Sea Technology back issues from March 2007:
Early Exposure Key to Marine Sciences Careers
Mar 01, 2007; ... In the Aug. 2006 issue of Sea Technology, Jerry Streeter. the then-national president of the Marine Technology Society (MTS) wrote an impassioned Soapbox editorial about the need to attract talented young people to careers in ocean technologies. Those of you who currently work in sonic ...
soundings
Mar 01, 2007; ... Navy to Commission New Guided Missile Destroyer Gridley. The Navy commissioned the newest Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer. Gridley, Feb. 10, during an 11 a.m. ceremony at the Port of Miami, Fla. U.S. Southern Command Adm. James Stavridis delivered the ceremony's principal ...
An Operational Real-Time Large-Scale Visual Mosaicking and Navigation System
Mar 01, 2007; ... Precision Benthic Positioning and Mapping Without Transponders The Stanford Aerospace Robotics Lab and the Monterey Buy Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have jointly developed and demonstrated a real-time visual mosaicking and navigation system for use as a pilot aid on remotely ...
Improved AUV Navigation Through Multi-Sensor Data Fusion
Mar 01, 2007; ... A Combined Doppler and Acoustic Navigation System Can Provide Drift-Free Geo-Referenced Positioning To achieve true autonomy, an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) must be able to navigate accurately and reliably in the underwater domain. This is especially applicable to survey ...
A Meeting of the Minds: SubOptic 2007
Mar 01, 2007; ... Last December is now famous for the earthquakes near Taiwan, an event that made dramatically clear two important facts. First, the world discovered the data that support s the world's economiesand virtually 100 percent of the transoceanic Internet traffic-flow through the submarine ...
Test and Evaluation of Interferometric Sonar Technology
Mar 01, 2007; ... Integrating Phase Differencing Bathymetric Sonar into Suite of Tools Used for Nautical Charting Hydrographic Surveying The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminislnition (NOAA) spends a large portion of its overall nautical charting hydrographie survey effort obtaining bathymetrie data ...
The Towed Torpedo Emulator
Mar 01, 2007; ... A Tool for Testing and Training of Surface Ship Torpedo Defense Systems Defense of surface ships against torpedo attack is a continuing concern for many western navies. At present there lire significant new torpedo defense systems acquisitions underway in the U.S., United Kingdom and ...
Tsunami Monitoring System: Implementing Global Real Time Data Telemetry
Mar 01, 2007; ... How the Indian Ocean tsunami of Dec. 2004 Introduced the Need for Real-Time Sea Level Data From Anywhere When lhe Sumatra-Andaman earthquake struck at 00:54 GMT on Dec. 2k. 2004. ;tnd unleashed the most devastating tsunami in modern history, it found the world completely unprepared. The ...
Interdisciplinary Ocean Sensor Technology Development
Mar 01, 2007; ... Research-to-Applications: Sensor Development for Long-Term Environmental Monitoring Systems Under the auspices of the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP). the Multi-disciplinary Ocean Sensors for Environmental Analyses and Networks (MOSEAN) project sel forth in develop and ...
President Bush Requests $297.2 Million for Financial Year 2008 MMS Budget
Mar 01, 2007; ... The financial year 2008 budget tor the Minerals Management Service (MMS) is $297.2 million. This is an increase of $16.2 million above the financial year 2007 continuing resolution and $4.9 million over the financial year 2007 president's budget. "With this budget request, MMS can ...
Supplemental Budget Supports Navy Global War on Terror Efforts
Mar 01, 2007; ... Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Mike Million told lawmakers Feb. 13, that the Navy's proposed $8.9 billion emergency wartime supplemental request tor fiscal year 2007 will help the service reset and equip the force while staying ahead of the demands of current combat ...
Break-up of Ice May Expose Marine Life to More Sunlight
Mar 01, 2007; ... Despite the icy cold and darkness, beneath the frozen surface of the sea in Antarctica thrives a rich and complex array of plants and animals. But what will happen to all those creatures if global warming reduces the ice cover, as is predicted for coming decades? University of New South ...
Vibrations From Smokers May Keep Fish Out of Hot Water
Mar 01, 2007; ... The long-held assumption that black smokers are silent is wrong, according to recenlly published research led by Timothy Crone, a University of Washington doctoral student in oceanography. It is prompting scientists to wonder: Could the sound and vibrations of black smokers be the reason fish in ...
Methane Bubbling Through Seafloor Makes Undersea Hills
Mar 01, 2007; ... According to a recent paper published by Montcrey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) geologists and their colleagues, methane gas bubbling through seafloor sediments has created hundreds of low hills on the Moor of the Arctic Ocean. These enigmatic features, which can grow up to 40 meters ...
Galileo Services Goes International, Including Non-European Countries
Mar 01, 2007; ... Established in 2002, the Galileo Services (Vincennes, France) association consists of key European players in the GNSS downstream industry. The GNSS market is global by nature, and Galileu Services continues its expansion with new members from non-European countries. NovAtel (Calgary, ...
Offshore Systems Gets Approval Secures First for Integrated ECDIS and S-VDR System
Mar 01, 2007; ... Offshore Systems (Vancouver, Canada) announced the type approval of their integrated ECPINS S-VDR 5000 system by Bundesamt fur seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH) and the sale of the first three systems to INCO Ships (Sydney, Australia). Three of INCO's vessels-CSLPacific, Stadacona and ...
SMT Ship Management & Transport Chooses BASSnet to Streamline Operations
Mar 01, 2007; ... BASS (Oslo, Norway) announced that SMT Ship Management & Transport (Oslo, Norway), reached an agreement with BASS to provide advanced purchasing and safety software solutions to help increase both purchasing efficiency and safety reporting. The agreement, which followed a lengthy ...
Satellite Services Join for Communications for the Wallenius Fleet
Mar 01, 2007; ... Telenor Satellite Services (Oslo, Norway), a subsidiary of Telenor, announced it has teamed with Telemar Scandinavia AB (Gothenhury, Sweden) on delivery of broadband maritime communications for 21 vessels managed by Wallenius Marine AB (Stockholm, Sweden). Under the terms of the recently ...
Tognum GmbH Realigns Group Companies into New Divisions
Mar 01, 2007; ... Tognum GmbH (Fricdrichshafen, Germany), manufacturers of large diesel engines, complete drive systems and power generation plant is realigning the group's business activities and brands. In the future, these will be integrated into two divisions, engines and after-sales and systems and ...
Triton Group Holdings Acquires Perry Slingsby Systems
Mar 01, 2007; ... Triton Group Holdings acquired Perry Slingsby Systems (Jupiter, Fla.) and Perry Slingsby Systems Inc. (PSS) from Technip (Cedex, France). The transfer and ownership of PSS to Triton Group Holdings takes immediate effect. Triton Group Holdings is a new entity, established specifically for ...
Creature's Toxin Could Lead To Promising Cancer Treatment
Mar 01, 2007; ... A toxin derived from a reclusive sea creature resembling a translucent doughnut has inspired University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center researchers to develop n related compound that shows promise as a cancer treatment. In a study, the UT Southwestern scienlists detail how the ...
product development
Mar 01, 2007; ... For more information on any of these product items, visit our Web site at www.sea-technology.com/products.html. Underway CTD Probe The ultra-compact, portable Underway CTD provides research-quality CTD measurements and continuous profiling from almost any moving vessel up to 20 ...
April Coral's Dive In to Earth Day
Mar 01, 2007; ... Thousands of people worldwide are preparing to 'Dive In.' The week of April 22, 2007. will launch the Coral Reel" Alliance's (CORAL) eighth annual Dive In To Hart h Day celebrations. Dive In mobilizes communities, park managers, dive shops, students and other marine lovers around the ...
Pesticide May Affect Estuarine Health
Mar 01, 2007; ... National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science researchers have identified potential effects of the commonly used herbicide atrazine on phytoplankton. The study indicates protein levels in pliyloplankion significantly decreased as a ...
Hospital Ship Mercy To Western Pacific
Mar 01, 2007; ... The hospital ship USNS Mercy (HM-1) departed San Diego April 24 on a five-month humanitarian mission in ihe western Pacific and Southeast Asia. This is a direct result of lessons learned last year during tsunami relief operations wherein the onboard Navy medical team and the U.S. Department of ...
Seabees Bring Water to Drought-stricken Ethiopia
Mar 01, 2007; ... Members of the water well-drilling unit of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 7 from Gulfport, Miss, drilled wells that produce clean drinking water for residents, as well as water for crops and livestock in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia. The Seabees went to the remote region in ...
U.S. Naval Forces Assist in Search and Rescue in Bahrain
Mar 01, 2007; ... U.S. 5th Fleet assets and personnel responded immediately March 30 alter learning that a vessel capsized in a Bahraini harbor, approximately one mile cast of the command's headquarters in Bahrain. U.S. Navy and ...
Russian Warship Participates in Humanitarian Relief Effort
Mar 01, 2007; ... The USS Chosin (CG 65) and the Russian Navy Udaloyelass destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov (DDGHM 543) operated in formation during a joint Russian FederationU.S. Navy exercise ....
DoD Selects Fiscal 2006 Comparative Testing Projects
Mar 01, 2007; ... The Department of Defense selected 42 new-start projects to receive fiscal 2006 funding under the Comparative Testing Office (CTO); 20 under the Foreign Comparative Testing (KCT) program and 22 under the Defense Acquisition Challenge (DAC) program. The FCT and DAC programs leverage ...
Two U.S. Navy Vessels Named Flagships for BHR Expedition
Mar 01, 2007; ... The amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) and guided-missilc destroyer USS John Paul Joncs (DDG 53) were named honorary flagships for the upcoming search for the remains of the original Bonhomme Richard, which sank in the North Sea in 1779. The search project revolves ...
Rotterdam to Use SaviTrak for Cargo Security
Mar 01, 2007; ... Savi Networks (Mountain View, Calif.) announced that it has extended the SaviTrak real-time in informatin service to key terminal locations at the Port of Rotterdam, Europe's largest port and a transportation gateway linked to more than 1,000 ports worldwide. SaviTrak enhances efficiency and ...
Hafmynd Honored with Homeland Security Award for GAVIA AUV
Mar 01, 2007; ... The 2006 Frost and Sullivan Disruptive Solution in Homeland Security Award was conferred on Hufmynd (Reykjavik, Iceland) for its innovative GAVIA autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) solution. The product has a 10-year record of development, testing, evaluation and operalion. "In a market ...
Retired Admiral Sworn in as Director of National Intelligence
Mar 01, 2007; ... As President Bush looked on, retired Navy Vice Adm. John M. "Mike" McConnell took the oath of office as the second director of national intelligence from White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten. Speaking at the Boiling Air Force Base ceremony. Bush said McConnell will be "a great asset" ...
Bluefin Robotics Corp. Secures $18 Million Contract For Surface Mine Countermeasures
Mar 01, 2007; ... Bluefin Robotics Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.) and QinetiQ. (Farnborough, United Kingdom) announced the award of a $17,956,137 contract from the U.S. Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to support the design, development, fabrication and testing of surface mine countermcasures (SMCM) addressed ...
Boeing Concludes Purchase of C-Map to Grow Jeppesen Marine Business
Mar 01, 2007; ... The Boeing Company (Seattle, Wash.) announced it has concluded its purchase of C-Map, a leading provider of digital maritime cartography, data services and other navigational information. C-Map will become a part of Jeppesen's marine division. Jeppesen is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Boeing ...
4.6 Million Shares of Common Stock Sold Under Existing Shelf Registration
Mar 01, 2007; ... Overseas Shipholding Group Inc. (OSG) (New York, N.Y.) announced today the sale of 4.600.000 shares of common slock of Double Hull Tankers Inc. (DHT) St. llelier, France) in a registered public offering underwritten by Merrill Lynch & Company (New York. N.Y.). OSCi expects to recognize a ...
Seatronics Opts for Valeport in Major Order Placement
Mar 01, 2007; ... The Seatronics Group, worldwide marine technology rental specialists, has placed a significant order tor group usage with Valeport. Products ordered include numerous Midas CTDs. SVPs, and the Midas SVX2- Valeporfs new small-scale combined CTD/SVP. Water level recorders suitable for both ...
Shakespeare Company Joins into Marketing Alliance
Mar 01, 2007; ... The Shakespeare Company (Columbia, S.C), Raeal Antennas Limited (Southampton. United Kingdom) and Mastsystem International Oy (lleinavaara, Finland), a subsidiary of Raeal Antennas Limited, have entered into a sales and marketing strategie allianee. "Meeting ihe demands of our U.S. and ...
Superior Energy Services Inc. Acquires Warrior Energy Services Corp.
Mar 01, 2007; ... Superior linergy Services Inc. (Harvey, La.) announced it has completed the acquisition of Warrior Energy Services Corp. Under the agreement, Superior has acquired Warrior for approximately $175 million in cash and 5.3 million shares of common slock. "We look ...
Triton Imaging and EdgeTech Announce OEM Agreement
Mar 01, 2007; ... Triton Imaging Inc. (Walsonville, Calif.) and FdgeTech (Marl borough. Mass.) announced they have signed an original equipment manufacturer (OFM) agreement under which FdgeTech may offer Triton sidescan and seismic processing software to users of FdgeTeeh sonars as supplemental software. Three ...
Anadarko Chooses Autoload-Offshore Software
Mar 01, 2007; ... Autoship Systems Corporation (ASC) ( Vancouver, Canada) announced another Autoload installation on the new semi-submersible platform. Independence Hub. Jim Rohr & Associates (JRA) (Houston, Texas) and a dealer with ASC, were selected by Anadurko Petroleum C'orporation to provide ...
Pearl Energy Begins Production From Jasmine B Platform
Mar 01, 2007; ... Pearl Hnergy (Singapore) has stalled production from the Jasmine B platform in the Jasmine Production Area in Block B 5/27 in the Gulf of Thailand. Protluetion at Jasmine B commenced on Jan. 22, at an initial rate of 2,300 barrels of oil per day (BOPD) from a single development well. B2 ....
Aker Kvaerner Awards Letter of Intent
Mar 01, 2007; ... Akcr Kvacrner (Arendal. Norway) has awarded Kongsberg Maritime (Kongsberg, Norway) a letter of intent for integrated control systems for safety and process automation on board a semi-submersible production platform destined to be used on the Ojoa oil and gas Held in the North Sea. Akcr ...
Tronic Plans Multi-Million Pound Expansion in Ulverston
Mar 01, 2007; ... Tronic (Cumbria, United Kingdom) has revealed it is planning a major expansion in Ulverston that could create more than 100 new jobs tor the area. Tronic has been named as the preferred bidder for the latest phase of development at Low Mill Business Park at a meeting of South Lakeland ...
3-D Seismic Model Of Vast Water Reservoir Revealed
Mar 01, 2007; ... A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis has made the first 3-D model of seismic wave damping deep in the Earth's mantle and has revealed the existence of an underground water reservoir at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean. It is the first evidence for water existing in ...
Team Uses Satellite To Track Earth's Water
Mar 01, 2007; ... For the first time, scientists have used a space-home instrument to track the origin and movements of water vapor throughout Earth's atmosphere, providing a new perspective on the dominant role Earth's water cycle plays in weather and climate. A team of scientists from the University of ...
Researcher To Study Volcanism With Under-Ocean Sensors
Mar 01, 2007; ... Earthquakes and volcanic activity occur when the tectonic plates that make up Harth's surface move apart or converge. While this activity is relatively easy to observe on land, it's more difficult to observe under the ocean, where most of it occurs. A University of Missouri. Columbia researcher ...
AeroVironment Completes Sea Trials
Mar 01, 2007; ... AeroVironment Inc. (AV) (Monrovia, Calif.), announced that it has successfully completed sea trials of its Aqua Puma Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) tor the Royal Australian Navy to explore adding a UAS capability to the Navy's new Armidale class patrol boats. AV's Aqua Puma is launched ...
GeoSwath Used for Mapping Cold Water Coral Reef
Mar 01, 2007; ... In recent trials off Trondheim, Norway, the GeoSwath Phis swath bathymetry and side scan system from GeoAcouslics (Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom) was used for the first time on a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to map cold water coral reefs. The trials were organised in association with NTNU ...
Kongsberg Maritime Refits Navigation Bridge Simulator
Mar 01, 2007; ... Kongsherg Maritime's (Kongsberg, Norway) simulation concluded a $1 million refit of the largest simulated navigation bridge in the world at the end of 2006. The simulator is located at the Center for Marine Simulation (CMS) at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland- The original ...
Thordon Solves USCG Sterntube Problem
Mar 01, 2007; ... Due to the harsh arctic environment in which it operates, the 13,500-ton displacement Polar Sea, one of the world's most powerful non-nuclear powered triple-screw icebreakers, suffered repeated corrosion and fretting wear within the shafts. This resulted in damage to the support lands lor the ...
contracts
Mar 01, 2007; ... The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) (Burnaby, Canada), has signed an agreement to continue and expand its lung term system support program (LTSSP) with Kongsberg Maritime (KM) (Kongsberg, Norway). The eontract, for support of the full mission Polaris DNV Class "A" ...
The Spark in the Sea: Adventures in Marine Science
Mar 01, 2007; ... The Spark in the Sea: Adventures in Marine Science Ecdtcil by David J. Horrigan Paperhack. 152 pp. Home Plaiwt Bonks. $24.00 Written by marine seienlisls anil explorers, this book Js a collection of true and daring personal tales. From raeing a submarine through a siorm tor a million ...
Washed Up: The Curious Journeys of Flotsam and Jetsam
Mar 01, 2007; ... Washed Up: The Curious Journeys of Flotsam and Jetsam By Skye Moody Paperback. 240 pp. Sasquatch Books. $23.95 Where does it all come from? From tennis shoes, gold doubloons and rubber ducks to ambergris, seedpods and dead whales, the ocean gives up many curious prizes. In this hook, the ...
Scallop Farming
Mar 01, 2007; ... Scallop Farming By David Hardy Hardcover: 328 pp. Blackwell Puhlishing. $139.99 This second edition, geared toward those involved in the scallop tanning industry, is fully revised and updated with successful scallop forming operations information and contains content relating to the ...
Whales, Whaling and Ocean Ecosystems
Mar 01, 2007; ... Whales, Whaling and Ocean Ecosystems Edited by James Estes, Douglas P, DeMaster; Daniel F. Doak, Terrie M. Williams and Robert L. Browned Jr. Hank-over. 418 pp. University of California Press. $54.95 This volume presents a picture of what researchers know about the natural ...
people
Mar 01, 2007; ... Seaeye Marine (Fareham, England) has announced two key appointments. Joining the company as their new sales manager is James Douglas. He is responsible for building further system sales across all the United Kingdom and international markets and will work with the company's world-wide network of ...
st looks back
Mar 01, 2007; ... March Issue 25 Years Ago 1982. A panel of the National Research Council on Cruslal Movement Measurements found ground techniques were much more preferable for measurements along active faults. Space techniques were the only approach available for cheeking large-scale stability of ...
soapbox
Mar 01, 2007; ... Murkowski Misfires on Aquaculture - John Sackton Acuuplc of weeks ago I was invited to talk about global seafood trends at the Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference in Anchorage-the organization representing towns such as Unalaska, Dillingham, Cold Bay. Aleutians bast Borough. St. Paul ....