Working Together to Bring High Tech Below the Waves
Kick-off meeting for MUSE infrastructure took place from 23 to 25 May at the AWI in Bremerhaven
Over the next seven years, the three largest marine research institutes in the Helmholtz Association – the AWI, GEOMAR and Hereon – will pool resources to develop their marine technologies. Their goal: to more quickly and efficiently develop underwater robotic systems, ensuring that research can keep pace with the impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.
Doing so will require cutting-edge technologies and close collaboration. The three largest marine research institutes in the Helmholtz Association – the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, and the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel – have now joined forces in the Helmholtz infrastructure MUSE, through which they will jointly develop new research equipment and procedures over the next seven years. MUSE, which stands for Marine Umweltrobotik und -Sensorik für nachhaltige Erforschung (roughly translates to marine environmental robotics and sensors for sustainable exploration) and focuses on the preservation and management of our planet’s coasts, seas and polar regions, will officially start with a kick-off meeting from 23 to 25 May at the AWI in Bremerhaven. Major priorities will include making further strides in sensor technologies, associated software, and the integration of artificial intelligence to help gauge the effectiveness of marine protection measures. “There are experts on these areas at each of the three institutes. Now we’re bringing them together in the first infrastructure project of its kind,” says MUSE Coordinator Martina Löbl from the AWI. (Source: Hereon Press Release)
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