News Articles with Category: Deep Ocean
June 25, 2014 – via University of Hawaii
Researchers from the University of Hawaii and other institutions are going deep off the coast of Ka`u to study ancient — and ongoing — life processes.
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May 13, 2014 – via Reuters
”Nereus was an amazing, groundbreaking robot and the only currently active vehicle in the world that could reach the extreme depths of the ocean trenches.”
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May 12, 2014 – via BBC News
At the time of its loss, Nereus was investigating the Kermadec Trench
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May 10, 2014 – via WHOI
Scientists think Nereus imploded exploring the Kermadec Trench
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April 10, 2014 – via WHOI
“The bulk of our knowledge of trenches is only from snapshot visits using mostly trawls and camera landers,” Shank said. “Only detailed systematic studies will advance our biological understanding and also reveal the role trenches may play as the final location of where most of the carbon and other chemicals get sequestered in our ocean, which ultimately impacts the global carbon budget and climate.”
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March 11, 2014 – via National Oceanography Centre
Cutting edge marine autonomous systems allow the FASTNEt consortium to study the ocean shelf edge in far greater detail than ever before
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February 1, 2014 – via Schmidt Ocean Institute
The design will capitalize on lessons learned from past WHOI vehicle designs, as well as advanced technologies developed for Deepsea Challenger
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December 4, 2013 – via Astrobio.net
The goal, according to expedition leader Geoff Wheat of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, is to sample and better understand one of the most influential environments on Earth: the sea crust.
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August 22, 2013 – via Oceangate
The ability to accurately place thousands of individual strips of pre-impregnated fiber will overcome many of the hard to control variables surrounding traditional filament winding processes and permit the hull to withstand the very high compressive loads at 3,000 meters (300 bar).
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June 12, 2013 – via WHOI
During the current expedition, the researchers are doing conductivity, temperature and depth of seawater casts, high resolution vent site mapping, chemical and physical data collection, interactive research, observation and sampling of associated biological communities, and satellite teleoperations with shore-side scientists.
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June 10, 2013 – via WHOI
Scientists are using the hybrid underwater robotic vehicle Nereus in extending their investigations throughout the depths of the Mid-Cayman Rise, which reaches to more than 6,500 meters deep.
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April 3, 2013 – via Wired
Described by Darpa as a “mobile active sonar platform,” the SHARK is supposed to track submarines once they’re initially detected
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April 3, 2013 – via Bluefin Robotics
The system was developed for the DARPA Deep Sea Operations (DSOP) Program.
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March 26, 2013 – via WHOI
Forms partnership with WHOI to accelerate technology development, ocean research and discovery
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March 20, 2013 – via CNN
In addition to direct human exploration of the seafloor, we need to mobilize a new generation of collaborative self-powering robots that can explore the oceans, top to bottom, while maintaining communication to shore-based scientists at all times.
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January 15, 2013 – via Military and Aerospace Electronics
To succeed, the UFP program must be able to demonstrate a system that can survive for years under extreme pressure; be triggered from standoff commands; and rapidly rise through the water and deploy a non-lethal weapon or sensor payload.
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January 14, 2013 – via Newsweek
The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water. – James Cameron
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January 14, 2013 – via Newsweek
Legendary explorer Sylvia Earle is saying goodbye to the ocean floor, but are machines good enough to take her place? The robot takeover of ocean science.
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January 12, 2013 – via DARPA
Upward Falling Payloads (UFP) Solicitation Number: DARPA-BAA-13-17
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September 28, 2012 – via NRDC
Scientific Research And Conservation Groups Unite To Investigate Untouched Marine Habitats
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August 28, 2012 – via BBC News
Underwater robots tasked with saving coral reefs are being developed at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland.
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August 14, 2012 – via Ocean News and Technology
Forward and down-facing cameras mounted on the unmanned robot sub have provided continuous images of an area some twelve miles long by four miles wide (20 km by 7 km), covering an area about the size of city such as Southampton, but three miles underwater (around 4850m).
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April 18, 2012 – via National Defense
DARPA also is looking to improve underwater sensors. The distributed agile submarine hunting program, or DASH, aims to create a network of small unmanned underwater vehicles that scan upwards from deep in the sea to detect quiet diesel electric subs. The technology also would give operators a look into abysmal plains deep on the ocean floor.
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April 17, 2012 – via Euronews
Much of this new technology was developed at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The latest is Nereus, which can operate as an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) or a robot.
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April 17, 2012 – via Vancouver Sun
Fourth in a series: B.C. pioneers are at the heart of the world’s submersible technology development
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April 7, 2012 – via AFP
Today, anyone with a wad of cash and a sense of adventure can dive to the Titanic’s deepsea grave, but behind these tourist jaunts lies a long and daunting tale of scientific endeavour.
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April 6, 2012 – via Mainichi Japan
The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology said it plans to put the 5-meter-long probe named Yumeiruka (Dream Dolphin) into operation in fiscal 2013.
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April 6, 2012 – via Tecnische Universiteit Delft
The future of mining lies on the bottom of the oceans. In a new minor, ‘Deep Sea’, students will learn all the in’s and out’s of exploiting this harsh environment.
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March 26, 2012 – via Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
“These corals exhibited varying levels of stress, from bare skeleton, tissue loss, to excess mucous production, all associated with a covering of brown flocculent material,” said Tim Shank, a WHOI biologist and an expert in life in the deep ocean.
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March 26, 2012 – via Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
The goal is to conduct detailed studies of the composition, diversity, and adaptations of life in the major deep ocean trenches and then compare these findings between the trenches around the world
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March 26, 2012 – via MIT Technology Review
Ninety-nine percent of what we know about the solar system came to us from unmanned probes. There can be no argument about comparative value of sending humans to other worlds, at least from a scientific perspective, because our relatively cheap, versatile, expendable robot spawn will win every time.
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March 26, 2012 – via Engineering and Technology
3D mapping of the wreck of the Titanic will soon allow ‘tourists’ to take virtual trips to the bottom of the ocean while still on terra firma
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March 25, 2012 – via National Geographic
Details on the vehicle
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March 9, 2012 – via Discovery News
The first comprehensive map of the Titanic wreck site has been created as researchers pieced together some 130,000 photos taken by underwater robots in the depths of the North Atlantic Ocean.
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March 8, 2012 – via Bangkok Post
Researchers from Germany and Japan are sending high-tech vehicles to probe the seabed up to 7,000 metres (23,000 feet) below the surface where the massive seismic shock hit last March.
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March 7, 2012 – via Hydroid
AUV to be used by Naval Oceanographic Office for deep ocean operations.
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February 28, 2012 – via Bluefin Robotics
Bluefin Robotics will assist in developing systems of configurable technology to address Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) surveillance needs over large, operationally relevant areas.
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January 12, 2012 – via Mongabay.com
In April 2010 scientists used a deep-diving vehicle, HyBIS, and an unmanned robotic submarine, Autosub6000, to explore the vents, which are gushing fluids rich in copper and may be hotter than 450 degrees Celsius.
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January 10, 2012 – via New Scientist
Deepest black smoker teems with life
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December 19, 2011 – via Arizona State University
Futuristic robots may be coming soon to an ocean near you. Sensorbots are spherical devices equipped with biogeochemical sensors, that promise to open a new chapter in the notoriously challenging exploration of earth’s largest ecosystem – the ocean.
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