On 1st June 2010, members of the staff of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) participated in a meeting at the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, DC, USA, to...

Equipment developed in West Molesey, UK, is playing a part in helping to clear up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Chelsea Technologies Group was asked by BP to provide...

Scientists from Seattle-based BioSonics (USA) are traveling to the Gulf of Mexico where they will use scientific sonar equipment to locate oil spilled as a result of the Deepwater Horizon...

Jeff Snyder, president of SeaVision Underwater Solutions, has produced undersea footage of the Gulf oil spill off near Louisiana aboard a 26-foot catamaran, surveying the effects from last month's catastrophic...

In the quest to unravel the mysteries beneath our planet’s water bodies, topobathymetric technologies emerge as a beacon of innovation. Among them, Lidar (light detection and ranging) and sonar sensors...

Autonomous vessel experts and artificial intelligence (AI) pioneers behind the first full-size unmanned research vessel to conduct scientific experiments while autonomously navigating the Atlantic Ocean have announced their plans to...

EOMAP GmbH & Co has launched several services to support oil spill monitoring using optical satellites. The services were developed for mapping a major ecological disaster: a recent oil spill...

RS Aqua have completed the supply of Turner Design SCUFA submersible fluorometers to Oil Spill Response Ltd (OSRL). OSRL already have a fleet of Turner 10-AU field fluorometers but required...

Saildrone announced the launch of its first aluminium Surveyor unmanned surface vehicle (USV) from the Austal USA production line in Mobile, Alabama. Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Lisa Franchetti was...

Exail’s DriX uncrewed surface vessel (USV) recently completed a first-of-its-kind fisheries research survey to assess the impact on biomass and fish stock before, during and after wind farm construction. Equipped...