A Good Practice Guide for Underwater Noise Measurement has been published, giving guidance on best practice for in-situ measurement of underwater sound, for processing the data, and for reporting the measurements using appropriate metrics. From a scientific point of view, accurate acoustic measureme
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology’s (JAMSTEC) scientists, Dr. Chaoxia Yuan and Dr. Toshio Yamagata, have demonstrated the existence of intrinsic costal ocean-atmosphere coupled phenomenon in the costal ocean off Baja California and California for the first time. It is named Califo
The UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has published a Good Practice Guide for Underwater Noise Measurement, giving guidance on best practice for in-situ measurement of underwater sound, for processing the data, and for reporting the measurements using appropriate metrics. From a scientific poi
The UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has published a Good Practice Guide for Underwater Noise Measurement, giving guidance on best practice for in-situ measurement of underwater sound, for processing the data, and for reporting the measurements using appropriate metrics. From a scientific poi
UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) and the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) have developed a new roadmap, which identifies the research and development areas that need to be addressed to make marine energy cost competitive with other energy technologies. Marine energy resources, consisting of wave
Since the search for the missing flight MH370 didn’t provide any clue until now, the Authorities are considering widening the search area in the Indian Ocean. The Bluefin-21 AUV has now completed approximately 95 per cent of the focused underwater search area. The AUV, which is currently completing
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is attending the Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewable Energy Technologies (EIMR) Conference in Stornoway on 30th April – 1st May 2014. Jennifer Norris (Research Director), Christina Bristow (Research and Consents Officer) and Michael Butler (Acousti
The DEA is opening the 7th Licensing Round for interested oil and gas companies, who are invited to submit applications to the DEA for new North Sea oil and gas licences. The application period ends on 20 October 2014. The areas offered for licensing are located in the Central Graben, where the majo
In order to provide reliable solutions for subsea installation in increasingly deeper water and offshore construction in severe weather conditions, Huisman, the worldwide specialist in lifting, drilling, and subsea solutions, introduces a new patented crane type during this year’s OTC: the ‘Rope Luf
NOAA has found the underwater wreck of the passenger steamer City of Chester, which sank in 1888 in a collision in dense fog near where the Golden Gate Bridge stands today. The announcement was made during a press event at Gulf of Farallones National Marine Sanctuary’s San Francisco headquarters at
ABPmer’s report, “Scoping a robust strategic assessment tool for co-existence of activities in marine plan areas”, has recently been published by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO). The MMO commissioned ABPmer in association with eftec and Ichthys Marine Ecological Consulting ltd to scope a fl
Nautilus Minerals Inc. and the Independent State of Papua New Guinea have signed an agreement, enabling the Solwara 1 Project to move forward toward production with the full support of the State. Under the Agreement, the State shall take an initial 15% interest in the Project. The State has the opti
Nautilus Floating Solutions SL, a consortium established last year with an aim of becoming the world leader in the development of floating platforms for the offshore wind power market, is presenting its Nautilus floating structures at significant European energy events. The Nautilus floating structu
Researchers at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel have used computer simulations to understand how hydrothermal vents, the so-called “black smokers”, extract energy from the volcanic rock. About ten years after the first moon landing, scientists on earth made a discovery that proved tha
