SmartBuoy, an integrated marine data acquisition platform developed and operated by the Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas, UK), is celebrating 30,000 cumulative days of deployment in its...

The BBC has reported on how southern elephant seals are being used as ocean samplers (SEaOS project). Valeport, UK, has been working with the University of St Andrews since 2006...

UTEC Geomarine, UK, has successfully completed the first phase of a geotechnical site investigation in the Caspian Sea for a major oil and gas operator. The project was completed using...

Horizon Geosciences, headquarted in the United Arab Emirates, has purchased its fifth offshore soil investigation system from A.P. van den Berg, The Netherlands, for the purpose of analysing the seabed’s...

MacArtney Underwater Technology and Sea-Bird Scientific have joined forces to deliver four complete oceanographic instrumentation solutions to research vessel operators in Turkey. A common denominator for the type of oceanographic...

MODUM project is financed by the NATO Science for Peace and Security programme. It unites 8 Institutions from Poland, Russia, Canada, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. The goal...

During floods that occurred in September 2013 in Germany, Dutch company Aqua Vision carried out stream flow and sediment flux measurements on the River Elbe. The campaign was carried out...

On 13 December 2013, a group of HSR members paid ­Fertoing a visit.  The visitors were welcomed and accompanied by the head of the company, Mr. A. Melnikov. Firstly, they...

The Italian Navy, using survey vessel Ammiraglio Magnaghi and personnel from the “Istituto Idrografico della Marina” (IIM), in cooperation with ENEA Marine Environment Research Centre, surveyed the Levante Canyon system,...

Large sediment waves are striking yet poorly understood seabed features in many shelf seas. Very large sediment waves (3–18m in height) have been documented to migrate up to 70m per...