Lots of ships in action for marine research - that's the idea behind the SOOP innovation platform, which is the subject of this podcast episode: Private sailing ships, cargo ships, cruise ships, ferries or cutters - every ship can collect the scientific data that is so urgently needed for marine research wherever it is travelling. SOOP - Shaping an Ocean of Possibilities - is a new innovation platform that aims to bring everyone together: Industry, which is developing the necessary...

This podcast episode is about the future of maritime mobility, how digitalisation will change our ports, what opportunities a parking aid for XXL ships has and where an autonomous dredger can be used.  Bärbel Fening is in conversation with Prof. Dr. Axel Hahn and Dr. Sebastian Feuerstack from the DLR Institute Systems Engineering for Future Mobility in Oldenburg. https://www.baerbel-fening.de https://www.maritime-technik.de https://www.dlr.de/se/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-15561/

In Canada - the country with the longest coastline worldwide - ocean technology is a crucial technology.  In this podcast episode, Leann Collins, Director, Projects and Stakeholder Relations at the Association of British Columbia Marine Industries and Enrico Nake, Trade Officer at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, talk about the strength of the ocean technology companies at the west coast, about their challenges and about unique...

In Canada - the country with the longest coastline worldwide - Ocean Technology is a crucial technology.  In this podcast episode, Chris Bourque, executive director of the Ocean Technology Council of Nova Scotia and Enrico Nake, Trade Officer at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, emphasise the strength of the Canadian companies in this sector and point to the H2O Conference, which is Canada's premier ocean technology event in Halifax in...

This podcast episode is about  cutting-edge marine technology in extreme use. It's in action at one of the longest and toughest professional sailing events in the world, the OCEAN RACE, which is not only a sporting event but also a race that is really about the state of the oceans. All five teams have cutting-edge marine technology on board to collect data along the way while raising awareness about the importance of this other Ocean Race.  For this podcast episode, I spoke with Stefan...

In this podcast episode, I talk to  Dr. Alexandre Orth,  Head of Subsea Automation Systems at Bosch Rexroth and with Gottfried Hendrix, Manager of Technical Systems and Solutions, Technical Architect for Subsea Automation Systems, also at Bosch Rexroth. Together with a team, the two have developed the world's smallest electric subsea actuator, which can replace the conventional hydraulic cylinder without taking up additional...

Marispace X is a cloud where maritime data will be collected in the future. This data is important for all projects in the sea, on the seabed, on the water. Why it makes sense to collect all this maritime data in one place in the future, and what advantages it will bring, is something I talked about with Jann Wendt, the managing director of the company North.io GmbH from Kiel, who initiated the whole project. But he is not doing it alone, in the meantime there is a project consortium...

This podcast episode is all about the electricity that is generated from the wind on our seas - in offshore wind farms. Without marine technology, it wouldn't work. Every single wind turbine is anchored in the seabed. 1500 turbines are located between 15 and 150 km from the German coast with an installed capacity of 8 gigawatts. Offshore wind energy is highly topical - not only because of the current energy crisis. The German government wants to rapidly increase the expansion.  Karina Würtz,...

SMM is the leading international maritime trade fair, held in person in Hamburg in September 2022, an important networking event for the GMT.   Interviews with  Claus Ulrich Selbach, Global Market Place and Business Provider SMM Hamburg Walter Kühnlein, Chairman GMT Enrico Nake Trade Commissioner at Embassy of Canada www.smm.com www.maritime-technik.de www.baerbel-fening.de

Biofouling is the unwanted growth of microorganisms, plants, algae and mussels o ship hulls below the water surface. It increases the flow resistance, and the ship becomes heavier and consumes more energy.  So a solution is needed -  it comes from the German company HASYTEC, which is located in Kiel. A unique approach worldwide is anti-fouling prevention by ultrasound and artificial intelligence.   Jan Kelling, one of the managing directors of the German company HASYTEC, explains in an...

Sea & Sun Technology provides high-precision multiparameter probes, CTD probes, with which the water quality can be precisely determined. These probes are built in Trappenkamp, Germany and are used worldwide for the maritime and limnic sector to measure water quality.  www.sea-sun-tech.com www.maritime-technik.de www.baerbel-fening.de

Christian Haag has been designing and manufacturing underwater robots, ROVs, for 28 years.  Today, ROVs are a normal part of marine technology, but when Christian Haag presented the first prototype at the Düsseldorf Boat Show in 1995, it was a sensation. This made his company, Mariscope, based in Kiel, an international name for itself.  Today, ROVs from Mariscope are used all over the world, but they are still built in Kiel. In the meantime, Christian Haag has moved to Chile to place his...

The new Digital Ocean Lab in Rostock Nienhagen is an underwater test field for marine technology. Here, marine technology is tested both under real conditions and virtually. The interviewee in this podcast episode is Dr Peter Menzel from Fraunhofer IGD, the head of the Digital Ocean Lab. www.fraunhofer.de/de/schnelleinstieg/alumni/news/Digital_Ocean_Lab.html www.maritime-technik.de www.baerbel-fening.de

Oliver Zielinski is fascinated by the colours of the sea. He is a physicist, marine and technology researcher, has been a Professor of Marine Sensor Systems at the Institute of Marine Chemistry and Biology (ICBM) at the University of Oldenburg since 2011 and Head of the Marine Perception research area at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) since 2019.  Oliver Zielinski takes us into his world of research. He is a man full of passion for the sea and for new technical...

Welcome to this podcast episode, which is all about what marine research means for our everyday lives. It's about knowledge transfer, so it's about putting into context what marine researchers find out has to do with our lives.  And then there's technology transfer: For example, how a super-light yet extremely stable algae structure discovered by a marine researcher can be used in the aviation industry. For such a technology transfer to work, there must be an interface, a place where the...

Only about 8% of the seafloor has been mapped. We know far too little about our oceans.   In order to change this, the German company SubCtech GmbH from Kiel has developed the OceanPack, which allows ships to collect data while underway. Arved Fuchs has a small version of the OceanPack on board the Dagmar Aaen during his Arctic expeditions to collect marine data even in the most remote places, and Boris Herrmann - while participating in the Vendée Globe - also had an OceanPack on...

Haematococcus pluvialis is the name of the microalgae that Heinz Schelwat cultivates in Trappenkamp,  Schleswig-Holstein. When this green freshwater alga comes under stress, it turns bright red and produces the active ingredient astaxanthin - an active ingredient that is considered the most powerful free radical scavenger. Many positive effects are attributed to it. Heinz Schelwat produces the purest astaxanthin in a closed system, but his pills are not yet freely available. For the time...

In this podcast episode,  we look at exciting research projects and their concrete application. We start directly on the seafloor, accompanying a robot, an autonomous vehicle that can work on its own down there.  And we learn a lot about marine technology research projects of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, which is the world's leading research institution for applied research - it is always about future-oriented key technologies - marine technology plays a major ROLE here, at Fraunhofer, there...

Welcome to this podcast episode in which I talk to engineer Jürgen Rüffer. He is the managing director of ALLSAT GmbH in Hanover, where everything revolves around surveying.  Jürgen Rüffer is a geodesist, a surveying expert and much more than that. But where do you actually need surveying at sea? Well, if you've ever seen an offshore installation from the air, you might have noticed that the individual wind turbines are lined up like on a string of pearls, very precisely.  How do you measure...

Two points have already become clear: 1. The oceans are important. 2. We know far too little about them. To change that, German research ships are underway on all the world's oceans, carrying all kinds of marine technology, technology that can withstand the harsh conditions of the world's oceans. In this podcast episode, you will get to know Klaus Küper, the man responsible for eight German research vessels, who manages them and, together with a dedicated team of 15 people, ensures that what...

Gesine Meißner, Ozeandekaden-Komitee Dr. Steffen Knodt, Ozeandekaden-Komitee https://ozeandekade.de https://www.oceandecade.org https://www.maritime-technik.de https://www.baerbel-fening.de This podcast is also available in German: "Technik und Meer - Faszination Meerestechnik"

Dr. Walter Kühnlein Prof. Dr. Sören Ehlers https://www.maritime-technik.de https://www.baerbel-fening.de This podcast is also available in German: "Technik und Meer - Faszination Meerestechnik"

Marine technology is not about ships and shipbuilding, but about the technology that is used to explore the oceans, protect them and use them sustainably. Please consider the harsh conditions the marine technology is exposed to in the sea. The sea is often a very inaccessible habitat with strong currents and aggressive saltwater. The deeper you get, the higher the water pressure becomes, people and equipment have to be able to withstand this. Wind and waves make the work even more difficult,...