NOAA Fisheries Northeast Fisheries Science Center) Researchers are using a remotely operated vehicle and satellite-linked data loggers to learn more about turtle behavior in commercial fishing areas and to develop new ways to avoid catching turtles in fishing gear. This

European Space Agency) ESA's SMOS and Proba-2 satellites are scheduled for launch on Monday, Nov. 2, at 02:50 CET on a Russian Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia.

National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK)) The United Kingdom's deepest diving Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Autosub6000, has been put through its paces during an extremely successful engineering trials cruise on the RRS Discovery, Sept. 27 to Oct. 17, 2009.