13/08/10 TechWorks Platform Controller Buoy featured in BBC Coast programme: Galway to Aranmore Island. In June 2008, TechWorks Marine delivered the Smartbay Buoys to the Irish Marine Insitute. Two of the buoys were deployed in Galway bay on the Smartbay project, which is described on the BBC's Coast television programme.
18/06/10 TechWorks Marine on RTE 1 News at Six. Charlotte O'Kelly, CEO of TechWorks Marine is interviewed about our latest project funded under the EU Eurostars programme JellyFOR to forecast Jellyfish blooms, with two partners in Starlab (Spain) and MUMM (Belgium).
10/03/10 TechWorks Marine exhibit at Oceanology International 2010, in London. This is the first year TechWorks Marine have exhibited at Oceanology International, launching our new range of TMBB data acquisition and transmission systems for the renewables sector TRecs.
18/12/09 ESA funded EOJelly project produces jellyfish forecasting maps for Ireland. The first results of the EOJelly project of which TechWorks Marine is the Irish partner have been released. Jellyfish cause significant economic damage to coastal communities notably the aquaculture sector. TechWorks Marine and our partner Starlab has been working with Glen Arm organic salmon and Marine Harvest Ireland to develop and validate the EOJelly model.
10/12/09 KCF Smart Tether supplied to INFOMAR survey. TechWorks Marine exclusive agents for Videoray ROV's in Ireland has just supplied a KCF Smart tether to the Marine Insitute/Geological Survey of Irelnd for their ongoing INFOMAR survey.
18/11/09 TMBB Integrated MetOcean platform with AIS commissed on Fair Isle for Marine Scotland. TechWorks Marine has just finished the installation of a real-time MetOcean platform on Fair Isle for Marine Scotland, the platform consists of a TMBB coastal platform controller and uses GPRS telemtry and AIS. Paramters being collected include a full suite of meteorological parameters, sea level, waves and temperautre. This contract was awarded to TechWorks Marine following a competitive international tender.
01/10/09. Irish Marine Institute order a Teledyne RDI ADCP with Acoustic release and trawl resistant mount. TechWorks Marine were awarded this contract by Peter Heffernan, CEO of the Marine Institute. The sensor will be used on the new Offshore Wave Energy test site off Belmullet to collect data on local marine currents with a view to helping offshore wave energy device developers.
01/09/09 Paul Marshall joins TechWorks Marine as Commercial Director. Paul comes from a strong commercial and operations background which began in maritime shipping. Subsequently, in the Irish Naval Service, he served as an Operations Branch Officer holding a number of appointments both ashore and afloat.
He left the Defence Forces in 2003 and enterered the executive search business via an operations management position with a medical devices firm. His experience since leaving the Navy has been intensely commercial and service delivery focused, managing the expectations of clients and running projects in their entirety from inception to completion.
01/02/09 Come and visit us on Stand D8 At Ocean Business 2009 in Southampton. 31st March - 2nd April 2009. TechWorks Marine will be presenting our range of integrated moniotring platforms, ranging from small inshore data buoys to larger offshore ones, using a wide variety of sensors using our TMBB data acquisition and transmission system as a core component of the integration.
10/01/09 University College Galway order an ADCP. TechWorks Marine has just received an order from the National University of Ireland, Galway for a Teledyne RDInstruments ADCP.
03/11/08 3 SBE39 temperature sensor delivered to the Irish Marine Institute. TechWorks Marine has delivered 3 SBE39 sensors to the marine Institute to collect long time sereis highly accurate temperature data at the Malin head tide gauge site.
31/03/08 TechWorks Marine delivers Irish Coastal Buoy Network to the Irish Marine Insitute. TechWorks Marine have successfully delivered 3 coastal buoys to the Irish Marine Insitute. For the first time ever, Ireland will have instant, real-time access to conditions in our Coastal seas, thanks to this buoy network. The devices will provide on-the-spot information about conditions such as wave and current activity and climate change, and will be invaluable for fish farms and fishing fleets, weather forecasters, wave energy projects and even surfers, as well as being useful in the event of monitoring an oil slick at sea.
10/10/08 Dublin Bay Matsis Site back online. TechWorks Marine has been contracted by the Marine Institute to service the MATSIS project site in Dublin bay. This water quality monitoring observatory on the North Bank lighthouse, has been collecting real-time data over the last number of years. Parameters include: nitrate, chlorophyll, turbidity as well as the more traditional conductivity, temeprature. TechWorks Marine is also providing the Marine Inistute with live data from this site via on secure website.
01/10/08 TechWorks Marine real-time monitoring of the Directroute Shannon Tunnel. Directroute contracted TechWorks MArine to carry out an intensive 4 month real-time turbidity and current monitoring programme as part of the ongoing Shannon Tunnel project. Data was collected at 5 sites in real-time over this 4 month period, using data buoys with telemetry systema dn scientific sensors from our inhouse rental pool of equipment.
20/05/08 TechWorks Marine delivers two new Seabird 911 CTD's to the Irish Marine Insitute. TechWorks Marine have successfully delivered new Seabird Inc. CTD's including dissolved Oxygen sensors, water samplers, thermosalinographs and WETlabs inc transmissometer and chlorophyll sensors for both Irish National Research vessels.
01/05/08 Derek Bell joins the team at TechWorks Marine. Derek has joined TechWorks Marine as a database/web developer. Derek has a strong background in Maths and Programming.
03/04/08 The KeenAtoN project recieves the EU Euripides Label. TechWorks Marine and our partners Kannad, Martec and Orga have just been awarded the Euripides label for the KeenAtoN project. KeenAtoN is a multiplatform product which associates AIS with Atex packaging, robust data acquisiton and metocean data collection.
10/01/08 Bernd Schmit joins the team at TechWorks Marine. Bernd has joined TechWorks Marine as field service engineer. Bernd has an extensive background in electronics and troubleshooting.
29/03/07 TechWorks Marine give live demonstration of a full turnkey integrated water quality monitoring platform at the second annual workshop on the water sensor programme of the Irish Marine Insitute
27/03/07 TechWorks Marine at Ocean Business 2007.
22/03/07 EATP -Charlotte O'Kelly, CEO of TechWorks Marine participated in the 1st European Aquaculture Technology Platform Meeting in Brussels.
10/03/07- TechWorks Marine awarded contract for the sale of a TMBB data acquisition system for the Irish Marine Institute Coastal Buoy. The TMBB takes in data from several different sensors (ADCP, CT's) via a Seabird Electronics Inductive Modem, as well as a full met Station.
01/08/06 TechWorks Marine highlighted in "Building Business in a Better Framework" cover story -Technology Ireland July 2006. Click here to access a PDF version of the article
06/06/06 Paul Stacey joins the team at TechWorks Marine. Paul has joined TechWorks Marine as our new field service engineer. Paul has a background in electronics.
31/05/06 TechWorks Marine demonstrates real-time data visualisation software in Anapolis for the Volvo Open Ocean Race. TechWorks Marine real-time data visualisation software was demonstrated in Anapolis this weekend as part of the Volvo Open Ocean race stop over in Anapolis in conjunction with Wetlabs Inc.
25/04/06. EU FP6 ECOOP proposal gets funded. TechWorks Marine are partners in the newly funded ECOOP "European COastal-shelf sea OPerational observing and forecasting system"ject by the EU Commission under the last call of the FP6 Global Change and Ecosystems.
15/02/06 TechWorks Marine demonstrates software at Oceans06 in Hawaii. The real-time data visualisation software developed by TechWorks Marine was demonstrated in Hawaii at Oceans06. Live data being collected by new Wetlabs sensors in California is being processed and accessed online via our data centre.
16/08/05 Muirachmhainni Teo deploy an integrated TMBB water quality monitoring system. Organic Salmon producers Muirachmhainni Teo have just deployed a real-time TMBB water quality monitoring system. This will enable them to recieve real-time water quality data from their fish farm sites via the internet.
15/03/05 Matthieu LeGall joins the Team at TechWorks Marine. Matthieu has joined the team at TechWorks as a database developers.
01/02/05 Muir Gheal Teo deploy a TMBB integrated system. Muir Gheal Teo an Organic Salmon Farm in on Lettermore in Connemara have just deployed a TMBB real-time water quality monitoring system. Data being collected include, Salinity, Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen, Fluorescence and Turbidity.
21/04/04 MerSea kickoff meeting The FP6 GMES project Mersea kickoff meeting is taking place this week in Brest. TechWorks Marine are the only Irish partner involved in the project, which has a total of 49 partners from other EU states and Canada.
22/03/04 Seabird Electronics and TechWorks Marine in Ireland Doug Bennett and Dave Armstrong from Seabird electronics spent a week in Ireland with TechWorks Marine visiting both existing and new clients.