marine monitoring News
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Xylem appoints UK Marine and Coastal Director
Water monitoring specialist Xylem Analytics UK is pleased to announce the appointment of David Goldsmith as Director of Marine and Coastal Business. David has extensive experience in marine technologies, having worked closely with AADI for many years in the oceanographic sector. He will be responsible for bringing the YSI, SonTek and AADI brands together under the Xylem Analytics umbrella and ...
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PetroEnvironment 2016 begins on Monday!
With PetroEnvironment 2016 starting next week, we are delighted to announce that the symposium is officially CPD certified! CPD Certification Service Many professionals are required to complete continuing professional development (CPD) throughout their careers. The ‘professionalisation’ of many jobs in response to changes in legislation, consumer needs and general socioeconomic ...
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Open Ocean & AtmosMarine are now partners !
Within this scope, Open Ocean and AtmosMarine have recently signed a business and technology agreement. AtmosMarine, a Brazilian independent consultancy, will provide metocean numerical simulation datasets specific to the Brazilian region to be included in Metocean Analytics catalogue. Moreover, AtmosMarine is now the official reseller of Metocean Analytics solution in Brazil ! After a few ...
By Open Ocean
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AUS$26.7m boost to Indigenous environmental work in Australia
Environment Minister Peter Garrett has announced $26.76 million to help Indigenous rangers fight the loss of biodiversity in remote Australia. The package under the Caring for our Country initiative includes: $21.65 million to boost the work of Indigenous rangers on Australia's 25 declared Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) over the next five years $2.454 million this year to help develop new ...
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The Chelsea Mariner Shuttle for Large Marine Ecosystem Monitoring
The new Chelsea Mariner Nu-Shuttle is based on the successful Nu-Shuttle towed oceanographic vehicle. It is a generic, robust monitoring system designed for regular monitoring of large marine ecosystems. Undulating behind a research vessel or ship of opportunity it enables a wide range of oceanographic measurements to be made underway from the surface to depths in excess of 150 metres. ...
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EMSA expands use of Radarsat-2 information for maritime applications
(13 July 2016) MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has signed a four year contract with a ceiling of 31 million euros to provide Radarsat-2 information to the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). Under this contract, MDA will provide Radarsat-2 information to support EMSA in the areas of maritime safety, law enforcement, border security, fisheries control, and marine pollution ...
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OPSIS AB Receives €2.3 Millions from EU Research Programme Horizon 2020
OPSIS AB has been selected by the European Commission to develop a new system for online measurement in food production. OPSIS AB receives 2.3 million Euro business innovation grant by EU’s research and Innovation programme, Horizon 2020. OPSIS will combine over 30 years of experience in gas analysis with food expertise in the new OPSIS LiquidLINE division. “The requirements for ...
By OPSIS AB
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SMHI and SYKE in Finland enter a unique collaboration on marine environmental monitoring
SMHI and SYKE, the Finnish Environment Institute, have begun a close collaboration to monitor the marine environment of the Baltic and the North Sea. “It is unique for two countries to sign an agreement in this way, but we are leading a trend that the EU and the global organization ICES would like to see going forward. As a combined force we can improve the monitoring of the acute problems ...
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EC to integrate national maritime surveillance systems
The European Commission published today three working documents describing the current state in the offshore government activities in the coastal EU Member States and maritime surveillance at EU level. These documents are seen as an initial response to the aim of the integrated EU Integrated Maritime Policy to provide tools for joined-up policy-making in the EU. In this sphere, this would be ...
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Fiomarine defies odds as 2009 proves to be a success
As many companies still feel the effects of the Global Financial Crisis, the second half of 2009 is proving to be a success for Fiomarine. As well as penetrating the Oil & Gas market, the Company has continued to make inroads into the large international Marine Research market with sales to both Singapore and China. The Tasmanian Company that has been supplying its Fiobuoy all-in-one ...
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Seven steps to save the Baltic Sea
Ban of phosphates in detergents, cleaning up remaining Helcom hotspots and a network of marine protected areas are among seven simple actions which could help save one of the most threatened sea areas in the world. WWF and its partners have published a set of recommendations ahead of the Baltic Sea Action Summit which will take place in Helsinki on the 10 th of February. Prime Ministers and ...
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The status of the Baltic Sea was thoroughly monitored in the Finnish-Swedish collaboration
R/V Aranda, the research vessel of Finnish Environmental Institute SYKE has during the winter 2014 monitored the environmental status of the Baltic Sea on an area that is significantly larger compared with previous years, as a result of co-operation with the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, SMHI. The monitoring covered the whole area of the Baltic Sea. - We are very satisfied ...
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Monitoring heavy metal contamination in the German Wadden Sea
Human activities, including industrial development along coastal areas, risk polluting the marine environment with heavy metals which can harm human health and aquatic life. A recent study has found elevated levels of metal pollution in the Jade area of the German Wadden Sea, but concludes that metal contamination of the sediments would not be expected to have harmful effects on the marine ...
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Xylem announces $617,000 contract for climate change monitoring and ecological forecasting in the Caribbean
Xylem Inc. (NYSE: XYL), a leading global water technology company focused on addressing the world’s most challenging water issues, announced today that it has been awarded a $617,000 contract from the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) for five marine monitoring buoys that will collect high-quality data for researchers studying climate change in the Caribbean Sea, including ...
By Xylem, Inc.
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First broad-scale maps of life on the sea-shelf
They examined the shelf seascape during a three-year program of the Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities (CERF) Marine Biodiversity Hub. Hub director, Professor Nic Bax of CSIRO and the University of Tasmania, says the program developed and applied a consistent, national approach to biodiversity mapping. “The program compiled existing biological survey datasets, mapped 1868 square ...
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The new generation of China`s self-developed unmanned warning patrol boat unveiled in the Beijing Military Exposition
The Third China Military and Technological Integration Equipment Expo was opened in Beijing on July 3. The new generation of unmanned police patrol boats, jointly developed by China Southwest Institute of Armed Forces and Zhuhai Yunzhou Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., are widely concerned by delegates for their outstanding product performance, wide application in security, military and other ...
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Australian Government locks in long term environmental agreement with oil spill company
The Australian Government and the company responsible for the Montara oil spill have struck an agreement for a long-term scientific environmental monitoring program for the area affected by the spill. Minister for the Environment, Peter Garrett, said the monitoring program will provide a longer term understanding of the impacts of the spill on the marine environment, in addition to the ...
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Oceanalpha’s innovative USV show amazed the world in CCTV Spring Festival Gala
On February 15th, an incredible unmanned surface vessels (USV) formation was staged at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, one of Zhuhai's landmarks. The Bridge, which has just been completed and is the longest sea- crossing bridge in the world, connects Zhuhai to Hong Kong and Macao. This night, the Bridge became the most spectacular background, a 7.5-meter-long "Lookout" marine unmanned vessel ...
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Commission aims to draw attention to deteriorating oceans
The Global Ocean Commission, a new independent body of politicians, businessmen, development experts and scientists, will meet for the first time next month, in Cape Town, South Africa, to start work on proposing the sustainable use of the oceans' natural resources. The commission will analyse the major threats to the high seas that are beyond national jurisdictions or over 200 nautical miles ...
By SciDev.Net
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EPA Monitoring Shows South China Sea Not Polluted
The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) of the Executive Yuan said the first successful marine water quality monitoring it conducted in the Spratly Islands in September 2010 showed that water quality at all monitoring points around Taiping Island and Central Reef are qualified with Taiwan’s A type standards of marine environmental quality, making it an unpolluted sea area. It is ...
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