Science Collaboration for a Healthy and Secure Ocean Last month, the MTS/IEEE OCEANS ‘18 conference was held in Charleston, SC. As always, it was an excellent venue to learn about the latest developments, policies and technological advancements in ocean science. Equally valuable was the opportunity...
“If 2017 was the year of big promises, 2018 must be about delivery. How can government and industry turn pledges into reality?” – The Economist World Ocean Summit I recently had the honor to attend The Economist’s World Ocean Summit and participate on The Science...
Portland’s not a coastal city, so at first glance it may seem a curious choice to host the 2018 AGU/ASLO/TOS Ocean Sciences Meeting. Cold and occasionally rainy, as one would expect for the Pacific Northwest, it also certainly wasn’t peak tourist season. However, its relatively...
We recently joined the Girl Scouts of Hawaii for their second annual Science-Technology-Engineering-Math (STEM) Fest, held in the town of Waimea on the Island of Hawaii. Seventy-seven energetic Girl Scouts ages 8-14 attended, and several Troops were represented from all across the Island, some driving...
We just finished spending a week with 35,000 of our closest colleagues at the world’s largest Defense and Security Conference, DSEI 2017 in London. If you haven’t attended, you could not imagine the entire ExCel Expo Center (over 100,000 square meters) filled with global defense...
What is the reality of maintaining the status quo in military technology? Usually, it’s the safe approach and the one supported by limited budgets, long procurement cycles and unimaginative political and military leadership. Without the courage to think and act differently, to incorporate innovative commercial...
One of the most fun and rewarding days at Liquid Robotics is World Oceans Day, a global celebration with hundreds of events around the world aimed at protecting and conserving our world’s oceans. This year, our Sunnyvale team made our annual pilgrimage to Pacifica to...
AUVSI’s annual XPONENTIAL conference is evolving from one focused on just aerial vehicles to one that encompasses all unmanned systems. This year’s event offered a great opportunity to share lessons learned and successes from multiple years of unmanned vehicle operations in remote and harsh environments....
Admiral (ret.) Sir George Zambellas, former First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy, spoke with Defense & Aerospace Editor Vago Muradian at Sea-Air-Space 2017. Key takeaways: On reshaping the underwater domain “It’s all about understanding the underwater domain. It’s a very expensive domain to dominate....
Another Sea-Air-Space is in the books! Always one of our favorite events, and a great chance to connect with naval leaders from around the world. Here are two of our favorite video interviews from Sea-Air-Space 2017. Surf’s Up: Wave Glider at Sea-Air-Space Our CEO, Gary...
In this increasingly polarized world it seems so often that we think in polemical terms about economic growth versus environment, right versus left, corporations versus tree huggers. What’s interesting about The Economist’s World Ocean Summit is the way it attempts to break this dichotomy. CEOs,...
This morning I enjoyed the opportunity to moderate the Unmanned Surface Vehicles panel at Oceanology International North America. We had a great discussion about developments in the underlying technology, as well as the latest applications for USVs. For me, three key takeaways stood out: The...