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In our latest Deeply Talks, experts from Vulcan and Schmidt Marine Technology Partners discuss new technologies being developed and deployed around the world to stop illegal fishing, which is depleting valuable fish species and devastating other marine life.
In a deep, dark and unexplored corner of the ocean, researchers are searching for the answer to how all life on Earth began. Take a journey with them.
As the International Seabed Authority moves to permit the mining of unique deep-sea habitats, calls grow for it to disclose secretive deliberations about the environmental consequences of extracting valuable minerals from the ocean floor.
Trash skimmers are being deployed in harbors to collect growing amounts of garbage, but some scientists say resources would be better spent stopping the source of pollution.
New genetic technologies are enabling scientists to identify traits that may help corals survive warming ocean temperatures that threaten the survival of coral reefs critical to marine ecosystems.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s 100 Island Challenge uses 3-D photography to monitor how coral reefs change over time in an effort to help local communities save crucial marine ecosystems.
Susanne Becken Professor of Sustainable Tourism, Griffith University, Australia
Bela Stantic Acting Head of School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University
Rod Connolly Professor in Marine Science, Griffith University in southeast Queensland, Australia
Environmental monitoring is an expensive and time-consuming endeavor. One solution: Tap data stored in tweets and Instagram photos to track the health of coral reefs and other marine ecosystems.
Past efforts to reduce collisions between these highly endangered marine mammals and ships offer lessons for officials trying to save North Atlantic right whales in Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Nishan Degnarain Member of the Government, Mauritius’s National Ocean Taskforce
Steve Adler Chief Data Strategist, IBM Watson
Scientists, governments and businesses are amassing unprecedented amounts of ocean data. But if marine ecosystems are to survive, we need to figure out how to get a lot more, say Nishan Degnarain and Steve Adler.
To date, only 5 percent of the sea floor has been mapped in detail, but an international consortium plans to map the rest over the next 13 years. The results could revolutionize our understanding of deep-sea biodiversity.
Blue technologies being developed in the San Francisco Bay Area aim to give scientists and citizens low-cost tools to gather and share high-quality data on ocean conditions.
Australian researchers collaborated with Microsoft cofounder Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan to create algorithms that crunch big data to detect suspicious fishing activity and alert local authorities.
New acoustic techniques that measure fish populations could potentially be used to help endangered species like the totoaba – and in turn the even rarer vaquita porpoise, which is on the brink of extinction.
Visited by millions of people, aquariums are in a unique position to help fight overfishing and plastic pollution, says Julie Packard, executive director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Marine biologist David Gruber journeys to the deep sea to investigate how marine life that live in total darkness generate light to exchange information. Now he says he’s learning how to talk back.
Scientists are transforming data into three dimensions to investigate the effects of climate change on the ocean – and potentially help rebuild dying coral reefs.
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