Abstract The United Nations (UN)'s call for a decade of “ecosystem restoration” was
prompted by the need to address the extensive impact of anthropogenic activities on natural …

Marine reef ecosystems have degraded massively worldwide, and restoration efforts have
as yet not managed to realize the scale required to reverse continued degradation. To …

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 …

Assessing, implementing and monitoring ecosystem restoration can be a labor intensive
process, often short term (< 3 years), and potentially destructive to the habitat. Advances in …

Coral reefs worldwide are declining at an accelerating rate due to multiple types of human
impacts. Meanwhile, new technologies with applications in reef science and conservation …

This paper describes insights gained from a decade of autonomous marine systems
development at the University of Sydney's Australian Centre for Marine Robotics. Over the …

Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) are used extensively by the offshore oil and gas and
renewables industries for inspection, maintenance, and repair of their infrastructure. With …

With one small move across a street, NOAA Fisheries, our nation's steward of marine
ecosystems, made a giant leap into the future of ocean science and technology …

Multiple human impacts on natural ecosystems cause ongoing widespread habitat loss, with
consequent decline of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Seas and oceans, the largest …

Study of ocean processes is important to understanding climatic variability especially on the
productive upper water-column. Ocean currents regulate the climate, it captures CO _2 2 …