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Researcher Laura Cimoli and her team have been awarded funding by Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA), “Scoping Our Planet” initiative, led by co-Programme Directors Gemma Bale and Sarah Bohndiek. This opportunity empowers researchers to address critical gaps in Earth system measurements and support our response to the climate crisis. Laura’s project aims to uncover how glacial meltwater from Antarctic margins impacts ocean circulation and biogeochemistry—key to improving predictions for global sea level rise. The team will be deploying cutting-edge autonomous underwater vehicles in the Bellingshausen Sea, a region rarely observed due to its extreme inaccessibility. “Scoping Our Planet will allow us to do hardcore research in one of the most extreme environments – the oceans around Antarctica – to observe never-before-explored regions." Laura shares "We’ll be able to gain much-needed information in a region that’s experiencing rapid + drastic climatic changes.” This project will drive new insights into climate processes in one of the most critical yet poorly understood regions on Earth. #ClimateScience #OceanResearch #ClimateCrisis

Syrenna’s WaterDrone has been called the “underwater weather station of the future" in a recent TechCrunch article. 🌊 Oceans are critical for our planet's health and for many global industries, but we lack specific, systematic knowledge of almost all of the oceans, except at their surface. A 2023 XTC Global Finalist, this Norway-based #startup has developed a #robotics platform that provides real-time monitoring of the oceans. Its WaterDrones are semi-stationary weather stations that collect, process and visualize #data, like temperature, salinity, pollution and #microplastics. These marine metrics provide critical underwater intelligence. “There is such a clear need for safe, reliable and continuously updated data about water quality,” said Ester Strømmen, CEO and co-founder of Syrenna in the TechCrunch article. “Widespread use of technology will drastically increase our knowledge of how our oceans are actually doing; we could detect harmful bacteria, runoff and pollution, track global warming, monitor species and conduct subsea surveillance.” Syrenna's WaterDrone: 🤿 can control its own depth while maintaining geographic location, 🔋 has a battery that lasts for a full year of operation, and 🔗 has a proprietary tether keeps it anchored near its target location. Applications are endless and could provide valuable information to energy companies, governments and military/law enforcement, while supplying data to environmental interest groups, research institutes and the public. Read the full article here 👉 https://2ly.link/1xnpQ Congrats, Team Syrenna! 💪 #alumni #deeptech #innovation #cleantech #climatetech #oceantech Victoria Secorro John Nancy Shail Young Bill Becky Alex

Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea: The Role of Marine Technology in Oceanographic Research The vastness of the ocean has always fascinated mankind. With its mysterious depths and hidden treasures, i... https://lnkd.in/gNvbQFFF #3DPrintingTechnology #AerospaceTechnology #AgricultureTechnology #ArchitectureTechnology #ArtificialIntelligence #AssistiveTechnology #Biotechnology #BlockchainTechnology #BusinessTechnology #CommunicationTechnology #ConstructionTechnology #EducationalTechnology #ElectricalEngineeringTechnology #EntertainmentTechnology #EnvironmentalTechnology #ForensicScienceTechnology #HospitalityTechnology #InformationTechnology #MarineTechnology #MedicalTechnology #MilitaryTechnology #OperationalTechnology #ProductandFoodTechnology #QuantumTechnology #RoboticsTechnology #SpaceTechnology #SportsTechnology #Superintelligence #VehicleTechnology #Technology

Seagrass may sound like an unlikely #climate ally, but it is a critical #coastal #ecosystem that can sequester up to 40x more #carbon per hectare than rainforests. 🦀 There are many #marine #biodiversity benefits too, as seagrass meadows are known to support 30x more marine species compared to adjacent sandy habitats. 🐟 And globally, seagrass meadows help generate vital nutrition for close to 3 billion people by supporting healthy fishing grounds. Through these fishing grounds, seagrass ultimately helps to provide 50% of animal protein to 400 million people in the third world. 🤔 So what can be done to derisk and channel more investment into #seagrass restoration? 🔍 Blue carbon projects currently seem to be too expensive and high risk to attract much private capital, let alone generate meaningful and robustly calculated blue #carboncredits... and best of luck finding a mainstream investment manager offering an #SDG14 focused fund mandate, let alone a dedicated allocation to seagrass projects. 👏 This is why a new partnership between ACUA Ocean, Ocean Ledger and Beneath The Waves – to monitor and protect over 9 million hectares of seagrass in the #Bahamas – stands out and could be of immense value to #naturebasedsolutions developers and providers of #bluefinance. 💡 The collaboration aims to solve critical technical bottlenecks through assessing #bluecarbon project risk, reducing the time and cost of implementation, and ensuring standardised, objective MRV for quality control. Ecosystem extent, health and value will be assessed holistically to ensure high quality conservation and restoration activity as a baseline for premium credits or certificates. Read on for the full detail and announcement link below. 👇

Unleashing the Potential of Marine Technology: Advancements and Applications Marine technology has come a long way in recent years, and its advancements have been nothing short of remarkable. From ... https://lnkd.in/g2VjJbiA #3DPrintingTechnology #AerospaceTechnology #AgricultureTechnology #ArchitectureTechnology #ArtificialIntelligence #AssistiveTechnology #Biotechnology #BlockchainTechnology #BusinessTechnology #CommunicationTechnology #ConstructionTechnology #EducationalTechnology #ElectricalEngineeringTechnology #EntertainmentTechnology #EnvironmentalTechnology #ForensicScienceTechnology #HospitalityTechnology #InformationTechnology #MarineTechnology #MedicalTechnology #MilitaryTechnology #OperationalTechnology #ProductandFoodTechnology #QuantumTechnology #RoboticsTechnology #SpaceTechnology #SportsTechnology #Superintelligence #VehicleTechnology #Technology

A new study using multi-scale lidar technology revealed that miombo woodlands in Mozambique store 1.5 to 2.2 times more carbon than previously estimated. "The implications of these findings reverberate across science, policy, finance, and business. If our current understanding of the carbon stored in nature is potentially biased downwards, this will lead to the undervaluation of forest protection and restoration efforts, hindering progress towards global climate goals."-Sylvera #groundbreakingresearch #carbon #technology #conservation #forestprotection #CTA #data Javier Ruiz-Ramos Christopher Philipson Albert Gallon de Aguiar Juan Chang Dr. Leonardo Sáenz Sunarto Sunarto https://lnkd.in/g8utKAzK

Data collected by satellites, drones, radars and microscopes provide a goldmine of information to better understand our environment. And when these data are coupled with artificial intelligence (AI), they can unlock the secrets of phenomena taking place at all levels.  https://lnkd.in/evrE7B4E

25 years ago, science visionaries launched a global effort to learn more about how our oceans were changing. The Argo program now engages two dozen country partners to collect data from nearly 4000 free-floating observing profilers. The impact of Argo is truly astounding. These floats have collected global ocean temperature and salinity data since the program’s inception in 1999. In the course of 25 years, that equates to more than three million data profiles, and four times the amount of ocean information than collected from all other ocean observing tools — like ships and moored buoys — combined. Over 6500 scientific papers have cited Argo data, illustrating how a partnered global program can unlock critical information about our shared planet. #noaa #research #Argo

"We’re basically flying blind at a time when we most need observations." Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's director Peter de Menocal hints at a lack of technology to measure carbon flux from the surface ocean into the deep (where it can reside for centuries or millennia). Read the entire interview here: https://lnkd.in/eGVc6PMq Assessing, validating and scaling blue carbon and marine CDR solutions will require a massive effort into technology development as well as at-sea trials. "Minions" are bottle-sized, depth-keeping sensors designed by Melissa Omand's lab at URI. Upward-looking, re-used iPhones take photos of marine snow - aggregates of (dead) plankton, viruses, detritus that fall onto the Minions' lens. These photos help quantify and classify what reaches the subsurface ocean. Check out a video here: https://lnkd.in/e2eapXZt #marineCDR, #oceantech

We're very excited to announce our partnership with ACUA Ocean and Beneath The Waves to explore how remote sensing fused with field data from autonomous systems can help scale monitoring and protection operations in the Bahamas Blue Carbon Project Areas. An estimated $8-11bn is needed annually to increase the protection of coastal habitats to reach the 2030 global commitment of 30%. The coastal environment is dynamic and difficult to collect data from, and the methods today not only lack scalability, but the accuracy and standardisation required for high quality monitoring and meaningful upfront funding for conservation & restoration. Through this combined partnership, Ocean Ledger will work with Beneath the Waves and ACUA to time- and cost-effectively scale up the collection of field data. Deep scientific and technical expertise is required to efficiently and accurately combine satellite analytics, machine learning, and cloud computing to generate high-resolution ecosystem maps, insights on ecosystem integrity & connectivity, locate hotspots of degradation and high ecosystem service provisioning (carbon and biodiversity), while tracking these changes over time. We're thrilled to be working closely with these leading ocean innovators. #bluecarbon #MRV #oceantech #marinemonitoring #conservation