Environmental Monitoring News & Articles

Geo-Data Company Partners for Ocean Health Action & Coastal Resilience

Fugro will collaborate with ORRAA, using its skills and knowledge in technological innovation, scientific research, & sustainable Geo-data solutions to help preserve planet and ocean health

Mar 11, 2024
Aluminum Unmanned Surface Vessel Launched at Austal USA

The first aluminum Surveyor USV from Saildrone has been completed, powered by wind, solar, and a diesel generator for long-range, long-endurance missions in the open ocean

Mar 11, 2024
ReefCloud Digital Platform Helps Coral Reef Monitoring in Samoa

AIMS is working with groups across the Indo-Pacific to help them use ReefCloud to simplify, speed up, and standardise coral reef monitoring, and share up-to-date data

Mar 11, 2024
Floating Wind Project to Partner for Marine Environment Research

The Salamander floating wind project is partnering with Scottish universities to study the potential impact of significant renewable infrastructure installation on fish migration patterns

Mar 08, 2024
Innovative Fishing Camera Rental Scheme Launched

SafetyNet Technologies has launched the CatchCam camera Rental Scheme to make responsible and efficient fishing practices more accessible for vessels of all sizes

Feb 27, 2024
Slocum Sentinel Glider Aims to Redefine Oceanographic Monitoring

Teledyne Webb Research’s Slocum Sentinel Glider represents a groundbreaking advancement in AUVs and promises to revolutionize oceanographic monitoring across myriad applications

Feb 23, 2024
How Underwater Soundscapes & Young Fish Could Help the Great Barrier Reef

The AIMS-led project is investigating whether playing the grunts, hoots, clicks and pops of fish and invertebrates at degraded reefs will attract baby fish and help the coral reefs thrive again

Feb 15, 2024
Ocean & Atmosphere Climate Research Mission Launched

From hundreds of miles above Earth, NASA’s PACE mission will study the changing climate through the impact of microscopic life in water and microscopic particles in the air

Feb 15, 2024
Kelp Forests Mapped with Passive Remote Sensing

Overwatch Imaging’s smart sensors capture imagery across multiple spectral bands at once in a co-boresighted array with a dual-antenna GPS INS, enable kelp forest mapping from the air

Feb 14, 2024
£2.8M Digital Twin of Glider to Optimise Ocean Forecasting

The pilot projects will show how Earth observation data and digital twinning can transform environmental science across areas like climate change, biodiversity and ecosystems, and more

Feb 07, 2024
Largest Known Deep-Sea Coral Reef Habitat Revealed

Researchers synthesized bathymetric data from 31 multibeam sonar mapping surveys to classify, delineate, and quantify features of a 6.4 million acre area of cold-water coral mounds

Feb 07, 2024
Güralp Deploys Seismic Monitoring ‘Smart Cable’

The 21km cable has three instrumented repeaters at 6km spacings, each housing a seismometer, an accelerometer, and an externally mounted absolute pressure gauge and a temperature sensor

Feb 01, 2024
Potential Threats to Marine Wildlife Mapped in New Study

The authors collated 484 individual satellite tracks of various species of turtles, whales, and whale sharks across an area encompassing more than 2.2 million sq. km of north-western Australia

Jan 31, 2024
Full Autonomous Survey Carried Out in Marine Protected Area

This survey will help determine the suitability of using AUVs for UK offshore marine monitoring, in this case using the University of Southampton’s ‘BioCam’ instrument

Jan 22, 2024
Seaweed Farm Aims to Remove CO2 from the Atmosphere

The goal of this project is to research how large-scale seaweed cultivation can remove already emitted CO₂ cost-effectively and sustainably from the atmosphere

Jan 18, 2024
Flood Research Center Launched to Combat Climate Change

The FLOOD Centres aim to develop a pool of environmental experts invested in protecting against rising river, rainfall, and sea levels to make the UK more resilient to flooding

Jan 18, 2024
YellowScan Launches Bathymetric LiDAR Solution

This solution will precisely map both waterbed and land, which is mandatory for monitoring, modeling, and mitigating coastal erosion, flood hazards and understanding biodiversity habitats

Jan 15, 2024
TMC Subsidiary NORI Completes Key Offshore Research Campaign

The company’s ROV gathered over 30 hours of seafloor footage, with particular focus on whether sessile organisms that were noted 12 months previously were still present

Jan 11, 2024
RV Investigator Embarks on Voyage to Anticipate Climate Change Impacts

CSIRO’s research vessel’s 60-day, 9,260km voyage will involve deploying sensors and robots to search for climate clues between the deep ocean and the atmosphere 2km above sea level

Jan 10, 2024