environment coastal & offshore

Coastal communities worldwide are facing accelerating impacts from rising seas and intensifying storms, yet many lack the resources, technical capacity, and frameworks needed to respond effectively. The new study provides a roadmap on how RWH, a partnership of 13 organizations including the scientific institutions Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)...

The full‑scale offshore monopile installation will take place at the planned Dreekant offshore wind farm in Germany, owned and developed by EnBW. IQIP has contracted DEME, who will execute the installation using their top-of-class offshore installation vessel, Orion. Vattenfall, consortium partner alongside IQIP and EnBW, is also supporting the project. Installation ...

Station 46012, located approximately 10 nautical miles offshore, is part of NOAA’s Coastal Weather Buoy network. The USV deployment is intended to maintain continuous data coverage during buoy maintenance or service periods and to assess the performance of uncrewed systems in supporting operational data collection.

NOAA contracted with @Orchard, LLC, supported by subco...

This fieldwork offshore of Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska, was funded by the North Pacific Research Board and conducted with collaborators from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management, and Michigan Technological University. The expedition team worked closely with local partners under demanding Arctic conditions to conduct high...

In a new study examining more than 580 species—over 90% of all known skates and rays—researchers from Stockholm University have mapped the evolutionary history of conspicuous markings across this ancient group of cartilaginous fishes.

By analyzing multiple anti-predator defenses together, rather than studying eyespots in isolation, they were able to explain why such dr...