Technology And The Sea - Fascination Marine Technology
Marine technology is not about ships and shipbuilding, but about the technology that is used to explore the oceans, protect them and use them sustainably.Please consider the harsh conditions the marine technology is exposed to in the sea. The sea is often a very inaccessible habitat with strong currents and aggressive salt water. The deeper you get, the higher the water pressure becomes, people and equipment have to be able to withstand this. Wind and waves make the work even more difficult, many jobs can only be done up to a certain wave height. Sometimes you also have to pay attention to the tides. And then there are remote and climatically demanding regions like the Arctic or the Antarctic.After all, we know surprisingly little about what lives in the sea. Researchers assume that there are a good 1 million higher organisms and 1 billion species of microbes. The sea is an almost inexhaustible source of natural substances. However, 95% of them are unexplored, in the deep sea even 99%. Marine tech is of great importance. In this podcast we'll have a closer look at it. Bärbel Fening is a German podcaster and a tv-journalist, who specializes in marine issues: https://www.baerbel-fening.de This podcast is produced in cooperation with the German Association for Marine Technology:https://www.maritime-technik.de
Technology And The Sea - Fascination Marine Technology
From Marine Research to Application - Technology Transfer at the AWI with Eberhard Sauter
Welcome to this podcast episode, which is all about what marine research means for our everyday lives. It's about knowledge transfer, so it's about putting into context what marine researchers find out has to do with our lives.
And then there's technology transfer: For example, how a super-light yet extremely stable algae structure discovered by a marine researcher can be used in the aviation industry.
For such a technology transfer to work, there must be an interface, a place where the detailed knowledge of the researchers and the needs of the outside world meet. One such interface is the Technology Transfer Office at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, which has been headed by Prof dr. Eberhard Sauter since 2008.
Since 2017, he has also been on the board of the German Association for Marine Technology, where he supports a number of working groups that also focus precisely on bringing science and business together.
Eberhard Sauter is a passionate networker who had the desire to become a marine researcher at an early age and who today, in addition to all the technology transfer, inspires students for marine technology at Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences.
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