Global Oceans

12/23/2021

London, 22 December 2021 – A new partnership has been announced between The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project and Global Oceans. The two parties will work together to further our understanding of ocean bathymetry and contribute to the global effort to produce the definitive map of the ocean floor, complementing the goals of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.

“Accessing high-resolution bathymetric data is essential to our projects, and we look forward to supporting Seabed 2030’s efforts by exploring opportunities to co-finance extended mapping on Global Oceans’ projects, to make available our 6000-meter Ocean Explorer 6000 towed system to be re-built with multibeam sonar for mapping, and to support new Seabed 2030-related projects on MARV™ vessels”, commented Jim Costopulos, CEO of Global Oceans.

Seabed 2030 Project Director Jamie McMichael-Phillips said “A complete map of the seabed will enable us to make informed decisions which can safeguard the future of our planet – Global Oceans recognizes this and the fundamental role the oceans play in sustaining human life. We are therefore delighted to announce this new partnership as we make headway with our goal of the definitive map of the ocean floor by the end of this decade.”

All data collected and shared with the Seabed 2030 Project is included in the GEBCO global grid, which is free and publicly available.
Press release: https://bit.ly/3ehOk8p
global-oceans.org
seabed2030.org

03/15/2021

Presentation from our CEO Jim Costopulos last week on the AIR Centre's Networking Fridays webinar drew 188 viewers from 36 countries around the world!

The need for increasing the physical scale of ocean science capacity is being driven by massive ocean data and observation requirements from the deep sea, polar regions, and open ocean - in part for building advanced behavioral models of earth systems, and especially for ocean ecosystems.

Autonomous and remote sensing is part of the solution, but in-depth sampling and analysis from research ships will also be critical for generating comprehensive data. New computational models are increasingly able to predict synergistic impacts of climate change and human disturbance, tipping points, resilience, and rates of recovery from disturbed states.

Advanced ecosystem models will help enable future policy choices that are needed to find pathways that promote sustainable development - much like climate models are doing today. The ability of Global Oceans to regionally mobilize MARV science and exploration vessels, deep-sea vehicles, and instrumentation globally adds to increased capacity for research that will help accelerate this process.

Webinar now posted at https://bit.ly/3eHfN4X

03/08/2021

Registration is open for the next AIR Centre's Networking Fridays webinar on March 12, 2021. Jim Costopulos, CEO of Global Oceans will present The Future of Ocean Science: Building Scale and International Collaboration. For more info & to register go to https://bit.ly/2ODY8jG

03/01/2021

Global Oceans recently acquired three 6000-meter deep-sea vehicles from Oceaneering International, Inc.

These vehicles previously located and documented two sunken WW2 ships in the Atlantic Ocean, the German battleship Bismarck, located at 4,666 meters of water depth, and the British Navy battle cruiser H.M.S. Hood in 2,788 meters.

They successfully located and retrieved the lost US Mercury space capsule “Liberty Bell 7” in the North Atlantic Ocean in over 4,500 meters depth, and have broadcast live from the wreck of the Titanic.

Now Global Oceans will rebuild and relaunch them as advanced scientific platforms for observing, exploring, and sampling deep ocean marine life and mapping the seabed.

Read more about how we plan to build new technology into these vehicles in our article in ROV Planet magazine, Issue #26 just released at https://bit.ly/2MBYdnh and on our website at global-oceans.org.


Deep Sea News
Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

02/19/2021

Great lecture this week on the Third Pillar of Science, from Douglas Arnold, PhD, Univ of MN from on the power of Computational Science. In the late 20th century, science underwent a revolution as computational science emerged as the third mode of scientific inquiry alongside experiment and theory. Watch this Simons Foundation lecture at https://bit.ly/2NHBfvb.

We can't begin to understand the behavioral dynamics of complex ecosystem function, responses to multiple stressors from climate change and human impacts, and ecosystem resilience without advanced computational models and simulation. This is directly relevant to Global Oceans' seamount ecosystem modeling initiative. More at https://bit.ly/2M8OZyA

02/16/2021

Kajal Lechman, MSc, from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa is a Global Oceans intern and the Ecosystem Modeling Workshop Coordinator for the Global Seamounts Project (GSP). We are fortunate and grateful to have Kajal’s contribution to the GSP and look forward to her continued involvement throughout the project. See Kajal's profile at https://bit.ly/3diGfRp

02/16/2021

Global Oceans and Argonne National Laboratory are collaborating to build and operate the Atmospheric Instrumentation Suite (AIS). This facility will generate more extensive atmospheric data over the Arctic Ocean for improved climate models, and new measurements for modeling Asian Monsoons in the Indo-Pacific. https://bit.ly/2OINKHl

02/15/2021

Global Oceans will relaunch the iconic 6000-meter Magellan 725 and Ocean Discovery ROVs as advanced scientific deep-sea vehicles. These systems will participate in Global Oceans projects ranging from the Global Seamounts Project to the SASx Arctic Baseline Project, to explore and document deep ocean life. See more about these projects at global-oceans.org.

02/15/2021

Autonomous Slocum Gliders from will collect temporal data over seamounts for the Global Seamounts Project. See more from Oscar Schofield, PhD, at Rutgers University about how we plan to do this at https://bit.ly/3rOzBXk

01/24/2021

Seamounts are one of the largest oceanic biomes, yet fewer than 0.2% of them have been explored. Ecosystem function & response to climate change and human impact on seamounts is not well understood. The GSP will help address this challenge.
See the full interview with Dr. Clark at global-oceans.org

Preview of an interview with Dr. Clark about the GSP. See the full interview at global-oceans.org.

01/22/2021

Global Oceans is collaborating with Argonne National Laboratory on the development of the Atmospheric Instrumentation Suite (AIS), a modular system for MARV research vessels containing over 40 scientific instruments. Roxy Matthew Koll, PhD, from and science advisor to the project describes one application we are launching for the AIS, the Asian Monsoon Modeling Project. https://bit.ly/3iyoheB

01/22/2021

Thank you to for announcing Global Oceans' acquisition of the 6000m Magellan 725 ROV, Ocean Discover ROV, and Ocean Explorer 6000 towed system to be rebuilt as advanced deep-sea scientific platforms. global-oceans.org

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Global Oceans Acquires 6000-meter ROVs and Towed Sonar System from Oceaneering International, Inc.