2012 Sea Technology Magazine Annual Index
January 2012 Issue
REVIEW &
FORECAST
COVER
Diamond Head Lighthouse as seen from the top of Diamond Head in Honolulu, Hawaii. (Photo: Meghan Ventura)
Features
- TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE IN SERVICE OF US OCEANS, COASTS AND GREAT LAKES
- BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS TO IMPROVE OCEAN OBSERVING
- BOEM EMBRACES APPLIED SCIENCE FOR INFORMED OCEAN ENERGY DECISIONS
- OCEANOGRAPHER’S DUTIES EXPAND TO SPACE AND MARITIME DOMAIN AWARENESS
- START WITH SCIENCE TO PREDICT TSUNAMI RISKS AND SEISMIC HAZARDS
- IMPROVING OFFSHORE SAFETY AND PROVIDING JOBS FOR AMERICA
- OCEAN SCIENCE RISING ABOVE BUDGET BATTLES
- EMPOWERING DEPLOYMENTS OF MARINE RENEWABLES IN THE US
- NSF HIGHLIGHTS ADVANCEMENTS IN THE INTEGRATED OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM
- CLIVAR’S OCEAN OBSERVATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND DATA
- EPA: FOSTERING THE MOVE TOWARD TRASH-FREE SEAS
- JAMSTEC ASSISTS RESEARCH BY DEVELOPING, OPERATING VESSELS AND ROBOTIC VEHICLES
- TAKING ON THE RISING TIDE OF MARINE DEBRIS
- POSITIONING THE COAST GUARD AND MARITIME TRANSPORTATION FOR SUCCESS
- INSUFFICIENT SCIENCE BEHIND OBAMA’S PLANS TO RESTRICT AND REGULATE WATERS
- DRAWING ON OCEAN RESEARCH TO PRESERVE CORAL REEFS AND MARINE ENVIRONMENTS
- MAKING PROGRESS ON PUTTING THE GULF OF MEXICO BACK TO WORK
- FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE: LANDINGS UP, BUT FARMED PRODUCTION AND REVENUES DOWN
- DEEPWATER DRIVES OIL AND GAS ACTIVITIES; OPTIMISM FOR CONTINUED IMPROVEMENT
- FIRING LINE REPORT: OCEAN INDUSTRY WEATHERS A TUMULTUOUS YEAR
- MARINE DATA ANALYSIS BASED ON WAVELET TRANSFORM
February 2012 Issue
INSTRUMENTATION:
MEASUREMENT
PROCESSING &
ANALYSIS
COVER
The Explorer AUV Yamoria, built by Port Coquitlam, Canada-based International Submarine Engineering Ltd. (ISE) and owned by the Canadian government, finished a six-week mission at latitude 88 degrees north in September. Yamoria and its ISE-built twin, Qaujisati, were deployed from the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent to collect seabed data that are being used to support Canada’s submission under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). (Photo credit: Gina Millar, control systems engineer at ISE)
- DEIMOS-1 SATELLITE PROVIDES IMAGERY FOR COASTAL MANAGEMENT<
- ROBOTIC ASSISTANCE IN DISASTER RECOVERY
- OCEANOLOGY INTERNATIONAL 2012
- PASSIVE ACOUSTIC DETECTION OF AN ROV IN PORTS, SHALLOW-WATER ENVIRONMENTS
- DEVELOPING A REMOTELY OPERATED SUBMERSIBLE FISH CAGE SYSTEM
- DEPLOYMENT OF A DEEP TOW SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR SYSTEM
- ACQUIRING THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY DATA FROM SHEAR RESISTANT SEDIMENTS
March 2012 Issue
ELECTRONIC CHARTING
VESSEL MANAGEMENT
PORTS & HARBORS
DREDGING
HOMELAND SECURITY
COVER
A computational representation of a suspended sediment dredge plume that was mapped using a backscatter survey-based technique developed for the U.S. Navy to monitor the environmental effects created during a wharf expansion project in Apra Harbor in Guam. The backscatter surveys were conducted with a Teledyne RD Instruments (Poway, California) Workhorse Monitor ADCP, and the open-source Visualization Toolkit was used to render the results. See story here. (Image courtesy of Sea Engineering Inc.)
- DREDGE PLUME MAPPING THROUGH ACOUSTIC BACKSCATTER SURVEYS<
- LOW-FREQUENCY SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR FOR DETECTING EXPLOSIVES IN HARBORS
- FINDING UNDERWATER MUNITIONS: TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS
- DIVER-BASED RAPID RESPONSE CAPABILITY FOR MARITIME SECURITY OPERATIONS
- IMPROVING ACCESS TO NOAA’S HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY METADATA
- GLOBAL MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY CONFERENCE
- PARTNERING WITH COMMERCIAL SHIPPING FOR CETACEAN RESEARCH
- MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF DEEP-SEA MINING
April 2012 Issue
OFFSHORE TECHNOLOGY
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
& OCEAN ENGINEERING
COVER
The ENSCO 8501, an ultradeepwater semisubmersible rig operating in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico under a contract with Nexen Inc. (Calgary, Canada) and Noble Energy Inc. (Houston, Texas), can drill in 8,500 feet of water to a depth of 35,000 feet. (Photo courtesy of Ensco plc)
- AUTONOMOUS POWERBUOYS GENERATE POWER FOR OCEAN APPLICATIONS
- QUALIFYING LEAD-ACID BATTERIES FOR USE IN SUBSEA APPLICATIONS
- HYDROKINETIC OSCILLATORS FOR UNDERSEA ENERGY SOURCES
- OFFSHORE TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE 2012
- DEEPWATER OPERATIONS SHOW GROWTH IN US GULF, INTERNATIONAL REGIONS
- OCEANS'12 MTS/IEEE YEOSU
- DEPLOYING GULP OIL SKIMMERS IN THE GULF OF MEXICO
- CANADIAN HYDROGRAPHIC CONFERENCE
- ELECTRIC ROV SYSTEMS TAKE ON MORE TOOLING
- DETERMINING TENSILE STRENGTHS OF LARGE-DIAMETER, SYNTHETIC FIBER ROPE
- ASSISTING MICRO-ROV OPERATORS DURING SURVEYS IN FRAGILE ENVIRONMENTS
- USING SOCIAL NETWORKS, MOBILE APPS TO DISTRIBUTE TSUNAMI HAZARD WARNINGS
May 2012 Issue
COMMUNICATIONS
TELEMETRY
DATA PROCESSING
COVER
The ROPOS ROV, owned and operated by the Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility, deploys a Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea (VENUS) instrument platform from the RV Thomas G. Thompson in July 2011. See the editorial from Richard Dewey, VENUS associate director of research, on page 7 for more on deploying acoustic devices in ocean observatories. (Photo by VENUS)
- US GOVERNMENT FISCAL YEAR 2013 BUDGET
- VISUALIZING LARGE ENVIRONMENTAL DATA SETS IN A GLOBAL 4D VIEWER
- NEW CONCEPTS IN HIGH-DATA-RATE, CABLE-FREE UNDERWATER NETWORKS
- UNDERSEA DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY 2012
- ENERGYOCEAN INTERNATIONAL 2012
- NOIA 2012 ANNUAL MEETING REVIEW
- COMMERCIAL MARINE EXPO
- EXPLORING OCEAN FLOW MODELS WITH A MULTITOUCH 3D INTERFACE
June 2012 Issue
SEAFLOOR MAPPING
SONAR SYSTEMS
VESSELS
COVER
A six-leg platform, wells, mattresses, pipeline, jack-up prints and related exiting scars are shown on fine sediments in an anthropic debris area at 24 meters depth. The geophysical survey was performed by G.A.S. srl (Zola Predosa, Italy) in March 2012 in the Northern Adriatic Sea with an L-3 Klein 3900 (445 kilohertz) sonar of 100-meter lateral range. Data were acquired and post-processed by Chesapeake Technology Inc.’s (Mountain View, California) SonarWiz5 software. Low backscatter appears dark. (Photo courtesy of Chesapeake Technology)
- LOW-ALTITUDE TERRAIN NAVIGATION FOR UNDERWATER VEHICLES
- SEAFLOOR MAPPING FOR EARTHQUAKE, TSUNAMI HAZARD ASSESSMENTS
- SUPPORTING SATELLITE RESEARCH WITH DATA COLLECTED BY VESSELS
- DEPLOYING DISSOLVED OXYGEN SENSORS ON CRAB POTS FOR OCEAN OBSERVATIONS
- TELEDYNE RD INSTRUMENTS: MEASURING WATER IN MOTION AND MOTION IN WATER
- USING SIDE SCAN IMAGERY TO VERIFY PATCH TEST DATA
- MANNED SUBMERSIBLE CAPTURES 3D SONAR SCANS OF SHIPWRECKS
July 2012 Issue
DECK GEAR
CABLE
CONNECTORS &
POWER SYSTEMS
COVER
The MacArtney (Aberdeen, Scotland) 11-kilovolt wet-mate connector system, funded by the Energy Technologies Institute, was deployed and tested in England’s Falmouth Bay in October 2011. Grid-compatible and EN/CEI/IEC 60502-4 compliant, it was designed to meet the needs of the marine renewables industry, particularly the requirements from grid owners and utilities. (Photo credit: Parker, Energy Technologies Institute)
- SEAGLIDER AUV WITH OGIVE FAIRINGS SUPPORTS ANTARCTIC RESEARCH
- ELECTRICAL PENETRATORS FOR A SATURATION DIVING SYSTEM
- REAL-TIME MONITORING OF FPSO MOORING LINES, RISERS
- INTERCONNECT SOLUTIONS ABOARD SUBMARINES
- UNDERWATER REPAIR METHOD FOR OCEAN OBSERVATORY CABLES
- ROV-BASED REVOLVER MARKER DROPPER FOR CONSISTENT SEAFLOOR SURVEYING
- QUICK-RESPONSE SYSTEM FOR HARBOR OIL SPILLS
- ALGORITHMS FOR UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS
August 2012 Issue
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
REMOTE SENSING
& POLLUTION CONTROL
COVER
Lighthouse R&D Enterprises Inc.’s (Houston, Texas) Lighthouse Ocean Research Initiative II, shown being deployed in December 2009, has been operating for two-and-a-half years at 3,000 meters depth off the coast of the Sultanate of Oman. Three 2,500-meter arrays report environmental parameters throughout the water column in real time via fiber-optic cable. (Photo credit: David Selby)
- THE ROLE OF AUV TECHNOLOGY IN SEAFLOOR MASSIVE SULFIDE EXPLORATION
- IMPROVING ARCTIC SEA ICE THICKNESS MEASUREMENTS
- DEPLOYING AUVs IN RESTRICTED AREAS
- USING GIS TO IMPROVE COASTAL MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING
- GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR SIMULATING AND ANALYZING OIL SPILLS
- SEACAT AUV INSPECTS WATER SUPPLY TUNNEL
- JET SKI PROVIDES PLATFORM FOR COLLECTING WATER QUALITY DATA IN BAY STUDIES
September 2012 Issue
OCEAN RESOURCES
DEVELOPMENT &
COASTAL ZONE
MANAGEMENT
COVER
The 6-meter NOMAD ODAS buoy, belonging to Environment Canada’s Marine Monitoring Network, is shown during a service trip off Canada’s west coast near Haida Gwaii. The buoy is part of a national network that has provided operational meteorological and oceanographic data since 1986. AXYS Technologies Inc. (Sidney, Canada) manufactures and services the WatchMan control systems, sensors and telemetry integrated onto these buoys. (Photo credit: Randy Kashino, AXYS Technologies Inc. field service specialist)
- USE OF AUV FOR DEEPWATER SHIPWRECK SEARCH
- EXPLORING ULTRADEEP HYDROTHERMAL VENTS IN THE CAYMAN TROUGH BY ROV
- TAKING THE TEMPERATURE OF THE ARCTIC WITH UNMANNED MARITIME VEHICLES
- OCEANS ’12 MTS/IEEE HAMPTON ROADS
- GLIDER OBSERVATIONS SUPPORT PLANKTON POPULATION CHARACTERIZATION
- OCEAN INNOVATION 2012
- INDUCED POLARIZATION FOR SUBSEAFLOOR, DEEP-OCEAN MAPPING
- AUVS FOR ECOLOGICAL STUDIES OF MARINE PLANKTON COMMUNITIES
- TESTS AND UPGRADES FOR THE EAST CHINA SEA SEAFLOOR OBSERVATORY
October 2012 Issue
GEOPHYSICAL EXPLORATION
SEAFLOOR ENGINEERING
COVER
Sections of ION Geophysical Corp.’s (Houston, Texas) DigiSTREAMER towed streamer data acquisition system, designed for operating under Arctic ice. SEA CON (El Cajon, California) supplied the electrical and optical interconnections for the DigiSTREAMER, which was deployed in summer 2011 to acquire 5,600 kilometers of data offshore northeast Greenland, resulting in more than 55,000 kilometers of data. During the survey, DigiSTREAMER achieved an operational uptime of 98 percent. See story on page 47. (Photo courtesy of ION Geophysical)
- GATHERING MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY ABOARD ICEBREAKERS
- BENTHIC HABITAT MAPPING USING HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGE MOSAICKING
- 3D HIGH-RESOLUTION GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS
- SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS EXPOSITION AND 82ND ANNUAL MEETING
- CLEAN GULF 2012
- 3D SEAFLOOR MAPPING WITH AUTOMATED DATA ANALYSIS
- CONNECTORS FOR SEISMIC SURVEYING UNDER ICE IN THE ARCTIC
- DEPLOYING SONAR SYSTEMS TO CREATE 3D MAPS FOR UNDERWATER EXCAVATION
November 2012 Issue
UNDERSEA DEFENSE
ANTISUBMARINE WARFARE
COVER
The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Miami (SSN-755) enters dry dock to begin an engineered overhaul at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard earlier this year. (Photo Credit: U.S. Navy/Jim Cleveland)
- DETECTING, CLASSIFYING MINES WITH SYNTHETIC APERTURE ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY
- INVESTIGATING COASTAL WATERS FOR EXPLOSIVE DEVICES WITH A BENTHIC CRAWLING ROBOT
- SAFE NAVIGATION IN HAZARDOUS AREAS: FORWARD-LOOKING SONAR FOR SUBMARINES
- BLUEFIN ROBOTICS: 15 YEARS OF DEVELOPING SUBSEA VEHICLES
- TOWED, MOORED AND AUV ECHO REPEATERS SIMULATE ASW TARGETS
- FATIGUE PROPERTIES OF FIBERGLASS BOLTED, BONDED JOINTS IN MARINE STRUCTURES
December 2012 Issue
DIVING, UNDERWATER
VEHICLES & IMAGING
COVER
A black smoker at 21° North on the East Pacific Rise, photographed during a dive with the Explorer Club as part of the MIRs submersible expedition in September 1990. The submersibles made many dives in the Pacific and Atlantic during this expedition, including dives to the Loihi volcano with scientists from the University of Hawaii, in Monterey Bay with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and to the Guaymas Basin with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. See story on page 45. (Photo Credit: Dr. Anatoly M. Sagalevich)
- CAPTURING ACCURATE COLORS UNDERWATER WITH CONSUMER DIGITAL CAMERAS
- UNDERWATER GLIDER FOR A LONG-TERM VIRTUAL MOORING
- USVs FIND USE IN SHALLOW-, DEEPWATER APPLICATIONS
- MODIFYING A MILITARY-GRADE GLIDER FOR COASTAL SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS
- OCEANS ‘12 MTS/IEEE HAMPTON ROADS
- MIR-1 AND MIR-2 SUBMERSIBLES MARK 25 YEARS OF HISTORY
- UNDERWATER INTERVENTION 2013
- ULTRADEEP-SEA EXPLORATION IN THE PUERTO RICO TRENCH
- UNDERWATER ROBOTS CLEAN UP MARINE DEBRIS ON THE SEAFLOOR
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