery protection vessel “SEEFALKE” to a research ship has been completed. RV “FALKOR”, now a multi-functional scientific research vessel, is going to be delivered to the owner. RV “FALKOR” is a ship of 82.9 m length, a breadth of 13.0 m, […]

  • Crown Estate, University of Highlands and Islands Partner Up for Renewables (UK)

    30 May 2013
    Research & Development

    The Crown Estate and the University of Highlands and Islands have signed a ‘partnership agreement’ to work together to maximise the benefits to the people of the Highlands and Islands from the low carbon energy revolution in the area. The agreement reinforces initiatives already underway between the university and The Crown Estate, which manages a […]

  • Symposium ’20 Meters Under Water’ Approaches

    18 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Port of Rotterdam will host the 20 meters under water! international symposium on the 5th and 6th of March 2015. The Symposium will present the results of recent interdisciplinary research (geological, archaeological, palaeobotanical, archaeozoological and paleontological) carried out in relation to the construction of the Maasvlakte 2 port extension into the North Sea near […]

  • MERIKA to Boost International Collaboration

    21 January 2015
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The recent International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE) in Halifax, Canada provided members of the EU-funded MERIKA project with the opportunity to form new partnerships with researchers and institutions on the other side of the Atlantic. MERIKA, run by the University of the Highlands and the Islands (UHI) in the north of Scotland, aims to […]

  • MERIKA Finds New Partners Overseas

    20 January 2015
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The recent International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE) in Halifax, Canada provided members of the EU-funded MERIKA project with the opportunity to form new partnerships with researchers and institutions on the other side of the Atlantic. MERIKA, run by the University of the Highlands and the Islands (UHI) in the north of Scotland, aims to […]

  • WHOI Welcomes New President and Director

    1 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Board of Trustees of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) announces that Dr. Mark Abbott has accepted the position of president and director of the institution. Abbott becomes the tenth director in WHOI’s 85-year history. Abbott will assume the office October 1, 2015, succeeding Susan Avery, who served from 2008 to 2015. A biological […]

  • BAM Nuttall Wins South Georgia Wharf Contract

    4 June 2019
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    An £8.15 million contract to build a new wharf at the remote Sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia was awarded to BAM Nuttall earlier this week. The contract is part of a major investment program to modernize the UK’s Antarctic infrastructure. Commissioned by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Government of South Georgia & […]

  • VIDEO: RV Investigator Delivered to CSIRO (AUS)

    11 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency, has taken delivery of its new AUS$120 million research vessel RV Investigator in Singapore. This new Marine National Facility (MNF) research vessel, will soon sail for its home port of Hobart where plans for a welcome to port ceremony have already started. The vessel […]

  • Akademik Treshnikov Commisioned (Russia)

    11 October 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Commissioning ceremony of scientific expedition ship Akademik Treshnikov took place at JSC Admiralteyskie Verfi shipyard on Oct 10. The solemn flag-hoisting ceremony was attended by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Akademik Treshnikov is a scientific expedition ship ordered by Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Rosgidromet). The new flagship of Russian research fleet will […]

  • Pacific Marine Energy Center launches call for collaboration grants

    2 June 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Human Capital, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology

    The Pacific Marine Energy Center (PMEC) has invited applications for collaboration grants to facilitate short-term, on site research opportunities in the United States.

  • MacArtney TRIAXUS ROTV for Chinese Ocean Science Market

    16 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    MacArtney Singapore has recently delivered a TRIAXUS ROTV with customised sensor payload to the Chinese Academy of Science for oceanographic research projects in the South China Sea. The Chinese Academy of Science, via MacArtney agent Geo Marine Technology, has purchased the first TRIAXUS ROTV to be utilised aboard CAS research vessels in the South China […]

  • Polarstern Starts New Polar Expedition in Arctic

    23 September 2019
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Polarstern icebreaker has embarked on a year-round MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) expedition to study climate change in the Arctic. On board Polarstern is a team of scientists, supported by the EU, who will conduct pioneering research on the marine ecosystems of the central Arctic ocean. The results of their […]

  • NERC Ship Name Poll Closes, Boaty McBoatface Landslide Favorite

    18 April 2016

    The UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has closed its online poll to name the UK’s next world-class polar research ship that sprung one of the quirkiest names a vessel might be given, the Boaty McBoatface. The proposal has been given a major support from the social media and the name remains on top of the most […]

  • ORE Catapult calls for wind and ocean R&D chief

    18 November 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has issued a call to the country’s universities seeking to appoint a new scientific chair in wind and ocean conditions.

  • Data gathering buoys bob to Albany test site waves

    12 July 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    New technology, said to measure ocean waves and currents with greater accuracy than ever before, is being deployed off the Western Australian coast as part of Wave Energy Research Centre initiative.

  • LERU: Horizon 2020 budget cuts unacceptable

    2 September 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    The League of European Research Universities (LERU) has called for the respect of European Commission’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme budget, following the announced budget cuts. The organisation made the statement as the Council prepares to formally adopt its position on the 2016 EU draft budget. Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) ministers are […]

  • Australian tidal energy mapping kicks off at Banks Strait

    26 March 2018
    Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    The researchers of the AUSTEn project have started field measurements at the Banks Strait as part of a three-year project looking to map tidal energy resource areas in Australia.