Environmental Monitoring News & Articles

Partners from science and industry are building the BELREEFS project, reportedly the first offshore pilot project for large-scale oyster reef restoration in the Belgian North Sea

Underwater ultrasounds are being used by an international research team, including AIMS, to monitor and research the health of free-swimming whale sharks

SEABER and CNRS-LEMAR et MARBEC are taking part in the France 2030 plan with the SEAMAP Project, and are set to deliver micro-AUV swarming technology for subsea expeditions

More than 1,500 Satlink smart buoys are being deployed as part of project SelecTuna, an initiative that aims to increase selectivity and improve sustainable fishing of target species

AIMS researchers from its SeaSim aquaria complex are manipulating seasonal patterns in temperature, daylength, and moonlight to induce coral reproduction for vital research advancements

RS Aqua’s new smartlink®EE range of sensors are engineered to provide accurate load monitoring in unique aquaculture operations, increasing both efficiency and safety

DeTect’s MERLIN True3D radar system for offshore vessel and buoy deployments is part of an initiative to gather weather, ocean, and wildlife data near the sites of active offshore wind farms

Genevos will supply its Complete H2-Pack and two HPM-40 units for a Lithuanian hydrogen-electric waste collector vessel, adding an additional 40% of motoring range and a speed of 8 knots

Kongsberg Digital and CMG have launched a simulator coupling that streamlines CO2 injection and storage processes, enabling modelling of the interaction between well and reservoir systems

Sercel has delivered one of its GPR300 OBN solutions, a compact, lightweight shallow water module designed for easy manual handling and simplified deployment and retrieval

An MoU between CalWave and AltaSea aims to form a local wave energy industry, focusing on regenerative aquaculture, renewable energy, blue technology, and underwater robotics

WHOI researchers have found a way to extract and identify indicator compounds previously undetected on reefs, including three that may represent different reef organisms

The NOAA and the U.S. DOE’s new agreement focuses on future collaborations regarding marine carbon dioxide removal research and development to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions

Royal Caribbean Group, Inter Miami CF and University of Miami have collaborated to help the local community plant over a thousand coral colonies onto the reefs off the coast of Miami

The remotely controlled USVs will harvest a range of water quality and eutrophication data within inland waters on weekly deployments from stations in Dartmouth, Falmouth and Plymouth

Exail has conducted the first sea trials for its new transoceanic USV, the DriX O-16, designed for long-duration operations and able to deploy multiple payloads and subsea assets

A new study from AIMS and the University of Western Australia highlights the potential of drones as a tool to monitor intertidal reefs, usually under-represented in monitoring programs

Two Saildrone uncrewed surface vessels will be gathering accurate ocean depths and seafloor topography in the Gulf of Maine to aid navigation, telecommunications, and more

Cellula Robotics has launched Vigilus, a series of acoustically-meshed environmental sensor nodes that form a network of subsea listening stations for underwater monitoring and security