environment coastal & offshore

NORBIT Subsea is pleased to announce the release of Layered Media Detection (LMD), a new optional capability for the WINGHEAD X Midwater multibeam sonar system.

Hydrothermal vents on the bottom of the ocean host a broad range of rare and unusual ecosystems. They can be spread very far apart, and yet there will often be overlap in the creatures which inhabit them. Researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo, answer a long-standing question in this field about how creatures migrate between hydrothermal vents. Their process i...

Atlantic tarpon are famous for their long-distance migrations, traveling hundreds or even thousands of miles along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. But where they feed along those journeys has remained largely unknown until now.

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a major new award to bolster the American seafood industry through the NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) program within the Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (NSF TIP). The NSF Seafood Engine in New England, led by the Portsmouth-based non-profit NERACOOS, is a collaboration of seafood industry...

Hyperiid amphipods are a small but anatomically diverse group of shrimp-like crustaceans with remarkable adaptations for life in the ocean's twilight zone. A team of researchers from MBARI, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, GEOMAR, the University of Western Australia, and the Florida Museum of Natural History leveraged 30 years of video observations from MBARI'...