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Surfing Big waves for Big Data

Surfing Big waves for Big Data

Surfboard Collects Oceanic Data Do you know that only 5 % of the world’s oceans have been explored? Smart surfboards equipped with sensors could change this. Surfer and engineer Benjamin Thompson invented a smart surfboard fin equipped with a sensitive sensor...
Plastic in my food?

Plastic in my food?

Plastic in my food? Disgusting thought… A very cool novel 3-D animation by graphic Artist Andreas Tanner Shows how our consumption of plastics has affected marine species deaths and increased human health risks. It explores possible long-term solutions. Tanner...
See this cool Ocean Design Studio

See this cool Ocean Design Studio

Things are thrown away because they – get old? Sometimes broken? Old shoes, old plastic, old sails, old bedding or curtains. Michal Biedermann is a sailoress and producer of Oceanbags. She gives a second life to old sailing and plastic parts and turns them into...
What happened to all that oil?

What happened to all that oil?

Just 4 years ago News covered the story of a never ending oil stream floating into the Gulf of Mexico after an accident on an oil rig called „Deepwater Horizon“… More than 5 billion barells of Oil spilled into the Ocean. Millions of animals died....
The Arctic is melting!

The Arctic is melting!

[wpdevart_youtube]hgIO43pF754[/wpdevart_youtube]   The Arctic is the world’s air conditioner, but due to global climate change it’s warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. In the last 30 years 75% of the summer sea ice volume has disappeared....
Welcome to OceanAmp!

Welcome to OceanAmp!

It’s been a long time coming and I’m proud to let you know that finally our own site is here: WELCOME TO OCEANAMP! Environmental issues are still not on the daily agenda of media, so lets get those issues there! Our goal is to connect the global Ocean...