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Woods Hole Group’s (formerly Horizon Marine's) FAST Eddy Underway ADCP...

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 09:04:31 GMT

Woods Hole Group Inc. (formerly Horizon Marine, Inc. (HMI)) provides oceanographic services specifically tailored to the offshore energy industry. Our services are designed to assist with planning safe and efficient operations to minimize costly downtime caused by challenging ocean currents. HMI's EddyWatch program concentrates on the location and migration of strong ocean currents that are characteristic of the Loop Current and associated anticyclonic (warm core) eddies, particularly in the deep-water lease blocks of the northern Gulf of Mexico. To provide enhanced services and site-specific monitoring and forecasting, HMI developed the FAST Eddy real-time, automated, self-contained, ADCP data acquisition system that may be installed both on Offshore Supply Vessels (OSVs) and Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs). Clients using FAST Eddy for fine-scale monitoring and forecasting problematic currents have found that the service helped mitigate downtime and associated costs during critical operations. Our presentation will describe the technology and techniques of deployment and surveying used by HMI to assist in effectively managing a client's resources and limit potential downtime due to ocean currents. This presentation will touch upon our experiences; past present, and future.

Presented by: Federico Alvarez, HMI.

Robots Talking to Robots: Using Acoustic Modems to Connect Ocean Systems

Thu, 29 Nov 2018 08:29:56 GMT

The Liquid Robotics Wave Glider has demonstrated great success as a host platform for acoustic modems. Numerous customer missions have employed these systems to provide seafloor to surface connectivity. In this presentation recent results will be presented. Customer experiences in oceanographic research will highlight the role of Wave Gliders with acoustic modems to:

• Locate and track underwater assets more efficiently and without a ship

• Act as a communications relay, allowing underwater assets to transfer data quickly and in near real-time

• Follow submerged autonomous underwater vehicle (AUVs) for in situ analysis of a drifting water mass

Examples of undersea assets supported will include fixed seafloor seismic research nodes, free swimming long-range AUVs and a seafloor crawling benthic rover. In addition to telemetry certain missions also make use of acoustic positioning to support undersea assets.

This presentation will describe the applications and integration of Teledyne acoustic systems on Wave Gliders.

By: Ryan Carlon, Liquid Robotics Inc

Teledyne Marine Oceanographic Research Overview - TMTW17

Mon, 29 Jan 2018 09:51:56 GMT

Introduction to Teledyne Marine's Oceanographic Research technology and capabilities, presented at TMTW17.

Teledyne Marine Imaging Sonars, Bathymetry Sonars and Sub bottom Profilers -...

Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:18:27 GMT

Introduction to Teledyne Marine's Acoustic Imaging technology and capabilities including Imaging Sonars, Bathymetry Sonars and Sub Bottom Profilers, presented at TMTW17.

Perspectives on the State of Ocean Science

Tue, 14 Nov 2017 09:51:10 GMT

Keynote presentation by Margaret Leinen

The value and role of ocean science and innovation increasingly has been the focus of both international and domestic forums on climate science, sustainability, and defense. Now in its second century of exploration and research, UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography is rising to meet new challenges to understand and protect the planet, through interdisciplinary and cross-sector collaborations and a continued focus on developing innovative technology to observe the planet.

Scripps shares its science at international forums such as the United Nations ocean and climate conferences to advise, contextualize and strengthen the efforts of nations, NGO's and policymakers that set and meet standards for sustainable use of the oceans. The United States Navy is also in the midst of assessing the global state of ocean science and technology via Task Force Ocean, and has engaged US academic institutions including Scripps to ensure cutting-edge ocean science is applied to its oceanographic infrastructure, technologies, and technical workforce so that the Navy maintains its global competitive advantage.

In her keynote, Dr. Margaret Leinen will describe these international forums, Scripps role, how Scripps scientists are innovating to meet these global demands in ocean science and technology, and the state-of-the-art research facilities, centers, and education that will shape the future of ocean and climate science.

The Next Great Odyssey of Human Endeavour Exploring the Deep Ocean

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 14:55:25 GMT

Keynote presentation by Oliver Steeds

Humankind is poised to make the next giant leap – into the deep ocean. We now have the technology available to us to discover more of our planet in the next 10 years than we have in the last 100,000.
Throughout human history, exploration has always driven our progress. Lief Ericson's journey to North America (1001 AD), the discovery of the New World (1490s), Magellan's first circumnavigation (1519) and space exploration (1957-) have all pushed back the frontiers of our knowledge, unlocking immense opportunity and changing our relationship to our planet and ourselves.
But since 1969, we've been looking up when we should have been looking down. The most important part of our planet, the deep ocean, remains the least known part of our planet.
The ocean is the heart of our planet. It's 99% of the planet's biosphere[1], regulates our atmosphere and climate and produces 50% of the oxygen we breath[2]. It captures heat and carbon dioxide which dramatically reduces global warming and provides a primary source of protein for 3 billion people[3]. The ocean is everybody's business. How it changes affects us all. The problem is that we don't know how the deep ocean functions, how healthy it is, how resilient it is and how the development of a sustainable blue economy can drive our growth.
The ocean remains the last great unknown frontier on our planet. We've only biologically sampled 0.0001%[4] and mapped an area equivalent the size of Tasmania to the same kind of detail that we have mapped the entire orbs of the Moon and Mars[5].
From Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) to Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), from seabed mapping systems and chemical sensors to the initial library of DNA sequences of marine animals, technological developments now unlock extraordinary new research capabilities. We now have the ability to discover more of our planet in the next 10 years than the last 100,000 of human history.
New areas of economic activity such as renewable energy and marine mining are on the horizon. Millions of new species are to be discovered that can propel human medicine. Resources to be unearthed that will drive our sustainable economic development. Even the origins of life on Planet Earth are to be found.
To engage the world in our all of our work, we should be looking to the space community to learn how to improve our story-telling – engaging our audiences with stories that are positive, forward looking and about a brighter future; that are Mission based and trigger the imagination, communicating danger and building on narratives of exceptionalism, patriotism, exploration and the collective human achievement.
Together, as an industry, we are already leading the exploration of the deep ocean, the last, great unknown frontier on Planet Earth.
The Apollo Missions, polar exploration, Jacques Cousteau's adventures, even Felix Baumgartner's space jump captivated the world with their human drama, battles against adversity, and above all, the unknown. We need the unknown. It is the sense of mystery that gives us imagination and makes us human. Our work is the next positive epic story of human endeavor that can inspire humanity.

SOURCES:
[1] http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/oceans/
[2] http://earthsky.org/earth/how-much-do-oceans-add-to-worlds-oxygen
[3] http://www.worldwildlife.org/industries/sustainable-seafood
[4] www.marineboard.eu/file/265/download?token=J5hokhHB
[5] http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/nature/fun-surprising-facts-about-the-oceans.a...
[6] http://www.earthsurfaceprocesses.com/3c-E-MassExtn.html

Teledyne Marine Technology Workshop 2017 recap

Mon, 30 Oct 2017 14:15:08 GMT

2nd Teledyne Marine Technology Workshop an Overwhelming Success!

Building upon our inaugural event in 2015, Teledyne Marine hosted the 2nd biennial Teledyne Marine Technology Workshop on (TMTW) October 15-18 in San Diego, California. A record breaking 270 customers from around the globe converged on the sunny shores of San Diego to attend this year’s event.