When contemplating the replacement of a research and survey fleet, a collective effort is required to meticulously curate an optimal new fleet, considering factors such as ship type, size, capabilities...

Geometius, The Netherlands, has introduced the LISST-200X of Sequoia Scientific as the successor of the LISST-100X. The device is a small-size submersible particle size analyser with integrated depth and fast...

The devastating power of the 2004 Boxing Day Sumatran-Andaman earthquake and unusual geological characteristics of the seabed and underlying sediments south of the epicentre contributed to the ensuing tsunami, the...

World oceans host diverse creatures that shape the seafloor. In a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study published in Communications Earth & Environment, Kiel University geoscientists, alongside biology and oceanography experts, have linked...

In a second seafloor survey off the Southern California coast, researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography uncovered a staggering 350 square kilometres of discarded military munitions. The April...

UK-based Ocean Scientific International (OSIL) has announced the release of an innovative new sediment corer designed to be mounted to the skids of ROVs or AUVs. The self-contained system will...

The AQUAscat 1000LT acoustic profiler by Aquatec (UK) has been developed to make measurement of suspended sediment easier. The AQUAscat 1000LT observes profiles of suspended sediment concentration of up to...

An international research team reports results of a three-year study of sediment samples collected offshore from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in a new paper published on 18 August...

An ABPmer report on the beneficial use of dredged sediment in the UK South Coast marine plan area has recently been published by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO). The purpose...

PDT-H is Aqua Vision’s toolbox for the existing horizontal ADCP software suite, ViSea-H DAS. This toolbox lets the user quantify sediment concentrations and fluxes from horizontal ADCP data. PDT-H calculates...