I’m the Sysadmin at SkyTruth, and I’m incredibly fortunate to get paid to continuously learn new things. Now I’m learning how we can measure SkyTruth’s carbon footprint.
A new report released yesterday at the Our Ocean Conference in Greece by SkyTruth identified 757 oil slicks covering 1.9 million hectares in the Mediterranean Sea between July 2020 – January 2024. Most of these slicks were discharged from vessels in transit. The data comes from our platform, Cerulean, the first free, digital tool that uses AI and satellite imagery to track ocean oil pollution and its potential culprits.
Today at the Our Ocean Conference a new digital platform was unveiled, making it easier for anyone to track progress on protecting the ocean’s biodiversity. The “30×30 Progress Tracker” is the first free, public, interactive platform designed for the general public to see how well the world is doing on enhancing ocean protection globally in line with the goal of protecting 30% of the ocean by 2030 (“30×30”).
We’re excited to announce the release of a new study published today in the journal Nature offering an unprecedented view of previously unmapped industrial use of the ocean and how it is changing. The groundbreaking research — led by Global Fishing Watch and co-authored by SkyTruth’s geospatial engineer, Christian Thomas — used machine learning and satellite imagery…
In late February, as the world marked the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine—the impetus for U.S. and NATO allies to impose new price caps on Russian crude and refined oil products—four tankers broadcast elaborate false tracks in the western Black Sea, our analysis finds. Their real locations were hundreds of miles away.