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#Southern Ocean | Development

#Southern Ocean Observing System | Supporting development of systems maximising discoverability, access and impact of Southern Ocean observations

#MIT | Modeling Southern Ocean Phytoplankton Functional Types research

#National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) | India R&D institution for research activities in the polar and Southern Ocean realms

#Swedish Polar Research Secretariat | Research planning, infrastructure, communication and administration

#Ambri | Batteries for clean energy | Liquid Metal Battery | Self heating and regulating | Calcium and antimony as material | Rapid deployment | Scalable | Internal operating temperature 500˚ C | Desert | Arctic | Antarctic | Third Pole | Shipped cells inactive at ambient temperature | Heaters bringing cells to operating temperature | No degradation, air conditioning, replaceable nor any serviceable components | MIT | GroupSadoway Lab | Boston Metal

#ICEYE | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

#Polardex | Tool for polar scientists and planners | Platform listing key polar infrastructures in both Arctic and Antarctic

#UPM | UPM Raflatac Ocean Action | Ocean Action label | Made from ocean bound plastic | Creating a demand for reclaiming plastic waste before it pollutes oceans | Chemically recycled plastic | Material Circularity Indicator (MCI) | Ellen MacArthur Foundation | Granta Design | Orthex | Raw material made from used fishing nets

#SOOSmap | Intetactive map giving access to data from key circumpolar research programmes

#European Marine Observations And Data Network | Web portal about marine data, data products and metadata

#Southern Ocean Task Force | Southern Ocean Action Plan Development

#UNESCO | International Oceanographic Data And Information Exchange

#Royal Netherlands Institute For Sea Research | Maritime research

#United Nations | World Climate Research Programme

#International Association Of Antarctica Tour Operators | Advocating and promoting the practice of safe and environmentally responsible private sector travel

#National Center For Atmospheric Research | Research

#Commission For Conservation Of Antarctic Marine Living Resources | Commission agreeing a set of conservation measures that determine the use of marine living resources in the Antarctic

#SatelIoT | IoT connectivity over standard 5G NB-IoT

#Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) | Research

#Antarctic Treaty | Demilitarize Antarctica | Establish it as a zone free of nuclear tests and the disposal of radioactive waste | Ensure that it is used for peaceful purposes only | Promote international scientific cooperation in Antarctica | Set aside disputes over territorial sovereignty

#Weddel Gyre by web | Formed by interactions between the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and the Antarctic Continental Shelf | Located in the Weddell Sea | Rotates clockwise south of the ACC | Spreading northeast from the Antarctic Peninsula | Extended large cyclone

#Ross Gyre by web | Located in the Ross Sea | Rotates clockwise | Formed by interactions between the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and the Antarctic Continental Shelf | Sea ice noted to persist in the central area of the gyre

#Ross Sea by web | Deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica | Between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land and within the Ross Embayment | The southernmost sea on Earth

#Antarctica New Zealand | Government agency responsible for carrying out New Zealand activities in Antarctica

#Scott Base | New Zealand Antarctic Research Station

#Australian Natural University | Antarctic Research

#British Antarctic Survey | Interdisciplinary research in the Polar Regions

#Ocean Observatories Initiative | Ocean observing network

#University of Tasmania | Antarctic Plankton Research

#NASA | Research | Global sea levels rising | Water from melting ice sheets and glaciers increasing | Expansion of seawater as it warms | NASA sea level data

#Data Cosmos | MultiSatellite Data Platform | Open Cosmos

#General Atomics | Air to Air Laser Communication System | Crosslinks from aircraft to other platforms such as unmanned aircraft, maritime vessels, and space systems

#G7 | Building network of undersea communication cables to serve developing and emerging countries

#Minnesota Department of Soil, Water, and Climate | Cable and a huge bandwidth to boost research, logistics & safety, and personal lives of Antarctic missions

#Australian National University. Marine ecosystems | Impact of a circulation shutdown on the cycling of nutrients in the ocean

#Southern Ocean Fluxes (SOFLUX) Capability Working Group | Reducing uncertainties in understanding of air-sea and air-sea-ice exchanges |《Facilitating the implementation of an observing system of essential ocean variables (EOVs) | Supporting investigations on dynamics and change in Southern Ocean air-sea fluxes | Developing priority measurements, standardized methodologies for collecting and archiving data | Optimating design of field programs and remote sensing systems | Strategies for implementing field observations | Supporting development of assimilation and gridded flux products | Responding to emerging community priorities | Facilitating regional working groups | Networking with other programs, including the global Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS) SCOR working group, as well as SOLAS (Surface Ocean--Lower Atmosphere Study), BEPSII (Biogeochemical Exchanges at the sea ice interfaces), and ASPECT (Antarctic Sea Ice Processes & Climate) | Priorities include heat and momentum fluxes, gas/biogeochemical fluxes, and fluxes in the presence of sea ice

#SOOS Data Management Sub-Committee (DMSC) | Advising SOOS Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) and SOOS International Project Office (IPO) on the data management requirements for the SOOS initiative | Developing practical, sustainable and cost-effective strategy for long-term management and timely publication of SOOS observations | Encouraging SOOS partners and others to store relevant data in publicly accessible data repositories | Making metadata records accessible through SOOS metadata portal | Acting on requests and suggestions by tSOOS SSC and SOOS scientific community for new developments in data management products and strategies | Exploring opportunities to secure funding for SOOS related data management and data publication initiatives

#University of Naples Parthenope | Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn | Marche Polytecnic University | Ross Sea conference | Oceanography, ecology, physics, glaciology, geology, and biogeochemistry | Models, observations, experiments, remote sensing | Italian ice-breaker Laura Bassi for Antarctic research | Italian Oceanographic Commission | United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development | Italian Ministry for the University and Research | Italian National Antarctic Programme | School of Oceanography of Shanghai Jiao Tong University | Alseamar | Codevintec | Nortek

#Advanced Navigation | Inertial measurement unit (IMU) | Heading reference system (AHRS) | Acoustic navigation | AI-based acoustic processing techniques | Subsea transponder | Sidney, Australia

#LookOut | AI vision system | Synthesized data from charts, AIS, computer vision, and cloud fusing it into one 3D augmented reality view | Connects to existing boat display | Mountable camera system to the top of any boat | Lookout App for laptop, phone or tablet | Infrared vision | Night vision sensor | Spotting small vessels, floating debris, buoys, people in water | Blind spot detection | Backup camera | Temperature breaks, bird cluster locations, underwater structures for anglers | Camera streaming over WiFi to phones and tablets on the boat | Over-the-air (OTA) updates | Marine-grade water-proof enclosure | Integrated with satellite compass | National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) communication standard interface | Multifunction Display (MFD) | Multi-core CPU driving augmented reality compute stack | ClearCloud service | NVIDIA RTX GPU for real-time computer vision | DockWa app

#Yamaha Marine | 450 hp hydrogen-powered V-8 outboard | Three 6-foot-long cylindrical-shaped hydrogen fuel tanks | H2 machine operates by using hydrogen in its combustion chambers | H2 tanks are positioned low and centrally to enhance stability | H2 tanks size demands rethinking of future boat designs, hulls specifically tailored for hydrogen storage | Hydrogen storage system adds considerable weight to vessel | Volumetric energy density of hydrogen is lower, requiring larger tanks | Partners: Roush Performance, Regulator Marine

#Feadship | Hydrogen-cell superyacht | Double-walled cryogenic tank in dedicated room | 4 tons of hydrogen | Cruising protected marine zones.| Cryogenic storage of liquefied hydrogen in superyacht interior | No regulations for hydrogen storage and fuel-cell systems on superyacht

#Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) | Developing international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution | Raising awareness about the serious impacts of plastic pollution on both humans and nature | Global bans and phase-outs of the most harmful and problematic plastic products and chemicals | Global product design requirements to ensure all plastic produced is safe to reuse and recycle as part of global non-toxic circular economy

#Tampere University | Pneumatic touchpad | Soft touchpad sensing force, area and location of contact without electricity | Device utilises pneumatic channels | Can be used in environments such as MRI machines | Soft robots | Rehabilitation aids | Touchpad does not need electricity | It uses pneumatic channels embedded in the device for detection | Made entirely of soft silicone | 32 channels that adapt to touch | Precise enough to recognise handwritten letters | Recognizes multiple simultaneous touches | Ideal for use in devices such as MRI machines | If cancer tumours are found during MRI scan, pneumatic robot can take biopsy while patient is being scanned | Pneumatic device can be used in strong radiation or conditions where even small spark of electricity would cause serious hazard

#Allen Institute for Artifical Intelligence | AI for the Environment | Robot planning precise action points to perform tasks accurately and reliably | Vision Language Model (VLM) controlling robot behavior | Introducing automatic synthetic data generation pipeline | Instruction-tuning VLM to robotic domains and needs | Predicting image keypoint affordances given language instructions | RGB image rendered from procedurally generated 3D scene | Computing spatial relations from camera perspective | Generating affordances by sampling points within object masks and object-surface intersections | Instruction-point pairs fine-tune language model | RoboPoint predicts 2D action points from image and instruction, which are projected into 3D using depth map | Robot navigates to these 3D targets with motion planner | Combining object and space reference data with VQA and object detection data | Leveraging spatial reasoning, object detection, and affordance prediction from diverse sources | Enabling to generalize combinatorially.| Synthetic dataset used to teach RoboPoint relational object reference and free space reference | Red and ground boxes as visual prompts to indicate reference objects | Cyan dots as visualized ground truth | NVIDIA | | Universidad Catolica San Pablo | University of Washington

#Astera Labs | Intelligent Connectivity Platform | High-speed connectivity integrated circuits (ICs), modules, boards | Connectivity System Management and Optimization Software | Providing hyperscaler customers ability to deploy and operate high-performance AI and cloud infrastructure | Software-defined IC architecture | Distributed microcontrollers and sensors | Real-time link and device monitoring | Smart Fabric Switches | PCIe 6 fabric switch | Delivering maximum predictable performance to increase GPU utilization | Protocol and performance optimization for increased data transfer efficiency | Real-time telemetry data | Built-in protocol analyzer with link state history and timestamps | Full non-destructive eye scan for RX Lane margining | Self-test features to minimize link downtime and accelerate fault isolation | AI scale-up (GPU-to-GPU) | AI clusters | Generative AI applications | Nvidia supplier

#Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara | Building models linking nitrogen and silicon isotope compositions to biological processes and ocean circulation | Investigating how diatoms in Southern Ocean help to decode chemical signals | Providing insight into nutrient cycling and climate interactions from past glacial periods | Research cruise focused on collecting water and particle samples | Study how diatoms build nitrogen and silicon-rich shells | Understandung how isotopic signals are produced and preserved in fossils

#Submarinecablemap.com | Submarine Cable Map

#MemryX | AI Accelerator Module | Install system software, MemryX SDK, MemryX board | Compile AI model(s) making executable file | Send data & receive results using APIs for AI processing | Up to 6 TFLOPs (1GHz) per chip | Up to 16-chips (96 TOPS/TFLOPs) can be interconnected | Activations: bfloat16 (high accuracy) | Weights: 4 / 8 / 16 bit | Batch = 1 | 10.5M 8-bit parameters (weights) per chip | PCIe Gen 3 I/O | USB 3 interface | 0.6-2W per chip av power | Smart compiler: optimized and automated AI mapping to MemryX hardware | Powerful APIs: Python and C/C++ low and mid-level APIs for AI integration | Runtime: driver and firmware to support Windows or Linux distributions | Bit Accurate simulator: accurately testing models even without MemryX hardware

#GeorgePoveromo | Radar for Marlin

#RokMax | Rods, reels, lures, tackle and other gear for marlin fishing

#AST Space Mobile | AST n Science | Building space based cellular broadband network to be accessible by standard smartphones | 4G/5G connectivity everywhere on the planet | Automatic roaming from land networks to a space network | Connectivity anywhere without having to invest in expensive, specialized hardware

#NVidia | Dexterous robot development | Manipulating objects with precision, adaptability, and efficiency | Fine motor control, coordination, ability to handle a wide range of tasks, often in unstructured environments | Key aspects of robot dexterity include grip, manipulation, tactile sensitivity, agility, and coordination | Robot dexterity development for manufacturing, healthcare, logistics | Dexterity enabling automation in tasks that traditionally require human-like precision

#e-con Systems | Camera solutions for NVIDIA platforms | Full HD Global Shutter Camera for Jetson AGX Orin | Jetson AGX Orin: 64GB module, 275 TOPS with power configurable 15W and 60W | Multiple 4k ultra-lowlight camera for NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin | Global shutter | Rolling shutter | Autofocus and fixed focus | High resolution and frame rate | High dynamic range | High sensitivity in both visible and NIR regions | Superior color reproduction | MIPI and GMSL2 interfaces | Camera SDK configured to support Isaac SDK | Multi-camera support | NVIDIA Isaac GEMs ROS: GPU-accelerated packages for ROS2 application | Isaac ROS GEMs help to assess camera position with regard to its starting point | Isaac ROS GEMs empower robotic applications to maneuver and navigate through complicated environments | Installing ROS 2 requires Ubuntu 20.04 | Board cameras | USB 3.0 cameras | Autonomous mobile robots, autonomous shopping

#Antarctica2030 | Uniting leaders from sport, politics, business, media, and science to champion Antarctica Southern Ocean protection | Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) | Pew Charitable Trusts | Oceans 5

#NavVis | Reality capture technology | Tools for creating photorealistic digital twins of physical environments | Enhancing productivity in surveying and construction | Enablinging faster and more accurate spatial data collection and analysis | Allinq Digital used NavVis VLX and automatic modeling tools to decrease Schiphol airport to scan for BIM | BOND Construction scanning and modeling facilities across Massachusetts, USA, including airports, cruise terminals, warehouses | Four people scanned terminal in five working days | Point cloud cleaned and registered in under three days | Modelers work remotely through NavVis IVION | Hiding walls and ceilings toggles off visual clutter so you can focus on equipment, layouts, and assets | Point cloud cleanup | Georeferenced model alignment: NavVis IVION recognizes coordinate systems in IFC files and positions models automatically | TopoDOT integration: convert NavVis panoramas to IPRJ files

#Blue Atlas Robotics | Self-operating service robot that performs underwater surveys | Shared data platform collecting data from selected Nordic vendors of airborne and subsea drone systems | Sentinus 2 robot live-streamed high-quality underwater data during subsea surveillance operation using 5G in controller unit | Smultaneous aerial streams, enabling comprehensive surveillance solution that covered both above and below water | With minimal equipment, mission preparation becomes effortless, offering greater flexibility | Vision-lock to target for efficient mission ensuring the best quality of data | Point clouds | 3D models | Underwater assets managrment | Visual inspection outputs for vessel bottoms | In-water propeller inspections | Sea chest inspections | Inspecting bow thrusters

#GAM | Precision mechanical manufacturer of drive solutions used in automation technology | Engineering solutions for demanding environments | Robotic gearboxes | Servo-gearboxes | Precision spiral bevel gearboxes | Rack and pinion | Servo-couplings | GPL Robotic Planetary | GCL Cycloidal | GSL Strain Wave | Linear Mount Products for Cartesian Robots | Backlash <0.1 arcmin (6 arcsec) of gearbox, no adjustment necessary | Operation temperatures -40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 160°F) | 20,000 hours operational life | Torque 3500 Nm (31,000 in-lb)

#Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) | Advanced radar system | Dynamic, three-dimensional view of Earth | NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite | Detecting land and ice surfaces movement down to centimeter | Mission will help protect communities | Actionable information to disaster response | ISRO Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) rocket | 464 miles (747 kilometers) above Earth | GSLV first mission to Sun-synchronous polar orbit | Two radar instruments: L-band system and S-band system | Monitoring planet land- and ice-covered surfaces twice every 12 days, including polar Southern Hemisphere | Helping researchers assess how forests, wetlands, agricultural areas, and permafrost change over time | Seeing through clouds | Monitoring planet surface during storms, in darkness and light | 39-foot (12-meter) radar antenna reflector | Mission managed by Caltech | NASA JPL leads U.S. component of project providing mission L-band SAR | NASA provides radar reflector antenna, deployable boom, high-rate communication subsystem for science data, GPS receivers, solid-state recorder, and payload data subsystem | ISRO provides mission S-band SAR instrument and calibrates, processes data , develops science algorithms | U R Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru leads ISRO components and provides spacecraft bus | Launch vehicle by ISRO Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre | Launch services by ISRO Satish Dhawan Space Centre | Satellite operations by ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network | National Remote Sensing Centre in Hyderabad is responsible for S-band data reception, operational products generation, and dissemination

#AGU | Southern Ocean Heat Burp in a Cooling World | Simulating several hundred years of net-negative emissions and gradual global cooling | Abrupt discharge of heat from Southern Ocean modeled | Global mean surface temperature increase of several tenths of degrees lasting for more than a century modeled | Ocean heat burp reasoned to originate from heat previously accumulated under global warming in deep Southern Ocean | Multi-centennial scale climate simulations | Question of the durability of oceanic storage of heat and carbon more urgent as ocean warming is accelerating | As atmospheric CO2 strongly decreases and atmospheric temperature declines, carbon and heat stored in the ocean start to return to the ocean surface | The majority of interior ocean waters ultimately returns to Southern Ocean surface and is reexposed to atmosphere in Southern Ocean | In Southern Ocean density layers outcrop at ocean surface, directly connecting surface to interior ocean thereby regulating oceanic exchange with atmosphere | Combined with persistent large-scale upwelling, Southern Ocean is prominent candidate for release of heat and carbon from ocean interior under reversal of atmospheric CO2 and global cooling | 40% of oceanic uptake of carbon | 80% of oceanic uptake of heat | Earth system model | Mass and energy conserving University of Victoria model UVic | Simulations of long time scales and carbon cycle feedbacks | UVic features atmospheric energy-balance model, ocean circulation and sea-ice model, land biosphere and ocean biogeochemistry with two plankton groups | Horizontal resolution: 3.6 × 1.8 | Ocean model; 19 vertical z-layers with increasing thicknesses over depths from 50m to 500m | Ocean Heat Release Causes Warm Period | Accumulated Heat Pushing up in Southern Ocean | Large-scale upwelling of deep waters in Southern Ocean keep surface temperatures comparatively cool | Southern Ocean serves as window to atmosphere, abruptly releasing heat during event and driving global surface warming and top of atmosphere energy loss, causing heat burp | Climate and Earth system models do not simulate changes in ice sheets and consequently miss the effect of freshwater input to ocean associated with ice sheet mass loss under global warming | Melt water discharge from Antarctic ice sheet triggered by global warming will have an additional, long-lasting freshening effect | Model used lacks a full response of the wind | Model also misses cloud feedbacks | Research underlines both importance of Southern Ocean in climate system and its response to changes in climate system beyond heat and carbon uptake under contemporary rising global temperatures | It is important to continue to improve process understanding of how waters return from interior Southern Ocean and what determines their properties | Interactive ice sheets needed | Observational data collection needed | Deep Argo observing waters below 2,000 m depths needed | Ack: research-unit Biogeochemical Modeling and funding by European Research Council (ERC)