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  • Researchers Develop and Deploy an Underwater Color-Correcting Tool

    SeaSplat clears any obstructions in an underwater image and applies color corrections. (Image Credit: MIT ) Researchers from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) developed SeaSplat , a tool designed to produce a replica image of the…

  • Regions Close to The Equator Could Benefit from Using Floating Solar Panels in The Future

    (Image Credit: MrRick/pixabay) This seems like an environmental disaster waiting to happen. More on this later in the article. But first… According to a new study , solar panels floating on seas close to the Equator could produce sufficient energy…

  • Mbari Scientists Produce an Incredibly High-Resolution Map of the Monterey Canyon Floor

    The MBARI team conducted high-res surveys of the Monterey Canyon floor, 50km from the canyon head. They also deployed a Seafloor Instrument Node to observe currents and how they affect the site. (Image Credit: Monica Wolfson-Schwehr © 2023 MBARI) Researchers…

  • Plastics in the Oceans and a Floating Ocean City!

    (Image Credit: Sebastian Pena Lambarri/Unsplash) According to data by American Oceans, the world's oceans are littered with approximately 363.8 billion pounds of plastic. The plastic pollution floating in worldwide oceans has become a major problem…

  • Will adding Iron Nanoparticles to Our Oceans Help Mitigate the Climate Crisis?

    Adding iron nanoparticles to the ocean’s surface could help plankton growth. (Image Credit: Pexels/pixabay) Climate experts say that significantly reducing the number of greenhouse gasses that escape into the atmosphere must be achieved to prevent the…

  • MIT Engineers Propose A New Way To Fight Climate Change --- With The Ocean!

    Extracting carbon dioxide from the oceans would help decrease acidification, allowing coral reefs to thrive. (Image Credit: Hiroko Yoshi) Carbon capture technology has become a controversial topic over the past little while. The U.S. Department of Energy…

  • Limestone skeletons and robots are helping save coral reefs

    Coral reefs are dying due to global ocean temperatures, but Taryn Foster’s solution could help save them. (Image Credit: GeoNadir/Unsplash) According to Taryn Foster, the chief of Coral Maker , Australia’s coral reef can be saved much faster than expected…

  • SWOT: NASA-CNES Satellite to Survey the World's Water (Mission Overview)

    NASA and CNES (French Space Agency) are collaborating to make the first global survey of Earth's surface fresh water and study fine-scale ocean currents with a new mission called SWOT, or Surface Water and Ocean Topography. SWOT will collect data ...
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  • SWEL’s wave energy converter rides the waves to generate electricity

    The Waveline Magnet floats on water, riding each wave to generate electricity. (Image Credit: SWEL) Sea Wave Energy Limited (SWEL) and the UK have been developing the Waveline Magnet, a Wave Energy Converter (WEC), for the past ten years. The modular…

  • Free-Floating Robots Monitor the Oceans for Climate Change - Thousands of Them

    The robotic vessels dive thousands of meters to gather temperature and salinity data every ten days while drifting on the ocean currents. (Image credit: Argo ) Earth’s oceans play an enormous role in regulating global weather. As the planet warms, the…

  • WHOI’s autonomous buoys eavesdrop on the oceans for nearby whales

    These autonomous buoys can detect a whale’s presence by listening to their calls. (Image Credit: Morgan Visalli/WHOI) Yellow autonomous buoys from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) have been bobbling in ocean waters off the US East and West…

  • DIY submarine OpenROV power by BeagleBone

    OpenROV open-source submarine (via OpenROV ) What happens when an entire community comes together to help one man discover underwater treasure? Quite possibly one of the best maker projects ever devised is born, that’s what. Meet OpenROV, an open-source…

  • The Ocean Cleanup’s Jenny device recently removed 9,000 kilograms of plastic from the Pacific

    Earlier, The Ocean Cleanup deployed Jenny in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to determine if it could collect plastic without breaking. (Image Credit: The Ocean Cleanup) How heartwarming... Nearly a decade ago, Boyan Slat announced ambitions to remove…

  • LARGEST OPEN OCEAN CLEAN-UP IN HISTORY

    OCEAN VOYAGES INSTITUTE SETS RECORD WITH LARGEST OPEN OCEAN CLEAN-UP IN HISTORY Ocean Voyages Institute sets a new record after a 48 day expedition with the largest at sea clean-up to date, successfully removing 103 tons (206,000 lbs.) of fishing ...
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  • Microsoft reveals findings from Project Natick, its experimental undersea datacenter

    Earlier this summer, marine specialists reeled up a shipping container-size datacenter coated in algae, barnacles, and sea anemones from the seafloor off Scotland’s Orkney Islands. The retrieval of the Northern Isles datacenter launched the final ...
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  • Ten Alternative Energies You May Not Have Heard Of

    By now everyone has heard of renewable technologies like solar and wind power. But, Mother Nature Network has compiled ten practical alternative energy sources that might be flying under your radar. Here they are: 1. Saltwater Power - It is also called…

  • Wave Glider: Autonomous ocean robot never needs refueling

    As we continue to fill the earth with billions of people, it’s important that we monitor the environment and in particular the oceans. Doing so is quite a difficult and expensive task though, due to the size of the oceans and the amount of resources it…

  • Rutgers looks to use fleet of underwater robotic subs for improved climate study

    The Challenger Glider Mission underwater-unmanned vehicle render (via rutgers ) It’s no secret that the world’s oceans play a big part in our planets weather. The sun heats the oceans surface, giving air pressure the energy it needs to produce storms…

  • Sensitive undersea microphone imitates life

    Onur Kilic's microphone prototype Stanford researchers spent years studying marine animals in an effort to develop a better underwater microphone. The orca had the frequency range they wanted, 17 octaves, or 160 decibels. The orca ear works as such: sound…

  • Solar sails on the high seas

    What is old, is new again. Japanese company seeks to make high tech sails to harness the earth's energy for propulsion. Unlike sailors of centuries ago, the Eco Marine Power (EMP) company will not only use wind for energy by also solar power. Their system…

  • Robot fish to save schools of real fish

    Dr. Maurizio Porfiri, Assistant Professor, at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University is getting major funding to research schooling fish. He has made biologically inspired robot fish that he has proven effect the group's behavior. Not in running…

  • Small wave energy power could be the next trend in renewable energy

    Researchers are working on new wave energy converter designs to harness energy from ocean waves. A diagram showing how the DEEC-Tec flexWEC can harness energy from ocean waves. (Image credit: NREL) If you’ve ever seen a surfer wipe out, you know how powerful…

  • Ocean Voyages Institute removes record-breaking 103 tons of debris from the ocean

    Ocean Voyages Institute removed a record-breaking 103 tons of debris from the ocean, which will be recycled and repurposed. (Image Credit: Ocean Voyages Institute) After a successful 48-day mission to clean up 103 tons of plastics and fishing nets in…

  • Florida Atlantic University’s Robotic Jellyfish May Help Save Coral Ecosystems

    The jellyfish robots navigate underwater using eight pneumatic network tentacle actuators. (Image credit: FAU via IOPScience) Researchers from the Florida Atlantic University have designed a robotic jellyfish to monitor and explore delicate coral and…

  • WPI Engineers Design Autonomous Robot to Keep Invasive Fish in Check

    WPI’s robot uses computer vision to identify lionfish and jabs them with buoyant spears, which float the fish to the surface to be harvested by fishermen. (Image credit: WPI ) Lionfish are a venomous species of the Pterois genus native to the Indo-Pacific…