The European Project UTOFIA (‘Underwater Time Of Flight Image Acquisition’) has enabled researchers to design a new kind of underwater camera. Unlike current technologies that lack precision and are very time-consuming...
Welcome to this first edition of Blue Innovation, which I hope will help you to better understand our ‘blue’ economy by inspiring you and by deciphering what our researchers and industries are preparing for the years to...
On the 26th of July 2018, Naval Énergies—a subsidiary of the French company Naval Group, Europe’s leading naval defence contractor and a major actor of renewable marine energies—announced that it would stop investing in...
The new version of the European Commission’s map of the oceans and seas has been given over 120 additional layers—from nature to tourism, security, energy, maritime transport, sea levels, consumption of fish and many...
In February 2018, DARPA (America’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) announced the creation of a new research project to investigate the possibility of using marine organisms for surveillance and the rapid...
The Government of Quebec has decided to allocate 1.5 million dollars over a period of 5 years to the Centre de recherche sur les biotechnologies marines (‘marine biotechnologies research centre’, CRBM) in Rimouski...
A Microsoft team has been working for several months on the second phase of Project Natick—an ‘undersea datacenter’ that was successfully deployed in early June 2018 off Orkney (United Kingdom). It will be remotely...
A team of scientists of the Irish Marine Institute have spent three weeks at sea in order to study Ireland’s ocean depths, 300 nautical miles off the island’s western shores. This expedition has made new discoveries...
