Newsletter Articles

OceanWise Marine Data Management and GIS Workshop takes place on 22 November

OceanWise, supported by the Association for Geographic Information (AGI), hosts its popular annual Data Management & GIS Workshop on Wednesday 22 November 2017, at The School of Economic Science, 11 Mandeville Place, London W1U 3AJ. Our keynote speaker will be Ed Parsons, Chief Technology Officer at Google. This year’s theme is ‘Modernising Our Approach to […]

UN-GGIM 7th Assembly Endorses the Establishment of a Global Working Group on Marine Geospatial Information

The United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) held its 7th Session in New York on 2-4 August with over 400 delegates and observers attending. UN-GGIM overwhelmingly endorsed the creation of a Global Working Group on Marine Geospatial Information in order to better meet three of its 2030 Sustainable Development Goals […]

Port-Log Connect Tide and Weather Data Sharing

A port is a multi-faceted business requiring fit for purpose data and information to be readily available when and where it is required 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Tide and weather data comprising observed, predicted and forecast water levels (tides), wave heights and periods, wind speed and direction, and visibility are all […]

OceanWise expands its Oceanographic expertise

We are pleased to announce that Robert Proctor has joined the team after graduating with a degree in Oceanography from the University of Liverpool. Whilst in Liverpool he took a role at the National Oceanography Centre working for a year in the Marine Physics and Ocean Climate group analysing sea level data. He has joined […]

Marine Mapping Agreement for Northern Ireland

An agreement to provide the Department of Agriculture, Environment, The Agri-Food Biosciences Institute and the Loughs Agency with marine mapping has been won by OceanWise. The award reinforces OceanWise as the primary supplier of marine mapping to both the public and private sectors in the UK. The agreement includes Marine Themes, Marine Themes DEM and […]

Mike Osborne wins AMSI Council Business Person of 2017

We are proud to announce that the 2017 AMSI Council Business Person of the Year has been awarded to our Managing Director, Dr Mike Osborne. The award was presented by Mr Terry Sloane, Chairman of the AMSI Council of the Society of Maritime Industries during the Ocean Business 2017 Gala Dinner in Southampton on 5 […]

Mobile Weather Station for Royal Yacht Squadron

OceanWise has delivered a mobile weather station and online monitoring system to the Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes, thus marking a departure from the company’s principal customer base in ports, harbours and marine terminals, oil and gas, and offshore renewable energy. The system will assist RYS Race Officers to determine courses and decide on the position […]

Water Level Monitoring in Dominica

We have supplied and installed a water level monitoring system in Dominica. The project comprised of two coastal sites with potential to extend to a third site at a later date. The data are required to establish a vertical datum for Mean Sea Level (MSL) in the short term and to enable the refinement of […]

Movement of Brent Delta Oil Rig to Hartlepool aided by OceanWise

OceanWise created a high resolution Port Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC) for PD Teesport in order for its pilots to safely bring in the Brent Delta Oil Rig topside for decommissioning at the Able Yard in Hartlepool on Tuesday 2 May. The rig weighing 24,200 tonnes was transported from its location in the North Sea to […]

Delivery of Water Monitoring Network to UAE

OceanWise working with its Licensed Partner, Seatronics Group, has recently completed a 3-year project to design, install and deliver a fully operational network of 34 water level and temperature monitoring stations for Bayanat LLC in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The stations are positioned at strategic locations within UAE from the Western Region to the […]