Archive for 2013

SmartOcean Forum 2013 ‘Blue Growth: Seize the Opportunity. Share the Potential.’

The annual SmartOcean Forum will, this year, take place at Titanic Belfast on November 5th and 6th. The purpose of this all-island event is to highlight the potential of our ocean resources to support …
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INFOMAR Annual Seminar 2013

  A two-day INFOMAR seminar, hosted by the Geological Survey of Ireland and the Marine Institute, is taking place on Wednesday 9th of October in Limerick City. Integrated Mapping for the …
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Dr Tim Sullivan presents at the ICES Annual Science Conference in Reykjavík

Harpa Conference Centre (Image courtesy of www.ices.dk) Dr Tim Sullivan attended the ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) Annual Science Conference in Reykjavík, Iceland on …
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SmartOcean Research and Innovation Strategy survey

The SmartOcean group seeks to establish an Irish position for marine ICT development and enable future opportunities such as those that will emerge from Horizon 2020 to be strategically targeted in a …
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MESTECH postdoctoral researcher Dr. Tim Sullivan attends SENSORCOMM 2013

MESTECH postdoctoral researcher Dr. Tim Sullivan attended SENSORCOMM 2013 (The Sixth International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications) on August 25th – 31st in Barcelona, Spain. He …
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Optical Colometric Sensor Deployed Aug 2013

Dr. Kevin Murphy is deploying an OCS (Optical Colometric Sensor) in Poolbeg. This sensor has been developed in-house at MESTECH and it is being deployed along with a set of existing commercial sensors …
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Antifouling Tests Aug 2013

Antifouling test panels, deployed by Dr Tim Sullivan, Dr Kevin Murphy and Alan Barrett, are being collected on 23nd of August for analysis. The panels contain epoxy doped with antifouling compounds …
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World Water Day 2013 – 22nd March

March 22nd is World Water Day and 2013 is the international year of water cooperation. To mark the occassion, MESTECH launched it’s Water Agenda for 2013. The details of upcoming MESTECH events can …
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March Water JPI Newsletter Released

The Water Joint Programme Initiative (JPI) Newsletter for March has been released and can be found, along with older editions here. The JPI “Water challenges for a changing world” deals with …
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MESTECH PI in Australian News – 14th February 2013

Prof. Dermot Diamond, a MESTECH Principal Investigator and Director of the National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR) was featured in an article in the Illawarra Mercury publication in Australia. The …
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