ECO’s 2019 Ocean Sound Special Issue Set Sights on the 2020 Maggie Awards

On March 9, the 68th Annual Maggie Awards® announced the 2020 finalists for excellence in publishing and digital media. ECO (Environmental, Coastal & Offshore) Magazine’s 2019 Ocean Sound Special Issue has been selected as a finalist under the Trade category for Special Theme Issue.

“We are honored to present this year’s finalists representing the best in media across consumer, trade, student and digital media,” reports Catherine Upton, Maggie Awards® Chair. “These brands span the USA and are recognized for excellence in editorial, design, layout and impact,” continues Upton.

The Ocean Sound Special Issue showcases some of the inspiring work taking place around the world, celebrating the progress made in recent years by collaborating academic, industry and government organizations, while also highlighting the work that still needs to be done to map, monitor and protect our unsilent seas.

Kira Coley, ECO Magazine’s senior editor, said “We are thrilled to be shortlisted. The success of the Ocean Sound edition is testament to the growing need for in-depth analysis of the most pressing issues surrounding ocean science, demand we are already seeing this year on the back of our plans to publish three more Special Issues throughout 2020: Corals, Polar, and Deep Sea.”

ECO’s Ocean Sound Special Issue was produced in alliance with the Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO), the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE).

Entries are judged by industry peers and publishing executives. The winners will be announced at the 2020 Maggie Awards Ceremony taking place in April 2020.

You can access the Ocean Sound special issue here.

SubCableWorld (SCW), the definitive data and information source for the submarine cable industry, today released a new whitepaper that suggests demand for submarine wind power cables in the US could surpass 13,500 kilometers by 2030, representing a CAGR of nearly 11% from 2019 to 2030. The total value of the US offshore wind cable market over the 12-year period will amount to at least $8 billion. 

To call Oceanology International, more affectionately known as Oi, an industry conference seems understated. A staple among the ocean technology community for the last 50 years (Happy Birthday btw), Oi is Mecca to the ocean industry community—perhaps a “conference of industries” is more accurate—and TSC will be there, as always, to explore all of the latest innovations, expand our editorial horizons, and, of course, meet with friends old and new.

Technology Systems Corporation (TSC), today released details of two marine industry networking events that the ocean marketing and media agency recently hosted. The year kicked off with the Blue Innovation Symposium in Newport RI from 14 – 15 January, while Subsea Cables: A Critical Connection was a one-day event in Houston, TX on January 23. Attendance at both events exceeded projections, hinting at a growing appetite among the ocean industries for events that cater to more networking opportunities than traditional conferences allow.

The Blue Innovation Symposium, a premier networking event for the Blue Economy, was held in January 2020, in Newport RI. With nearly 300 attendees and 40 sponsors, the event was a rousing success. From the quality of the speakers and presenters to breaking news from the Governor of Rhode Island’s office, as well as the presentation of the first-ever Rising Tide awards, the level of excitement at the event reflected the robust agenda.

An increase in demand for subsea cabling as part of the new clean electricity infrastructure is needed to match the US offshore wind market’s project pipeline expansion. The offshore wind subsea array and export cables are critical in connecting electrical power to the grid. The potential market is enormous, but the domestic supply chain for subsea cables remains in its infancy. The Business Network for Offshore Wind and SubCableWorld.com are co-hosting a one-day event in the Downtown Houston Aquarium, Texas on January 23 to further explore how the USA should capture this burgeoning opportunity.

Topics:

• The Importance of Subsea Cables
• Offshore Wind Cables Market Forecast
• Subsea Cables are Most at Risk - A View from the Insurance Industry
• Let’s get Technical
• Offshore Wind Cable Supply Chain Considerations
• Offshore Wind Cables Installation/Marine Services – Installers’ perspectives and Insights
• Going forward - The Future of Cables for Offshore Wind

The full agenda and registration is available at: http://www.offshorewindus.org/criticalconnection.

The Blue Innovation Symposium, 2020’s premier networking event for the Blue Economy, today announced further details of its agenda, keynote speakers and sponsors for the conference in January 2020, in Newport RI. Industry leaders, blue tech startups, government officials and marine tech associations will gather for the fifth edition of the Blue Innovation Symposium. The theme of the conference, Sensors and the Next Wave of Data, will focus on ocean technology and the critical importance of data in the coming decade.

After a landmark year, ECO (Environment, Coastal and Offshore) Magazine today announced new plans to expand the publication’s global reach in 2020 and beyond.

Following a successful relaunch in 2019, which saw an editorial shift towards critical and emerging topics within ocean science, innovation and exploration, ECO Magazine has committed to broadening its international readership even further by producing a series of exclusive digital editions—in conjunction with key strategic partners—that aim to explore the next decade’s most pressing issues in ocean science.

“We’ve seen increasing international engagement with our editorial content throughout 2019. With online page views up by 100 percent (53,000 per issue on average), we’ve scheduled a series of exclusive ‘Special Issues’ in 2020 that will address specific areas of global concern among academics, engineers and ocean industry members,” said Kira Coley, ECO Magazine’s senior editor.

As part of a new Global Reach Strategy, ECO’s 2020 editorial calendar will feature three special issues to promote and share developments in Coral, Polar and Deep-Sea research and innovation.

The decision to hone in on these critical topics comes on the back of the international success of ECO’s Ocean Sound Special Issue, published in June 2019. Produced in alliance with the Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO), the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE), the critically acclaimed edition struck a chord with widening audiences—to date, page views have exceeded 100,000.

“The ocean community is global, and we understand both the importance and challenge of profiling breakthrough research, leading fieldwork and emerging opportunities for scientific collaboration. Platforms such as ECO, bolstered by strategic editorial partnerships, allow collaborators to connect with a highly targeted and increasingly international readership. The introduction of three new special issues in 2020 will enable ECO to better support the distribution of information critical to a more sustainable ocean in the future,” said Coley.

Alongside the special issues, ECO recently announced a number of high-profile editorial partnerships for 2020 including the American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS), the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO in support of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, and Frontiers in Marine Science, the world’s largest and fastest-growing marine science journal.

TSC Publishing today announced the launch of its latest news and market intelligence platform, Ocean Mining Intel (OMI).