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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