Clever Buoy Returns to Newcastle The Mark 1 Clever Buoy has returned to Newcastle, NSW for a photo-shoot with the Discovery Channel. Originally developed by UVS in Newcastle for Shark Attack Mitigation Systems of Perth, Western Australia, the Mark 1 Clever Buoy has been around the world and attracted significant attention as a world-first shark […]
New “RioPro” Upgrade for Rio Grande ADCPs Teledyne RD Instruments has announced the launch of a new upgrade for the widely popular Rio Grande 1200 kHz acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP). Called “RioPro,” the upgrade offers current Rio Grande 1200 kHz owners an upgrade path to incorporate enhancements recently introduced in the RiverPro ADCP. Along […]
Australasian Hydrographic Symposium at Cairns Teledyne Reson Senior Product Manager Uni Bull joined UVS General Manager Oceanographic & Hydrographic, Mark Hegarty, at the Australasian Hydrographic Symposium at Cairns in November. The conference was well attended with over 100 delegates attending three days of papers and presentations based around the theme of harnessing the Blue Economy […]
Future of Cyclone Monitoring Tropical Cyclones are massive, complicated weather systems that are poorly understood due to their complexity and the difficulty of gathering data in some of the most extreme conditions on the ocean. But advanced technology like Liquid Robotics’ Wave Glider®, an unmanned ocean robot capable of operating through even the most severe […]
Innovative rapidCAST™ Automated Sound Velocity Profiling System Teledyne Oceanscience’s new automated sound velocity profiling system rapidCAST™ has been supplied to world-leading geospatial company TerraSond Limited. According to TerraSond, the product was used in a major hydrographic project for the purpose of nautical chart updating. UVS General Manager Oceanographic & Hydrographic, Mark Hegarty said that the […]
Steel Cities Trade Mission BlueZone Group CTO, Darren Burrowes, joined an Ai Group lead Trade Mission to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in October where the mission built upon existing links between the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Newcastle. The mission was comprised of ten delegates including representatives from industry, academia and local government and was […]
Teledyne Marine Technology Workshop Report CTO, Darren Burrowes, and Design Engineer, Josh Berry represented UVS at the Teledyne Marine Technology Workshop in San Diego in October. The event was bigger and better than ever with new Teledyne Marine companies joining with RD Instruments to provide an expanded workshop with multiple simultaneous tracks. The workshop still […]
Z-Boat Platform Improvements and Integrations Development of the Teledyne OceanScience Z-Boat platform and integration of new systems are continuing at a rapid pace. A new boat type has been developed for the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Upgrades and improvements include the capability for the boat to be fully submerged by waves and an […]
Spring in Newcastle! Our Newcastle office was smashed by a freak hail storm in September. Climate change? More ocean science required to understand our weather systems we say! Check out the pictures of our carpark and a UVS snowman 🙂
UVS Joins BlueZone Group UVS has joined with ATSA Defence Services to form the BlueZone Group together with other complementary companies. UVS was established in 1973 and supplies quality subsea equipment and services to the Offshore Oil & Gas, Defence Oceanographic, Hydrographic and Offshore Renewable Energy market sectors. ATSA Defence Services established in 2000 is […]
