Two MOLAs (Modular Landers) built by our partner GEOMAR Kiel and equipped with our underwater acoustic modem *ahoi* were deployed near Santorini, Greece, to measure currently emerging seismic activity on the sea floor. [Media coverage] (starting at ca. 0:30).

Wiebke Frenkel presented her current work on Towards Energy-Aware Path Planning for AUV Swarms at the 18th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision in Dubai.

Mrs. Simone Schatz starts today as a office assistant at the institute ACPS, Prof. Renner. We warmly welcome her and wish her a successful time at the TUHH.

Our joint team with Hochschule Niederrhein und Universität Duisburg-Essen ranked 2nd place in the EWSN 2024 Sustainability Competition. Congratulations to all contributors: Kamil, Johannes, Sepher, David, Matteo, Pedro, Christian. It was an extremely tight race in the end, where our team was only outperformed by the winner of the previous editions of the competition by a margin of 3% (score of 163 vs. 158.3). We'd like to use the opportunity to congratulate the winner and 3rd-place team, and we would like to thank the organizers for this outstanding and exciting challenge.

The EWSN 2024 poster and demo session has been hosted by Prof. Bernd-Christian Renner in Abu Dhabi. This was an awesome experience. Thanks to all the authors for their submissions and their great 1-minute madness pitches, to the EWSN general chairs, the demo/poster co-chairs, and the local organization team for the swift and great event.