UN Joint Task Force on SMART Cables
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The United Nation's Joint Task Force on SMART Cables serves as the center of the UN’s collective efforts for developing and advancing Science Monitoring And Reliable Telecommunications (SMART) technology.
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Over 50 participants joined the “10TH SMART Cables Workshop” in person, with 90 more online, to delve into the potential of #SMARTCables and foster synergies across communities.
A heartfelt thank you to the diverse countries and communities whose engagement made the Workshop a resounding success.
A heartfelt thank you to the diverse countries and communities whose engagement made the Workshop a resounding success.
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It was a pleasure discussing SMART Cables at EarthX’s Brave New Ocean Conference. Pacific Peering’s SMART Cables will have a major impact on the #blueeconomy as we work to build a smarter future.
Special thanks to Sid Thurston for coordinating, and Tracy Fanara, for moderating.
Special thanks to Sid Thurston for coordinating, and Tracy Fanara, for moderating.
April 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
It was a pleasure discussing SMART Cables at EarthX’s Brave New Ocean Conference. Pacific Peering’s SMART Cables will have a major impact on the #blueeconomy as we work to build a smarter future.
Special thanks to Sid Thurston for coordinating, and Tracy Fanara, for moderating.
Special thanks to Sid Thurston for coordinating, and Tracy Fanara, for moderating.
Ceci Cruz presented the latest Report of SMART Subsea Cables at the 9th ICG/PTWS-IUGG Joint Tsunami Commission Technical Workshop in Beijing.
We are grateful to the IOC/UNESCO Secretariat, and all participating Member States for their support and engagement.
We are grateful to the IOC/UNESCO Secretariat, and all participating Member States for their support and engagement.
April 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Ceci Cruz presented the latest Report of SMART Subsea Cables at the 9th ICG/PTWS-IUGG Joint Tsunami Commission Technical Workshop in Beijing.
We are grateful to the IOC/UNESCO Secretariat, and all participating Member States for their support and engagement.
We are grateful to the IOC/UNESCO Secretariat, and all participating Member States for their support and engagement.
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Pacific Peering is attending EarthX2025 Congress of Conferences hosted by @earthxorg.bsky.social ! April 21-25 in Dallas.
I’ll be speaking about SMART Cables and the Blue Economy. Let’s shape a smarter more sustainable future together!
🌐 Registration: lnkd.in/gNkByC7M
#EarthX2025
I’ll be speaking about SMART Cables and the Blue Economy. Let’s shape a smarter more sustainable future together!
🌐 Registration: lnkd.in/gNkByC7M
#EarthX2025
April 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Pacific Peering is attending EarthX2025 Congress of Conferences hosted by @earthxorg.bsky.social ! April 21-25 in Dallas.
I’ll be speaking about SMART Cables and the Blue Economy. Let’s shape a smarter more sustainable future together!
🌐 Registration: lnkd.in/gNkByC7M
#EarthX2025
I’ll be speaking about SMART Cables and the Blue Economy. Let’s shape a smarter more sustainable future together!
🌐 Registration: lnkd.in/gNkByC7M
#EarthX2025
Better ocean data leads to better decisions. SMART Cables will provide real-time environmental insights to:
🌊 Predict climate patterns
🌊 Strengthen warning system
🌊 Support sustainable industries
🌊 Accelerate scientific innovation
m.youtube.com/watch?v=AqDn...
🌊 Predict climate patterns
🌊 Strengthen warning system
🌊 Support sustainable industries
🌊 Accelerate scientific innovation
m.youtube.com/watch?v=AqDn...
Revolutionizing Ocean Monitoring – Joint Task Force SMART Cables
YouTube video by WebsEdge Science
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April 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Better ocean data leads to better decisions. SMART Cables will provide real-time environmental insights to:
🌊 Predict climate patterns
🌊 Strengthen warning system
🌊 Support sustainable industries
🌊 Accelerate scientific innovation
m.youtube.com/watch?v=AqDn...
🌊 Predict climate patterns
🌊 Strengthen warning system
🌊 Support sustainable industries
🌊 Accelerate scientific innovation
m.youtube.com/watch?v=AqDn...
This past Friday, our Chair - Bruce Howe, discussed SMART Cables at the Impossible Things Workshop hosted by ARDITI. Together, we’re transforming oceanic science and strengthening tsunami and earthquake early warning systems.
March 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This past Friday, our Chair - Bruce Howe, discussed SMART Cables at the Impossible Things Workshop hosted by ARDITI. Together, we’re transforming oceanic science and strengthening tsunami and earthquake early warning systems.
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Project TamTam between New Caledonia and Vanuatu is the world’s first SMART project. The environmental sensors will combat climate change, protecting our ocean ecosystems and marine wildlife, as well as save the lives of vulnerable people groups through advanced tsunami warnings.
March 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Project TamTam between New Caledonia and Vanuatu is the world’s first SMART project. The environmental sensors will combat climate change, protecting our ocean ecosystems and marine wildlife, as well as save the lives of vulnerable people groups through advanced tsunami warnings.
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Pacific Peering is attending EarthX2025 Congress of Conferences hosted by @earthxorg.bsky.social! April 21-25 in Dallas.
I’ll be speaking about Connecting Humanity and Understanding the Earth. Let’s shape a smarter more sustainable future together!
🌐 Registration: lnkd.in/gNkByC7M
#EarthX2025
I’ll be speaking about Connecting Humanity and Understanding the Earth. Let’s shape a smarter more sustainable future together!
🌐 Registration: lnkd.in/gNkByC7M
#EarthX2025
March 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Pacific Peering is attending EarthX2025 Congress of Conferences hosted by @earthxorg.bsky.social! April 21-25 in Dallas.
I’ll be speaking about Connecting Humanity and Understanding the Earth. Let’s shape a smarter more sustainable future together!
🌐 Registration: lnkd.in/gNkByC7M
#EarthX2025
I’ll be speaking about Connecting Humanity and Understanding the Earth. Let’s shape a smarter more sustainable future together!
🌐 Registration: lnkd.in/gNkByC7M
#EarthX2025
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Special thanks to Ingrid Puillat, Director General of EMSO, for organizing the terrific discussions on ocean observation.
Pacific Peering’s SMART Cable projects will be a significant addition to ocean observation, and we look forward to working with all our partners in building a SMART future.
Pacific Peering’s SMART Cable projects will be a significant addition to ocean observation, and we look forward to working with all our partners in building a SMART future.
March 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Special thanks to Ingrid Puillat, Director General of EMSO, for organizing the terrific discussions on ocean observation.
Pacific Peering’s SMART Cable projects will be a significant addition to ocean observation, and we look forward to working with all our partners in building a SMART future.
Pacific Peering’s SMART Cable projects will be a significant addition to ocean observation, and we look forward to working with all our partners in building a SMART future.
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Pacific Peering was in Rome to participate in EMSO’s Strategic Workshop. Our leadership team – Guillaume Durieux and Noel Buttin were honored to discuss SMART Cables, and the exciting developments of our MISTS project.
🌐 contact@pacific-peering.com
Thank you for joining us in this exciting effort
🌐 contact@pacific-peering.com
Thank you for joining us in this exciting effort
March 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Pacific Peering was in Rome to participate in EMSO’s Strategic Workshop. Our leadership team – Guillaume Durieux and Noel Buttin were honored to discuss SMART Cables, and the exciting developments of our MISTS project.
🌐 contact@pacific-peering.com
Thank you for joining us in this exciting effort
🌐 contact@pacific-peering.com
Thank you for joining us in this exciting effort
The TamTam cable is the world’s first #SMARTCable led by France between New Caledonia and Vanuatu. This project will bring unprecedented insights into the New Hebrides Fault, one of the most seismically active ocean regions in the world. This initiative exemplifies the blue economy in action.
March 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The TamTam cable is the world’s first #SMARTCable led by France between New Caledonia and Vanuatu. This project will bring unprecedented insights into the New Hebrides Fault, one of the most seismically active ocean regions in the world. This initiative exemplifies the blue economy in action.
Over 50 participants joined the “10TH SMART Cables Workshop” in person, with 90 more online, to delve into the potential of #SMARTCables and foster synergies across communities.
A heartfelt thank you to the diverse countries and communities whose engagement made the Workshop a resounding success.
A heartfelt thank you to the diverse countries and communities whose engagement made the Workshop a resounding success.
March 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Over 50 participants joined the “10TH SMART Cables Workshop” in person, with 90 more online, to delve into the potential of #SMARTCables and foster synergies across communities.
A heartfelt thank you to the diverse countries and communities whose engagement made the Workshop a resounding success.
A heartfelt thank you to the diverse countries and communities whose engagement made the Workshop a resounding success.
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Tracking temperature changes in the deep ocean is difficult. The information provided by SMART cables would complement and provide additional resolution to other data sets that track these water temperature changes.
eos.org/articles/tra...
eos.org/articles/tra...
Tracking Marine Heat Waves - Eos
Heat waves can happen in the depths, invisible at the ocean surface.
eos.org
September 11, 2023 at 1:49 PM
Tracking temperature changes in the deep ocean is difficult. The information provided by SMART cables would complement and provide additional resolution to other data sets that track these water temperature changes.
eos.org/articles/tra...
eos.org/articles/tra...
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STUDY - "A Numerical Study of SMART Cables Potential in Marine Hazard Early Warning for the Sumatra and Java Regions"
Published article —> link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Open Access —> eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
Published article —> link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Open Access —> eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
A numerical study of SMART Cables potential in marine hazard early warning for the Sumatra and Java ...
eartharxiv.org
September 13, 2023 at 12:51 PM
STUDY - "A Numerical Study of SMART Cables Potential in Marine Hazard Early Warning for the Sumatra and Java Regions"
Published article —> link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Open Access —> eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
Published article —> link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Open Access —> eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
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This article outlines some of the challenges of monitoring potentially dangerous underwater volcanoes. SMART cables, equipped with sensors to detect both undersea eruptions and tsunamis, could help give advanced warning after a dangerous event. www.washingtonpost.com/science/inte...
September 14, 2023 at 12:31 PM
This article outlines some of the challenges of monitoring potentially dangerous underwater volcanoes. SMART cables, equipped with sensors to detect both undersea eruptions and tsunamis, could help give advanced warning after a dangerous event. www.washingtonpost.com/science/inte...
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"The Deep Ocean Observing Strategy (DOOS) is an international, community-based group that coordinates deep ocean observing to understand the state of the global deep ocean with respect to baseline conditions, response to climate change, and response to human disturbance." www.deepoceanobserving.org
Deep Ocean Observing Strategy
DOOS is an international, community driven initiative that facilitates collaboration across disciplines and fields, elevates a diverse cohort of early career researchers and connects scientific advanc...
www.deepoceanobserving.org
September 20, 2023 at 5:25 PM
"The Deep Ocean Observing Strategy (DOOS) is an international, community-based group that coordinates deep ocean observing to understand the state of the global deep ocean with respect to baseline conditions, response to climate change, and response to human disturbance." www.deepoceanobserving.org
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"Sustained ocean observations benefit many users and societal goals but could benefit many more. Such information is critical for using ocean resources responsibly and sustainably as the ocean becomes increasingly important to society..."
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
The Challenge of Sustaining Ocean Observations
Sustained ocean observations benefit many users and societal goals but could benefit many more. Such information is critical for using ocean resources responsibly and sustainably as the ocean becomes ...
www.frontiersin.org
September 23, 2023 at 11:01 PM
"Sustained ocean observations benefit many users and societal goals but could benefit many more. Such information is critical for using ocean resources responsibly and sustainably as the ocean becomes increasingly important to society..."
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
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"Sending sensors deep into the ocean could allow for earlier and more accurate tsunami warnings."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Lifesaving Potential of Underwater Earthquake Monitors
Sending sensors deep into the ocean could allow for earlier and more accurate tsunami warnings.
www.theatlantic.com
September 25, 2023 at 1:44 PM
"Sending sensors deep into the ocean could allow for earlier and more accurate tsunami warnings."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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SMART Cables are submarine telecommunications cables equipped with sensor packages inside their repeaters (amplifiers).
SMART Cables will provide essential ocean variable data for long-term global climate monitoring.
Learn more at www.subseadatasystems.com/what-are-sma...
SMART Cables will provide essential ocean variable data for long-term global climate monitoring.
Learn more at www.subseadatasystems.com/what-are-sma...
October 11, 2023 at 11:27 PM
SMART Cables are submarine telecommunications cables equipped with sensor packages inside their repeaters (amplifiers).
SMART Cables will provide essential ocean variable data for long-term global climate monitoring.
Learn more at www.subseadatasystems.com/what-are-sma...
SMART Cables will provide essential ocean variable data for long-term global climate monitoring.
Learn more at www.subseadatasystems.com/what-are-sma...
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"This SMART system would not only give more warning if a destructive tsunami was generated, but would give scientists more data on these elusive forces of nature." www.kitv.com/news/local/n...
New technology could identify tsunami sooner
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Hawaii is always at risk of a damaging or deadly tsunami. The earlier these destructive waves can be detected, the more warning people would have to get
www.kitv.com
October 16, 2023 at 8:51 PM
"This SMART system would not only give more warning if a destructive tsunami was generated, but would give scientists more data on these elusive forces of nature." www.kitv.com/news/local/n...
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"Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable lining the seafloor are vulnerable to sea-level rise, storms and other climate impacts, research shows." 🧪
www.scientificamerican.com/article/glob...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/glob...
Global Internet Connectivity Is at Risk from Climate Disasters
Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable lining the seafloor are vulnerable to sea-level rise, storms and other climate impacts, research shows
www.scientificamerican.com
November 21, 2023 at 2:20 PM
"Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable lining the seafloor are vulnerable to sea-level rise, storms and other climate impacts, research shows." 🧪
www.scientificamerican.com/article/glob...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/glob...
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Paper - One year of sound recorded by a MERMAID float in the Pacific: hydroacoustic earthquake signals and infrasonic ambient noise
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One year of sound recorded by a mermaid float in the Pacific: hydroacoustic earthquake signals and i...
SUMMARY. A fleet of autonomously drifting profiling floats equipped with hydrophones, known by their acronym mermaid, monitors worldwide seismic activity from i
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December 3, 2023 at 7:12 PM
Paper - One year of sound recorded by a MERMAID float in the Pacific: hydroacoustic earthquake signals and infrasonic ambient noise
academic.oup.com/gji/article/...
academic.oup.com/gji/article/...
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The geopolitics of undersea cables www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
The geopolitics of undersea cables - ABC listen
Most of our internet comes to us through garden hose-size cables on the bottom of the sea. But geopolitical games are being played, especially between the US and China. With Joe Brock and Lane Burdet...
www.abc.net.au
October 18, 2023 at 1:15 PM
The geopolitics of undersea cables www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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“SMART Cables will enable advancements in Tsunami and Earthquake Early Warning monitoring, global climate monitoring, providing substantial societal benefits through enhanced protection of life, property & telecommunications infrastructure.”
What Are SMART Cables? — Subsea Data Systems
www.subseadatasystems.com
July 27, 2023 at 2:44 PM
“SMART Cables will enable advancements in Tsunami and Earthquake Early Warning monitoring, global climate monitoring, providing substantial societal benefits through enhanced protection of life, property & telecommunications infrastructure.”
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Researchers want to add sensors to underwater cables that keep the internet and other telecommunications online to give them the ability to detect seismic activity.
Dr. Bruce Howe joins us to discuss the potential of smart cables.
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/int...
Dr. Bruce Howe joins us to discuss the potential of smart cables.
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/int...
How Underwater Telecom Cables Could Help Detect Tsunamis
Scientists are adding sensors to an underwater cable network to monitor changes in the ocean and quickly detect earthquakes and tsunamis.
www.sciencefriday.com
April 26, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Researchers want to add sensors to underwater cables that keep the internet and other telecommunications online to give them the ability to detect seismic activity.
Dr. Bruce Howe joins us to discuss the potential of smart cables.
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/int...
Dr. Bruce Howe joins us to discuss the potential of smart cables.
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/int...
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Are you interested in learning more about SMART cables? Watch this fascinating and informative talk by Dr. Bruce Howe for the MIT lot Seminar Series entitled "Observing the Ocean and Earth with SMART Subsea Cables".
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youtu.be/qOL-Ax3_iR8
Observing the Ocean and Earth with SMART Subsea Cables
SMART Subsea Cables will integrate environmental sensors into commercial submarine telecommunications cables spanning the global oceans supporting observatio...
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August 22, 2023 at 6:17 PM
Are you interested in learning more about SMART cables? Watch this fascinating and informative talk by Dr. Bruce Howe for the MIT lot Seminar Series entitled "Observing the Ocean and Earth with SMART Subsea Cables".
youtu.be/qOL-Ax3_iR8
youtu.be/qOL-Ax3_iR8