Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are developing new measures to protect the Mekong Delta and it’s communities from erosion.
From the seawire: ocean news in March 2024
Data collected by record-breaking rowers shows Great Britain’s warming seas
From the seawire: ocean news in February 2024
BLUE-X: harvesting Earth Observation data for offshore renewables
Seven European partners, including offshore renewable energy and Earth Observation specialists, have teamed up for the BLUE-X project. Together, they will develop a satellite-based decision support tool to accelerate offshore renewable energy deployments. This is the first blue energy Horizon Europe project funded by the EU Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA).
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From the seawire: ocean news in January 2024
From the seawire: ocean news in December 2023
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Bacteria linked to mass death of sea sponges weakened by warming Mediterranean
In 2021, divers off the Turkish Aegean coast first observed dark stinging sponges dying in great numbers. Researchers have now sampled three species of pathogenic Vibrio bacteria, previously known to infect unrelated marine animals, from diseased and dying sponges. Evidence suggests that vibriosis may be a secondary illness that affects already weakened sponges, but is not necessarily the primary agent of the novel disease.