Apply: NOAA Ocean Exploration Advisory Board
NOAA is seeking up to two new members for its Ocean Exploration Advisory Board. Applications must be received by October 18, 2022.
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Watch Live Underwater: Exploration of World’s Longest Mountain Range
This summer (July 17 to 29 and August 7 to 28), you can join NOAA Ocean Exploration and partners live as they explore the longest mountain range in the world: the mid-ocean ridge.
Read moreShackleton’s Endurance Found with Sonardyne Tech
After more than 100 years lost at more than 3,000 m underneath sea ice in the Antarctic’s Weddell Sea, the almost fully intact wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance has been found, supported with underwater navigation and positioning technology from Sonardyne.
Read moreNew Age of Ocean Science Communications
By Monica Allen, Director of Public Affairs, NOAA Research Communication and ocean technology are revolutionizing ocean science. This comes at a time when we urgently need progress in understanding, protecting, restoring and sustainably using the global ocean. In January 2021, the United Nations launched a Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development to bring together all nations to address significant
Read moreNew Genus of Giant Single-Celled Organism Found in Deep Pacific
Two new genera and four new species of giant, single-celled xenophyophores (protozoans belonging to a group called the foraminifera) were discovered in the deep Pacific Ocean during a joint project between scientists at the National Oceanography Centre, U.K. (NOC), the University of Hawaii and the University of Geneva. “Moana” (meaning “the sea”) has inspired the name ‘”Moanammina” for one of the new
Read moreOcean Aero to Work with DHS S&T
Ocean Aero Inc., designer and builder of environmentally powered autonomous, underwater and surface vehicles (AUSVs), announced a multimillion-dollar agreement to deliver a variety of its AUSV models to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) for a groundbreaking research, evaluation and testing program. Ocean Aero will be delivering a mix of its Navigator and Discovery models and working
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