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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