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Posted: 25 October 2018
On Saturday 20th October the Royal Research Ship (RRS) James Cook departed on an expedition during which a new automated system of collecting climate data will be trialed. If successful, the new...
Posted: 22 October 2018
RRS Discovery at sea This week the Royal Research Ship (RRS) Discovery set sail to the Rio Grande Rise in the South Atlantic, 1400 km east of Brazil, to investigate cobalt-rich mineral deposits of interest to potential...
Posted: 11 October 2018
The full programme has been announced for the NOC Marine Autonomy and Technology Showcase (MATS) 2018, taking place from 13-15 November at the NOC’s waterfront headquarters in Southampton....
Posted: 9 October 2018
The autonomous and smart shipping industry is set to receive a boost, after the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) and the Department of Transport (DfT), in collaboration with the National...
Posted: 8 October 2018
The heavy frame (800 kg) that was moved by the flow, copyright 2017 to MBARI Robotic sensors disguised as boulders, or ‘smart boulders’, have been used to measure the initiation and evolution of huge seafloor avalanches for the first time, revealing some surprising findings...
Posted: 2 October 2018
Ben Robinson Exploring the Antarctic Seafloor: why I spent three years on the frozen continent Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and most mountainous continent and the only continent with no indigenous...
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