Today, Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, acting NOAA administrator, appointed Eileen Sobeck as assistant administrator for NOAA Fisheries. She assumes her new position on January 27 taking the helm from Samuel Rauch, who has served as acting assistant administrator since 2012…
NOAA Capt. Anne K. Lynch has assumed command of the agency's Marine Operations Center-Atlantic in Norfolk, Va., which manages the day-to-day operations of the nine research and survey ships in NOAA's Atlantic fleet.Each year these ships…
American researcher and author Christos A. Djonis exposes the location of the legendary island and discusses how close the scientific community previously came to solving this mysteryContrary to a general belief that Plato's Atlantis may have been somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean…
Miros AS, a Norwegian leading global producer of oceanographic remote sensing equipment and advanced Met Ocean systems, acquired Aberdeen based Muir Matheson Ltd. on November 1, 2012 to strengthen the company’s presence in the oil and gas Market…
If necessity is the mother of invention, then the pressing needs of our ocean explain the spawning of innovation at BLUE Ocean Film Festival & Conservation Summit (BLUE). This annual multi-disciplinary summit is a convergence of bright minds…
Before the close of the inaugural Oceanology International China (OI China) held in Shanghai in early September, more than 70% of the space available for the next show in the series, being held September 3-5 , 2014 at INTEX Shanghai, had been reserved…
With oceans considered by many as one of the last frontiers, a new American Bar Association book will help experts and government planners use zoning as a vehicle for ocean development and management. “Zoning the Oceans: The Next Big Step…
The Center for Maritime Policy and Strategy will host an academic workshop, Friday, Sept. 20, 2013, at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy entitled “Resilient Ports, Marine Transportation Systems and Maritime Communities in an Era of Global Environmental Change…
Representatives from the Coast Guard National Strike Force, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration conducted water sampling as part of a joint effort to analyze the effects of the molasses spill in Honolulu Harbor Sunday…
Ocean Sonics welcomed Zhao Xie & Lauren Dolan to the icListen team in the roles of Accounting and Marketing. Zhao joined the team as Accounting Administrative Assistant and will be responsible for payroll, data entry, and preparing financial statements…
Dr. Anne-Marie Warris, an internationally respected expert in the fields of sustainable shipping, climate change and environmental management, has been chosen as Personality of the Year 2013 by WISTA-UK, part of the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association…
A mission to install a weather station in one of the most remote places in the world took on a humanitarian component when Scripps research vessel Roger Revelle took aboard a woman and her three children, who had been confined to a small atoll for more than a month…
Liquid Robotics, an ocean data services provider and developer of the first wave-powered Wave Glider ocean robot, announced that Pablo Luther, former CFO of Gridiron Systems Inc. (recently acquired by Violin Memory) has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO)…
Due to a continued increase in business, and an increasing portfolio of ever more sophisticated instruments and systems, Surrey based Planet Ocean Ltd. appointed Kira Coley as Scientific Applications Specialist.Kira will provide scientific…
The U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) has awarded ERISS Corporation the funds to work with The Maritime Alliance on a study that will articulate the impact of the ocean observation sector in the U.S.“IOOS data and information…
