Environmental Monitoring News & Articles

Long-Range AUV Available to Global Market

MBARI’s LRAUVs have more than 40,000 hours of sea time, including operations with custom payloads that include environmental DNA sampling, plankton imaging, scientific echosounders, and more

Sep 29, 2023
Official Highest Wind Speed Recorded by a USV

The Saildrone Explorer SD 1045 will be in a new entry in the 2024 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records for measuring 109.83 knots (126.4 mph) of wind speed

Sep 29, 2023
Real-Time Situational Awareness Technology Project Completed

Harvest’s robust video live-stream technology aimed to facilitate 3D at Depth with its subsea metrology operations, enabling real-time situational awareness

Sep 22, 2023
Ocean and Great Lakes Mapping Partnership Expanded

NOAA and the University of New Hampshire’s partnership expansion enables further research into modeling and forecasting water levels, fisheries habitat identification, and more

Sep 21, 2023
Ocean Warrior Project to Begin Foundation Expeditions

Ocean Warrior is set to expand the frontiers of marine science by installing and testing technological equipment and collecting data on a range of key ‘indicators’ such as water quality, plankton, eDNA, salinity and ocean acidity

Aug 30, 2023
The NOAA to Receive Two Customized UUVs

HII will provide The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with two customized, medium-class REMUS 620 unmanned underwater vehicles, with up to 110 hours of battery life and a range of 275 nautical miles

Aug 22, 2023
AI to Aid in Monitoring Coastal Water Quality

OSIL is using an AI modelling system to help predict coliform events using information collected by data buoy platforms

Aug 03, 2023
Fugro to Continue Mapping Norway’s Seabed

A survey vessel, equipped with advanced high-resolution, high-density multibeam echo sounders and sub-bottom data acquisition systems, will obtain comprehensive marine Geo-data for the mapping program

Jul 19, 2023
Thoma-Sea to Build NOAA Research Ships

The new ships are expected to be delivered in 2027 and 2028 and will focus primarily on ocean mapping and nautical charting

Jul 11, 2023
Saildrones Deployed to Study Hurricanes

12 Saildrone Explorers have been selected by NOAA as one of several tools deployed to improve hurricane forecasting

Jun 30, 2023
Tide Gauge on Ascension Island Provides Unique Sea-Level Insight

The tide gauge is now transmitting open-access sea-level data in near real-time to the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Sea Level Station Monitoring Facility

Jun 27, 2023
Woolpert Contracted for Hydrographic Survey, Bathymetric Data Collection in Alaska

The data will be used to support commercial fishing, shipping channels, coastal resilience, scientific research, and the Seabed 2030 collaborative project that aims to map the world’s ocean floor by 2030

Jun 02, 2023
NOAA & Proteus Group to Explore Uses of Underwater Lab

State-of-the-art ‘underwater habitat’ will allow governments, academia and public sector to deepen understanding of the ocean environment

May 31, 2023
Tsunami Early-Warning Sensor Network Upgraded

Sonardyne’s Bottom Pressure Recorders detect the characteristic changes in water pressure caused by an earthquake in the deep ocean and transmit alert messages to a satellite buoy on the surface

May 26, 2023
Flying Research Vessel for University of Miami to Conduct Earth Science Studies

The ACES electric flying boat, with a maximum speed of 30 knots, is built from carbon fiber and uses a set of retractable underwater wings with an advanced avionics and sensing system to lift the main vessel body above the water

May 23, 2023
360-Degree Real-Time BuoyCam Service Launched

MarineLabs' end-to-end data service provides access to 360-degree, real-time views of ocean conditions through images from sensor locations along coastlines

May 18, 2023
Bottom Pressure Recorders Launched to Measure Ocean Currents

Two Fetch AZA Bottom Pressure Recorders, developed by Sonardyne, will measure the strength of global ocean currents and provide crucial data to inform climate predictions

May 17, 2023
Ocean Tech Challenge Winners Announced

eSonar with Aquatech Group, and Deep Vision with D-Risq, have won the inaugural ocean tech challenge for safer, more sustainable ocean exploration from this ongoing bi-country challenge

May 16, 2023
Digital Fishing Fleet Management in Seychelles

Satlink has been chosen by the Seychelles government to support the digital management the country’s fishing fleet

May 12, 2023