Environmental Monitoring News & Articles

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

The NOAA and U.S. federal government has invested in the DART Ocean Observing System, developed to detect tsunamis and forecast their impact along vulnerable coastlines

CSignum’s EM-2 wireless platform uses EMFS to pass data through water, ice, concrete, and rock, ideal for maritime monitoring, defense operations, and many other applications

A robot has been developed to keep baby tank-grown corals healthy, counting and photographing them before they are sent to repopulate the Great Barrier Reef

Abi Wylie, editor and copywriter for Ocean Science & Technology, looks back at the exciting sensors and technologies that were on display at Oceanology International 2024

Robin Radar’s technology is combining with that of other companies to provide bird and bat detection for wind farms, aiming to develop wind farms with a positive ecological impact

Teledyne Webb Research and Rutgers University unveiled the Sentinel Mission, sending the Slocum Glider around the world as part of their technological and academic partnership

RS Aqua’s Project MARLIN can now correlate underwater noise signatures with what is known about vessel traffic, aiming to support conservation efforts and gather real-time intelligence

NBOSI will provide its new 500 Series Conductivity-Temperature-Depth sensors to Apeiron Labs and Acbotics Research for reliable, accurate, and low-cost data collection in research

Saildrone has released its Carbon Impact Report, showing they avoided 99.9% of operational emissions for maritime data gathering, among other impressive sustainability achievements

OSIL’s data buoys will provide continuous real-time information about the dredge plume and surrounding environmental conditions of Van Oord’s dredging locations, keeping track of dissolved oxygen levels and turbidity