Person: José da Silva

José da Silva holds a first degree in “Physics/Applied Mathematics (Astronomy)” at the University of Porto (Portugal), an MSc degree in “Remote Sensing, Image Processing and Applications” at the University of Dundee (U.K.) and a PhD in Oceanography at the University of Southampton (U.K.). He worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton … Continued

Publication: Wurl, O., Bird, K., Cunliffe, M., Landing, W., Miller, U., Mustaffa, N., Ribas-RIbas, M., Witte, C., and C. Zappa. (2018). Warming and inhibition of salinization at the ocean’s surface by cyanobacteria. Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2018GL077946. 

Wurl, O., Bird, K., Cunliffe, M., Landing, W., Miller, U., Mustaffa, N., Ribas-RIbas, M., Witte, C., and C. Zappa. (2018). Warming and inhibition of salinization at the ocean’s surface by cyanobacteria. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, doi: 10.1029/2018GL077946.

Person: Paulo Relvas

Paulo Relvas is Professor at the University of Algarve, Portugal, and researcher of CCMAR (Centre of Marine Sciences – Univ. Algarve). He received a PhD in Physical Oceanography from the School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales, UK, in 1999. His scientific domain is mesoscale oceanography. His main research areas are the Eastern Boundary Upwelling … Continued

Person: João Teixeira

João Teixeira is a Robotics Engineer in a robotics research laboratory (LSTS). He is a software developer (onboard software – control, guidance and navigation) and is also a part of AUV operational team. During the last three years he gained significant experience in field operations, mostly maritime environments (operating from ship) in cooperation with the … Continued

Person: Martin Ludvigsen

Martin Ludvigsen is Professor and founder of the Applied Underwater Laboratory (AUR-Lab) at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway and has since been managing the lab. Since 2014 he has held a Professorship in Underwater Technology at the Department of Marine Technology, NTNU while also being a founder of BlueEye Robotics, a novel portable ROV startup. He has … Continued

Person: Kay Arne Skarpnes

Kay Arne Skarpnes is a field engineer at the NTNU Applied Underwater Robotics Laboratory (AUR-Lab). He has his training in electrical engineering. Before coming to the AUR-Lab he has experience from offshore work class ROV operations with the company DOF Subsea. He has also worked setting up lab experiments in the hydrodynamic laboratories of SINTEF … Continued

Log Post: Beyond the Visible (Part I)

The eDNA team’s role on the Voyage to the White Shark Café expedition is not to look for any organisms themselves, but instead to use what the organisms may have left behind to infer their presence. We collect three liter samples of seawater from different depths in the water column using the CTD rosette – a … Continued

Log Post: Saildrone ~ Video Update

“I think that that what we will see as the platform matures, people will be flocking in and recognizing there is more and more and more purpose for this particular platform. So I think we’ve seen just the tip of the iceberg at this point.” Some of the most exciting and innovative technologies being used … Continued

Person: Igor Belkin

Dr. Igor Belkin received PhD in Oceanography from Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow in 1987. He has been studying oceanic fronts, currents, and eddies in all five oceans from 72°N to 78°S, having spent five years at sea in 15 expeditions, including a six-month drift on the ice island “North Pole-22” across the Canada Basin. … Continued