πŸ”΄πŸŒŠ Today: 2nd Stakeholder Consultation on the European Ocean Research & Innovation Strategy. Stakeholders from across the EU help shape the future EU Ocean Research Agenda.

- 13:30 CET
- Charlemagne Building, Brussels

Watch live: http://webcast.ec.europa.eu/4th-mission-ocean-and-water-forum-2026-03-03

#OceanResearch

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RT by @EU_MARE: πŸ”΄πŸŒŠ Today: 2nd Stakeholder Consultation on the European Ocean Research & Innovation Strategy. Stakeholders from across the EU help shape the future EU Ocean Research Agenda.

- 13:30 CET
- Charlemagne Building, Brussels

Watch live: http://webcast.ec.europa.eu/4th-mission-ocean-and-water-forum-2026-03-03

#OceanResearch

πŸ”΄πŸŒŠ Today: 2nd Stakeholder Consultation on the European Ocean Research & Innovation Strategy. Stakeholders from across t...
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πŸŽ‰ BREAKING: Scientists finally discover the solution to pollution! 🌊 A beer bottle at the bottom of the Mariana Trench! Because clearly, even the ocean floor needed a drink. 🍻 Meanwhile, back on dry land, the article provides more links than a chain email from 2006. πŸ“Ž
https://www.unilad.com/news/scientist-beer-bottle-deepest-point-ocean-mariana-trench-667878-20240213 #pollutionsolution #oceanresearch #funnynews #scientificdiscovery #beerscience #HackerNews #ngated
Scientists discover beer bottle at the deepest point of the ocean in the Mariana Trench

Dr Dawn Wright was stunned to find the 'irrevocable' damage humans have done to the planet after deep sea discovery.

unilad
At Almost 500 Feet Below the Water, Experts Heard the Sounds of the Elusive Beaked Whale #Science #Biology #Zoology #BeakedWhales #MarineLife #OceanResearch
https://purescience.news/article?id=952493
At Almost 500 Feet Below the Water, Experts Heard the Sounds of the Elusive Beaked Whale

Learn more about the techniques a research team used to record the songs of the elusive beaked whale in Brazil. 

Pure Science News

A team of researchers has collected data in the Pacific Ocean in order to track the routes taken by floating plastic debris. The international organization "Plastic Change" is helping to raise awareness about the increasing pollution of our oceans by plastic.

Video Link->
https://youtu.be/TqbOGztoQMg

#OceanPlastic #PlasticPollution #GreatPacificGarbagePatch #MarineDebris #Microplastics #PlasticChange #SaveOurOceans #CleanOceans #OceanResearch #BeatPlasticPollution

Protect our oceans from the dangers of pollution by plastic say international campaigning group…

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'UTNet: event-RGB multimodal fusion model for underwater transparent organism detection' - a new @imts_journal article on #ScienceOpen

πŸ”Ž https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=8fd3610e-fe93-4d6b-9ca9-484aef28dd9b

#OpenScience #MarineScience #OceanResearch #Biodiversity

UTNet: event-RGB multimodal fusion model for underwater transparent organism detection

<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" dir="auto" id="d3980446e126">In underwater environments, transparent organisms with low visibility and minimal visual features, lacking distinctive shadows or silhouettes, can blend seamlessly into their surroundings. Existing deep learning methods for detecting such organisms have shown unsatisfactory performance. This study proposes a multimodal fusion network, UTNet, which combines event-based and red-green-blue (RGB)-based vision for the underwater transparent camouflaged organism detection task. UTNet introduces a two-stage enhanced representation aggregation module comprising a multi-feature aggregation component (MFAC) and a deep fusion component (DFC) to facilitate the synergy between frame-based and event-based vision. First, MFAC aggregates the high dynamic range features from events with the static details from RGB images. Then, the edge information from the edge clue search module is used to guide the fusion process, reducing background interference. Next, DFC further extracts depth information from the MFAC output using five parallel branches. Additionally, a submanifold sparse convolution-modified ResNet50 backbone network is employed to extract features from event frames, preserving event sparsity and improving computational efficiency. Extensive experiments on our custom underwater transparent organism dataset, captured using the DAVIS346 event camera, demonstrate the effectiveness of UTNet. The results show that UTNet achieves 75.2% accuracy and 37.8 frames per second, providing the best trade-off between speed and accuracy compared to other detectors. </p>

ScienceOpen
A groundbreaking new database catalogs the body sizes of marine animals, creating a vast "library of life" πŸŒŠπŸ‹. This resource will help scientists better understand ocean biodiversity and the impacts of climate change. Dive into the details here: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/new-body-size-database-for-marine-animals-is-a-library-of-life/ #MarineScience #Biodiversity #OceanResearch
#newz
New body size database for marine animals is a β€œlibrary of life”

Marine Organizational Body Size (MOBS) database fills a crucial gap in understanding ocean biodiversity.

Ars Technica

Another baby step toward the inclusion of women and indigenous people in science.

"Charlene Erasito is the only female Pacific Islander on the expedition to document unexplored parts of the ocean

The invitation to join the expedition came after her research on seamounts – underwater mountains that rise from the sea floor- and biodiversity in New Caledonia impressed the Pristine Seas team. In that project, she used remote-operated vehicles, imagery and acoustic data to explore deep-sea life."

#science #womeninstem #pristineseas #inclusivity #oceanresearch #oceanscience

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/10/the-woman-unlocking-the-mysteries-of-the-deep-sea-in-fiji?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The woman unlocking the mysteries of the deep sea in Fiji

Nicknamed β€˜Moana’, Charlene Erasito is the only female Pacific Islander on the expedition to document unexplored parts of the ocean

The Guardian

Ideas + Arduinos + Hydraulics + Blades + Drum = Plastics Sampling Fun

https://lone.earth/w/rtsUE3zNozzY5XyyRpooiX

Ideas + Arduinos + Hydraulics + Blades + Drum = Plastics Sampling Fun

PeerTube
'Dark oxygen': a deep-sea discovery that has split scientists

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?

Phys.org