In compliance with a federal court ordered deadline, and consistent with existing international protections, NOAA Fisheries announced that it is proposing Endangered Species Act (ESA) listings for 66 coral species, including 59 in the Pacific and seven in the Caribbean. This science-based proposal is more limited than the 2009 original petition that led to a [...]
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The first direct evidence that marked changes to Antarctic sea ice drift have occurred over the last 20 years, in response to changing winds, is published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience. Scientists from NERC’s British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena California explain why, unlike the dramatic losses reported [...]
Rear Admiral David Titley has become the next Deputy Under Secretary for Operations (DUS/O) at NOAA. As NOAA’s Chief Operating Officer… Source: NOAA , June 03, 2012; Image: NOAA
On the night of April 14th 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the tragedy, which means that the wreck now comes under the cover of the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage. UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova [...]
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Technip was awarded two subsea contracts under the Diving Frame Contract with Statoil, for the Åsgard and Gudrun & Valemon projects. The total value of the contracts is around €45 million. The Åsgard contract includes deep water testing of the PRS remote hot-tap equipment, preparations works, installation of protection structures and the first remote retrofit [...]
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Tiny algae that colonise the underside of the Antarctic sea ice play a big part in the health of Southern Ocean ecosystems. These microalgae absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide by converting it into sugars and oxygen, using the energy of sunlight. They also kick-start the Southern Ocean food chain as the staple diet of [...]
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As part of the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy project, 30 turbines are being installed along the strait that connects the Long Island Sound with the Atlantic Ocean in the New York Harbor. The project, led by Verdant Power, Inc., is the first ever commercially licensed tidal energy project in the United States. The turbines are [...]
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The C-Tecnics pan and tilt camera is almost 20 years old and has just surfaced after completing another successful season clamped to one of the piles under Swanage Pier. Its real-time output to the internet and to screens on the pier were initially considered to be of novelty value only, but with the proven reliability [...]
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Telekomunikasi Indonesia (PT Telkom), with the help of NSN has upgraded the service provider’s 354 kilometer under-sea link in Indonesia… (voicendata) Source: voicendata , December 25, 2011
Octio will do a pilot project to assess the permanent monitoring of CO2 storage under the seabed for CLIMIT. CLIMIT is a program to encourage commercial development of technology for capturing and storing CO2; administered jointly by Gassnova and the Norwegian Research Council. When CO2 is stored under the seabed, it is essential to have [...]
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