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Watch: Sofar and Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary discuss how FGBNMS leverages the real-time data collected by its Spotter Platform to monitor and protect the region’s coral reefs. In this Marine Technology Society (MTS) webinar hosted by Sofar’s Tosca Lichtenheld, FGBNMS’ Ryan Hannum details how Spotter data supports a wide variety of operational efforts, from identifying coral bleaching events to making go / no go decisions for offshore site visits. Watch the full webinar below. https://bit.ly/4bW75uo #SofarOcean NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

🌊 Exciting insights from my latest research on seagrass resilience to marine heatwaves! 🌱🔥 Thanks to the brilliant team at QUT Centre for Data Science, QUT (Queensland University of Technology), my dedicated supervisors Paul Wu, Kerrie Mengersen, and Kathryn McMahon. Here's a quick dive into our findings: 🌟 Study Overview: Goal: To improve management strategies by evaluating the effects of varying marine heatwave scenarios on seagrass ecosystems. Approach: Utilized a Dynamic Bayesian Network to assess seagrass resilience, focusing on their resistance, recovery, and extinction risks. 🔍 Key Takeaways: Duration Matters: Longer heatwaves (90 days) significantly impair seagrass, increasing recovery times and extinction risks. Frequency Impact: More frequent heatwaves without recovery gaps greatly elevate extinction risks. Resilience Boost: Introducing gaps between heatwave events enhances seagrass resilience, reducing risks and aiding quicker recovery. 🌐 Implications: This study equips policymakers and environmental managers with better tools for risk assessment and the crafting of more effective conservation strategies. 📖 Read the full study here: https://lnkd.in/gSigqSr6 Stay tuned for more updates, and feel free to reach out if you're interested in a deeper understanding of our approach or results! #SeagrassConservation #MarineBiology #ClimateChange #DataScience #QUT

#JMSE Journal of Marine Science and Engineering Section #Marine #Environmental Science Broadband Characteristics of #Zooplankton Sound Scattering Layer in the Kuroshio–Oyashio Confluence Region of the Northwest Pacific #Ocean in Summer of 2019 by Siquan Tian et al. https://lnkd.in/g8XSJQqK Northwest Pacific Ocean; Kuroshio–Oyashio; sound scattering layer; zooplankton; volume backscattering strength

🛡️ Did you know that a Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) Platform can do more than surveil national waters and critical subsea infrastructure? 🛡️ Since 2021 have we - GateHouse Maritime - with remarkable success together with National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) and National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) reduced the risk of ship strikes on endangered whales. 🐳 In this project our MDA is providing data analytics insights to support vessel monitoring efforts related to whale conservation work to reduce the risk of ship strikes on endangered whales near the California coast. With vessel location data to evaluate adherence levels to voluntary requests from NOAA and the United States Coast Guard (USCG) for large vessels (300 gross tons or larger) to slow down to 10 knots or less in designated Vessel Speed Reduction (VSR) zones off the coast of San Francisco and Southern California. This solution will give NCCOS new tools to perform real-time monitoring of the VSR zones off California and increase the speed and accuracy with which they can analyze historical vessel data. These insights will help NCCOS to decide how best to protect environmental resources and improve the way communities interact with vulnerable coastal ecosystems. Do you have ideas to how data can be used in ways like this? 💡

Pretty proud to be just 1 of the 200 global researchers to have contributed to The Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean (#MEASO)! The MEASO Summary for Policymakers is out now and is a collection of our combined knowledge of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean Ecosystem. 🐧 30% of contributors to the MEASO were early career researchers (#ECOP) 🐳 up-to-date info on biota, environments, fisheries, food webs and more 🌊 framework for conserving and protecting the #SouthernOcean ❄ highlighting current threats including #Pollution, #ClimateChange and #HumanImpacts Check out the Summary for Policymakers here: https://lnkd.in/gRAf7xWa #policymakers #COP28 #ClimateChange #ecosystems #MarineScience #conservation #Pollution

#JMSE Journal of Marine Science and Engineering Section #Marine #Environmental Science New Approaches for the Observation of Transient Phenomena in Critical #Marine Environment by Roberta Ivaldi et al. https://lnkd.in/gENBXY_E transient phenomena; critical marine environment; new observing operations

Highly recommended talk!! #snow #alps #hydrology thanks Francesco Avanzi for having led this important study!!

New mapping method developed for critical marine habitat - The University of Western Australia: Researchers at The University of Western Australia have led the development of a new technique for accurately mapping shallow and coastal marine habitats. https://lnkd.in/erZVrvgg