Earlier this summer, marine specialists reeled up a shipping-container-size datacenter coated in algae, barnacles and sea urchins from the seafloor of the European Marine Energy Centre’s Billia Croo test site, located off Scotland’s Orkney Islands.
The studies, commenced prior to a project approval on Vineyard Wind 1, are monitoring what impact, if any, the development of offshore wind power may have on marine life and environmental conditions and look at both commercial and recreational fishing.
Fugro has completed a multidisciplinary site characterisation for the prestigious Male’ to Thilafushi Link project, the planned bridge between Male’ City and Thilafushi in the Maldives.
Saildrone USVs enabled the Alaska Fisheries Science Center to perform the 2020 Alaska pollock survey during a time of considerable environmental and civic uncertainty.