Fornebu, Norway, March 16, 2020 – REV Ocean has hired Elin Signe Askvik to Captain the 182.9-meter-long state of the art research expedition vessel (REV) and is a core member of the team fulfilling our mission to create one healthy ocean. Captain Elin comes from Swire Seabed AS where she spent more than nine years […]
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REV Ocean Call for 2022-proposals opening soon!
REV Ocean will be opening its first call for proposals for research and innovation projects on board RV REV Ocean in March/April 2020. We are looking for the best marine scientists and innovators globally, to focus on solutions to three of the most important challenges facing the ocean today: • Plastic pollution; • Climate change […]
IOC of UNESCO and REV Ocean agree on solutions-oriented initiatives to support the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
IOC of UNESCO and REV Ocean agree on solutions-oriented initiatives to support the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development Copenhagen, Feb 28, 2020. Today a milestone agreement was signed between REV Ocean and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO that will usher in a decade of ocean solutions through advancing global ocean […]
The Ocean Foundation and REV Ocean partner to scale ocean solutions
Copenhagen, Feb 28, 2020. Today an agreement was signed to commence a decade of ocean solutions focusing on Ocean Acidification and Plastic Pollution. “We have long wanted to work on ocean acidification in the Arctic. It was identified as a place that was most likely to have its ocean chemistry in flux, but also a location […]
New jobs at REV Ocean!
See our two new exciting positions available below. Press and Media Manager The Press and Media Manager is responsible for REV Ocean’s traditional media-related activities (newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, etc). The main function is to handle all media-related requests, draft press releases, network with journalists and develop the REV Ocean operational media work plans in […]
REV Ocean signs key agreement to advance Ocean Leadership
Signing with Bjørn Tore Markussen (from left), Nina Jensen, Anne Husebekk and the leader of the Polar research committee at UiT, Jørgen Berge.Photo: Jonatan Ottesen/UiT Tromsø, 27 January 2019 – REV Ocean, UiT The Arctic University of Norway and The Ocean Data Foundation today signed a partnership agreement to conduct joint ocean research, education, and innovation. […]
Engaging youth to save the ocean
Oslo, 17 January 2020 – REV Ocean signs new partnership agreement with the Norwegian environmental youth agents, Miljøagentene. The agreement will link young ocean enthusiasts with REV Ocean’s science and communication priorities and will focus on the following core areas: Identifying or developing a citizen science and education app for children with the purpose of generating interest among children […]
Ocean Challenge 2020: from Nina Jensen and Alex Rogers
Commentary by Nina Jensen and Alex Rogers (original article here in Norwegian) The year 2020 is a big one for the ocean. Several of the targets for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14, which is aimed at conservation and sustainable use of the ocean, are due as a stepping-stones towards achievement of the 2030 agenda. These […]
Happy holidays from REV Ocean! See you in 2020 :)
Seaonics state of the art crane installed on REV Ocean
Watch a video here of the installation of the REV Ocean container deck crane produced by Seaonics. The crane has a capacity of 15T @ 25 meters and can also be used as part of our deep coring system (6000m sampling). Installed December 2019 at the Vard Brattvåg shipyard in Norway.