Smart Sound Connect Subsurface - a subsea testing environment in the heart of the South West
Smart Sound Connect Subsurface - a subsea testing environment in the heart of the South West
A presentation by Professor Alex Nimmo-Smith
The talk: The Smart Sound Connect Subsurface (SSCS) project, led by theUniversity of Plymouth in collaboration with Plymouth Marine Laboratory and City College Plymouth, is enhancing subsea innovation in the South West. Funded bythe Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership, SSCS is extendingSmart Sound Plymouth's infrastructure by installing an underwater acoustic communications and navigation array. This array enables real-time positioningand telemetry for testing advanced marine technologies. Instrumented seabed nodes provide real-time monitoring of oceanographic factors, creating a fullycalibrated subsea testing environment.
The speaker: Prof Alex Nimmo-Smith is Professor of Marine Science & Technology at the University of Plymouth with over 20 years’ research experiencein the observation of marine turbulence and suspended particles using various optical and acoustic techniques. He has developed novel imaging systems to visualise dynamic flows and the behaviour ofmicroscopic particles and plankton within them, deploying these and other instrumentation onautonomous underwater vehicles (including Autosub 3, Autosub Long Range and Light AUVs).
His submersible holographic microscope has been successfullycommercialised under license by Sequoia Scientific, USA as the LISST-HOLOseries of instruments – now used globally for diverse particle imagingapplications. His research has encompassed a very diverse range of oceanenvironments, from the deep seamounts off the west coast of Scotland, to underSea-ice in the Arctic, to thetropical waters of the Indian Ocean. Most recently hehas applied Particle Tracking and Image Velocimetry techniques to droneacquiredimagery to study the foraging behaviour of seabirds over turbulent wake features withapplication to assessing the impact of offshore renewable energy structures on the marine environment.He carries out teaching in underwater optics, physical oceanography, data analytics and autonomousmarine systems. He is Principal Investigator for the Smart Sound Connect Subsurface project and adirector of the National Centre for Coastal Autonomy.
This is a hybrid joint session with RINA and IMarEST which will be recorded.
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