Environmental Monitoring News & Articles

Two teams of scientists have worked from AIMS vessels to carry out in-water surveys assessing the fine-scale effects of heat stress and mass coral bleaching in Australia this summer

USS, GeoAcoustics, and ACUA have secured DEFRA backing to improve marine biodiversity monitoring using a carbon neutral USV and the GeoSwath 4 bathymetric sonar

The NOAA and the scientific community are redoubling efforts to investigate the potential risks and benefits of artificially shading the Earth’s surface to slow global warming

An AIMS team has installed underwater loggers at three key tourism sites - these loggers expand the existing network of temperature sensors AIMS has along the Great Barrier Reef

Nortek has upgraded its Aquadopp and AWAC range of ADCPs, including an increased depth rating from 300m to 500m, improved performance, and more user-centric features

Exail has unveiled a new transoceanic uncrewed surface vessel with multi-robot deployment capabilities, suited to conducting unmanned subsea inspection, hydrographic, geophysical, and UXO surveys

On March 1st, Valeport joined the global community in celebrating World Seagrass Day as a current sponsor of LIFE ReMEDIES and having supported seagrass conservation projects for years

Venterra is providing marine acoustics measurement, modelling and marine mammal exposure assessments to offshore wind clients, ensuring environmentally friendly development

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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