A series of yellow floating buoys - the first elements
of a revolutionary new environmental monitoring system
called SmartBay - were installed last week
(Monday 14th July) in Galway Bay by the Marine Institute.
In China's Olympic co-host city Qingdao, sea breezes
that usually bring relief from baking summer temperatures
now bring a cloying stench from a massive algae bloom
that locals fear will harm the city's bucolic image
during the Games.
Mr Tony Killeen TD, Minister of State at the Department
of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food opened a major conference
organised by Bórd Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) - BIM/Fish
Ireland 2008 Conference - on innovation and sustainability
in the seafood industry.
The Marine Institute’s SmartBay system - a network
of surface and sub-surface buoys, cables and communications
systems designed to provide real-time information about
the environment in Galway Bay and to support and stimulate
the environmental technology industry sector in Ireland
- has been selected as one of the first collaborative
projects to be undertaken at the new IBM Centre of Excellence
for Water Management.
Minister of State at the Department of Communications,
Energy and Natural Resources, Seán Power, T.D. has launched
a new website, which will provide information on the
nature of the seabed, physical habitats and water depths.
Celebrations to mark World Ocean Day at the Galway
Atlantaquaria drew over 1,500 people on Sunday 8 June,
raising awareness of the role of the oceans in climate
change, while giving families a fun day out in the fascinating
world of the underwater.
The European Union has very close connections with
the sea - its 27 Member States have shores on two oceans
and four seas and their jurisdictional waters stretch
from sub-tropical waters to areas approaching the North
Pole.
The weather buoy M5, which played such in important
role in predicting and recording the record wave heights
off the coast last December, is back in action again.
Galway Atlantaquaria - in conjunction with the Marine
Institute and Fáilte Ireland/West - will host
the biggest World Ocean Day celebrations to-date in
Galway on Sunday 8th June 2008.
A unique international scientific mission - to investigate
the increasing mortality of salmon at sea - has sailed
from the port of Killybegs aboard the Marine Institute’s
research vessel, RV Celtic Explorer.
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