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#Antarctic Ocean | Development

#Data Cosmos | MultiSatellite Data Platform | Open Cosmos

#Quasar | Climate Change Monitoring | Open Cosmos

#Comet System | Antarctic Meteorite | NASA Solar System Exploration

#EPICawi | European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica

#AntarcticSun | USA Antarctic Program

#Hydro International | Water Processing

#Angus Adventures | Learning Through Exploration

#ScooTech | Swedish Centre for Ocean Observing Technology

#Antarctic Science Platform | Antarctica New Zealand

#Safety4Sea | Safety

#TOS | Antarctic Ice Sheet Modelling

#CreateDigital | Digital Twin of Antarctica

#SailDrone | Ocean Data Solutions with Autonomous Surface Vehicles

#Cool Antarctica | Actual South Pole

#MIT | Interaction of Ocean and Ice

#Raman Oxinst | Spectroscopy

#Horiba | Drilling below the frozen ice of Antarctica

#Waponline | Antarctic info for ham radio

#Neste | Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAS) | Renewable diesel | Renewable feedstock for polymers and chemicals | Developing chemical recycling to combat the plastic waste challenge | Accelerating shifting to circular economy | Creating solutions for migitating climate change

#Facebook | Social Media

#SAS | Antarctic Foods Aquitaine

#HPE | Hewlett Packard Enterprise

#Appian | LowCode Development

#Discovering Antarctica | Mineral Resources

#High seas treaty | International Union for Conservation of Nature | Biodiversity protection | International Seabed Authority | Marine environment threats pollution from coastal infrastructure and dumping | Marine protected areas

#Phys | News

#Conger Ice Shelf Fell Apart | Guardian | CNN

#Atmospheric River Storm | Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes

#Algorithm Detecting Atmospheric Rivers | Nature | News

#Thwaites Glacier | The Conservation

#Doomsday Glacier | Science Alert

#Plastic Soup Foundation | Research

#OceanBlue | Research

#Plastic Oceans | Research

#Ellen Mac Arthur Foundation.

#TheExplorer | Antarctic expeditions

#MIT | Earth System Model

#Safety4sea | Safety

#Climate NASA | Collapsing Ice Shelf Reveals a Possible New Island, Eastern Antarctica

#Lensel Optics | Optics manufacturing

#SeaChange | Ocean conservation

#Global sea levels rising | Water from melting ice sheets and glaciers increasing | Expansion of seawater as it warms | NASA sea level data

#The Arctic Institute | Russian research institute

#Global Change MIT | Research

#IMO | International Maritime Organization

#ArcticOffice | British Antarctic Survey | BAS

#Valeport | Sensors

#Cantium Scientific | MicroBio sampler calibration and repair service

#Aurora Australis | Southern Lights

#Antarctica Gov Au | Australian Antarctic Program

#FsherSci | New England Biolabs

#MonitorMyOcean | World Ocean Network

#PNAS | Sea Ice Control

#EUMetsat | Sea Ice Monitoring

#Sentinel | Satellite | ESA

#Seatech Systems | Special Purpose Vessels | Seatech Engineering

#CEMarin | Corporation Center of Excellence in Marine Sciences

#BAS | British Antarctic Survey

#VLiz | Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

#NOAA | National Ocean Service

#Ambri | Batteries for clean energy | Liquid Metal Battery | Self heating and regulating | Calcium and antimony as material | Rapid deployment | Scalable | Internal operating temperature 500˚ C | Desert | Arctic | Antarctic | Third Pole | Shipped cells inactive at ambient temperature | Heaters bringing cells to operating temperature | No degradation, air conditioning, replaceable nor any serviceable components | MIT | GroupSadoway Lab | Boston Metal

#Scientific Steering Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)

#ICEYE | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) | Maritime monitoring

#General Atomics | Air to Air Laser Communication System | Crosslinks from aircraft to other platforms such as unmanned aircraft, maritime vessels, and space systems

#Silica Networks | Datco Group | Feasibility study for linking Ushuaia in Argentina, Peurto Williams near Cape Horn and Antarctica King George Island

#SatelIoT | IoT connectivity over standard 5G NB-IoT

#Wartsila | Ship command systems | Autonomous Short Sea Shipping | Navigation and DP solutions

#Intel | Kapoho Point Board | Four Loihi 2 chips on its top side | Four on its underside | Up to a million neurons | Up to a billion synapses | Up to 8 million variables | Up to 1000× better energy efficiency than a state of the art CPU solver | Stackable up to eight boards | Expansion port on the board | Four boards getting up to 32 million neurons | Drones | Robotics | Gesture recognition | Scene understanding | Smell identification | Solving optimization problems | Research

#U.S. Antarctic Program | Antarctic Sun

#Intel | Neuromorphic computing | Biological neural computation | New algorithmic approaches | Emulating human brain interactions | Spiking neural networks (SNNs) | Simulating natural learning | Dynamically remapping neural networks | Making decisions in response to learned patterns over time | Powering autonomous AI solutions | Supporting energy efficiency and continuous learning | Sensing | Robotics | Healthcare | Large scale AI applications

#SpaceX | Satellite to cellular service

#UPM | UPM Raflatac Ocean Action | Ocean Action label | Made from ocean bound plastic | Creating a demand for reclaiming plastic waste before it pollutes oceans | Chemically recycled plastic | Material Circularity Indicator (MCI) | Ellen MacArthur Foundation | Granta Design | Orthex | Raw material made from used fishing nets

#Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) | Researching ice core data to reconstruct seasonal temperatures |Measuring relative abundances of common hydrogen and deuterium along 3,405 meters (11,171 feet) of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide core (WDC)

#Minnesota Department of Soil, Water, and Climate | Cable and a huge bandwidth to boost research, logistics & safety, and personal lives of Antarctic missions

#Brazilian Navy | Polar vessel Navio Polar Almirante Saldanha (NPo) | NPo Navio Polar project | Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz shipyard | Three Wartsilä 32 diesel generating sets | Diesel-electric power conversion system | Two bow thruster drive systems | Power Management System by Wartsila | Maintaining Brazil presence in the Antarctic | Ensuring scientific research continuity carried out at Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station

#Arctic Council | Wildland Fires Initiative | Increasing circumpolar collaboration | Record-breaking fire activity | Better understanding causes and impacts of wildland fires on Arctic ecosystems and communities

#Advanced Navigation | Inertial measurement unit (IMU) | Heading reference system (AHRS) | Acoustic navigation | AI-based acoustic processing techniques | Subsea transponder | Sidney, Australia

#Yamaha Marine | 450 hp hydrogen-powered V-8 outboard | Three 6-foot-long cylindrical-shaped hydrogen fuel tanks | H2 machine operates by using hydrogen in its combustion chambers | H2 tanks are positioned low and centrally to enhance stability | H2 tanks size demands rethinking of future boat designs, hulls specifically tailored for hydrogen storage | Hydrogen storage system adds considerable weight to vessel | Volumetric energy density of hydrogen is lower, requiring larger tanks | Partners: Roush Performance, Regulator Marine

#Feadship | Hydrogen-cell superyacht | Double-walled cryogenic tank in dedicated room | 4 tons of hydrogen | Cruising protected marine zones.| Cryogenic storage of liquefied hydrogen in superyacht interior | No regulations for hydrogen storage and fuel-cell systems on superyacht

#Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) | Developing international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution | Raising awareness about the serious impacts of plastic pollution on both humans and nature | Global bans and phase-outs of the most harmful and problematic plastic products and chemicals | Global product design requirements to ensure all plastic produced is safe to reuse and recycle as part of global non-toxic circular economy

#Tampere University | Pneumatic touchpad | Soft touchpad sensing force, area and location of contact without electricity | Device utilises pneumatic channels | Can be used in environments such as MRI machines | Soft robots | Rehabilitation aids | Touchpad does not need electricity | It uses pneumatic channels embedded in the device for detection | Made entirely of soft silicone | 32 channels that adapt to touch | Precise enough to recognise handwritten letters | Recognizes multiple simultaneous touches | Ideal for use in devices such as MRI machines | If cancer tumours are found during MRI scan, pneumatic robot can take biopsy while patient is being scanned | Pneumatic device can be used in strong radiation or conditions where even small spark of electricity would cause serious hazard

#Allen Institute for Artifical Intelligence | AI for the Environment | Robot planning precise action points to perform tasks accurately and reliably | Vision Language Model (VLM) controlling robot behavior | Introducing automatic synthetic data generation pipeline | Instruction-tuning VLM to robotic domains and needs | Predicting image keypoint affordances given language instructions | RGB image rendered from procedurally generated 3D scene | Computing spatial relations from camera perspective | Generating affordances by sampling points within object masks and object-surface intersections | Instruction-point pairs fine-tune language model | RoboPoint predicts 2D action points from image and instruction, which are projected into 3D using depth map | Robot navigates to these 3D targets with motion planner | Combining object and space reference data with VQA and object detection data | Leveraging spatial reasoning, object detection, and affordance prediction from diverse sources | Enabling to generalize combinatorially.| Synthetic dataset used to teach RoboPoint relational object reference and free space reference | Red and ground boxes as visual prompts to indicate reference objects | Cyan dots as visualized ground truth | NVIDIA | | Universidad Catolica San Pablo | University of Washington

#Astera Labs | Intelligent Connectivity Platform | High-speed connectivity integrated circuits (ICs), modules, boards | Connectivity System Management and Optimization Software | Providing hyperscaler customers ability to deploy and operate high-performance AI and cloud infrastructure | Software-defined IC architecture | Distributed microcontrollers and sensors | Real-time link and device monitoring | Smart Fabric Switches | PCIe 6 fabric switch | Delivering maximum predictable performance to increase GPU utilization | Protocol and performance optimization for increased data transfer efficiency | Real-time telemetry data | Built-in protocol analyzer with link state history and timestamps | Full non-destructive eye scan for RX Lane margining | Self-test features to minimize link downtime and accelerate fault isolation | AI scale-up (GPU-to-GPU) | AI clusters | Generative AI applications | Nvidia supplier

#Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory | Columbia University in New York | Antarctica volcanoes research

#NASA Earth Observatory | Research | Mount Erebus | Strombolian erupts

#Wilhelmsen | Smart Rope | Measuring unit embedded within Timm Master rope | Making mooring operations safer and more efficient | Improving longevity for ropes | Unit transmits key tension, time and temperature information via wireless communication to command module on bridge | New mooring lines can be ordered and delivered when needed, not based on arbitrary schedules | Bridge sees tension in each of their mooring lines via app | Reduced life span if mooring ropes are used to manoeuvre out of port | Lack of insight into rope usage leads to inefficient replenishment | Visual inspections are not sufficient to determine if ropes are deteriorating faster than expected

#VORAGO | Radiation hardened and radiation tolerant microcontrollers and microprocessors | High-volume manufacturing to harden commercially designed semiconductor component | Empowers mission success | Radiation-hardened ICs that excel in extreme environments | ARM | Texas Instruments | Brainchip | Custom hardware and firmware solutions tailored to withstand extreme environments | Ensuring that mission-critical components remain resilient | Custom solutions, armed with space-grade electronics and an ARM Cortex microcontrollers | International Space Station: dies measuring the effects of protons and cosmic rays | Satelites: devices utilized in Department of Defense Space Test Program (STP) missions | CubeSats: ARM microvontroller | Semiconductor components and solutions for extreme temperature environments up to +200°C

#Saronic | Port Alpha | Shipyard designed to build autonomous ships for hybrid fleet | Investors: General Catalyst, a16z, Caffeinated Capital, 8VC | Delivering new classes of unmanned ships | U.S. Navydeclared need for hybrid fleet which integrates significant number of unmanned systems operating alongside manned platforms

#MemryX | Edge accelerated AI System software | SDK APIs for efficient AI processing | Hardware | Compile AI model(s) making executable file | PCIe or USB interface | x86, ARM, RISC-V processors | Windows, Linux operating systems

#GeorgePoveromo | Radar for Marlin

#RokMax | Rods, reels, lures, tackle and other gear for marlin fishing

#AST Space Mobile | AST n Science | Building space based cellular broadband network to be accessible by standard smartphones | 4G/5G connectivity everywhere on the planet | Automatic roaming from land networks to a space network | Connectivity anywhere without having to invest in expensive, specialized hardware

#NVidia | Dexterous robot development | Manipulating objects with precision, adaptability, and efficiency | Fine motor control, coordination, ability to handle a wide range of tasks, often in unstructured environments | Key aspects of robot dexterity include grip, manipulation, tactile sensitivity, agility, and coordination | Robot dexterity fevelopment for manufacturing, healthcare, logistics | Dexterity enabling automation in tasks that traditionally require human-like precision

#e-con Systems | Camera solutions for NVIDIA platforms | Full HD Global Shutter Camera for Jetson AGX Orin | Jetson AGX Orin: 64GB module, 275 TOPS with power configurable 15W and 60W | Multiple 4k ultra-lowlight camera for NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin | Global shutter | Rolling shutter | Autofocus and fixed focus | High resolution and frame rate | High dynamic range | High sensitivity in both visible and NIR regions | Superior color reproduction | MIPI and GMSL2 interfaces | Camera SDK configured to support Isaac SDK | Multi-camera support | NVIDIA Isaac GEMs ROS: GPU-accelerated packages for ROS2 application | Isaac ROS GEMs help to assess camera position with regard to its starting point | Isaac ROS GEMs empower robotic applications to maneuver and navigate through complicated environments | Installing ROS 2 requires Ubuntu 20.04 | Board cameras | USB 3.0 cameras | Autonomous mobile robots, autonomous shopping

#Antarctica2030 | Uniting leaders from sport, politics, business, media, and science to champion Antarctica Southern Ocean protection | Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) | Pew Charitable Trusts | Oceans 5

#NavVis | Reality capture technology | Tools for creating photorealistic digital twins of physical environments | Enhancing productivity in surveying and construction | Enablinging faster and more accurate spatial data collection and analysis | Allinq Digital used NavVis VLX and automatic modeling tools to decrease Schiphol airport to scan for BIM | BOND Construction scanning and modeling facilities across Massachusetts, USA, including airports, cruise terminals, warehouses | Four people scanned terminal in five working days | Point cloud cleaned and registered in under three days | Modelers work remotely through NavVis IVION | Hiding walls and ceilings toggles off visual clutter so you can focus on equipment, layouts, and assets | Point cloud cleanup | Georeferenced model alignment: NavVis IVION recognizes coordinate systems in IFC files and positions models automatically | TopoDOT integration: convert NavVis panoramas to IPRJ files

#Cummins | Microgrids | Providing flexible autonomous power solutions | Locally-controlled power sources that can integrate multiple energy resources such as diesel, natural gas, wind or solar power | When traditional power grid goes out, microgrid can immediately switch to backup generators and batteries | Resiliency: When one energy source fails, microgrids ensure continuous power | Decarbonization: Microgrids can incorporate renewable energy sources | Greenhouses | Healthcare facilities | Remote communities and islands