Climate and environmental blind spots of sea water raised an alarm decades ago. Although sea monitoring started years ago, the information was not sufficient to allow sea status, evaluation of... Read More

Offshore solar platforms offer a promising solution by utilizing abundant areas available at sea, but their high cost and harsh conditions can be a challenge. This lecture presents a novel... Read More

The impact from research in marine robotics emerges in innovative implementations in joint projects combing science and technology. To challenge the knowledge fronts, development of tools and methods beyond the... Read More

Sperm whales produce powerful and broadband echolocation clicks that serve as their primary means of communication and prey localization in deep ocean environments. Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) systems provide a... Read More

Monitoring the behavior of marine fauna in captivity is an efficient method for understanding the impact of anthropogenic activities as well as exploring behavioral indicators. Sea turtles, which are migratory... Read More

Over the past decades, Underwater radiated noise (URN) from vessels has been identified as a significant threat to the health of marine ecosystems due to the adverse behavioural and physical... Read More

The detection of underwater signal is a key enabling technique for any active and passive underwater acoustic sensor applications. Technologies such as SONAR imaging, acoustic communication, depth detectors, and signal... Read More

The field of marine robotics is advancing quickly as ocean industries, science, and defence require better spatial and temporal coverage for mapping and monitoring. Autonomous underwater vehicles are moving beyond... Read More

New technologies have been closely linked with the development of underwater archaeology since its very beginnings. Advances in exploring what lies beneath the seabed and in mapping underwater sites provided... Read More

Geophysical methods have become standard in archaeology due to the non-destructive manner in which information from the subsurface is obtained. Large areas can be mapped quickly, without the need to... Read More

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) stand among the most effective tools for safeguarding marine ecosystems, supporting biodiversity, and promoting sustainability in the rapidly evolving blue sector. This interactive tutorial, designed for... Read More

This tutorial will demonstrate how to perform underwater object recovery using the MARUS simulator in Unity. Participants will operate a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) equipped with a robotic manipulator to... Read More

Collecting data from the dynamic interface between land and water — such as surf zones, shallow coastal waters, river estuaries, and soft coastlines — remains an underdeveloped frontier in environmental... Read More

Environmental sciences rely heavily on accurate, timely and complete data sets which are often collected manually at significant risks and costs. Robotics and mobile sensor networks can collect data more... Read More

The ocean is full of wonder, but also of profound challenges. Today, one of the most pressing issues is not scientific, but systemic: the growing gap between the number of... Read More

Microplastic pollution is a topic of growing global concern. Due to their highly durable characteristics, plastics never fully decompose in nature (Martí et al., 2020). When exposed to the elements,... Read More

Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs) are increasingly being deployed in dynamic and demanding scenarios. For such a reason, this Tutorial explores the cutting-edge techniques of advanced autonomous guidance, with a focus... Read More

The hands-on activity will be based on simulative testing of the proposed guidance techniques, allowing attendees to tune to system, provide enhancements, evaluate the operational limits. The equipment needed will... Read More

Our technology is used in oceanography and subsea navigation: Nortek’s advanced Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs) and Doppler Velocity Logs (DVLs) use the Doppler effect to measure motion in the... Read More

Download your data from the below link and follow the instructions in the readme file: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1T3cXZ4ZMscJe-51SkQfonGWU3HWUKc9m?usp=sharing UPDATE: For the known signal, please provide the time of arrival results relative to... Read More

The Department of Fisheries and Marine Research, of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment of the Republic of Cyprus, is the Competent Authority for the protection and... Read More

The Eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMS) is a global hotspot of various stressors that have resulted in dramatic losses of native species, driven by the synergistic effect of warming, bioinvasions, more... Read More

This presentation will explore how digital tools can enhance transparency, coordination, and efficiency in marine fuel procurement. It will examine the operational challenges faced by the shipping industry—such as waiting... Read More

Advances in microbial oceanography increasingly rely on indirect approaches—modeling, chemistry, physics, and big data—to infer biological processes in the aquatic environment. But how far can we go in understanding life... Read More

The tutorial will introduce the Marine Restoration Toolbox and provide a hands-on session on how to use its resources and tools. Participants will first be guided through the resources available... Read More

This demonstration presents a rapid integration framework for developing and deploying autonomous underwater docking behaviors. Participants will write and test control code in a high-fidelity simulator replicating subsea conditions such... Read More