pacificocean.dev
#Pacific Ocean | Development
#Equinor | Morro Bay | 2-gigawatt (GW) offshore wind lease | Commercial-scale floating offshore wind development | Ocean Infinity conducting site investigation survey using multiple AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles) at Equinor floating offshore wind lease area
#Coastal Conservation Association Of California
#Garmin | On Deck Smart Boat System
#System 03 | Harvesting plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch | Aiming to deliver the blueprint design for scaling toward a fleet of systems | The Ocean Cleanup
#Spot LNG Prices | Contract based price of spot LNG USD/MMBtu | Arrival based price is USD/MMBtu |》British Thermal Unit | Global LGN Hub
#LNG price spike causes energy crises in strapped Asian nations | Nikkei Asia
#Neste | Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAS) | Renewable diesel | Renewable feedstock for polymers and chemicals | Developing chemical recycling to combat the plastic waste challenge | Accelerating shifting to circular economy | Creating solutions for migitating climate change
#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
#High seas treaty | International Union for Conservation of Nature | Biodiversity protection | International Seabed Authority | Marine environment threats pollution from coastal infrastructure and dumping | Marine protected areas
#Solomon Islands | Australian trade links with Japan, South Korea and the US | Undersea cables connecting US and Australian telecommunications system | USA congressional funding for projects in the Pacific | Climate resilience infrastructure | Combating illegal fishing | Investing in marine conservation | Pacific Islands Forum
#ROS | Robot Operating System | Open source software development kit for robotics applications | Standard software platform to robotic application developers | Research | Prototyping | Deployment | Production
#RayMarine | Marine Electronics
#Rosetti Superyachts | Emocean | Fully custom superyacht | Custom designed wine cellar | Italian shipyard | Speaking with subcontractors | Rosetti Marino Group | Hydro Tec | Priorities included spending long periods on board regardless of sea conditions | Pushing the use of space to the limit | 793 gallons of refrigerator and freezer space for long term provisions | Virtuous circle where all parties felt free to throw on the table new ideas and concepts to incorporate in the design | Selecting the best contractor for each element | Exploration oriented projects
#Radioactive Water Dumping | Research
#Tritium Leakage | Research
#Great Pacific Garbage Patch | Research
#Marine Pollution | Research
#Fertilizers | Research
#Chemicals | Research
#Hypoxua | Research
#Dead Zone | Research
#Marine Depris | Research
#El Nino Southern Oscillation | Research
#Monsoon | Research
#Wet Season | Research
#Tropical Cyclone | Research
#Pacific Hurricanes | Research
#Typhoons | Research
#Jet Stream | Research
#Extra Tropical Cyclones | Research
#Grest Depths | Research
#Agreement On Ending Plastic Pollution | Research
#Full Life Cycle Of Plastic | Research
#Widening Scope Beyond Tackling Waste | Research
#Ocean Fungus Digesting Plastic | Research
#Bio Products Developmeng To Break Plastics | Research
#Compliance Rules For Fishing | Research
#UN Resolution On Ending Plastic Waste | Research
#New Circular Economies Establishment | Research
#Better Waste Monitoring | Research
#Sustainable Production | Research
#Data Cosmos | MultiSatellite Data Platform | Open Cosmos
#MIT | Earth System Model
#Azure Funding | Boat Loans
#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
#Commonwealth | Pacific | Australia | Fiji | Kiribati | Nauru | New Zealand | Papua New Guinea | Samoa | Solomon Islands | Tonga | Tuvalu | Vanuatu
#Heesen | Acquire yachts that are already under construction | Platform concept | Proven engineering platform | Tested hulls | Semi custom series | Unique exterior design | Ability to personalise the yacht | Reducing both delivery time and costs | Producing in lines | Exclusivity is guaranteed | Production numbers of each platform are limited | Ability to build completely different yachts using an identical platform
#Doyle Sails | Sail solutions | Cruising | Main sales | Head sales | Code sales | Downwind sales
#Monte Fino E Class Explorer | Global demand for expedition style cruising in an eco-friendly way | Kha Shing | Taiwan | Developed using fluid dynamics | Eco efficient cruising across long distances | Octoplex tablet for monitoring and operating systems
#ICEYE | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
#General Atomics | Air to Air Laser Communication System | Crosslinks from aircraft to other platforms such as unmanned aircraft, maritime vessels, and space systems
#Aqualink | Ocean conservation technology | Autonomous Surface Vehicle(ASV) kit | ROS | Pixhawk | NVIDA Jetson GPU | Solar powered smart buoy
#Intel | Kapoho Point Board
#Equinor | Floating offshore wind
#Seakit International | MaxLimer | Uncrewed surface vessel | Echo sounders to determine the shape of the volcano | Developing and supporting understanding of the eruption undersea impact
#Seabed2030 | Research mapping the global ocean floor
#New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) | Nippon Foundation | Seabed2030
#Intel | Neuromorphic computing
#SpaceX | Satellite to cellular service
#Elroy Air | Autonomous cargo aircraft systems| Vertical take off and landing (VTOL) cargo aircraft | Specially designed aerodynamic modular cargo pods | Commercial logistics | Disaster relief | Firefighting | Humanitarian operations | Replacing difficult ground transportation | Detachable pod | Dropping off cargo | Pickkung up ready to go cargo | Makint deliveries fast | Allowing ground crew to empty or load a pod at their leisure
#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
#Stora Enso | Renewable and recyclable paperboard solutions | Wood fibers in disposable cutlery | Pulp for food packaging | Formed fiber products
#Ocean Cleanup | Maritime affairs and investment in Indonesia | Aiding river plastic waste solutions and waste management | Interceptors | Aiming to deliver cleaner and plastic-free rivers for Indonesia | Trying to close the tap on ocean plastic pollution
#Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology | | Autonomous lander | Dropped into the Izu Ogasawara Trench, south of Japan | Pseudoliparis filmed swimming at 8,336m (27,349ft)
#Inkfish | Deep sea exploration
#G7 | Building network of undersea communication cables to serve developing and emerging countries
#Pacific Islands Forum | Japan to discharge more than a million cubic meters of treated water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site into the Pacific Ocean
#Hyundai Glovis | Collaborating with Ocean Cleanup | Data gathering to cameras placed on Hyundai Glovis vessels | Logistical support to help transport and deployment of cleaning solutions around the world
#Coralmaker | Autodesk | Training an artificial intelligence to control collaborative robots (cobots) | Coral propagation | Robotic arm to graft or glue coral fragments to the seed plugs | Using vision systems to make decisions about how to grab it | Robots to recognise coral fragments and figure out how to handle them | Biodiversity credits
#Open Ocean Robotics | Autonomous robotic data collection platform and cloud-based software system to provide real-time data acquisition with AI driven analytics | Solar powered uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) | Cloud-based data management and USV control system
#eD-TEC | Electric-propulsion system
#Blue Innovations Group | E-Boat technology | Electric boat | Electric-powered boat | Solar power to recharge batteries
#Chris-Craft | Electric boat
#Four Winns | Electric boat
#Zen Yachts | Catamaran with wingsail and solar power
#Advanced Navigation | Inertial measurement unit (IMU) | Heading reference system (AHRS) | Acoustic navigation | AI-based acoustic processing techniques | Subsea transponder | Sidney, Australia
#Magrathea Metals | Extracting magnesium from ocean water and from waste brine generated by industry | Magnesium: lighter and stronger than steel, critical to aircraft, automobile, steel, and defense industries | Strategic issue | Waste brines, often from desalination plants bought | Waste water from coal-fired power plants, pumped out of oil and gas wells, from hard-rock mining; and desalination plants | 18,000 desalination plants, globally | 23 trillion gallons of ocean water a year | 37 billion gallons of brine daily | Desalination waste back into the ocean settles to sea floor and damage marine ecosystems
#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