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Open ocean aquaculture: the future of seaweed farming

Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector in the world. In order to meet the growing demand, solutions are needed outside of coastal waters, which are heavily polluted by shipping,…

Seal whiskers inspire engineer’s offshore turbine sensor design

In the dark ocean depths, seals hunt prey with their highly sensitive whiskers, which detect vibrations. And it is the design of those hairs that inspired a University of Texas…

The Robotic Hand Learns to Feel

Fraunhofer IWS Combines Nature-based Concepts with Sensor Technology and 3D Printing. Making harvesting robots, submarine grippers, and autonomous rovers on distant planets more universally applicable and autonomous in the future…

AI model for aquatic biodiversity

In the AqQua project Hereon is involved in monitoring global populations of organisms in water. Plankton and organic particles take up carbon from the atmosphere, transporting it from the water’s…

Shedding Light on the Ocean’s Twilight Zone

EU Twinning Project to Investigate Deep-Sea Food Webs around Madeira. A kick-off meeting was held yesterday in Funchal, Madeira, to officially launch the EU Twinning project TWILIGHTED. Over the next…

Storing CO2, but the right way

Two Hereon studies call for clear framework conditions for CO2 sequestration in coastal areas . A digital twin for projections, an independent body for certification and new legal structures for…

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