Monitoring of coastal waters enhances our ability to operate efficiently, safely and in an environmentally responsible manner, and improves our ability to recognize and respond to a dynamic ocean environment. Necessity is the mother of invention; new and innovative technologies have provided an unprecedented opportunity to recognize and monitor the ocean’s critical signs and, as importantly, has provided a knowledge base to help us adapt to that changing ocean environment.

[Guest Editor Bill Carter]

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Rev your motor: switching from internal combustion to electric power  – Summer 2018

Autonomous underwater vehicles – Fall 2018

Polar water operations: mitigating risk – Winter 2018

Tech-knowledge-y: addressing ocean challenges through innovative technology and traditional knowledge – Spring 2019

Tomorrow’s ocean explorers: learning for a marine career – Summer 2019

Sharing the oceans: marine life and anthropogenic sound – Fall 2019

Data tsunami: big data and the digital ocean – Winter 2019

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Ocean Creatures of the North Atlantic by artist Fatima Hammond