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#Southern Ocean | Applications

#Sea Machines | Artificial Intelligence Recognition and Identification System | Detects, tracks, classifies and geolocates objects, vessel traffic and other potential obstacles

#NASA | EarthData

#Antarctic And Southern Ocean Coalition | Representing Antarctic conservation community | Informing and motivating global leaders to protect Antarctica for all of humanity

#Data Cosmos | MultiSatellite Data Platform | Open Cosmos

#Neste | Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAS) | Renewable diesel | Renewable feedstock for polymers and chemicals | Developing chemical recycling to combat the plastic waste challenge | Accelerating shifting to circular economy | Creating solutions for migitating climate change

#Jet Propulsion Laboratory | NASA | Antarctic ice | Detecting Climate Impacts | Measuring grounding zone of ice shelves | Hydrology | Cryosphere | Biosphere | Laser measurements | Glacial lakes | ICESat2

#United Nations Office on Drugs and crime | Satellite tracking over oceans to uncover illegal fishing and other forms of fisheries crime | Detecting fisheries crime, illegal fishing, economic crime, tax and customs fraud, trade in endangered marine species and human trafficking | Utilizing marine resources in a sustainable way | Managing marine resources in a way that is good for the future | Automatic Identification System (AIS) | Anti collision system for ships | Blue Justice Tracking Centre | Blue Justice initiative | Ministry of Fisheries and Ocean Policy, Norway | Ministry for International Development, Norway

#Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) | Supporting the development of systems that maximise the discoverability, access and impact of Southern Ocean observations | Autonomous passage planning

#WWF | Halting and reversing biodiversity loss | Conserving land, freshwater and ocean globally | Protection of intact ecosystems | Tackling unsustainable production | Eliminating subsidies harmful to nature | Reducing the unsustainable footprint of production and consumption

#Australian Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)

#Global Ocean Watch Station within OceanSites

#Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR)

#Scientific Steering Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)

#Jet Propulsion Lab NASA | NASA glacier mapping project | Antarctic Ice Sheet losing mass | Iceberg calving | The edge of the ice sheet shedding icebergs faster than the ice can be replaced | Ice loss from calving weakened ice shelves allowing Antarctic glaciers to flow more rapidly to the ocean | Warming ocean destabilizing Antarctica ice shelves by melting them from below, making them thinner and weaker

#ICEYE | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

#General Atomics | Air to Air Laser Communication System | Crosslinks from aircraft to other platforms such as unmanned aircraft, maritime vessels, and space systems

#SatelIoT | IoT connectivity over standard 5G NB-IoT

#Maritimo | M55 | 1,000 hp Volvo Penta D13 diesels | 900 hp Scania DI13 diesels | 1,000 hp Caterpillar 12.9 diesels | Teignbridge Aquafoil five blade props | Seakeeper gyrostabilizer | Bruce anchor

#National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research | India

#Australian Antarctic Program Partnership | Australia

#Institute Pierre-Simon Laplace, France | Research

#University of Tasmania, Australia| Research

#Argentine Antarctic Institute, Argentine| Research

#University of Southampton, UK | Research

#University of Canterbury, New Zealand | Research

#Ocean Science for Sustainable Development | United Nations

#SWOT | Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission | Providing high definition data on the salt and fresh water on Earth surface | Measuring the height of water in Earth freshwater bodies and the ocean | Providing insights into how the ocean influences climate change | how a warming world affects lakes, rivers, and reservoirs | how communities can better prepare for disasters, like floods | Tracking Earth water budget | where the water is today | where it is coming from | where it is going to be tomorrow | Helping to understand oceans role in climate change | ObservIng the entire length of nearly all rivers wider than 330 feet (100 meters) | Viewing rivers in 3D for the first time | Data of over a million lakes larger than 15 acres (62500 square meters) | Providing information about global ocean atmosphere heat exchange | NASA | CNES | CSA | UK Space Agency | ESA

#International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) | Intergovernmental organisation representing hydrography

#Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) | Models on climate change

#Oregon State University | The effect of Antarctic meltwater on ocean currents research

#Sydney University | Rapidly melting Antarctic ice resesrch | Slowdown in deep ocean currents analysis

#Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation | Research

#SOSS Symbosium 2023 | CSIRO Australia | CNR Institute of Polar Science, Italy | NOOA, USA | University of Tasmania, Institute of Marin and Antarctica | Royal Belgium Institute of Natural Science, Belgium | European Polar Board, Netherlands | Institute Antarctico, Argentina | British Antarctic Survey, UK

#Yale Environment 360 | Online magazine offering opinion, analysis, reporting, and debate on global environmental issues

#SOOS map | Southern Ocean map

#Advanced Navigation | AI-based marine navigation systems | AI-Based underwater navigation solutions and robotics technology | Hydrography | Underwater acoustic positioning solutions | Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) | Inertial navigation systems (INS) | Sidney, Australia

#Anybotics | Workforce App | Operate ANYmal robot from device | Set up and review robot missions | Industrial Inspection

#LookOut | AI vision system | Synthesized data from charts, AIS, computer vision, and cloud fusing it into one 3D augmented reality view | Connects to existing boat display | Mountable camera system to the top of any boat | Lookout App for laptop, phone or tablet | Infrared vision | Night vision sensor | Spotting small vessels, floating debris, buoys, people in water | Blind spot detection | Backup camera | Temperature breaks, bird cluster locations, underwater structures for anglers | Camera streaming over WiFi to phones and tablets on the boat | Over-the-air (OTA) updates | Marine-grade water-proof enclosure | Integrated with satellite compass | National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) communication standard interface | Multifunction Display (MFD) | Multi-core CPU driving augmented reality compute stack | ClearCloud service | NVIDIA RTX GPU for real-time computer vision | DockWa app

#Yamaha Marine | 450 hp hydrogen-powered V-8 outboard | Three 6-foot-long cylindrical-shaped hydrogen fuel tanks | H2 machine operates by using hydrogen in its combustion chambers | H2 tanks are positioned low and centrally to enhance stability | H2 tanks size demands rethinking of future boat designs, hulls specifically tailored for hydrogen storage | Hydrogen storage system adds considerable weight to vessel | Volumetric energy density of hydrogen is lower, requiring larger tanks | Partners: Roush Performance, Regulator Marine

#Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) | Developing international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution | Raising awareness about the serious impacts of plastic pollution on both humans and nature | Global bans and phase-outs of the most harmful and problematic plastic products and chemicals | Global product design requirements to ensure all plastic produced is safe to reuse and recycle as part of global non-toxic circular economy

#Tampere University | Pneumatic touchpad | Soft touchpad sensing force, area and location of contact without electricity | Device utilises pneumatic channels | Can be used in environments such as MRI machines | Soft robots | Rehabilitation aids | Touchpad does not need electricity | It uses pneumatic channels embedded in the device for detection | Made entirely of soft silicone | 32 channels that adapt to touch | Precise enough to recognise handwritten letters | Recognizes multiple simultaneous touches | Ideal for use in devices such as MRI machines | If cancer tumours are found during MRI scan, pneumatic robot can take biopsy while patient is being scanned | Pneumatic device can be used in strong radiation or conditions where even small spark of electricity would cause serious hazard

#Deutsche Aircraft | Turboprop aircraft | Designed to operate on close to zero emissions | Regional transportation solutions using sustainable means | Modern avionics suite | Superior situational awareness | Multi-role missions | Modular cabin layout | Quick conversion capability | Designed to facilitate quick medical evacuation and assist in aerial firefighting and humanitarian missions | Hot and cold galley | Cabin flexibility with up to 40 seats | Full height cabin | Unpaved runway operation | Maritime surveillance | Search & Rescue | Humanitarian assistance | Air ambulance service | Drug enforcement | Cargo

#Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara | Investigating how diatoms in Southern Ocean help to decode chemical signals | Providing insight into nutrient cycling and climate interactions from past glacial periods | Research cruise focused on collecting water and particle samples | Study how diatoms build nitrogen and silicon-rich shells | Understandung how isotopic signals are produced and preserved in fossils | Building models linking nitrogen and silicon isotope compositions to biological processes and ocean circulation

#Submarinecablemap.com | Submarine Cable Map

#ESA | FutureEO | Gkacier in Antarctica is rapidly siphoning ice from neighbouring flows | Ice piracy process | Fast-flowing Kohler East Glacier in West Antarctica has been stealing ice from a slower-moving neighbour | The rate at which ice flows and eventual melts into sea has implications for sea-level rise | There is substantial speed-up in Antarctica, which has the highest recorded rates of thinning and grounding-line retreat | Grounding line is the point at which glaciers on land transition to ice shelves and start to float | If grounding line retreats, this can cause instability and even faster flow of ice sheet towards ocean | Data from Copernicus Sentinel-1 and ESA CryoSat mission | Prof. Anna Hogg, Dr Heather Selley, University of Leeds

#British Antarctic Survey | Dramatic glacial theft has occurred over less than 18 years | Ice piracy: flow into one glacier gradually switches to flow into another glacier, as ocean melts grounding zone and re-configures ice flow | International research team measured ice speed changes in fast-changing Pope, Smith and Kohler (PSK) region of West Antarctica between 2005 and 2022 | Over 410 million people could be at risk from rising sea levels by 2100

#Antarctica2030 | Uniting leaders from sport, politics, business, media, and science to champion Antarctica Southern Ocean protection | Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) | Pew Charitable Trusts | Oceans 5

#Blue Atlas Robotics | Self-operating service robot that performs underwater surveys | Shared data platform collecting data from selected Nordic vendors of airborne and subsea drone systems | Sentinus 2 robot live-streamed high-quality underwater data during subsea surveillance operation using 5G in controller unit | Smultaneous aerial streams, enabling comprehensive surveillance solution that covered both above and below water | With minimal equipment, mission preparation becomes effortless, offering greater flexibility | Vision-lock to target for efficient mission ensuring the best quality of data | Point clouds | 3D models | Underwater assets managrment | Visual inspection outputs for vessel bottoms | In-water propeller inspections | Sea chest inspections | Inspecting bow thrusters

#AGU | Southern Ocean Heat Burp in a Cooling World | Simulating several hundred years of net-negative emissions and gradual global cooling | Abrupt discharge of heat from Southern Ocean modeled | Global mean surface temperature increase of several tenths of degrees lasting for more than a century modeled | Ocean heat burp reasoned to originate from heat previously accumulated under global warming in deep Southern Ocean | Multi-centennial scale climate simulations | Question of the durability of oceanic storage of heat and carbon more urgent as ocean warming is accelerating | As atmospheric CO2 strongly decreases and atmospheric temperature declines, carbon and heat stored in the ocean start to return to the ocean surface | The majority of interior ocean waters ultimately returns to Southern Ocean surface and is reexposed to atmosphere in Southern Ocean | In Southern Ocean density layers outcrop at ocean surface, directly connecting surface to interior ocean thereby regulating oceanic exchange with atmosphere | Combined with persistent large-scale upwelling, Southern Ocean is prominent candidate for release of heat and carbon from ocean interior under reversal of atmospheric CO2 and global cooling | 40% of oceanic uptake of carbon | 80% of oceanic uptake of heat | Earth system model | Mass and energy conserving University of Victoria model UVic | Simulations of long time scales and carbon cycle feedbacks | UVic features atmospheric energy-balance model, ocean circulation and sea-ice model, land biosphere and ocean biogeochemistry with two plankton groups | Horizontal resolution: 3.6 × 1.8 | Ocean model; 19 vertical z-layers with increasing thicknesses over depths from 50m to 500m | Ocean Heat Release Causes Warm Period | Accumulated Heat Pushing up in Southern Ocean | Large-scale upwelling of deep waters in Southern Ocean keep surface temperatures comparatively cool | Southern Ocean serves as window to atmosphere, abruptly releasing heat during event and driving global surface warming and top of atmosphere energy loss, causing heat burp | Climate and Earth system models do not simulate changes in ice sheets and consequently miss the effect of freshwater input to ocean associated with ice sheet mass loss under global warming | Melt water discharge from Antarctic ice sheet triggered by global warming will have an additional, long-lasting freshening effect | Model used lacks a full response of the wind | Model also misses cloud feedbacks | Research underlines both importance of Southern Ocean in climate system and its response to changes in climate system beyond heat and carbon uptake under contemporary rising global temperatures | It is important to continue to improve process understanding of how waters return from interior Southern Ocean and what determines their properties | Interactive ice sheets needed | Observational data collection needed | Deep Argo observing waters below 2,000 m depths needed | Ack: research-unit Biogeochemical Modeling and funding by European Research Council (ERC)

#Omega | Ocean exploration with Omega watch | Water resistant: minimum depth of 30 bar (300 m/1000 ft) depending on model | Helium valve: prevents He molecules, which expand during decompression, from popping crystal face and caseback of watch | Unidirectional rotating bezel: preventing divers from accidentally rotating it wrong way and miscalculating dive time | Display: luminescent hands, indexes and dot | Shock and rack resistant: exploring caves, shipwrecks and reefs | Extendable bracelet: making extra room for thickness of diving suit | Antimagnetic: resisting forces from electronic devices | Pushers that work perfectly underwater | Official Timing Partner of the U.S. Olympic Team | Since 1932 brought its renowned precision, expertise, and technical innovation to Olympic Games, separating the margins between gold, silver, and bronze, and serving each athlete during their career-defining moments

#International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) | Setting a global conservation agenda | Adopted a motion, Recognition of the Rights of Antarctica | Included Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in their 20-year plans

#International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) | Recognition of the rights of Antarctica | Antarctica, including the Southern Ocean south of the Antarctic Convergence, consists of a unique environment and dependent and associated ecosystems that play indispensable roles in maintaining conditions conducive to the flourishing of life on Earth, including climate stability | ACK: Antarctica Treaty system & 1991 Protocol on Environmental Protection to Antarctic Treaty & Commission for Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) & their recognition & protection of Antarctic environment &dependent & associated ecosystems, intrinsic value of Antarctica, its wilderness & aestheticvalues & dedication of Antarctica to peace &science | ACK: existence of global initiatives which aim to to recognise Antarctica & Southern Ocean & many Antarctic biota, to exist, to be wild, and to continue their regenerative cycles and processes free of human disruption or control, in order to enable them to fulfil their roles within larger Earth community | REC: international community addressing Antarctic governance through Antarctic Treaty System & work & recommendations of IUCN Task Force on Antarctica & Southern Ocean & 2025 IUCN Strategy, Policy & Programme on Antarctica & Southern Ocean | NB: current & projected deterioration of Antarctic environment & dependent & associated ecosystems due to activities within & outside area regulated byAntarctic Treaty System (ATS), inc activities contributing to degradation of ecosystems, such as climate change, plastic pollution, Illegal, Unreported & Unregulated (IUU) fishing | RECALL: IUCN long-standing commitment to protecting Antarctic ecosystems, species and unique wilderness values | ASKS Director General, IUCN Antarctic & Southern Ocean Task Force, IUCN Commissions & IUCN Members to thoroughly evaluate concept of fundamental rights of Antarctica and corresponding duties of humans | RECOMMENDS Director General, in collaboration with WCEL, IUCN Antarctic and Southern Ocean Task Force, IUCN Commissions & IUCN Members, submit report to IUCN Members on evaluation progress by IUCN, IUCN Members & partner stakeholders to implement this Resolution | ENCOURAGES IUCN Members to advance cooperation under Antarctic Treaty System to protect intrinsic value of Antarctica & its dependent & associated ecosystems

#NVIDIA | GPU Deep Learning | GPU acting as the brain of computing | Robots and self driving cars can perceive and unferstand the world | Accelerating the entire AI workflow | AI agents designed to reason, plan, and act | Conversational AI: multilingual speech and translation AI | Vision AI: multimodal real-time insights | AI factories: manufacturing intelligence at scale | Purpose-built AI factories | AI life-cycle | Humanoid robotics research and development platform | Machine Learning | Neural networks | Natural language processing | Speech recognition | Recommender systems | Biomedical image segmentation | Object detection | Image classification | Reinforcement learning