2023 Make A Splash Contest 2nd and 3rd Place Winners - Marine Energy and Powering the Blue Economy

Pure Marine's DUO wave energy device being tested at the U.S. Navy's Maneuvering and Seakeeping Basin (MASK) facility in Carderock, Maryland.

Tidal turbine being loaded onto a test platform in New Hampshire.

Undergraduate students and a professor from East Carolina University (ECU) make last-minute preparations before testing their surge wave energy converter in the wave tank at the Coastal Studies Institute on the ECU Outer Banks Campus in North Carolina.

A weather buoy equipped with conductivity, temperature, and depth sensors and acoustic doppler current profilers below the surface being deployed off the R/V Neil Armstrong in North Carolina. A series of these buoys were used to track the movement of the Hatteras front, the boundary between the Mid-Atlantic Bight water to the north and the South Atlantic Bight water to the south along the continental shelf.