Digital Earth Solutions

Digital Earth Solutions (DES) is a spin-off of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), founded on over 20 years of research into ocean dynamics and modelling.

DES’s flagship product, SPOT, makes ocean modelling easy, providing extremely accurate simulations in minutes. The intuitive user interface offers real time data integration and the ability to run both forecasts and hindcasts. Being cloud-based, SPOT is accessible 24/7 from anywhere in the world.

With specific modules developed for; Oil Spill, Search and Rescue, Plastic Pollution and Algae, SPOT is able to serve a diverse range of customer needs. Automated reports deliver key information clearly, allowing decisions to be made at speed.

DES also creates high-resolution data models that significantly increase the accuracy of modelling in coastal regions - an area where modelling has traditionally struggled. Particularly applicable in areas of high marine traffic or environmental sensitivity, these models can be built into SPOT or sold as stand-alone products.

With the ability to provide both stochastic modelling and event-specific models, DES is the perfect partner for your ocean modelling needs. Please get in touch for a free demo.

More details at: https://digital-earth-solutions.com

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Interspill 2025 is less than 6 months away!

Interspill 2025 is the 10th edition of Europe’s premier Oil Spill Clean-up Conference and Exhibition; part of a triennial series of international events focussed primarily on how to prevent, prepare for, respond to spills at sea and how to restore environments impacted by them.

The three shows in the series; International Oil Conference in USA, SpillCon in Australasia and Interspill all have a strong exhibition, training programmes social events to enable networking but the jewel in their crown is the technical conference.

The heart of Interspill is the Conference which presents an opportunity for professionals from the international spill response community, private sector, government, and non-governmental organizations to come together to tackle the greatest challenges facing us with sound science, practical innovation, social engineering, global research, and imagination.

The external environment in which the response community works is difficult and evolving at pace. Oil prices have been unstable, there is an evolving energy mix with many emergent fuel technologies as regulators and manufacturers drive to reduce emissions. The response to sanctions and conflicts in the Middle East have made a difficult picture more complex and of course increasing the risk to the environment.

Vessels are increasing in size and becoming more automated in operation; the oceans are increasingly busy, but their health is declining and pollutants including debris and plastic threaten the diversity and wildlife within and on which we rely. Oil production is increasingly focused on mature basins, often with ageing infrastructure which poses an oil spill risk, meanwhile corporate rationalisation has recently seen a lot of internal oil spill resource and corporate knowledge retire from corporations.

At the same time our most important resource, the people in our industry, are drawn from different cultures, religions and genders. When a major incident occurs teams from different nations are expected to work seamlessly together as part of a team to achieve success and safe partnership working.

Our conference will be a face-to-face forum to discuss these issues and showcase innovative solutions which will improve global readiness and demonstrate why spill preparedness remains highly relevant and we hope that it will add true value to all who invest in it and use the oceans for commerce.

Interspill 2025 is delivered by a dynamic new team from Five Senses Media with experience in delivering high quality events in Europe. Since the 2022 event Paul Rayner of Vikoma, has taken over Chairmanship of Interspill and the Conference Committee is led by Richard Johnson from ITOPF and Rob Holland of Oil Spill Response. The new ‘management’ team has therefore been able to innovate and adapt delivery of the event to suit current tastes. We are confident of a successful event.

In the 10 editions of Interspill the marine spill environment has changed considerably. Firstly improvements in regulation have made vessels that carry hazardous products much safer and less likely to leak when there is a collision or a grounding and if there is it is unlikely to be the full cargo. So whilst oil spills are reducing, they still occur. However the nature of the fuels that spill is also changing and are now generally lighter fuels that can spread further and be harder to recover but as hazardous to the environment. The spills being attended to are more varied with plastic nurdles now, rightly, regarded as a hazardous product.

As the maritime industry works hard to reduce GHG emissions new fuels are arriving and the response community is having to prepare for them whilst also responding to spills of traditional fuels.

There will be plenty to discuss at Interspill 2025.