Submarine Cables

Chair of the EMB Working Group: Submarine Cables, a Revolution in Ocean Monitoring

A new European Marine Board Working Group is assessing how obsolete, active and newly laid submarine telecommunication cables can strengthen ocean monitoring. Its kick-off meeting was held at IMREDD, Université Côte d'Azur, in Nice on 8 September 2026.

Earth's free oscillations recorded with submarine DAS... and DAS is pushed into the millihertz band

New paper in The Seismic Record: by removing the common-mode instrumental noise, we detect Earth's normal modes on a seafloor telecom cable offshore Monaco — showing that DAS can be used in the low-frequency regime long considered out of reach.

Keynote at the EU SUBMERSE Project Final Event — Copenhagen

Honoured to give a keynote at the SUBMERSE Final Event in Copenhagen, bringing together 25 European partners sharing on three years of progress on submarine fibre-optic sensing.