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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The hot, humid environment of tropical marine areas such as Australia’s Great Barrier Reef can wreak havoc on the marine autonomous systems. Underwater and surface MAS are used for marine monitoring, locating objects such as mines on the seafloor, and rescuing swimmers.

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MAY 16, 2022

Although it is controversial because of its unclear effects on the environment, it could supply large amounts of the many metals without which, for example, climate policy goals such as the energy transition cannot be realized. One way to secure the global supply of critical raw materials could be deep-sea mining. 2021.05.019. Ernst, D.M.,

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AUGUST 24, 2014

The project, called Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy ( ACME ), is designed to accelerate the development and application of fully coupled, state-of-the-science Earth system models for scientific and energy applications. Biogeochemistry: How do biogeochemical cycles interact with global climate change?

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Last January, in the waters off Cebu City in the Philippines, researchers first deployed a huge flexible ring seeded with seaweed and spanned by spokelike ropes and tubes. Every nightfall, cranks mounted on a floating platform lower the ring 25 meters below the surface to expose the seaweed to cooler, more nutrient-rich water.

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MAY 17, 2020

The system will graph lifecycle impact for a range of specified powertrains, for a large number of impact categories: Climate change [kg CO 2 -eq.]. Depletion of fresh water reserves [m 3 ]. Eutrophication of non-marine aquatic environments [kg N-eq.]. Eutrophication of non-marine aquatic environments [kg P-eq.].

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JUNE 6, 2022

An open-access paper on their work is published in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. Hydrofoils, like wings, lift the boat’s hull above the surface of the water and allow the boat to travel with considerably less water resistance. Longitudinal balance of forces on a NACRA 17 foiling catamaran. Giovannetti et al.

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San Francisco Mariner Water Electric 221

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

US President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau jointly announced sweeping restrictions to offshore oil and gas leasing in the US and Canadian Arctic waters. Obama designated the vast majority of US waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing. It’s uncharted waters.”.

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JUNE 13, 2019

SW/TCH Maritime (SW/TCH), an impact investment platform building the first fleet of zero-emissions maritime vessels in the US, announced its investment to construct and own the ‘Water Go Round’ e-ferry in collaboration with Golden Gate Zero Emission Marine ( GGZEM ), a provider of turn-key hydrogen fuel cell power systems for ships.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Since its launch in April 2021 , the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance has convened a diverse set of experts to explore three areas in which fundamental research could have the most impact: climate change; the nexus of biology and engineering; and securing critical infrastructure against hackers.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

By switching from diesel fueled to electric propulsion, an important step can be taken towards realizing the Paris Climate Agreement targets. —Torsten Büssow, Director, Electrical & Power Management System, Wärtsilä Marine Power. Within the Dutch transport sector, inland navigation accounts for five percent of the CO 2 emissions.

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APRIL 12, 2021

A team of scientists from Heriot-Watt University has found the waters in the Faroe-Shetland Channel (FSC) are teeming with oil-eating bacteria. We demonstrate that bacterioplankton communities were significantly different across water samples of contrasting origin and depth. Angelina G.

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APRIL 17, 2010

A new study co-authored by CSIRO (Australia) scientists Paul Durack and Dr. Susan Wijffels finds evidence that the world’s water cycle has already intensified. The stronger water cycle means arid regions have become drier and high rainfall regions wetter as atmospheric temperature increases. Durack and Wijffels. ºC since 1950.

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Water Climate Change Climate Mariner 230

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DECEMBER 31, 2022

Since September, the electric vessels have passed dozens of tests and test exits to the water area. The hulls, traction electric motors, climate control systems, GLONASS systems, glazing of the vessel, skin panels, bike parking, automated ramp, vessel lighting control system, side doors and all control software are all Russian-made.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 11 awards totaling $55 million aimed at building research capacity to develop new innovations at the intersection of food, energy and water systems and to address fundamental questions about the brain. Research at the nexus of food, energy and water. Lead organization. Description.

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MARCH 25, 2020

In climate models, if you simulate the world with sulfur emissions from shipping, and you simulate the world without these emissions, there is a sizable cooling effect from changes in the model clouds due to shipping. F), a change that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects would have significant societal impacts.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Significant climate anomalies 2008/2009. Source: Climate Change Compendium. Losses of tropical and temperate mountain glaciers affecting perhaps 20-25% of the human population in terms of drinking water, irrigation and hydro-power. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JULY 9, 2014

The public agencies receiving vehicles are: Alameda County, Sonoma County, San Francisco, Concord, Santa Rosa, San Jose, Oakland, Fremont, the Marin Municipal Water District, and Sonoma County Water Agency. The Transportation Authority of Marin also participated with additional support for the Marin Municipal Water District.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

Andrews have demonstrated that ammonia can be synthesized directly from air (instead of N 2 ) and H 2 O (instead of H 2 ) under a mild condition (room temperature, one atmosphere) with supplied electricity which can be obtained from renewable resources such as solar, wind or marine. —Lan et al. Rong Lan, John T.

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Water 2010 Energy Storage Mariner 268

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AUGUST 22, 2011

An international team of researchers has confirmed the presence of a deep-reaching ocean circulation system off Iceland—the North Icelandic Jet (NIJ)—that could significantly influence the ocean’s response to climate change in previously unforeseen ways. ” We present the first comprehensive measurements of the NIJ.

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MAY 15, 2011

A new set of buoys in Alaska waters will help scientists understand how climate change may be affecting the pH level of northern seas. It was assembled at UAF’s Seward Marine Center with the help of Chris Sabine, a senior scientist and co-principal investigator at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory.

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JUNE 7, 2012

A new study based on deep-sea sediment cores, published in the journal Nature , has found that during the Miocene period ~12–5 million years ago, climate was decoupled from atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. The cores were retrieved by marine scientists working aboard the drillship JOIDES Resolution. —Jonathan LaRiviere.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Researchers in the Laboratoire d'Océanographie at Villefranche (LOV) (CNRS / UPMC) have demonstrated that key marine organisms, such as deep-water corals and pteropods (shelled pelagic mollusks) will be significantly affected by ocean acidification caused by anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions during the years to come. Weinbauer M.

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Mariner Water 2009 Climate Change 170

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

The report estimates that carbon emissions equal to half the annual emissions of the global transport sector are being captured and stored by marine ecosystems such as mangroves, salt marshes and seagrasses. Marine-living organisms range from plankton and bacteria to seagrasses, saltmarsh plants and mangrove forests. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 2, 2022

The methanol is mixed with water, then evaporated by applying heat and fed into the preheated reactor, where the mix of methanol and water is converted into hydrogen and CO 2. On board, hydrogen is obtained from the methanol through a steam reforming process and is used for ship propulsion. © Fraunhofer.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The CMA CGM Group has already begun to respond to climate change by using liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a transitional maritime fuel. It is also supporting SeaOrbiter, a prototype marine research vessel and floating oceanographic laboratory designed by French architect Jacques Rougerie that is exploring pathways to the emerging blue economy.

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Energy Carbon Hydrogen Mariner 315

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MARCH 25, 2011

In a finding that has global implications for climate research, scientists have discovered that when icebergs cool and dilute the seas through which they pass for days, they also raise chlorophyll levels in the water that may in turn increase carbon dioxide absorption in the Southern Ocean. Helly, Ronald S. Kaufmann, Gordon R.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Green areas indicate waters supersaturated with aragonite carbonate and favoring shell formation, with darker color indicating more favorable conditions. Red areas are those where waters are under-saturated in aragonite and so hostile to shell formation by marine organisms, with darker color indicating greater under-saturation.

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Monaco Mariner Climate Change 2008 150

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JULY 9, 2009

Requiring ships to use marine fuel with 0.1% They applied the global climate model ECHAM5/MESSy1-MADE to geospatial emissions inventories to determine worldwide concentrations of particular matter (PM 2.5 ) from oceangoing vessels. Particulate matter from ship emissions is related to the sulfur content of marine fuel.

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Mariner 2012 Emissions Fuel 150

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APRIL 18, 2009

New calculations made by marine chemists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) suggest that low-oxygen “dead zones” in the ocean will expand significantly over the next century, with severe effects on marine animals. This could have significant consequences for marine life in these zones.

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MAY 3, 2023

announced that its subsidiary SoCal Biomethane will supply renewable natural gas (RNG) as facilitated by renewable fuels marketer Anew Climate to FuelCell Energy’s Tri-gen system to produce carbon-negative hydrogen and electricity for Toyota Motor North America, Inc.’s Anaergia Inc. The fuel cells will also produce a net 2.3

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

— The ordinances focus on building decarbonization—the strategic lowering of climate-changing emissions from buildings—including five that move toward building electrification. New nonresidential construction must be all-electric and install solar generation.

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2019 Standards Energy California 170

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AUGUST 2, 2020

Researchers from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel have found that considerable quantities of the greenhouse gas methane escape uncontrolled into the water from abandoned oil and gas wells in the North Sea. Haeckel, more than 15,000 boreholes have been drilled in the entire North Sea. Böttner, C., Haeckel, M. Schmidt, C.

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Gas Escape Oil Mariner 273

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JULY 10, 2009

Through a recent modeling experiment, a team of NASA-funded researchers have found that future concentrations of carbon dioxide and ozone in the atmosphere and of nitrogen in the soil are likely to have an important but overlooked effect on the cycling of water from sky to land to waterways. Credit: NASA. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

A team of 26 climate scientists from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have published the “Copenhagen Diagnosis”, an interim synthesis report on developments in climate change science from mid-2006 to the present day.

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MARCH 6, 2010

This article shows that including offsets in climate change legislation would likely make an emissions program more cost-effective by: (a) providing an incentive for non-regulated sources to generate emission reductions; and (b) expanding emission compliance opportunities for regulated entities. Assuming the offset is legitimate—i.e.,

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AUGUST 8, 2009

Tasmania’s east coast is recording its highest-ever winter water temperatures of more than 13 ºC (55 °F)—up to 1.5 The Antarctic Circumpolar Current — the world’s largest ocean current and considered the powerhouse for global climate. We know the warmer waters have an impact but we’re not sure how much, ” Treloggen said.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Analysis by researchers at Rice University suggests that the theory that the release of massive amounts of carbon from methane hydrate frozen under the seafloor 56 million years ago drove a massive climate change incident—the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)—is quite possible. Guangsheng Gu, Gerald R. Colwell, George J.

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