The seafloor covers some 70% of the Earth's surface and has been recognised as a major sink for marine litter. Still, litter on the seafloor is the least investigated fraction of marine …
Plastic waste has been documented in nearly all types of marine environments and has been found in species spanning all levels of marine food webs. Within these marine …
SS Afzal, W Akbar, O Rodriguez, M Doumet… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Imaging underwater environments is of great importance to marine sciences, sustainability, climatology, defense, robotics, geology, space exploration, and food security. Despite …
Water is an essential component of the Earth's climate, but monitoring its properties using autonomous underwater sampling robots remains a significant challenge due to lack of …
Mesobot, an autonomous underwater vehicle, addresses specific unmet needs for observing and sampling a variety of phenomena in the ocean's midwaters. The midwater hosts a vast …
Increasing interest in the acquisition of biotic and abiotic resources from within the deep sea (eg, fisheries, oil–gas extraction, and mining) urgently imposes the development of novel …
Increasingly, researchers are using innovative methods to census marine life, including identification of environmental DNA (eDNA) left behind by organisms in the water column …
CA Scholin, J Birch, S Jensen, R Marin III, E Massion… - Oceanography, 2017 - JSTOR
Roughly 25 years ago,“ecogenomic sensors” were conceived of as autonomous devices that would be used to apply molecular analytical techniques below the sea surface as one …
Microplastic particles (< 5 mm) are ubiquitous throughout global marine ecosystems, including the deep sea. Ingestion of microplastics and other anthropogenic microparticles is …