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Home Articles Ocean Decade

Exploring Worlds beyond the coastline – OCEANS 2020 plenary

Hari VishnuFebruary 5, 2021Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, Earth Observation, Ocean Decade, Oceans

Image of a Saildrone

Jyotika Virmani from Schmidt Ocean Institute spoke about how technology will be key to powering our exploration of the oceans in the coming years, and how SOI’s philanthropic model has contributed to powering this science in the past by allowing scientists to use facilities on board their ship and ROV.

Sustaining Long-Term Ocean Observations

EarthzineJanuary 20, 2021Earth Observation, Ocean Decade, Oceans

La Jolla beach

Long-term observations are critical for using ocean resources responsibly and sustainably.

First new seafloor map of the Ocean Decade collected in Australian waters

EarthzineJanuary 7, 2021Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, Earth Observation, Ocean Decade, Oceans

The Schmidt Ocean Institute’s RV Falkor on task at Herald Cays in the afternoon light – perfect conditions in the middle of the Coral Sea!

Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor has collected the first public seafloor data of the New Year, as part of a global effort to map the entire ocean floor by 2030.

Autonomous Systems – Emerging & Future Technology Panel at OCEANS 2020

EarthzineDecember 27, 2020Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, Earth Observation, Ocean Decade, Oceans

Networked systems: An illustration of different modes of communication amongst underwater, surface, and aerial vehicles.

A panel session identified the challenges and opportunities in emerging technologies such as ocean sampling networks, underwater IOT, resident underwater vehicles, underwater human robot interaction, and ultra-long endurance systems.

Ocean Best Practices OBPS Success Story – GOOS-Endorsed Best Practices

EarthzineDecember 12, 2020Earth Observation, Ocean Decade, Oceans

GOOS

During the last year, Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), working with the OBPS, have developed a process to enable GOOS community best practices to be identified and made available via a search function in the OBPS.

Improving Global and Regional Ocean Observing Through Best Practices and Standards

EarthzineNovember 24, 2020Earth Observation, Ocean Decade, Oceans

Figure 1. The Ocean Observing Value Chain from observations to users.

Why adopting and documenting Best Practices and Standards is important to understanding our Oceans better, and thereby solving problems of the coming Decade.

Inspiring young minds towards Oceanic Engineering – TryEngineering webinar

Hari VishnuOctober 1, 2020IEEE OES, Mentorship, Ocean Decade, Oceans

A screenshot of an animated moment at the webinar.

An Oceanic Engineering webinar was a great opportunity to reach out to young minds who were curious on Ocean-related careers.

Ocean Decade – Regional Planning Workshop for Northern/Central Indian Ocean countries and ROPME sea area

EarthzineJuly 27, 2020climate change, Ocean Decade, Oceans, Original, Sustainability, United Nations

Inaugural session of regional planning workshop for Ocean Decade

A Regional Planning Workshop for Northern/Central Indian Ocean countries and ROPME sea area was conducted at the National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai.

UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable development – Objectives and Planning (Part 1/2)

Hari VishnuJune 11, 2020climate change, Ocean Decade, Oceans, Original, Sustainability, United Nations

Oceans, cradle to life on Earth

Is there a way to reverse ocean health decline and continue to rely on it ? The coming Ocean Decade is an opportunity to seek a positive answer to this question.

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